New-York tribune., 1919-08-24
american Red Cross
Has Big Plans for
peace-Tirne Service
One Feature Is To Be Ex-
tension of Nursing Work
n Rural Communities; Its
War Work Not Finished

rlSHINGTON, Aug. 23.--In connec.
:. with its third rollcall. November
- II. by which it expects to raise
,,seoo, o,ooo, the Red Cross outlined TO-
sv IFS programme of peace-time SER
=. in the United States. One of the
lin features of this programme will
!. the extension of nursing service to
u-sl communities, and efforts to in
.,.ret every woman in America in
some sanitation, hygiene, care of the
a.s and dietetics.
The present staff of 1000 public
...1.h nurses is far to small to handle
.pch an ambitious programme, and it
: announced that efforts will be di-
-seted toward raising special funds to
t,und scholarships for women in spe-
,;si courses in public health work.
aged Cross home service among the
families of American soldiers and sail
ors has shown that in 90 per cent of
,bs plsces where home service is now
ouerating there is no other social work
soercv." says the statement issued to-
say Accordingly. there is an imper-
alive demand that this service, with its
thousands Of highly trained workers,
~ continued and expanded to assist all
needy families in communities where
o,her neighborly relief is not at hand.
aThe Red Cross must hold itself
rsady for instant relief service IN time
a. public disaster, such as great fires
soods, cyclones, shipwrecks, earth
ouakes. pestilence, famine and epidem-
Ics Experience in the war and the
great organization built IN through
that emergency will. with quickly avail
able funds, make this branch of Red
Cross activity more effective than ever
before.
aThe Junior Red Cross, with its mill
ions Of members in the schools, public
and private, throughout the United
States, has laid plans calling for $500
100 for relief work abroad, this amount
being co per cent of the money the
juniors raise annually, the remainder
10 be used for local relief in coopera-
ion with home service.
Inc AUtiltdu INcu 1IOSS, ny us
Congressional charter. is committed to
assist ,he army and navy whenever
called upon, and while the extent of
this service vii depend upon the fut-
ure military policy Congress deter
mines, it undoubtedly Will be greater
han heretofore Whatever the de-
mands, the Red Cross must meet them
Until rehabilitation is completed, and
after. the Red Cross military relief
organization Will continue to function.
Thirty thousand service men still
in the military hospitals, many Grip
pied for life. require Red Cross atten-
ton. Hospital, canteen and motor ser
vice must continue. The fifty base hos
pitfalls organized by the Red Cross be-
fore the United States entered the war
and turned over 10 the army during
hostiIties are back from the field and
must be reoreanized and held ready for
any call, civil or military.
Completion Of Red Cross work for
the soldiers disabled in the fighting
and general assistance to the fighting
men in getting back to civil life are
still far of particularly in the many
and varied phases of home service.
IhCusencs o. families Of service men
are still being helped to solve their
problems by this Red Cross activity,
and money relief in this connection
alone IS in excess Of $500 1000 a month. !"