Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1919-12-09
RED GROSS PLANS
FOR RURAL WORK
SUCCESS OF ROLL CALL GIVES 1T
FUNDS FOR The SMALL
TOWN AND COUNTRY.
THINGS TO BE UNDERTAKEN
Lectures, Laboratories and co-opera-
ton With Various Kinds of Com
munity Service-Prof. e. L. MORGAN
Is the Director of This Bureau.
BY JAMES p. HoRNApAY.

BY JAMES p. HORNADAY.
Washington.-The Red Cross roll
call Just completed was a success.
with such generous response to it's
appeal for members and money the or
gan1zation will now be able to go for
ward with the small town and rural
work it has planned. 1t will stand
ready to cooperate helpfully wherever
ana whenever its services are desired.
here are some of the things that civil
ian relief directors within divisions
may undertake. the national organiza-
ton says:
l. Get a few lectures in every train
ing institute TO show the principle and
methods of the development of the
small town.
:. Create a small-town laboratory
near every training institute center
where prospective Red Cross workers
can get experience in doing work in a
small community.
.. Give assistance and advice to
held workers and others who have not
had the opportunity to know the snail
town and solve its problems.
4. Help develop chapter courses so
they will result in community action
0. Conduct community studies which
may be made the basis of peace-time
program work.
q. Help the Red Cross chapter TO
get together with other agencies in the
county for an exchange of plans and
projects and thorough-going survey
OF the county which will show prob
lens that need to be gotten at.
Z. Help the division office to get to-
gether with the organizations, boards
and institutions of the various states
IN the division, interested in the small
er communities, for an exchange of
plans and projects and a considera-
ton of ways and means of cO-Opera-
tive work.
3. Create friendly contacts with
other agencies working in the same
field by attending such meetings as
farmers week at the agricultural col
leges, the state grange, state teachers
associations, ministers associations,
state health conferences, state meet
fngs of the farm bureau agents and
others.
Prof. E. L. Morgan Is, Director.
''The Red Cross must be so equipped
that it can approach this small town
and rural field in a straightforward,
intelligent manner" asserts national
headquarters. "We should get tangi-
BILE worthwhile results and at the
same time develop in the people a
sense of local interest and responsible
ity without vitiating the fine spirit of
loyalty that now exists among them
toward the Red Cross as movement.
Some time ago we felt that a start
should be made, and provided in the
department of civilian relief here at
headquarters for a bureau of rural
organization, with Prof. E. L. Morgan
of the extension service of the Massa-
chusetts agricultural college as di-
rector"
Professor Morgan was brought up
on farm in the middle west and lived
also in the south, is graduate of the
University of Wisconsin, a man of ma
ture judgment and has a distinct rec
ord of achievement. He has just re
turned from visiting number of the
divisions, and is of the opinion that the
Red Cross will experience little diff
Guilty in extending its work in the
towns of 5000 and under, provided the
methods are adapted to the POSSIBLE
tiles of these localities, and the pro-
gram worked out with the people after
a careful study of local conditions
which will show actual work that
needs to be done. He advises that the
division Staffs be equipped so as to
give definite attention to the field of
work that is associated with the locali-
ties of 5000 and under.
Our Dead in France to Remain.
1t appears reasonably certain now
that the bodies of the American
soldiers who died in France dur
ing the world war, either from dis
ease or in battle, will remain in the
been established in that country. The
government from the first has been
disposed to adopt policy which would
satisfy the greatest number of next
of kin here at home Through various
methods the war department has I'M
dertaken TO ascertain the sentiment of
fathers and mothers and other near
relatives of the men who fell and
while, of course. it has not been pos.
sible to reach even a large per cent of
the persons most interested, the de-
partment has been successful in getting
expressions from a great many of the
next of kin and very generally the ex-
preston is one of desire TO have the
bodies of the heroes remain in the
field of honor" cemeteries.
Work of Graves Commission.
1t is now more than a year since
the graves commission, an organiza-
ton established by General Pershine
after the signing of the armistice. be-
gan its work of collecting the dead.
making sure of Identification and as
sembling the bodies in the field OF
honor" cemeteries. This work is by no
means over, but 1t has reached the