The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1919-10-17
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can Red Cross.
During TIE year much of this work
was done just as in war times. NOW
a year later the calls have greatly
lessened, but even yet there are GER
tain fields in which it would be
criminal for the Red Cross to with
draw at this time. Chief of these is
the Balkan situation. War and dis
ease have SO weakened the people IN
these countries that it is impossible
for them to be self-sustaining es-
pecially in health matters. The Red
Cross workers are training the native
men and women so that they can take
the places of many doctors and
nurses during the war.
That in places war conditions still
exist is proved by these random ex-
tracts from reports of the Red Cross
Commissions for the Balkans:
"At Xanthia our American nurses
removed groups of dead from each
train of refugees that came out of
Bulgaria. At night, with pick and
shovel, they dug graves along the
railroad tracks, by lantern light"
american nurses travelled in box
cars with refugees. One of their
chief missions there was to bring
Macedonian children into the world"
Recently Miss Kuroyen, of Bos
ton frail little nurse, amputated the
leg of a Serb with safety razor
blade and a spool of cotton thread"
Can we say to such women, "You
must stop work and come home,
America is no longer interested in
the problems of foreign countries ?"
1t is cerntainly un-American to quit
job before it is finished. Remember
this when you are asked to continue
a member of the Red Cross. Fifty
cents of that dollar you pay goes to
to the treasury of the
National Red Cross to carry on the
relief work.
What about the other fifty cents?
That stays here in Hunterdon coun-
ty, and will be used to carry on the
public health work the Chapter has
as the peace problem we
should strive to solve. Last spring
the Junior Red Cross employed a
nurse for a few weeks to investigate
conditions in certain country schools
in our country. The report this nurse
made was an eye-opener! If the Red
Cross did nothing but work in the
schools its labor and expenditure of
would be justified.
The draft was another eye-opener
pointing to the great need for pre-
ventive work. Who would have be-
lieved that one man in three would be
found defective? When it was fur
Their announced that the great ma
jority of these defects could have
been avoided, it would be stubborn
blindness on our part if we refused
to do what we could for the boys and
girls of the next generation. Then
the influenza came and suddenly the
woman with the most elementary
knowledge Of nursing found herself
the mainstay of her community. How
many women said in their hearts,
"Oh, if I only knew what to do"
The answer of the Hunterdon coun-
ty Red Cross to all these is the en-
gaging of Miss Edna Spary as our
County Red Cross nurse. Her work
is just begun and it is too early 10
state definitely what she will be able
to accomplish. Already, however,
one community has arranged for her
to conduct a class in "Home Care of
the Sick" she is visiting the schools
and is taking up special cases which
have been brought to her attention.
1t is safe to say that the other fifty
cents will be money we'll spent.