The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1919-12-05
Bv JAMES p. HoRNADAY.

BY JAMES p. HORNADAY.
Washington. Tie Red Cross roll
call just completed was a success.
4 With such generous response to it's
appea for members and money the or
aanzatf0n will now be able TO 90 for
ward with th, small town and rural
! work il has planned. II will stand
ready to cooperate helpfully wherever
md whenever its services are desired.
4 Here are some of the things that civil
ian relief directors within divisions
! may undertake, the national organiza-
ton says:
! l. Get Il few lectures in every train
Ing institute to show the principle and
methods of the development of the
4 small town.
.. Create small-town laboratory
near every training institute center,
where prospective Red Cross workers
4 can get experience in doing work in u
/ small community.
3. Give assistance and advice to
field workers and others who have not
had the opportunity to know the small
town and solve its problems.
4. Help develop chapter courses so
they will result in community action.
5. Conduct community studies which
may be made the basis of peace-time
program work.
6. Help the Red Cross chapter to
! L.
county for an exchange of plans and
projects and thorough-going survey
of the county which will show prob
lens that need to be gotten at
I. Help the division office to get to-
gether with the organizations, boards
and Institutions of the various states
in the division, interested in the SMALL
er communities, for an exchange Of
plans and projects and a considera-
ton Of ways and means of co=opera-
tive work
8. Create friendly contacts with
/ other agencies working in the same
/ field by attending such meetings as
q farmers week at the agricultural col
4 leses, the state grange, state teachers
associations, ministers associations,
state health conferences. state meet
ngs of the farm bureau agents and
I others
Prof. E. [. Morgan Is Director.
THE Red Cross must be so equipped
/ that it can approach this small town
! and rural field in straightforward
/ Intelligent MANNER" asserts national
headquarters. I'VE should get tanei-
Bile worthwhile results and at the
same time develop in the people a
sense of local interest and responsible
/ ity without vitiating the fine spirit of
loyalty that now exists among them
toward the Red Cross as a movement.
Some time ago we felt that start
should be made and provided in the
department of civilian relief here at
headquarters for bureau of rural
organization. with Prof. +. l.. Morgan
of the extension service of the Massa-
chusetts agricultural college as di-
rector"
Professor Morgan was brought up
on farm in the middle west and lived
also in the south. is q graduate of the
University of Wisconsin, man of ma
ture judgment and has distinct rec
ord of achievement. He has just re-
turned from visiting number of the
divisions, and is of the opinion that the
Red Cross will experience little ditIi-
Guilty in extending its work In the
towns Of 5000 and under, provided the
methods are adapted to the POSSIBLE
tiles of these localities, and the pro
gram worked cut with the people after
a careful study of local conditions
which will show actual work that
needs to be done. He advises that the
division staffs be equipped so as 10
give definite attention to the field of
work that is associated with the local..
ties of 5000 and under.
Our Dead in France to Remain.
II appears reasonably certain now
that the bodies of the American
soldiers who died in France dur
Ing the world war, either from dis
ease or in battle, will remain in the
held of honor" cemeteries that have
been established in that country. The
government from the first has been
disposed to adopt policy which would
SatlSly the greatest number of next
ol ED here at home. Through various
methods the war department has un-
ueflaken to ascertain the sentiment OF
fathers and mothers and other near
ielallNeS of the men who fell and
"iile OF course, it has not been pos
Nlole to reach even large per cent OF
lie persons most interested, the de-
aftment has been successful in getting
expressions from a great many of the
PeNt OF kin and very generally the ex-
preston Is one of desire to have the
ooies of the heroes remain in the
held of honor" cemeteries.
Work of Graves Commission.
II IS now more than a year since
ne graves commission, an organiza-
'ion established by General Pershne
liter the signing of the armistice. be-
gun It's work of collecting the dead
haklng sure of identification and as.
eflbllng The bodies in the field OF
lohor9 cemeteries. This work is by ne
means over, but It has reached the
CANCELLATION.