Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1919-01-17
RED CROSS REFUGEE WORK.
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Urgent Need Of Help from Now Until
March Making Misunderstanding
Rooms to Be Open Every Day.

From now until March there is
urgent need of the help. of every Red
Cross worker who can sew to make
clothing for tho refugees of our
European allies made destitute by the
war. r..
An exhibition of the garments needed
and to be furnished by the Red Cross
has been prepared by the Brattlcboro
branch and is now Eeing shown in the
window of The vacant store next door
TO the Western Union Telegraph Office
on the east side of Main street.
AT the Red Cross rooms in the fed
cral building, until March !. every
worker who can do plain sewing Is
needed to help make clothes similar to
those shown in this window. From now
until March /, ocean steamship COM
panies will furnish free 'tonnagei' for
Red Cross supplies; after March 4
freight must be paid. For this. reason
the most intensive effort to complete as
much of this kind of sewing as possible
should be made now. If Brattleboro
women viii respond to this call, the
need will he .'met as every demand on
Brattleboro has been met so far. 4.
The rooms in the federal building
will be open for sewing every after
noon from two clock TO FIVE clock
and member of the supplies commit.
tee will be in charge. Women are want
ed for plain sewing regularly and each
woman is requested to devote a few
hours each week. more if possible, to
this work. The Red Cross is organized
for the relief of civilians rs well as SOL
dicrs and its work will go on as long
as there is sickness and want in the
world.
Locally the work is under the charge
of Mrs. John C. Dewitt, chairman of
the supplies committee, at whose re-
quest the following is printed:
In the European countries that have
been ravaged by the war, there are
children clothed in meal sacks, babies
wrapped in newspapers, children whose
clothes have been unchanged for
months, and pitiful old people shiver-
ing in rags and tatters. Now the Red
Cross goes freely where formerly the
guns barred the way, and the oppor-
tunity for service is greater than ever.
Fortunately there is no further need for
surgical dressings or knitting for sol
ulerS. Dut tneSe people must ne leu
and clothed and the hospitals must be
supplied with garments for the sick
and wounded.
Sewing on refugee garments is not
attractive; plain sewing never is. Sur
gical dressings and knitting had the
charm of fancy work; the refugee gar
ments have only the call of plain pro-
SHE everyday duty. But let the
women of America remember this. 1T
was the arrival of the American Red
Cross workers in Italy which restored
the morale of both the Italian army
and the Italian people when il was wa
vcring and likely to follow Russia in
deserving the allies. .-...tt
And now, when America needs the
support of the allied countries if it is
to put through its plan to prevent
future wars,--the league of nations
it will be just these unattractive ref
ugee garments which will help turn thu
STALE again. For accordingly as tn,
American Red Cross feeds and clothes
the DESTITUTE, it will turn the tide il
America 5 favor.
Come and help.