Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1919-03-11

having largely evacuated ENGLAND. the
ACTIVITIES OF the Red Cross Commits
sion there are naturally upon a dimin-
isning scale period. Active operations
are still In progress In Archangel and
Siberia.
The work In Italy has been almost
entirely on behalf of the civilian pop
ulation OF that country. In the critical
hours Of ltaly's struggle the American
people, through their Red Cross. sent
practical message Of sympathy and
relief, for which the government and
people of Italy have never ceased to
express their gratitudes
supplies and Personnel to Near East.
The occasion for such concentra-
ton Of effort In Italy, England, Bel
GUM and even in France having natur-
ally and normally diminished, Ii has
oeen possible to divert supplies and
personnel'in large measure to the aid
OF those people in the Near East who
nave hitherto been inaccessible to out
side assistance, but whose sufferings
nave been upon an appalling scale.
Inc needs of these peoples are so vast
that government alone can meet them.
out the American Red Cross Is making
an effort to relieve Immediately the
more acute distress.
IAN extensive group of American
workers has been dispatched to carry
vitality needed supplies, and to work
this winter in the various Balkan coun-
tries. In order to coordinate their ac-
tivities, Balkan commission has been
established, with headquarters at
Rome, Italy, from which point alone
all the Balkan centers can be reached
promptly.
"A commission has Just reached Po-
land with doctors and nurses, medical
supplies and food for sick children
and invalids. An American Red Cross
Commission has also been appointed
to aid in relieving the suffering of Rus
sian prisoners still confined in German
prison camps.
IAN important commission is still
working in Palestine Through the
war special cooperation has been
given to the Armenian and Syrian Re
lief Commission, which was the only
agency able to carry relief in the IN
terror of Turkish dominions.
Red Gross Will Continue.
"Red Cross effort is thus far flung
It will continue to be so. But the
movement represented by this worl
has likewise assumed an Intimate plac,
in the daily life of our people at home
The army of workers which has beer
recruited and trained during the wa
must not he demobilized All our ex
perience in the war shows clearly tina
there is an unlimited field for servic,
of the kind which can be performe,
with peculiar effectiveness by the Re-
Cross. What its future tasks may b.
It is yet impossible to forecast w
know that so long as there is an Amer
lean army in the field the Red eros
will have a special function to perform
Nothing could be of greater impoi
lance to the American Red Cross tina
the plans just set in motion by the fiv
great Red Cross societies of the worl
to develop a program of extended aC
tivities In the interest of humanit,
The conception involves not alone e
forts to relieve human suffering, bt
to prevent it; not alone a movemeT
by the people of an individual natiol
but an attempt to arouse all people [
q sense of their responsibility for I'll
, welfare of their fellow beings through
! out the world. 1t is a program bot
ideal and practical. Ideal In that Il
supreme aim is nothing less than We
table peace on earth good will
men," and practical in that it seeks
; take means and measures which al