Newark post. (Newark, Del.) 1910-1969, 1919-02-19

Delaware men ana women WIZ
have given eight hundred hours
of work, in any capacity, to the
Red Cross and, While doing so,
have served not less than six
months in the Red Cross, now have
the formal and definite opportunity
to receive service certificates and
badges as rewards for such work
and also as valued souvenirs of the
greatest war in the history OF the
world and the greatest humane
service ever performed by any or
ganization in the history of the
world.
National headquarters has an
nounced to all chapters a plan for
recognizing the loyal service given
by the men and women workers of
the Red Cross. This will be done
through the issuance of certificates
which carry with them the right to
purchase and wear the Red Cross
official general service insignia.
The insignia for women workers
will be a badge with ribbon, bar
and safety catch. For men, but
ton to be worn in the coat lapel.
Men workers to whom certific-
ates have been issued will be en-
titled to purchase the standard SER
vice button, the price of which is
Is cents. No modification in these
buttons is to be made for the vary
ing periods of service.
Women workers to whom certi-
fcates have been issued will be en-
titled to purchase the standard
service badge for the price of one
dollar. There are three forms of
service badges for women, depend
ing upon the number of months en-
rolled and the number of hours of
work accomplished.
In no case shall the award be
made to a worker whose period of
enrolment in service has been less
than six consecutive months, or to
worker whose total number Of
hours amounts to less than eight
hundred hours. In computing
periods Of service only service sub.
sequent to April 6, 1917, should be
awarded irrespective of whether
the service rendered has been on {
volunteer or a paid basis.
The eight hundred hours may
have been accomplished in 81,
months or twelve months or eigh
teen months and in any of thes
instances the worker would receiv
a certificate which would entitl
her to a Red Cross service badg
with plain blue ribbon. In case
where women have worked NOR
than eight hundred hours in 81
months time, these additional hour
cannot be counted toward any ad
ditional award, as there is a mini
mum but no maximum number 0
hours given. In order to obtain a
additional award, that is, a badg
with one white stripe in the blu
ribbon, worker must have give
two periods of six months each an
not less than eight hundred hour
in each of these periods. That i
to say, a worker who had give
twelve months time in sixtee
hundred hours, eight hundre
hours in each of the six month,
would receive a badge with a blu
ribbon with one white stripe
whereas, worker who had give
twelve months time, with sixtee
hundred hours, but figured tha
she had been able to devote twelv
hundred hours in one period of 81
months and four hundred hour
in the other period of six month!
would receive badge with a plat
blue ribbon, as no number of hour
above eight hundred in one perio
of six months can count toward a
additional award. To obtain
badge with blue ribbon with tw
white stripes, a worker must hav
worked eighteen months an
twenty-four hundred hours i
three periods of six months wit
eight hundred hours work in eac
one of these periods. This is til
greatest number of hours and nun
Der of months for which aware
are offered at the present time.
All Kinds of Service to be Counte
In computing the eight hundre
hours all branches of Red eros
work and service may be counte