The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-01-22
RED cross NOTES

A grant of $4,000 made by the
Junior Red Cross of America, for
hospital and educational work in
Montenegro, is already producing
gratifying results.
The Podgoritza hospital of seven
ty beds, established some months
ago by the American Red Cross, and
which has been daily turning away
enough patients to fill 500 beds, is
being enlarged through an appropri-
alton out Of the fund. Two addi-
tional wards, made of barracks and
set in the beautiful grounds of
Prince Mirko's palace, are being add
ed to the hospital. A section of the
hospital will be devoted especially to
the treatment of children.
To the only boys school in Pod
goritza there is being added a large
dormitory barracks. Hundreds of
mountain boys, eager for education,
tramp into Podgoritza to attend this
school, but they do not have money
for lodging and so they must sleep in
barns Or open fields. The dormitOry
will accommodate all those boys, and
will be within a stones throw of the
school.
For the younger boys, mostly or
phans who live about the market
place, a school colony is being built.
1t is a small group of buildings, in
which the boys will sleep, be fed, and
given vocational training.
Other work, dispensary service,
soup kitchens, and education of the
public in matters of personal and
social hygiene-will be carried on all
winter.
Typical of many letters of graft
tude from French parsonages and
organizations is letter from the
President of the Federation of
French Veterans of the Great War
which reads:
GAS president of the Federation
of French Veterans of the Great
War, l have the honor to send you
the heartfelt thanks of our members
for the thousand gifts and benefits
which you have showered on the
! children of our dead comrades.
Thanks to the great generosity of
the American Red Cross, our dear
ones will have warm clothing this
winter, and shoes to take them. to
school.
Before, during, and now after the
armies of your heroic soldiers have
fought and died to free our France
from the enemy, your organization
has cooperated with US in the care
of the sick and wounded, in the es-
tablishing and maintenance of or
phanages and in the reconstruction
of our devastated towns and vii
lagos A thousand thanks from our
members and from the orphans of
our fallen comrades"
10000
A colony of lepers, practically
buried alive in Tarafangana, NADIA
gascar, as a consequence of their
terrible disease, pays testimony to
the relief extended by the American
Red Cross. The message, which has
been over two months in transmits
sion, follows:
eve are in receipt today, Septem
Der 4, of the case of quinine which
you had the goodness to send US
We hasten to express our deepest
gratitude for your generous gift
Our hearts are filled with prayers OF
gratitude to the Good God, who ha:
come so providentially through the
American Red Cross, giving US helI
in a time when the shortage of sup
plies was hampering our work OF
charity in this poor mission of Tara
; fangana."
The letter was signed by Sister
Louise, a sister of charity who il
doing relief work in the leper colony
10000
A shipment, valued at 100000
including women's and childrena
| coats and dresses, shoes and hosiery
boys and mems suits and overeoatz
and 1,4OO dozen articles of under
wear, is being sent to Poland for civ