The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1919-07-02
Red Cross viii
Continue Work
PRODUCTION is NOT FINISHED
AND WORKERS WILL BE ASK
ED TO GIVE LABOR.

i
Red Cross Board of Directors was held
Monday evening June %, this being the
annual July meeting which was held
little earlier in order not to inter-
fere with the Chautauqua season At
this meeting considerable important
business was transacted.
The following members of the
branch were added to the Board of Di-
rectors; Mrs. Albert Johnson. Mrs.
Louise Fraser, Bert Virgins, John
Colville and NJ A. Dennistoun. The
Branch also voted to help hire two
Red Cross nurses for work in Redwood
County and to send $500 to the
Northern Division headquarters to be
used IN the pursuance of the Peace
Program.
It has been made very clear from
the Minneapolis headquarters, and
was forcibly presented to the local
] Board, that the Red Cross is a perman-
ent institution and that the work must
carry on even in times of peace.
Mrs. Mable Hall of Minneapolis who
was member of committe appointed
to investigate the relative PRACTICABLE
| lily of Chapter production and factory
production makes the following I'M
| qualified statement: -"Work is as
necessary as ever and production is
not finished. Factory work is neither
as practical not as cheap as chapter
production, costing at least one-third
more than the work done by the chap
ter. And in addition in using factory
work the Red Cross workers would
lose their inspiration. "The local Red
Cross is limited only by what it wants
to do for humanity and all workers
will govern themselves accordingly.
! The Redwood Falls branch is prepar-
ing an honor roll and the names of all
workers, the nature of their work and
the hours devoted to it, will be placed
upon cards and filed within short
space of time In addition to this
canvas of the workers will be made to
will give share of their time to the
work of production after. September l
and until the work is finished. The
work for which these workers are need
ed will be both for knitting and sewing
and for those who prefer to take the
work home instead of doing it at the
Red Cross rooms the following system
of time credits has been arranged;
Knitting;-Children stockings, Ia
hours, scarf s hours, shawl.16 hours
and all other knitted garments COM
puted by the quantity of yarn used
in these
Sewing; - Red shirt, 8 hours, pajama
suit 6 hours, jacket 5 hours and under
suit, 4 and 5 hours.
The girls who are to take the can
[vas will call upon all the women and
girls of the town soon and the local
chairman, Mrs. A. B. Winter, asks that
this be thought over carefully before
the girls call in order that there may
be little delay. 1t is well to remember
| that there will be no work until Sep
TENDER 1, although volunteers for knit
ting work before that time are ask
ed for. Anyone who will take this
knitting to do for work in her spare
moments during the next few weeks is
asked to call upon either Mrs. Winter
or Mrs. B. G. Hall for material and
/ instructions.
Mrs. Winter also earnestly urges
that every woman or girl who finds it
possible to subscribe a certain num-
Der of hours should do so. There will
i be considerable necessary work to do
after the beginning of the work next
September and it is highly desirable
that sufficient workers subscribe so
that there will not be repetition of
the work done in recent quota when
a worker over eighty years of age
made, without assistance twelve of
the twenty-five garments allotted
this extra work being required because
sufficiently large number of the
younger women failed to do their duty
in the matter. The organization which
was formed in war times must now
necessarily adjust itself to peace con-
ditions and every worker is urged to
assist in this.