The Medina sentinel. [volume] (Medina, Ohio) 1888-1961, 1919-06-13
THE RED CROSS
Red Cross Peace Projects

Half million to help the children
By June Is, according to information
from Lake Division headquarters, the
National Children's Fund of the De-
partment of Junior Membership of the
American Red Cross will reach that
figure.
Red Cross Juniors in the Lake Di-
vision have been asked to help relieve
suffering among the children OF Eu-
rope. Sixty per cent of the member
ship fees are being sent to National
headquarters to be spent in relief
work which will build for the future,
better conditions of living for the
younger generation all over the world.
Juniors Of Ohio, Indiana and Ken
lucky are doing their share. Accord
ing to the June l report, 46 counties
have already contributed $25,659.61.
The American Red Cross is at pres
ent meeting emergencies with all
available resources, but it is apparent
that imperative calls for assistance
will make additional funds necessary.
From both the humane and economic
standpoint this assistance must be
given wherever asked, in order that
future conditions at home and abroad
may be improved.
mo American could sleep nights
If he knew the conditions as they ac-
tually exist" said Henry P. Davidson,
chairman of the Board of Governors
of the new League Of Red Cross So
cieties of the world, who has just re-
turned from overseas. "In their
thankfulness for the good things Of
life that had fallen to their share,
can the American people fail to keep
in mind the bitter lot of peoples over
seas and to succor them in their des-
perate struggle, pestilence end starva-
tion?"
Red Cross camp communication SER
vice almost always completes cases it
undertakes, regardless Of time. A
striking instance came to Lake Divis-
ion Office this week.
Alexandra Dimarchos delivered a
message to Lake Division camp Red
Cross worker on July 1, 1918, with the
request that the same be forwarded
to his relatives in Constantinople. On
Decoration day word came that al
though the relatives were hard to find,
the message had been delivered and a
reply from his family returned to the
soldier.
Home service workers in the camp
are still busy supplying information,
keeping in touch with families Of sol
diers through the local Home Service
section, getting word Of missing men
and being the best friend to all the
men in camps in Ohio, Indiana and
Kentucky.
An American Red Cross unit has
penetrated to Tomsk, Siberia, where
500 people were frozen to death early
last winter, and thousands had frozen
feet or hands. The Tomsk University
Medical school has now TUNED oVel
its clinical hospital to the American
Red Cross.
A message Of cheer for all wounded
soldiers has come TO Lake Division
headquarters of the American RED
S Cross. Blinded and without hands
a British soldier has found it within
his heart and within his strength to
write with artificial hands on q
specially arranged typewriter the fill,
lowing words: "When you are fit ano
able you find there is plenty in life
worth living for"
This British soldier, Alvan Nichols
by name, has taken training offered
by the British government similar te
that offered in this country by the
Federal Board of Vocational Educa.
ton. Red Cross Home Service work
ers are encouraging disabled soldiers
in Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky te
useful trades which will enable them
study useful trades which will enable
them to earn good living.