The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1919-09-26
IMPORTANT CONFERENCE
OF RED CROSS CHAPTERS
Held This Week in MinneapOlis.-5OO
Delegates Acknowledging to
Be Held in Butte.

With approximately 500 delegates
from chapters from all yer three Of
the four states in the northern divi.
sion registered, a Red Cross confer.
ence was opened in Minneapolis Mon.
day that is expected to prove historic
in it's influence on the future health
and happiness of the northwest.
Representative Red Cross workers
from Minnesota and North and South
Dakota were summoned to Minneap-
oils on the occasion of the first visit
Of DR.. Livingston Farrand, peace time
executive of the Red Cross, who is on
a tour of the thirteen divisions in the
United States.
The Minneapolis conference will be
followed two days later by a meeting
in Butte at which DR.. Farrand will adj
dress a conference of delegates from
all the Montana chapters.
Following the registration Of dele
gates at the court house assembly in
Minneapolis Monday the conference
will be opened at 2 p. m. by Mrs. F. L.
Fridley, assistant manager. David H.
Holbrook will deliver the first address,
touching on the peace program of the
home service or civilian relief depart
ment of which he is director. Miss
Eva Anderson, director of nursing, will
describe the proposed work of that de-
partment in the extension Of public
health nursing and instruction in home
hygiene and care Of the sick.
Then will come the address of DR..
Farrand who is expected to outline a
complete new field of activity for the
Red Cross in addition to the peace
time projects already announced.
Dinner for the Red Cross delegates
will be served at Donaldson's tea
rooms at $50 and will be accompanied
by community singing led by Miss Lu-
ellie Holiday.
Clifford C. Held, division manager,
will act as POSTMASTER at this dinner
and the address of welcome will be
delivered by Governor J.. A. Burnquist
of Minnesota.
At this dinner DR.. Farrand will be
asked to speak informally and the
delegates anticipate a specially inter-
esting talk.
The Red Cross place in community
organization will be discussed by
Judge F. T. Wilson of Saltwater. Or
ganization Of classes in home hygiene
and care of the sick in rural commun-
tiles will be the subject of DR.. A. D.
MCDANIEL of Minot, N. D., and H. E.
Flynn, inspector of teacher training
departments, St. Paul, will discuss
Red Cross influence in the public
schools.
The conference sessions Tuesday
will be opened at 8 a. m by the ad-
dress Of Miss Helen Harrison, direc-
tor of junior membership. w. F. Web
ster, who will supervise the junior en-
rollment will talk on the junior roll
call which opens October 6 and con-
tinues until the Red Cross roll call
proper November 2 to II.
First aid and life saving will be
taken up respectively by DR.. H. w.
Cook, director of the bureau of first
aid and L. E. Fiero who has charge of
the organization Of life-saving corps
in the division.
The cost to the chapter installing
the peace program will be dicussed
by F. S. McGarvey, director of ac-
counts, and Mrs. F. l.. Fridley, in her
capacity of development, will talk on
organization, making a plea that the
branches be given a voice in the gov
eminent of the chapters.
Disaster relief will be the principal
topic of discussion Tuesday afternoon.
Miss Henrietta Lund who has work
ed through half a dozen disasters in
the northern division will describe the
work in northern Minnesota. Walter
NJ. West, director of disaster relief,
will describe the plans for efficient
reorganization of the disaster work
so that it may be promptly and eff
fectively applied when the need may
arise.
Red Cross field problems will be dis
cussed by Miss Nell Peterson, Miss
Louise Pye and Miss Mary Muckley,
field workers, and by Mrs. H. C. Ev-
ans, director of the bureau of infor-
nation Of the civilian relief depart
ment.
The only address by the division
manager, G. C. Held, will be delivered
as the conference closes. He will speak
on the third Red Cross roll call and
the need for the widest possible pub
licity in the subject of the peace pro-
gram.