Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1920-11-19

! Red Cross Work At Home: -
America calls to the Red Cross 70.
4 service.
1t spent thirty billion dollars in tn
world fight for Democracy.
That was an average of 100000 PEI
capita from our entire population.
The United States owes twenty-eigh'
! billion dollars as war debt.
| That is an average of $4,000 pei
capita for our entire population.
| Tho average American communit,
spent last year about $500 per capita
for education and about $3.50 per
capita for fire and police protection.
AS a nation we spent last year $1,000
per capita for candy, so cents per
capita for chewing gum, $215.OO per
capita for tobacco, rs cents per capita
for perfumery.
Last year the American nation spent
less than 90 cents per capita protect
ing and developing the health Of the
country.
And yet
Last year 1,25O,0OO American people
died of sickness.
Seven hundred and fifty thousand OF
them died Of preventable disease.
Tive hundred thousand adults died
last year from tuberculosis.
tuberculosis is neither hereditary
nor necessary, but is disease of de.
fectiVe civilization.
Last year 100000 American babies
died before they were one year old.
One hundred and fifty thousand OF
them did not live a month.
This slaughter of the innocents was
largely the result Of ignorance, indif-
ference and economic inhumanty.
The records Of the war show that
our civilian population is blighted with
Venereal Disease.
The Public Health Service indicates
that ono-tenth Of our American life is
thus contaminated.
The American Red Cross does not
claim responsibility to analyze and
solve these great questions of Public
Health.
1t only recognizes that under its
Charter it is compelled to devise and
carry on measures for mitigating the
suffering incident to pestilence and
disaster.
It seeks, therefore, merely to aid
existing agencies, to cooperate with
organized effort, and to place its or.
gahiZat.on and it's workers alike at the
disposal and the service Of the COM
munity,
In furtherance Of such a program
the Community Public Health Nurse
!s destined to play an important part
One thousand of these-most of
them returned army nurses-have pre-.
pared themselves for this new cru.
SADIE for higher standards of physical
life and the expansion of our national
strength and vigor.
The Roll Call contemplates practical
demonstration and instruction in Do.
nestle Sanitation, Community Hygiene,
Dictet!cs and Child Welfare.
The establishment Of Public Health
Center Is as most important feature
Of this work for better America.
This will be exactly what it's name
signifes-bringing to definite place
IN each community combination of
all tho agencies that may promote
health, in order to maintain a high |
standard Of physical manhood and
womanhood IN our country.
A distinct line of usefulness will be
the formation Of classes in First Aid,
teaching people how to meet the emer
gency OF accidents and to make pos.
slble the saving Of life.
The continuation, enlargement and |
COORDINATION of the Junior Red Cross
as related to our American public |
schools is an item so vast as to he |
;ncalculablc,
I've whole fabric, not only of our
American democracy but of the fu,
tire civil, alton of the world, rests
upon the child and the school.
The ideal ont OF which the Junior
Red Cross springs is that CT Service
-s?Ie sarrlic.r5 service for others.
Fifteen million American children,
trained ii t,le, philosophy Of uns2lfish.
mesa, schooled to life OF service,
vowed 20 IT, furthcr2nce of intcrna:
t:anll unG rsta2diag and good will. can
save the void.
Finally, the American Red Cross
INST Droad.n and make mere perm.
ancnt it, preparedness for the Dis.
aster Relief that has been SO great
part CT IS :'5t5ry.
81 Tempest and Go3G; earthquakes and
fire; accd ut ant ca!amity--wilatever
If these fill i@>o the machinery of life |
.lroagho.t tho world tie American
Rcd Cross holds Itself ready to go and
minister II the lime of humanity and !
Marcy. @
There is still room for the Re-
crcss.
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