The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1919-01-08
HOME SERVICE HAS,
NOT RELAXED
Do Your Duty by Helping in Your
Nniuhbnrhnnd

NeighbOrhOod.
The Home Service department Of the
Red Cross has never been buster than
at present and expects to remain SO
for some time to come. In order to i'm
press the need Of Home Service upon
Our people the Red Cross has issued
this statement, which is at the same
time an appeal to all who are truly pa
triotic. We reprint it from the At
lanta Constitutions:
Our soldiers, freed from the pros |
pect OF service overseas, are still to |
spend weary months in camp. qp tho
depressing waiting they will lose heart
more easily than before when things
go wrong at home. Red CROSS Home
Service to their families must continue
we are pledged it shall-as long as
families are deprived Of the support
of the soldiers presence.
Our task Is peculiarly heavy be-
cause Of the large rural districts our
chapters cover. The worried soldier
with letter telling Of sickness or
|
until Home Service worker can make
a visit to distant place, and write
back that medical or other relief has
been given. Bad weather conditions
will soon make almost impossible
roads in many places.
We want to make plain to all people
the opportunity Red Cross provides
for kind neighborly interets in SOL
diers' families; how every patriotic
person can be link in the chair Of
service we give our enlisted men. A
distress call may come to your Home
Service worker at any time in refer
ence to soldiers family who live
near you. You can become an active
instead of an admiring member Of this
department Of Red Cross. Telephone
or write your Red Cross chapter that
you are willing to visit a soldiers
family at once il need arises in your
! immediate neighborhood If your chap
ter has no Home Service find out why
not, and get together to help you push
the inquiry until your community
takes it's proper part in the pledge that
the soldiers family shall not suffer
, during his absence. Inform yourself
too as to what benefits Home Service
can help secure the returning, espec.
tally the wounded soldier. The army
depends en- Homo Service to instruct
returning men about keeping up in
o surance, compensation, re-educatio1
d and fitting back into industry.
The Laurens Home Service depart
y ment has It's Offices in the Chambe1
: OF Commerce IONS, over the Lauren
National Bank, where Miss Sadie Sulli
van, the HON. Service Secretary will
, give every attcrtirn to the needs OF tn
" soldiers or thoir families.
). Home Service Institute to be Held II
Atlanta.
). Mr. Joseph c. Logan, Director Of CT
;. william Relief Southern Division
;. American Red Cross, announces tn
= opening of Home Service Institut
). in Atlanta on January 18th, 1919. TIL
:. course covers six weeks of lecture an
:. field work.
- This is the ninth Of these trainin
classes conducted by the Southern ID
vision for young women who wish
: qualify for secretarial positions wit
h8 the Home Service Of the Red Cros
Armistice conditions have quicker
ed rather than lessened interest
Home Service work, and the flood {
n. inquiries from returning soldiers VIII
seek aid in legal, health, and final
cial problems upon their return
% the local Home Service sections, ht
awakened Red Cross workers ever,
- where to the need for trained worl
ers. On one trip recently made by
Home Service supervisor for II
Southern Division, ten out Of thirtet
small cities visited were ready to Ell
20 ploy a trained worker; and the d
mand has always exceeded the su
ply.
The Institute will be conducted
Miss Edith Thompson, with MI
Helen Cinnamond acting as genel
- supervisor Of field work. Miss CHM
mond, who Is director Of the Bure
G. of Education Of the Southern Divisi(
~ Is receiving applications for adm
sion to the Institute She may be q
dressed for further information, ca
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