The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-24
HOME SERVICE OFFICE OF THE RED GROSS IS ONE OF THE
 BUSIEST PLACES TO BE FOUND IN ANElLSTON NOWADAYS

home service is legion. and spans the
 gamut of human need.
 In the Anniston home service office
 soldiers wives and mothers daily came
 to the executive secretary with all
 sorts of troubles. each visitor ever re- l ceiving ready understanding, sympathy and practical help. The Calhoun 1 County Red Cross is most fortunate in | having such an efficient, consecratei l home service secretary as Mrs. Eva Powers Cornley, who last week as
 sumed the duties of this great phase of work. Mrs. Cornley spent three years studying social service work ar pr. Whites Bible school in New York
 and at Scarrett Bible and Training
 school in Kansas City and is ideally ! fitted for this beautiful mission of love
 into which she has entered, heart and 1 soul. Into all projects planned for the
 uplift of the community, Mrs. Cornley | lends assistance. She teaches the | large Philathea class at the First lectures to other Bible classes, is a valued member of the Wednesday 1 Study club and many other local O. ganizations. Her fife is dedicated to service, her constant beneficence bringing cheer and aid wherever her 1 WOnQer1ui influence is relt.
 Mrs Richard H. Stickney, who | served so nobly throughout the war as chairman of womans work, is now
 serving as chairman of the county | Red Cross chapter and also as chair | man of the home, service section, and
 Mrs. E. G. Polk is continuing her et- 1 ficient work as secretary to the county i chapter.
 Mrs. Noble Bells work as home ser | vjca visitor hla "a
 the Red Cross. Mrs. Bell makes dozens of visits throughout the county | every day, finds out the needs of the | soldiers families and recommends nec- essary help. She has made many loyal friends in many homes. who have been i helped by he- cheery presence.
 | In widening it's clientele at home the Red Cross will adhere strictly to its | policy of extending service to fam l fly only in response to an invitation l from it. It is not contemplated that | the Red Cross will of itself originate
 contact with any family or go where ] it is unwelcome.
 l During the past month, through the home service section, the Red Cross
 has assisted 344 families, rendered SCI . vice to 22s applicants, given informa- tion to 115 and spent $215 in giving as- l sistance to families.
 The women who labored so liyaiiy
 in the Red Cross workrooms during | the war have for time ceased tn cir labors. but at the first call to service I again will respond Mrs. William J | Hardee, director of the chapter pro-
 duction of the Gulf division has sent out word to the women of the south urging them to hold themselves ir | readiness for the work which yet re- mains to be done for the unfortunate te victims of the Huns in Europe and the | Iuyct lad t,e American hospitals. In October allot-
 ments of refugee garments will bt made to each chapter and as Dixie's
 patriotic women have never failed tc respond to any call. the amount oi l work required of each chapter will nc doubt be quickly completed. Mrs. Os- borne H. Parker, whose splendid spirit of self-sacrifice was dominant in al war activities, is chairman of woman work for the Calhoun County Rst Cross chapter and will have charge oi I the work to be accomplished in a. autumn in the workrooms.
 In November men and women will b. called upon to work for the success of campaign for funds, the drive to las two weeks, ending November Il. Wide spread, suffering and distress in easterI through their Red Cross will be called upon to alleviate, make the cominl money appeal necessary Women througl
 but the country are being urged to keel this vital campaign in mind in plannin; their autumn wardrobe and to be willing
 to sacrifice personal luxuries in order t give freely to people of the devastate' , European lands.
 What would this troubled old world b.
 without the American Red Cross? Wha a place of horror most of Europe woul; be now but for the ministrations of tha
 great organization Of relief. What hope
 lessness, what clinging sorrow, wha Ihelplessness would grip millions of war cursed people had not the American Rec Cross gone to their aid at a time whel :. aid was imperative. Without regard t
 danger, with no thought of the sacrifice necessary, the noble workers of the grea Red Cross have gone quickly. unhesitat ingly into the worst of places, wher desolation. death and despair had re 1 placed every semblance of order an ! peace and have worked increasingly un
 der tremendous handicaps to help th