The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-09-24
RED CROSS STARTS
FALL CAMPAIGN
To Meet Need in Eastern Europe
and Balkans
Refugee Clothing Must be Made Up
and Shipped Before Cold Weather

To help meet the pressing need for
clothing among the war sufferers Of
Europe next winter, especially in
Poland, Siberia and the Balkans, New
England Division Headquarters of the
American Red Cross has announced
Fall program of production. The
program is to be wholly on a volunteer
basis, so there will be no quota, but
Red Cross women who prefer sewing
to other forms Of volunteer work have
been assured that there will be plenty
for them to do.
American Red Cross commissions
abroad, in an effort to fight the spread
Of disease, such as typhus. tuberculosis
and influenza, are concentrating on
medical relief, but to make the bene-
fits of the medical service permanent,
warm clothing and nourishing food are
needed. The epidemics of typhus
which swept over Eastern Europe last
winter, and are still raging in Poland
and Russia, took so large a toll of
lives because the populations of these
countries were underfed and insuffi
GENTLY clothed.
In Serbia but 5000 children Of the
in the retreat of 1915 are alive today,
according to figures verified by Red
Cross overseas workers. Statistics of
human wastage in Poland and Siberia
are equally appalling.
In order that garments may reach
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before cold weather sets in, chapters,
branches and auxiliaries in the New
England Division have been asked by
| Division Manager James Jackson to
decide at once whether they wish to
| take up production again. Material
will be furnished Chapters from Divi-
sion Headquarters, in Boston.
A substantial supply Of clothing and
petticoats, cut out ready to be made
| up, is now in the Division warehouse
| and these will be forwarded to Chap
| ters desiring immediate work.
Accurate information on the need
| for clothing overseas has been fur
nished Red Cross officers by Miss La
| vinia H. Newell, of Boston, Director
| OF Chapter Production for both the
National and New England Division
organizations. Miss Newell went tc
! France and from France into Serbia
during the summer, travelling 400
miles by motor cannon from Belgrade
to Nish, to investigate the production
problem for the Red Cross.
/ The articles needed, Miss Newell re
ported, are as follows: women's house
gowns, night gowns, chemises. skirts
sacks, aprons, shawls and petticoats
mems and boys shirts, girls one-piec
: dresses, chemises and petticoats
, children's stockings; and afghans.
: All materials for these garments
according to instructions issued by TIL
Division Manager, must be ordered b.
chapters from the Division Office, an
distributed by them to their branche
and auxiliaries which should return
: the finished articles to the chapters
VI Provided garments are carefully in
: spected, chapters may ship ther
$ straight to the American Red Cros
a Clearing House, Pier 1. Hoboken, Ne,
!, Jersey. Otherwise they should b
: shipped to the New England Divisio
Headquarters. American Red Cros.
h los Massachusetts, avenue, Boston.
ri In her trip through Serbia an
Il Northern France Miss Newell visite
American Red Cross distributing st;
tions and said that all the garment
given out were absolutely satisfactor,
. Nothing Is wasted" she added. "P;
= jamas and hospital garments are b.
ing made over into children's suits an
n in some parts Of the Balkans surgic;
t. dressings are being used for bah
= clothes"