Smyrna times., 1919-11-05
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BIG RED CROSS
PEACE PROGRAM
New Plans Of Organization
Bring Il to Every Person
and Home in Country.
AS mi CHANT As IN WAF

Nationwide Activity For improving
Public Health and Expansion OF III
Nursing Resources Two Objects.
The peace program Of the American
Red Cross has just been made public
and 1t is gigantic In its scope. 1t t
SO comprehensive that It viii bring
the activities Of the organization int
practically every home and into th'
life Of every person in the country.
The Program.
Foremost will be nationwide &C
tivity for the promotion of public
health and hand-in-hand with this cru
sade will go a vigorous campaign fol
the extension of the countrys nursing
resources the broadening of the Rec
Cross Home Service, which In the wal
proved so helpful through the assist
ance it was able to give the families
of soldiers and sailors, to be OF gen
eral usefulness where other socia
agencies are lacking; greatly increas
ed Junior Red Gross activities; ex
tension Of Red Cross facilities fo'
emergency disaster relief; completion
of relief measures for the victims OF
the war in this country and overseas
and preparation to fulfill whatever
duties may be laid upon 1t as the vol
unteer relief society officially author
lied to assist the army and navy.
The plan Of the Red Cross public
health campaign calls for co-opera
ton with other existing health pro
motion and disease prevention organ
izations throughout the United States
6cting by itself where no health
agency now exists, In an effort te
reduce the high mortality due to pre-
ventable disease and to improve gen
eral health conditions.
The Public Health.
Public health nursing will be one
of the important features of this cam
paign. Red Cross public health
nurses will be assigned to as many
small communities as possible, thus
extending to the rural population the
bedside nursing, school inspection
classes in hygiene and home nursing
and search for tuberculosis and Other
preventable disease that has been SO
effective in the cities and larger
towns.
In this connection it is planned tc
offer to every woman In America In
struction in home sanitation, hygiene
care of the sick and dietetics, thus
providing frst-hand knowledge Of how
to keep the family well and what to
do where illness or accident cannot be
avoided. These courses are now be
ing introduced in the public schools
and colleges and are offered depart.
ment store employees, factory opera.
tiveS, girl scouts, nursemaids and 9th,
ers, fitting them to help combat infant
and child mortality, malnutrition, IN,
sanitary living conditions, preventable
disease and epidemics in their own
homes
The seven thousand public health
nurses in the United States are far
too few to meet the ever-increasine
demands for their services.
Home Service.
Home service among the families OF
American soldiers and sailors has
brought out the important fact that In
90 per cent of the places where Home
Cnrvloo 10 naxry oTarotfnr khoua ss .,
other social work agency. According
| II there IS an imperative demand
national in scope, that this service
with its thousands Of highly traine(
workers, be continued and expanded
to assist all needy families in com
munities where other neighborly re
ref is not at hand.
AS always, the Red Cross must holt
itself ready for instant relief servic,
in time of public disaster, such a
great fires, floods, cyclones, ship
wrecks, earthquakes, pestilence, fam
Inc and epidemics. Experience in tn
war and the great organization bull
up through that emergency will wit
quickly available funds make thi
branch of Red Cross activity more ei
fective than ever before.
The Junior Work.
The Junior Red Cross, with its mi
lions of members in the schools, puf
lie and private, throughout the Unite
States, has laid plans calling fo
S5OOO00 for relief work abroad, thi
amount constituting 60 per cent Of til
money the Juniors raise, the RENAME
er to be used for local relief In G,
operation with Home Service. II
also planned to have the Junior men
bers supplement and assist In the wor
Of the national organization wher,
ever possible, with especial regard
the needs Of children.
The turning ove~ to the America
Red Cross Of the surplus medical an
surgical supplies and supplemental
. food stores Of the American arm
abroad for distribution among n
!. still suffering native populations. Z