The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1919-09-05

Executive Board Meeting
The Executive Board meeting for
September will be held on Friday 9Th,
at the home of the vice7chairman,
Mrs. John M. Graham, 204 Forest
Avenue at p. m.
Every member of the board is urged
to attend.
Business of importance to every
branch, as we'll as that of the Chap
ter generally will come up for action.
One thing the Red Cross Depart
ment of Civilian Relief is doing these
days is to see that every crippled
soldier or sailor "gets back into the
game" just as close to his original
self as science can make him--that
is the idea of the government.
The government provides for the
fitting, replacing, and keeping in re-
pair of every artificial limb or appli-
ance required by it's crippled fighters,
and the Red Cross is helping to see
that all who need these things apply
to Uncle Sam for them.
The excellence of these artificial
adiuncts to the human body is re-
markable. Miss Mary Ann Abel, of
the Southern Division headquarters,
attended a baseball game in Wash
ington recently in which every MEM
Der of both teams had lost either a
leg or an ARMAND it was . good,
close, hard-fought game of ball, too.
The increasing scope of the Home
Southern division is indicated by the
Service section Of the Red Cross,
report of the Bureau of After-the for
july, showing in that month 731 dis
abled soldiers referred by that bureau
to the Home Service section for care
and attention. Of this number, 121
were tuberculosis cases, bringing the
total in that class of disability to
$3.50 to date. The other GA cases
were for other types of disability;
from wounds, shell shock, and various
types of breaking health. In all, the
number referred through the bureau
to date is 1854.
The work of the Home Section in
cludes not only looking after the dis
abled soldier himself-seeing that his
medical treatment is continued, If
need be; that his financial compensa-
ton is properly adjusted; and that ne
is afforded vocational training. if de-
sired. 1t also includes looking after
the families of these men where such
care is needed.
Lists of men discharged because OF
disability from any camp or hospital
nthe Southern Division are now sent
directly to the Bureau of After-care
at the Division headquarters IN Allan
ia. instead of coming through national
Headquarters, and much time thus is
saved in reaching the men and their
families. All the Red Cross agencies
are instructed to give this work pre-
ferred attention, and the Home Ser
vice section is being more and more
called on in such cases.
Among all the service flags flown
in America in the past two years, one
flag is unique. Upon it burns single
star of blue; the others are all gold,
1913 of them.
This flag hangs in the marble build
ing of the American Red Cross ma
tional headquarters in Washington.
The single blue star represents the
1897 Red Cross nurses in active duty
with the army and navy nurse corps
and the Red Cross during the war.
The gold stars represent the Red
Cross dead.
The first two were sewn on the nag
in memory of Mrs. Edith B. Ayres and
Miss Helen Burnett Wood, of Chicago,
both of whom were killed by the ex-
nlosion of a defective shell on the
Steamship Mongolia in May, 1917
while on their way to France.
The last star on the flag is for Jane
A. Delano, the Florence Nightingale
of the war; who directed the Amer
lean Red Cross Nursing Service and
sleeps TODAY with the American dead