Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-03-24
HOME SERVICE COURSE
WILL Be GIVEN HERE
Red Cross Plans SDccial Institute
TO Meet Demands Made
mt Home.
INSTRUCTION BEGINS April ,
Designed to Assist Families Of Fight
Ing Men In Coping With Difficult
ties War Has Thrust Upon Them
in Absence of Men.


Tho American Red Cross VIII hold
homo service institute In Richmond.
under the direction OF Or. II. II. i!bbs.
'lirecto: of tho school Of social work
and public health. and members OF tho
staff OF the school. This institute will
begin on April S and continue for six
weeks.
In commenting upon the work of this
institute. DR.. liibbs said:
Every one is acquainted with tho
work Of military relief of the Red
Cross-pro"isions Of sweaters and knit :
ted articles. surgical dressings and
hospital supplies. ambulance units and
base hospitals. All know OF the work
among the devastuted towns Of France
what 1t is doing to keep up the
morale of the soldiers of our allies by
coming to the relief Of their families
when they ARE IN distress. Most of
us know of tho relief work Of the
Red Cross here at home when disasters
come--the sinking OF the Lusitania. the
Cherry IIill mine disaster. the Ohio
foods. tornadoes. fires and explosions.
But the work OF the Red Cross for
the families of our own soldiers and
sailors-home service work. as II is
called-ia not so we'll known. This is
because this phase OF Red Cross work
is the newest.
RED CROSS IS PLANNING
STATIONS THROUGHOUT COUNTRY
Each chapter OF the American Red
Cross lis now being instructed to or
ganize home service section to as
Hist families TO cope with difficulties
which the stress and strain OF the war
and the absence OF a husband. son or
brother has thrust upon them. Wives
may be inexperienced In business at
fairs or burdened with anxiety or wor-
ry about the children. She may bo
lonely and need protection. Brothers
or sisters may have become Maynard
and irregular in school since the older
brother went away. Aged parents may
be lonely and helpless. Additional cp.
portunities for recreation may be need
ed TO compensate for the loss os the
absent one and for worry about home
problems and what the war may bring
forth Relief may also he needed tc
supplement government allowances.
But the absent soldier was more than
a breadwinner and contributed more
than material things 10 the home. In
such cases tho Red Cross may. II It's
services are acceptable. send a friend
TO the family to partly take the SOL
dter's or sailors place.
Home service sections must also be
prepared TO Give accurate and COM
plete information to families of s.l
diers and sailors; how mail should
and mailed: how information may be
obtained Of those sick, wounded. cap
turcd or missing; what the war risk
insurance law means; how To get al
lo~nnces, allotments and compensa-
lions. This IS helping as truly as
giving families MD when sick or in
want. for II will save untold anxiety
and suffering and quite needless fears
LOCAL INSTITUTE WILL SERVE
VIRGINIA
ITO meet the present need for home
service workers to prepare for the
greater need that will come lator, the
Red Cross has established at the school
OF social work and public health in
Richmond nome service institute
This institute will open April S and
VIII be planned primarily TO serve the
states of Virginia and North Carolina
This institute is in no sense a sub
stitute for regular course ir a train
Ing school for social workers. 1t is
nas.owed 10 include only one form
OF social Woodwork with soldicrs
and sailors families. instruction will
be given in the institute % by lee
lures. class discussions and assigned
reading, and t2j by practical field
work under careful supervision There
VIII be thirty lectures. five hours per
week. These will take up all Red
Cross matters, including: how to treat
family problems. what the home SER
vice worker should know about the
army and navy, information about war
risk law fallotmcnts. family allowances
compensation for injury and sickness,
insurance). after-care and vocational
re-education of disabled men, public
health tuberculosis women in indus
try, child welfare. home economics.
records. Office methods. etc. TWENTY
five hours week will be given to
practical work under the supervision
or tho school of social work and pub
lie health an connection with various
social agencies OF Richmond
On completion of this course. stu
cents will receive a certificate signed
by the director-gcneral OF civilian re-
lief. American Red Cross. Washington.
and by tho director of the institute"
KNOWS ART OF DISCIPLINE,