The Cordova daily times. [volume] (Cordova, Alaska) 1914-1947, 1919-05-03

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| to the division warehouse, marked
"For Shipment Abroad
| The Red Cross must purchase or Sc.
cure by donation from sewing ma :
chine companies the greater number
of the machines needed. Every ma
cline donated will lessen the burden
on the Red Cross treasury by just
that much.
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| Lieutenant Colin V. Dyment, who
for the past year has acted as Red
Cross searched with the 91st division
in France, is now attached to the
Northwest division staff, at Seattle,
where he will meet and talk personal
| ly with members of the families Of
those brave men from the northwest
who fell in the three hard battles that
placed the 91st division in the fore
front among Uncle Sans fighting
forces.
With the divisions dead numbering
1902 and with total casualties of all
kinds reaching to between 5000 and
5000, Lieutenant Dyment's records
enable him to give intimate informa-
%0 %Io nj or mr. nndnr
which many of these casualties oc-
cured 1t is for the purpose OF CIV
ing these personal observations to
relatives that Lieutenant Dyment IS
prolonging his leave of absence from
! the University of Washington, where
he holds the chair Of dean in the
school of journalism, and giving his
services to the Red Cross until every
father, mother, sister, brother or wife
in this division has learned each and
every detail of the casualty in which
he is most deeply interested.
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Personal observation of Red Cross
work among the soldiers will suggest
that one Of it's finest features is the
all-the-time readiness to meet the
wants-all the reasonable Wants-of
tie men in uniform. There is differ
ence between wants" and needs"
When the fighting was in progress,
and when the boys were in camp,
training for the great adventure, the
main thing in mind from the Red
Cross point of view, was to supple
ment the government in looking after
the needs of the troops. Wants were
incidental, to a large degree. With
the fighting over and thousands of the
youth of the land lying on hospital
cots or slowly convalescing from
wounds and disease, the opportunity
for service finds it's most striking ex-
preston in satisfying wants that go
beyond actual needs.
In the hospitals, for instance, the
needs of the patients, so far as med
ical attention and nursing care are
concerned, are we'll taken care of by
the military establishment of the gov
ernment 1t is the province of the
Red Cross to supply the home
touches, run the errands, and perform
a hundred and one services that the
government agencies or personnel
cannot render. 1t is labor of love
that exists entirely apart from the
service which doctors, nurses, and
paid attendants are able to give.
There is heart in the work not only
cheering to the men themselves, but
to the families of the soldiers,
through their knowledge that willing
hands are constantly ministering to
their dear ones.
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There are 4OO,OOO,OOO people in
Europe and most of them are suffer
ing for lack of food. The menace of
starvation extends over into Siberia,
Armenia and Syria in Asia. 1t is from
America that help is expected, from
America where harvests are plentiful,
where beef steak and potatoes are a
dinner for a working man instead of
bruised garlic with salt, or raw onion
without bread.
1t is hard for the average well-fed
American to realize what four years
of undertaking means to the women
and children of Poland or Rumania,
and it would be still more difficult If
he could picture the scanty food
which serves even in normal times for
the poorer classes of these countries.
The diet of the Rumanian peasant
shepherd, who knows scarcely any
food but the milk and cheese from his
herd, would seem SO simple that only
starvation. would drive healthy man
to subsist upon 1t. And yet the Ru-
manian has lost his herds, is driven