The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1920-10-27
RED CROSS MEANS
MUCH IN GEORGIA,
DECLARE LEADERS
Fourth Roll Call Expected to In.
crease Membership 100 Per Cent.

Atlanta, Ga, Oct 00.-If the peo-
pie OF Georgia will stop to realize what
the Red Cross has meant to their
state IN the last two years following
the signing of the armistice, thew will
unite IN joining the Red Cross one
hundred per cent during the Fourth
Red Cross Roll Call November 11.25
declare leading citizens in number of
Georgia communities in letters to the
Southern Division headquarters of the
Red Cross, describing preparations
for the Roll Call.
Il have been telling our people
something about the health work of
Red Cross in Georgia." writes one
man. Here and there are families
where some member has been saved
from disease and possible death by the
public health nursing of Red Cross.
here and there are others who re-
call what Red Cross nurses, did for
them during the influenza epidemic.
They are anxious to renew their
membership without any urging what
ever, for they know that, without Red
Cross Georgians would be without one
OF their greatest assets.
Il find, too, that when | give others
some few facts about Red Cross work
In Georgia, they are equally eager to
join. Some of them have an idea that
the Red Cross has been doing most
OF its work in Europe, even since the
war. But when l tell them about the
nursing service of the Red Cross in
Georgia, about the seven public health
nurses placed in the last year in ad.
dltion to others, about the sixty-seven
classes in home hygiene, and care Of
the sick organized, about the 528
Georgia women and girls taught these
principals in the classes, about the
sos women and girls trained in home
hygiene in Georgia by the Red Cross
in the past year, about the big part
the Red Cross has played in checking
malaria in South Georgia, then they
tell me that. If they had known before
what the Red Cross was doing, they
would not only have joined, but given
big subscriptions, too"
People like to know that Red Cross
has been seeing the soldiers
through, writes another correspond
ent to Division headquarters. They
like to know that at Lawson General
Hospital at Fort Mcpherson, Camp
Jesup, Camp Oglethorpe, Camp Cor.
don, Camp Benning, Fort Screven and
other places, Red Cross has maintain.
ed its service for the man in uniform"
Finishing War Job
Finishing the war job has not been
entirely the work of the military re-
lief department of the Red Cross"
states Division headquarters. for
while Red Cross field directors have
been looking after the men in camps
and hospitals, the chapters have been
serving the ex-service men and their
families, handling the perplexing prob
lens OF allotment and insurance, of
vocational training, of adjustment to
the conditions of civil life, and other
| troubles too numerous to mention"
Twenty chapters in Georgia, it is
| oN"bSN nave SAltlIuti tllelT dCIlNlIlGS
so as to give the same sort of social
service to civilian families in the COM
munity that the Red Cross gives to
soldiers families. Thirteen chapters
have trained workers for this activity,
and twelve chapters have unframed
workers. The other chapters have
volunteers doing the work.
The kinds of service have been al
most innumerable," state Red Cross
executives. ranging from such a
seemingly insignificant thing as writ.
ing a letter for an illiterate mother to
her son in the hospital. to furnishing
expensive medical and surgical treat.
ment for a crippled child"
Reviewing disaster relief of the Red
Cross in Georgia since the war, re-
: ports mention the West Point floods,
the LAGRANGE storm. and the Gaines.
vile tornado, on which occasions the
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