The Medina sentinel. [volume] (Medina, Ohio) 1888-1961, 1919-01-10
Red Cross Day at State Conference


At the opening session of the Ohio
State Conference Of Charities and
Corrections held at Columbus, O., Jas.
L. Meser, president Of the conference
and director of Red Cross Civilian Re
lief work in Ohio, Indiana and Ken
lucky, outlined the future Of this
phase of Red Cross work.
"The Red Cross Home Service, he
said, in part, twill continue for prob
ably two years more at its present
task. In most communities the work
will be heavier than ever. Agencies
working with families must every
where give increased consideration to
families under care.
The men who return from the
front will look eagerly in every land
for evidence Of victory. These evi-
dences must be greater opportunity
to secure employment. to earn liveli-
hood which provides for development,
to possess reasonable leisure and bet
ter understanding and increased SYM
pathy between employer and en-
. ployee.
"The Red Cross has enrolled and
instructed 100000 committee MEM
bers in its Home Service sections.
These are prepared to aid the FAM
lilies. Of enlisted men as well as the
men themselves on their return. They
have become aware of health needs,
educational opportunities, the need
= for Alnericanizing our foreign neigh
bors.
"They are now thinking how best
to help the disabled soldiers in Coop
Grafton with the Federal Board for
Vocational Education and how best in
I cooperating with the Federal EN-
ployment Service to help the demob-
ilized soldier to take his place again
in peace time production.
when the Red Cross does this it
\ acts Us the expression Of the good
win of the American people them
selves"
BY all signs and portents formal
peace that will put the world on a
saner, stronger basis than it has had
in all the preceding centuries will be
established before the new year has
/ passed into many months. 1t will be
q year Of great promise. Are you
prepared TO make the best Of it? This
question should appeal particularly
to Red Cross workers, for to them is
given a special responsibility in con-
nection with the general program Of
making the world brighter and hap
pier. When the statecraft Of the
world has completed it's task Of solid
flying permanent peace, closer
relationship between the Red Cross
organizations Of all the countries back
ing up that peace is likely to stand
out as none of the features Of the
new order of things. The individual
Red Cross worker can make no better
new years resolutions than to pledge
his or her energies to the fulfillment
in q practical way. of those things
which the Red Cross spirit proclaims.
The Chapter will continue to be
the heart that keeps the life-fluid
coursing in the arteries Of the Ameri-
San Red Cross. The service which the
women Of America have learned to
& love thru the chapter activities of the
last year or two Is something they do
not wish to relinquish, even though
the causes which called it into being
no longer exist in full force.
Let the women understand then,
that the year 1919 holds forth much,
very much, for the Red Cross Chap
ter to do. The training Of war times
will be grand asset in the "carry
on, work which new conditions, and