The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1920-10-27
"f0r:ATEST MOTHER IN THE WORLD"
IN fourth RED CROSS ROLL CALL
PUBLIC MEN AND WOMEN BY THOUSANDS LAY PLANS
TO BREAK ALL MEMBERSHIP RECORDS

the military. To other citizens-the
AFFLICTED, the diseased, the disaster
strlcken-Red Cross has been the
friend, the shield the helper.
Red Cross health work has been
one OF the prime factors in it's 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 $1,000 Red Cross nurses
who We're on duty during the influen-
"a epidemic last year, to inspire the
people to rejoin the Red Cross, if
only e carry on such splendid work
as this.
5000 Health Centers
Then there are the health centers
the Red Cross has inaugurated in
about 1900 communities, through
which health education has been
spread, disease checked and many of
the 100000 annual deaths n 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 other splendid work has been
done and will continue to be done 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 1000 are drowned. The Red
Cross has been particularly active in
the South in organizing Life Saving
corps to stop such lamentable and
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 character that have accomplished
splendid work are the classes in home
hygiene and care of 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 the members to keep
we'll and strong.
Right On The Job
Disaster relief has been the 500 Of
Red Cross tor many years past.
During the Wan street explosion not
t so long ago, Red Cross was on the
l job with doctors and nurses almost
/ as soon as the police and as a re
4 suit number of lives were saved out
r right and many wounded people kept
i from being invalids and cripples for
$ life. People in the South will recall
e the numbers of times when Red Cross
/ has been the only relief and helper il
l. time of flood and fire in several com
s munities. In the 80 years of its ex
Y istence Red Cross has given relief il
o 250 floods. fires, tornadoes and otheI
Il disasters and last year alone it gave
t, aid to more than 10000 unfortunate,
l. in 100 different communities.
s While so much has been done b,
3. Red Cross in America in the last twt
s years, it has not stopped administer
: ing wise, economical but unstinted all
t. to starving peoples in other lands. B.
h fighting typhus, cholera, tuberculosi
y and other horrible diseases in fever
e ridden European countries, Red Cros
It has saved thousands of lives, parti,
h ularly those of women and childre
T. who had no one else to turn to saw
IS the greatest mother in the world -
d. This is the sort of work the Re
N Cross has been doing. This is tn
x sort of work 1t will continue to d
N if the people of America will join "or
hundred per cent" in the forthcomin
h Roll Call