The Medina sentinel. [volume] (Medina, Ohio) 1888-1961, 1919-08-15
THE RED CROSS

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In appreciation of prompt assis-
tance rendered victims by the Ameri-
can Red Cross, people of stricken
town in the Mugelle Valley, Italy,
have re-christened the place "Amer-
ica."
The American Red Cross joining
with the American Relief Administra-
ton has appropriated $2,500 for Or
ganization of "Food Clubs" among
children Of Jugo- -Slovakia. These clubs
are helping to solve the problem of
getting children back to schools which
have been closed since the outbreak
Of war.
Thirty minutes after Kentucky Red
Cross headquarters was infromed by
Marion, Kentucky, officials that tents
were needed to house victims of
fire which ragged there a short time
ago, supplies were enroute to the
trouble zone.
Of 240 returned service men in
Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky who are
receiving vocational training, 85
chose business courses; SIS mechanics;
22 elementary studies; 19 agriculture;
II college subjects; Is telegraphy; IA
mechanical drawing; 7 printing and 6
electrical engineering. The Federal
Board for Vocational Education is
getting in touch with returning SOL
diers through the American Red
Cross.
Fifty Red Cross chapters in the
Lake Division have asked for the
privilege of extending their Home
Service section work. These are now
having "Know Your Community" sur
veys to enable extension work to be
carried out without duplicating work
Of existing social organizations. Six
chapters have completed this survey
and have their new program outlines.
Thirty thousand men and women
are giving whole or part time to Red
Cross Home Service in $500 sections
and 1920 branches throughout the
country.
Pamphlets of instructions in SIM
pie home nursing methods, distributed
by the American Red Cross are to be
translated into foreign languages and
circulated by missionaries in distant
parts of the world.
Red Cross classes for instruction in
Home Hygiene are expected to at
tract larger enrollments this fall than
ever before according to information
given out by Lake Division headquar-
ters.
In wartime the American Red
Cross was concerned with military
and civilian relif only insofar as il
concerned the families of soldiers
and sailors. In peace time the Rec
Cross is to mother" civilian COM
munities as we'll. Nothing so safe
guards the welfare of a community as
to have group of people trained tc
meet emergencies, trained to think
clearly and calmly when accidents oc-
cur. This training the Red Gross
First Aid course gives whenever il
is adopted.
The plan inaugurated by the Junior
Red Cross for the future sets up {
great system of social help extending
from the home, the schools and the
community to wherever there is pair
and sorrow. Out of a new born sense
of justice and generosity, American
children are saying, eve, too, will
carry on. We will help those who neet
US. We will make good our promise
to mankind"
Red Cross motor service which "car
ried on in England during the wa
will not hear the order to demobilize
The British Red Cross has a plal
whereby the entire country will be di
vided into sections with no place NOR
than Is miles from a motor ambu
lance. Five hundred of these ambu
lances so familiar to any of tn
Americans who were in Boulogne dur
ing the war are now being housed il
stations throughout the kingdom.
Control of the system will be un
der a commissioner and central of
flee which will guarantee the efficienc
Of the car and service.
| Ambulances which are too wal
torn or not adapted for this phas
of peace work are being added to tn
enormous number of cars and motor
cycles, now being sold or scrapped.
This is just one instance of ho'
the Red Gross is adapting its servic
to the peace time needs of the worl'
In a recent letter to D. G. Dough
erty, acting manager of the organizs
ton in Ohio, Indiana and Kentuck,
F. G. Monroe, General manager ;
National Headquarters, Washington
D. c., writes of the future of the Re
Cross chapters saying;
"If we embrace the opportunity tn;
lies open to US now, the work tn;
we did during the war, great as it w;
will pale into insignifcance whe
: compared with the lasting effects I
our work in the future"