The sun., 1919-03-09
GREAT TASK STILL
AWAITS RED CROSS
DR.. Farrand Before Leaving
for France Warns of Needs
Abroad,
NEW DRIVE MAY COME
Bottom Of Treasury in Sight,
While Distress Calls Are
Increasing.

Or. Livingston Farrand, who President
Wilson has Just appointed chairman OF
the body which succeeds the Red Cross
War Council--the Central Committee OF
the Red Cross--save his coworkers hail
and farewell at the conference Of chapter
delegates Of the Atlantic Division at the
Pennsylvania Hotel yesterday. DR.. Far
rand left the meeting imediately after
his speech to take ship for France.
The new chairman scattered effectively
any comfortable notion any Red Cross
ers may have had that the need OF serv-
ice 10 over with the end Of the war, or
that It 10 going TO be any less for the
present. On the contrary. he said, It Is
going TO be greater. and while he didn't
announce a financial drive he intimated
that there might have to be one.
"Confdentislly,' he told the host Of
men and women---mostly women knitting
furiousiy--who filled the big ballroom on
fhe second floor. II don't mind telling
YOU that the bottom OF the Red Cross
treasury is In sight and II would be
quite impossible for the American peo-
pie not to act In this field We shall
postpone the call as long as possible, but
I must say in a tone OF warning that
we are going to call again. not for surgi-
cal dressings and bandages, thank God
that day is past. but we are going TO
call for service and for financial sacri-
fice.
War ProGra NINE Grows.
There Is a point of danger inside the
n0h
such a splendid spirit and conception
Of citizenship has grown out Of the war
and animated our people, ! md that
many of the Red Cross workers have
tendency to think that the progress or
the war is finished. AS a matter OF fact
tho war programme of the Red Cross Is
now at Its height The appropriations OF
tho War Council for the months OF jan
uary and February just past are the
highest in the history Of the orasinza-
ton.
why? Because we still have an
army in France. because We cannot cut
of suddenly the work that Is being done
for the civilian population OF France IN
Italy and Belgium. And foliewins .he
armistice and the withdrawal OF the
Central Powers and their armies from
the balkans, following the situation that
developed in Palestine and Poland, there
were calls Of distress that necessitated
the sending of new commissions to those
countries and to Germany TO look AFTER
prisoners Of war.
DIR, FarrAnd spoke briefly OF the plars
for the INSTRUMENTATION OF Red cross
work.
Already in France conventions are
being held by the Red Crosses OF the
Ave great allied Powers to work out an
International programme for the time
Of peace.
"Mr. Dawson IL there representing
America and hopes the American Red
Cross will take it's part and possibly
assume the lead in the international
movement. We assume that the Reo
Crosses OF the allied countries. the neu-
trail countries. and I trust OF the Centrai
Powers, shall unite for the relief OF sur
fering and for making the world the
thing the war was fought for.
Part of his speech DIR. Farrand de-
voted 10 the Red Cross home service
department. zone OF the hest terms
that was ever devised" he said rs nome
service for the families OF soldiers and
sailors. This work will continue till
Il ia complete. In communities like New
York and Philadelphia and Boston there
are no end OF organization that deal with
these problems. There are vast numbers
Of communities, notably in the West ana
South, where nothing OF that sort mas
been done before. and the Red Cross is
the first agency that has come into the
peoples lives. The Red Cross will keep
this up. and it will also deal with the
oblom OF child health, of tuberculosis.
&c, and will cooperate with the other
organizations that do such work.
women Must Work On.
Mrs. Grace Gaylord Clark OF Annex
No 4 regretted that women were so
ready to drop Red Cross work now the
war Is ended. The hearts of New York
women are good" she said. but do
think their heads are weak At the END
OF the meeting II was decided to reopen
the speakers bureau OF the local orsani'
zation and send out spellbinders.
Miss Ina NJ. Taft director OF the Blu
reau of Production at national head
quarters announced a clothes drive Ia
last from March "a to March 81. II
would be necessary, she said, to send
] 900, 900 garments a month to the wal
sufferers on the other side. Albert It
Tamhlyn spoke OF the 'pernicious re-
ports" thar more clothes were not needed
| and w. u. Dimmitt, chairman OF the
storehouses in Newark, announced thai
| there were no garments left in those
| storehouses: 1880 900 pounds of clothei
had been shipped over since November
| 1917. he said.
Miss Elisabeth Fox acting director fol-
the department OF nursing at nationa
| headquarters made a plea. for recogni
| ton OF the nurses, OF whom 10000 wen
| across
I'VE hear a lot OF talk about what il
| due~ou~ returning Boys AND il Is all tr.
| she said. But let's see some recognition
| by the Government and the people of th'
! 10000 women who gave their best owe,
there, and in some instances lost thei
lives in the service of their country"
Ethan Allen. manager OF the Atlantic
| division, presided in the afternoon, ant
Albert W. Staub, assistant manager, had
charge at tho morning session.