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was ever before attempted or con-
ceiyed, the directors of the Red Cross
policies became convinced that it was
after the war. the impulse should be
directed and the machinery applied
to the internal welfare problems of
the United States, that as soon as
foreign obligations should be honor
ably concluded, the American Red
Cross should turn it's attention back
on the things of America, and strive
to be as beneficial to our own people
in peace as it has been to foreign
peoples in war.
THE work with soldiers and sail
Ors at home, abroad, and en- route,
remains in character what it was
during the war, reduced in volume,
but still extensive. varied, the most
inspiring of all Red Cross work, and
that which the American people
would least consent to have dimin-
ished But as this activity contracts
with the reduction of our armed
forces, the energies of the Red Cross
are gradually released, and it seeks
to utilize the experience and methods
acquired in war for the best good of
American civilian life. The problem
has been to conserve and apply the
Red Cross energy to the needs of
home and peace without invading the
territory already occupied by other
organizations. for the Red Cross is
consistently opposed to duplicated
effort which inevitably means wasted
effort.
ALREADY Red Cross has announced
programs for Nursing, Home Service,
Disaster Relief. First Aid. Junior
Red Cross and is steadily working
out details of a general public sheath
Red Cross to act in cooperative and
supplementary way with official agen-
cies, and with other volunteer socie-
ties where welfare work is already
organized. Elsewhere it is to supply
the needs of communities not yet so
organized, and may often be itself
retiring from active direction as soon
as the organization which it sets up
becomes self-operative. The Red
Cross aspires to act as visible ex-
preston of the social will of the
American people.
Here. in this Red Cross campaign,
we may make a hank-offering for
victory and rededicate ourselves to
the principles for which our men at
arms laid down their lives. that peo-
pie everywhere, first at home and
then abroad. might be given an op-
portunity to live and be happy.
st is designed to concentrate the
main strength of American Red Cross
in the future on the needs of the
United States Does anyone question
the need of the Red Cross method at
home? Does nobody in the United
States need neighborly assistance in
emergency? Are there no victims of
disasters? Are all the mill-towns
hygienically perfect? Is no addition
al action needed to check tubercu-
loss and preventable disease? Is
there no more child health problem?
No problem of infant mortality? Are
there no more problems of idleness,
restitution, dependency. hayward
ness? No more small town prob
lens, with youth running to waste
from sheer ennui? No more incom-
petent parents? No more illegiti-
macy? Has the war itself left no
problems of aftercare, no vocational
dslocations, no social maladjust-
ments. no misery of individual or
family?
Each of these questions cares its
own answer.
For the purpose of translating the
Red Cross vision into reality, people
are more necessary than money. and
the Red Cross during the war re-
vealed an uneXampled capacity for
drawing people into combined service.
The people responded because they
were patriotic. The present sum-
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