The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-09-13

Geneva shall visit each country
ms delegation would be composed
OF man who would speak the langu-
ages OF the country, another would |
ue ms secretary. publicity and a
practical Red Cross man They
would visit that country and show
me Red Gross organization how TO
develop, how TO get members. how to
aeNeio1 cha piers, how to carry on the
work which the Red Cross had done
in It's organization etc.
Inc medical department onerstes
next The question is: What arc you
organizing your Red Cross in these
countries for? In thinking Of iris
! 40 not think for America or Great
i7rltaln, or France think for Africa,
OF south America, the Far East, or
me Balkan states, In this medical
department are various bureaus Blu.
reau OF nursing child welfare, tuhe;.-
cuiosis, sanitation, venereal dise1sAs
etc AT the head Of each department
WIN be recognized specialist in his
me The same statements VIII appsy
In effect to each bureau The buras,,
OF enid welfare for instance. w.ll
De presided over by specialist In
child welfare He will communicate
with all Red Cross societies in the
word informing them OF the la.es,
date uractice in child welfare. He
WIZ inform then or what can be done
IN the interest of the mother ana he
chilo. lie win supply any information
mat Will be helpful and Is availab!a.
by literature, by moving pictures, bv
sending specialists to that country
upon invitation from that country.
etc That organization therefore.
VIII be acquainted with everything
mat is being done in this day in the
interests of the child
on child welfare, so it will he given
10 them for nursing. What a. nurse
should be supplied with. how nurses
are enrolled in America, etc
Ihe Idea is not that the Red Cross
/, soc 'esies> of Mpmtenes.rs. Ils,er M. SER.
blA Paraguay. or Uruguay sfan hy
themselves undertake to do child
welfare work. II shall undertake
merely 70 stimulate the natural agea-
cles within that country to do chila
welfare work. It will not undertake
10 combat tuberculosis. but it will by
informing all societies, stimulate the
agencies within that country to com
bat tuberculosis. 1t will awaken a
sentiment for sanitation, il will not
Itself engaged in sanitary methods AS
all OF this science is conveyed to this
organization, it.in turn will go to the
various natural agencies in the coun-
try or If there be none, IL will see that
tneT are developed, and the result
or that entire movement Nill be that
every country in the world will be
informed of the latest science and
tho latest practice in the interest OF
the welfare OF the Ieotte
There is one other very interesting
department Ind.. the ulelt>.@l bureau
the department of research. II il not
contemplated that there will lie any
one In Geneva doing research work
but only that this department shall
coordinate the work Of others doing
research work in various paris OF tho
world. If DR.. Flexner should dis
cover serum which was important
and new--and it could not be other
wise If DR., Flexner should discover
1.-THE fact would be communicated
to Geneva. where the department II
research would inform all parts of the
world regarding the development of
his serum. 1t would inform eac,,
Red Gross society regarding each de-
velopment in science There is an
other factor which is very important
1T would bring together those work
ing on research so that each would
upon.
AS to the third department, the
department of relief little has been
done with that except the co-ordina-
ton OF the endeavo- Of various organi-
zations to carry relief to central
Europe and other parts where re-
lief work Is SO necessary. In time.
the idea is that the Red Cross will
be, so TO speak, in the nature of
fire department, 10 be called upon az
needed. 1t is intended that there
shall be coordination Of the endeavors
OF relief on the part Of the various
Red Cross organizations
That, very briefly. is the purpose
OF the league I am very happy TO
say that It Is making very good prog
ress. The reason is that the world
has to have that which the Red Cross
can give 1t. AS was stated very clear
" in Cannes. we were producing moth
ing, we were merely utilizing that
which, was. In the world. Tho move
ment could not stop; we aid not start
it. we merely directed 1t,
This movement Ii al essential, /
believe, to the settling down of the
world IS any other movement now
In force or any NOV ament which is
contemplated. / see within very
short time the Red Cross-as an emb-
lem OF health and spirit OF the kind
which appeals. to every living human.
being on earth, which wilt be revered
by the peoples OF the world ~ -.