The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-01-12


the city line. Atlantic Division head
quarters Is with us, on East Twenty
third street. and each of tho oity's
counties has its chapter. December
81 last the New York county enroll
ment alone was 100000 members and
workers, and Brooklyn was estimated
at rather more than half as many
Estimating from partial figures ard
keeping the estimates low, il can u,
said that during the war not far from
$4,000. 600 worth OF raw material was
made up into Red Cross work articles
In New York. the total number Of
surgical dressings, refugee garments,
knitted garments. hospital garments
&c. being little IL at all below 100
600, 900
Which says nothing for the her
culean achievements of the local
chapters in recruiting and training
| the nurses who were SO sorelv needed
or of the shining record OF the home
service section, friend and aid 20 sol
! dicrs and their families in trouble
and. by the way. New lork's part o.
Americas semi official atoncment-
! through the Red Cross and the other
I
/ Of the soldiers pay.
| In the separate Red Gross drive r.,
/ funds last May New York gave rs
J quota, 5000, 900. What II did IN the
I United War Work Campaign Wi, an
pear else where.
OF the Red Cross and It's record ~
! a whole THE SUE cannot do better
here than repeat its EDITORIAL ecomtim
/ Of December 20: ITO relate what The
Red Cross has done for the phys.ga.
and mental comfort OF the soldier
would lie to catalogue about al tho
'5enefactions that intelligence can cen
cieve and generosity supply
The final and superior arrangement
for raising money for the great wa
welfare work was to combine thn
effort and divide the proceeds hy =
carefully worked out scale This was
the United War Work drive, so re-
Gently ended. Here. perhaps, Father
knlckerboCker must take in his Chos'
i by reef or two: the reaction OF TIA
I sudden armistice worked harder here
than anywhere else. just as the popu-
. lar jubilee when the 1s came had
| been widest here.
The reason for this profound re-
action in the case Of funds for We
charities must be that New York
ever called upon as the richest com
munity on earth and ever responding
TO the calls even boyord proportion
To- its wealth, was a little tagged and
that lacking the wars stimulus liz
response, for once, was not quite "
! 10 par.
tho quota s35,000,0 900. was Just Sc
cured. Tho final effort brought
gratifying showing. and two men OF
great wealth, father and son, who had
undertaken 10 make UP any defect
,3fter having personally given million,
during the carly part Of the Gr1V,
found themselves obligated hy N.
promise only 10 the extent Of $500 cor
Huge and noble as has t-aen EcS
Works residential and local share ~
! the achievements of the Salvation
Army. the United Cathol!r War W""H
ers, including the knights of Eulu1-
bus ana other national societies With
I parallel courses. this summary WI
Contine itself to reviewing crganlza
! lions either peculiar to the city or else
| Tor one reason or another largely con.
stituted here.
. II was investigation made OF tho
Mexican border 10y Raymond Il. Fos
dick. former New York city Commits
, sioner OF Accounts, under Secrc;ary
! Bakers order. in 1916. while the army
and the National Guard were watching
and waiting down there, which pave
rise to the creation OF the War Ut par
mert's Commission on Training CAM
Activities. The commission EXTENDED
itself as the War Camp Communlry
Service. New York being the gre,
war gate and the human focus ~ the
Eastern cantonrnents a large sha-, e.,
the commissions service has teel
about New York. which has l""r
drawn upon for much OF the or-luiza
tiuu
Innumcrable Cnntcens Here,
\ W. G. c. s. map of the five -.
ouChs would De handsomely sp' ,EL't
with the service clubs, club Cafr.er.as
canteens and other stations whl,h the
organization by itself provide.
newspaper column would ba IT, tn
10 tell the work OF just one uuNiIiu0
unit, the Girls Patriotic So~y!r"
League, with 10000 members enrolled
last April And II tho TURKEYS o.
America could mobilize FOR defence
they would probably plan their cam
paign With the W. c. G. S. prominently
and fearsomcly in their minds, since
had more to do than any other - ~
organizations with the ThanR-SlTiHe
and Christmas turkey massaor'1 .
behalf Of "the Boys"
All our own, however, Va me
Mayors Committee on Nation! DE
fenor. with the associated Mayors
Committee of Women. This latt'~ Dr.
Veloped when the war began fro'A O."
Women's branches OF the or!gin1. GOV.
mittee. and that WAS a lesaCT Of ih'
patriotic foresight OF Mayor John pr
roy Mitchell, who in October lSl"
called his conference Of Mayors On.
Mayors committees to consider lo'a
civic preparedness. The convention
was held in st. Louis.
Now here is n sort If movie - '''
things the New York commit'e" ~
donc--a movie with the crank tar"'
hitting ii up at GREATNESS spcci.
Helped form the Homo nr''n''
League, presently the Home G-tr''
and later the Police Deserve G''
900 900 signatures TO n luyaity I'''e'
circulated, thus incidentally C\f 'S'
many n rancornus hyphona'r "'' u,
ing him for future Observable 0''
the hattleshlp Recruit in Union i''r'
Powerfully doomed rvcvulllua