Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1920-12-09
GREATEST MOTHER IN THE WORLD"
IN FOURTH RED CROSS ROLL CALL
PUBLIC MEN AND WOMEN BY THOUSANDS LAY PLANS
TO BREAK ALL MEMBERSHIP RECORDS

stricken-Red Cross has been the
friend. the shield, the helper.
Red Cross health work has been
one of the prime factors in its peace
program, and will continue to be push
ed on an even greater and more uni.
versally beneficial scale. One has but
to mention the $4,000 Red Cross nurses
who were on duty during the influen-
"a epidemic last year, to Inspire the
people to rejoin the Red Cross, II
only to carry on such splendid work
as this.
$1,000 Health Centers
Then there are the health centers
the Red Cross has inaugurated in
about $1,000 communities, through
which health education has been
spread, disease checked and many of
the 100000 annual deaths in the
United States from remedial causes
prevented. More than one thousand
Red Cross nurses are working in the
rural communities of America, where
their services are most in demand
More Of this work than ever will be
done by the Red Cross next year,
and it is hoped to put public health
nurse in every county where the need
is great and the people sufficiently
interested.
Much ether splendid work has been
done and will continue to be dona by
the Red Cross in teaching people how
to get well and keep well. There are
First Aid classes of the Red Cross,
which taught more than a million
Americans last year what to do be-
fore the doctor comes. The toll of
deaths in America from accidents
each year is more than 100000, of
whom T000 are drowped The Red
Cross has been particularly active in
the South in organizing Life Saving
corps to stop such lamsntSble AID
preventable loss Of life as this. Many
Southern papers in the past year have
carried accounts of rescues at beaches
and lakes where life was saved by Red
Cross first aiders. Other classes of
this characteH that have accomplished
splendid work are the classes In home
hygiene and care 81 the sick, and
classes in home dietetics, in which
last year more than 10000 women and
girls Of America learned how to care
for the sick people in their homes
and what is best for the family to eat
in order for thd members to keep
well and strong.
Right On The Job
Disaster relief has been the JOB of
Red Cross for many years past.
During the Wall street explosion not
so long ago, Red Cross was on the
job with doctors and nurses almost
as soon as the police and as re.
suit number of lives were saved out
right and many wounded people kept
from being invalids and cripples for
life. People in the South will recall
the numbers Of times when Red Cross
has been the only relief and helper in
time Of flood and fire in several COM
munities. In the 80 years of its ex.
istence Red Cross has given relief in
200 floods, fires, tornadoes and other
disasters and last year alone 1t gave
aid to more than 10000 unfortunates
In $50 different communities.
While so much has been done by
Red Cross in America in the last two
years, 1t has not stopped administer
ing wise, economical but uHstinted aid
to starving peoples in other lands. BY
fighting typhus, cholera, tuberculosis
and other horrible diseases in fever
ridden European countries, Red Cross
has saved thousands Of lives, partic-
ularly those Of women and children
who had no one else to turn to save
the greatest mother in the world"
This is the sort OF work the Red
Cross has been doing. This is the
sort Of work 1t will continue to do,
II the people of America will Join zone
hundred per cent" TN the forthcoming
Roll Call.