The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1920-10-21
Peace Time Program Of Red Cross Equal
inImportance to Efforts During
The War
TO SAFEGUARD HEALTH OF NATION
Mrs. Osa Nichols, Representative of
Executive Board Learned Much of
Red Cross Peace Time Program
and Returned Enthusiastic. Or
ganization Has Big Work Ahead.
Sixty chapters of the American

Red Cross were represented at the
state meeting in Wichita, Oct. 11-12,
including the officers from National
and Divisional Headquarters, there
were 100 present, all ready and en-
thusiastic to take up the Peace time
program. While plans wepe made
for roll call, this was by no means the
only activity discussed. Every de-
partment was looked after and prom
Uses are fine for future work in the
Red Cross. The ending of the War
has not terminated the work, by any
means, as the Red Cross was work.
ing organization long before the war.
The demands at present are many
and urgent. The Red Cross has es-
tablished Is orphanages and still
there are 100000 orphans in need
and diseased. A condition which the
Red Cross will be unable to handle
only with aid from other organiza-
tions.
The Junior Red Cross is doing
much relief work abroad and at
home. The Red Cross as one speak
err said through its Junior work is es-
tablishing lessons to children of the
Good Samaritan idea. They have
established a school for cripples,
among their activities.
The Red Cross is endeavoring to
look after Community problems in
every community, by assisting in
supporting nurses, who not only look
after the needs of the sick, but teach
measures of preventing disease. 1t
was discovered that 81 per cent of
defects found in the draft were due
to malnutrition, clinics are being es-
tablished for examining and weigh
ing children and recommending prop
err food in each case. Many children
Of the well-to-do are not getting the
exact food as we'll as children of the
less fortunate families. So the Red
Cross stands guardian over all
children.
At the meeting we learned that
Army hospitals now called station
hospitals are just now having new
cases brought in, as a result of some
war injuries which are just taking
effect in the worst form. The boys
are lonesome and need little deli
castles and attentions the same as
those boys who were in the hospitals
during the fight.
Harry Sharp Field Director of the
Red Cross at Fort Riley in his report
said the boys are not only in a few
instances receiving these touches of
himelife, that they should have. He
especially complimented the Juniors
of Salina, Kas., Chapter for doing
more than any other chapted in this
line of sending articles of cheer.
The Red Csoss found in one war
devasted country $4,000 children
rowing among the mountains, eating
banks of trees with no one to look
after them, but it does not turn its
back on such conditions.
The disaster Relief Work is one
branch of Red Cross activities al
ways "on the job" and in its time has
given relief to $50 stricken commun-
tiles. In last year has averaged one
a month.
So the Red Cross continues and
no religious people can turn its
back on such noble ambitions, as en-
bodied in the Red Cross, to relieve
distress. One speaker ably referred
to the Red Cross as the League of
the Humanities of the World" any
way it is a league in which we can
all unite. The roll call will give the