Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1920-11-12

and disaster relief lines has resulted
In a renewed interest in the work of
the organization.
Reports from the Red Cross chapters
III New Jersey telling of this interest
n cities, towns and the rural districts
Las led those directing the annual en-
-ollment to believe that the quota Of
$1,000 set for the state will be sur
passed.
Among the activities of the New
Jersey chapters this years have bGen
the continued care of those disabled
fighting men still in hospitals, varied
services for the ~able-bodied fighting
personnel of the peace-time army and
navy, the furnishing of small towns
and remote districts with skilled nurs-
ing service such as has not previously
been available, the establishment OF
health centers, the extension to civil
ians in need of advice of the home
service that meant so much to fighting
men and their families during the war,
preparation for the alienation of dis
asters, the production of clothing from
slightly worn garments for the needy
children of America and Europe, and
the development of better citizens
through the medium of the Junior Red
Cross.
Public Health Nursing.
That the Red Cross is on the job has
been brought home to New Jersey
communities in many and varied ways.
Twenty-Five public health nurses are
working under the direction of the
Red Cross. Nearly a thousand women
and girls have been taught Red Cross
home hygiene and care of the sick, and
over a thousand persons received in
.struction in swimming, life saving and
first aid instruction. Six health centres
are in active operation, with as many
more being planned.
Thirteen chapters have organized
disaster relief units to provide prompt
and effective aid in case disaster
strikes the community. A recent ex-
ample of the value of this activity was
the work performed by the Red Gross
at a million dollar fire at a Perth Am
boy asphalt plant, when a first aid and
canteen station was maintained for
thirty hours.
Red Cross workroomS, which enabled
the volunteer women workers of the
state to make such a wonderful record
during the war, are again humming
with activity, the workers tlocking
back to help convert old clothing into
warm garments for the 100000 or
phaned children of Europe and the
needy children Of America. In this
state alone during the last few months,
seventeen hundred layettes, each in
Guiding twenty separate articles, have
been made and sent TO the disease and
famine swept area Of the Old World,
where for some time newly born In
fants have had to be wrapped in news
papers for lack of suitable clothing.
1t is with this record behind them
that New Jersey Red Cross workers
are to call upon tie citizens of the
state to again renew their allegiance
to the Greatest Mother"
Prepare for Roll Call.
Preparations for the Roll Call have
been as thorough as in other years.
With chapters, branches and auxili-
aries spread throughout the state and
every medium for publicity being util-
lied In these communities to remind
the people of the big Red Gross event,
every man, woman and child in New
Jersey will be aware that the time
for renewing their Red Cross member
ship or joining the organization is at
hand. and few there are among these
millions who will not be personally aO-
pealed to by a Red Cross worker IN