The Morgan County press. (Wartburg, Tenn.) 1916-1926, 1920-11-12
Athens Banner, says, in part:

went in to ask Miss Crawford,
the Clarke County Red Cross nurse, |
about her work recently and l was
not only interested in what she had
to tell me, but aroused as to my own
responsibilities in the matter OF health.
7 had an idea that Miss Crawford
duties as county nurse consisted In
going about nursing charity cases. But
no. indeed. That just shows now lg'
norant l was of the sort of an invest
ment l had made with my Red Cross
dollar.
Miss Crawford works on the theory
that an ounce of prevention is worth
pound of cure. She says she has
not time for what seems to be tech
nically known as bedside nursing"
When anyone in the county is taken
sick, Miss Crawford will go into the
home and show the members OF the
family how to nurse the patient She
will stay perhaps two hours at time,
and for such visit you may pay her
quarter or fifty cents, or even Ill
teen cents, if you prefer not to accept
charity, and she will explain to you
what is needed in the case OF the
particular illness you are nursing and
help you with the first steps.
In Tuckston and Oconee Heights she
has organized regular classes in home
nursing. These classes meet once
week in Oconee Heights, once every
two weeks in Tuckston, and Miss CraW-
ford shows her pupils, at their leisure
and under more favorable c1rcum-
stances than when there is actual Ill
ness, the same things that she shows
the housekeeper when she is called
into a home where there is sickness.
In East Athens she has Little
Mothers Club, where she is teaching
these same things to the girls.
And last Saturday she started
Health Center In Winterville. She
told me they were going to start a
Health Center next week in East Ath-
ems.
And in giving dollar last Decem-
her to help finance this undertaking,
l feel that you made a good invest
ment Don't you? '..
The Southern Division of the Red
Cross has placed seventy-four public
health nurses in the five states OF
North and South Carolina, Tennessee,
Georgia and Florida. A successful
Fourth Roll Call will make it possible
J to continue the work of these nurses
, and to add to them many others for
, similar service throughout the dtvt'
; sion.
It's power IUI good, Win the result that
Armistice Day, 1918, sounded to this
UNPRECEDENTED childhood's organiza-
ton as a clarion call to carry on
"Since then the Junior Red Gross
has grown to approximately l,0OO,OO0
members; has raised considerably
more than million dollars in money;
has produced countless articles OF prac-
tical use for destitute families at home
and abroad, these articles including
Iayettes, clothing, toys, tables and
chairs, and has distributed free milk
and other food in various forms.
Essentially a school organization,
the Junior Red Cross operates along
educational lines, it's relief projects
being introduc tions for the promotion
of goodwill, good citizenship and al
truism.
Forty per cent of the auxiliary
funds raised by group cooperation is
devoted to purely local relief among
needy child en-. Sixty per cent is for
warded to National Headquarters in
Washington, where it is administered
without overhead expenses.
''This is being used for orphanages
schools, gard ems and health and play
ground activ ties in Albania, Montene
gro, Belgium, Czecho-Slovakia, France
Greece, Italy, Palestine, Poland, Rou
mania. Serbia, Siberia, China and the
Virgin Islands Fully 100000 Of the
10000 900 mem bers of the Junior Red
Cross are in Porto Rico, Panama
Alaska, Hawaii, the Philippine Islands
and in China"
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