The Cordova daily times., 1919-05-17

A COnValeSCont SOlQler WOulQ COIL valesce much better, don't you think, if the cushions he uses are harmon ious in color and design with the up holstery and hangings of the room. You should see how the eighteen cushions just finished by the Seattle Juniors for the Camp Lewis Conveles- cent House answer these require ments.
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 Chapters reporting to date exceed ing their minimum allotment in the Red Cross Magazine "Sill Hunt:
 Idaho-Butte County, Lemhi Coun- ty, Lincoln County.
 Alaska-Chitina, Cordova, Douglas, Treadwell Juneau, Kennecott, ketch- ikan, Latouche, Mccarthy Nome, Seward, Panama valley, Valdez, Wran- gell.
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 An instance of great difficulty en- countered in carrying on home serV- ice work in Alaska is illustrated by the fact that it is impossible to get any sort of a message through to Flat, Alaska, until June 5. The dlvl- sion office has made several attempts to get message into Flat in regard to a stranded soldier. It can be car ried through by cable service to ldlt- arod, but no further.
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 In little over six week the chll- dren in 122 schools of Archangel, Rus siss, and outlying districts have con- sumed the following amount of food at the daily luncheons provided by the American Red Cross: Cocoa, 2,O49 pounds; sugar, 4,224 pounds; crack CTS. 7,341 pounds; milk, 8,l61 cans. Teachers report a much increased at tendance and better work on the part of the children as a result or the noon-day nourishment. On being told that American boys and girls con tributed the money which made the daily feasts possible, the Russian chll- dren sent toys and letters to Red Cross headuuarters with instructions to forward them to their brothers and sisters in the United States.
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 Jane A. Delano, director general Of the department of nursing ot the American Red Cross, died at Base Hospital 69, Savaney France, Tues day, April 15.
 Miss Delano sailed early in January for the purpose of making personal survey of the nursing situation in France, Italy, the Balkans and other countries where the American Red Cross is engaged in work. She was taken ill soon after arrival in France. Jane A. Delano, under whose di- rection more than 30,O00 nurses were recruited through the American Red Cross for service in the army and navy after the United States entered the war was one of the foremost fig ures of the nursing world and recog- nized as one of the leaders of her profession in this country.
 Miss Delano served the American Red Cross from first to last without compensation-a full-time volunteer.
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 Ten thousand persons in Poland are dying every week of typhus, accord ing to an estimate made by the Amer ican Red Cross Mission on field re- ports just completedd. Unless the barest necessities such as isolation, soap and clean underwear are pro- vided without delay, says late cablegram, cholera and dysentery surely will follow with warm weather, and before another winter whole viii lages will be decimated. Typhus and other diseases are especially severe in the Dobrowa coal-mining region, where the Oeatn rate mas Jumpou from 32 per 1000 in 1913 to 15O today. Only 20 per cent of the population of this region is free from tuberculosis.
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 Four hundred pairs of socks have been knitted for the Red Cross by the firemen of four New York companies.
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 Ten Alaska chapters have exceeded their minimum quota for magazine subscribers. Cordova is named in the list.
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 Ten thousand and one concerns of chilhood, serious and playtime crowd the pages of the May issue of the Red Cross magazine childrens number. There is hardly phase of May time of life that does not re ceive the attention of the corps oi writers that Is putting the Red Cross