Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1919-10-01
RED CROSS STARTS
fall CAM 2AIGN
10 MeetNeed in Eastern Europe
and Balkans
Refugee Clothing Must be Made Up
and Shipped Before Cold Weather

10 help meet the pressing need for
/ el3thins among the war sufferers of
Europe next winter, especially in
Poland, Siberia and the Balkans. New
England Division Headquarters of the
American Red Cross has announced
Fall program of production. The
program is to be wholly on a volunteer
basis, so there will be no quota, but
REQ Cross women who prefer sewing
to other forms of volunteer work have
been assured that there will be plenty
fer them to do.
American Red Cross commissions
abroad, in an effort to fight the spread
OF disease, such as typhus tuberculosis
and influenza, are concentrating on
medical relief, but to make the bene-
hts OF the medical service permanent,
warm clothing and nourishing food are
needed. The epidemics of typhus
which swept over Eastern Europe last
winter, and are still raging in Poland
and Russia, took so large toll of
lives because the populations of these
countries were underfed and INSULT
GENTLY clothed.
In Serbia but 5000 children of the
$4,000 who followed the Serbian Army
in the retreat of 1915 are alive today,
according to figures verified by Red
Cross overseas workers Statistics of
human wastage in Poland and Siberia
are equally appalling.
In order that garments may reach
the people for whom they are intended
before cold weather sets in, chapters,
branches and auxiliaries in the New
England Division have been asked by
Division Manager James Jackson to
decide at once whether they wish to
take up production again Material
will be furnished Chapters from Divi-
sion Headquarters, in Boston.
A substantial supply of clothing and
petticoats, cut out ready to be made
up, is now in the Division warehouse
and these will be forwarded to Chap
ters desiring immediate work.
Accurate information on the need
Tor clothing overseas has been fur
nished Red Cross officers by Miss La.
Einia H. Newell of Boston, Director
of Chapter Production for both the
National and New England Division
organizations Miss Newell went to
France and from France into Serbia
during the summer, travelling 400
miles by motor canton from Belgrade
to Nish, to investigate the production
problem for the Red Cross.
The articles needed, Miss Newell re-
ported are as follows: women's house
gowns, night gowns, chemises, skirts,
sacks, aprons, shawls and petticoats:
mems and boys shirts, girls one piece
dresses, chemises and petticoats,
children's stockings; and afghans.
All materials for these garments,
according to instructions issued by the
Division Manager, must be ordered by
chapters from the Division office, and
distributed by them to their branches
and auxiliaries which should return
the finished articles to the chapters.
Provided garments are carefully in
spected, chapters may ship them
straight to the American Red Cross
Clearing House, Pier l, Hoboken, New
shipped to the New England Division
Headquarters, American Red Cross,
los Massachusetts avenue, Boston.
In her trip through Serbia and
Northern France Miss Newell visited
American Red Cross distributing sta
lions and said that all the garments
given out were absolutely satisfactory.
Nothing is wasted" she added. PA
jamas and hospital garments are be-
ing made over into children's suits and
in some parts Of the Balkans surgical
dressings are being used for baby
clothes"