Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1919-09-25
RED CROSS STARTS
fall CAMPAIGN
To Meet Need in Eastern Europe
and Balk27S
Refugee Clothing Must he Made Up
and Shipped Before Colo Weather

To help meet the pressing need for
clothing amoag the war sufferers Of
Europe next wiater, especially in
Poland, Siberia ard the EalI,2ns, New
England Division Headquarters Of the
American Red Cross has announced
a Fall program Of production. The
program is to be wholly on volunteer
basis, SC there VIII 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, III an effort to fight the spread
Of disease, such as typhus, tuberculosis
ard influenza, are concentrating on
medical relief, but to make the beHe.
fits of the medical service permanent,
warm clothing and rourishing food are
needed. The cpiGcmics Of typhus
which swept over Eastern Europe last
winter, and are Still raging in Poland
ard Russia, tCyl; so large toll Of
lives because TIE populations of these
CGunJFleS were ;.lGCIlGC ana lnSuln-
ciantly clothed.
In Serbia but 5000 children of the
$4,000 who followed the Serbian Army
n the retreat Ct 1915 are alive today,
according to figures verified by Red
Cross overseas workers. Statistics of
human waStage il Poland and Siberia
are equally appalling.
In order that garments may reach
the people for whom they are intended
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
yinia H. Newell. of Boston, Director
of Chapter Production for both the
National and New England Division
organizations. Miss Newell went to
France and from France into Serbia
during the summer, travelling 400
miles by motor canton 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-piece
dresses, chemises and petticoats,
children's stockings; and afghans
All materials for these garments,
according to instructions issued by the
Division Manager, must be ordered by
chapters from the Division office, and
distributed by them to their branches
and auxiliaries which should return
the finished articles to the chapters.
Provided garments are carefully in
spected, chapters may ship them
straight to the American Red Cross
Clearing House, Pier l, Hoboken, New
Jersey. Otherwise they should bs
shipped to the New England Division
Headquarters, American Red Cross,
108 Massachusetts, avenue, Boston.
In her trip through Serbia and
Northern France Miss Newell visited
American Red Cross distributing sta
tions and said that all the garments
given out were absolutely satisfactory
Nothing is wasted" she added "Pa
jamas and hospital garments are be,
ing made over into children's suits and
in some parts of the Balkans surgical
dressings are being used for baby
clothes"