Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1920-11-11
Red Cross Work At Home:

Red Cross Work At Home:
America calls to the Red Cross for
service.
1t spent thirty billion dollars in the
world fight for Democracy.
That was an average of 100000 per
casita from our entire population.
/ The United States owes twenty-eight
billion dollars as war debt.
That is an average of $2S0.00 per
capita for our entire population.
Tho average American community
spent last year about $500 per capita
Tor education and about $3.50 per
capita for fire and police protection.
AS a nation we spenrlast year $1,000
per capita for candy, so cents per
capita for chewing gum, $215O0 per
capita for tobacco, rs cents per capita
for perfumery.
Last year the American nation. spent
less than 20 cents per capita protect
ing and developing the health of the
country.
! And yet
Last year 1,250,o00 American people
| uieu OF SICKNESS
Seven hundred and fifty thousand of
them died Of preventable disease.
Tive hundred thousand adults died
last year from tuberculosis.
tuberculosis is neither hereditary
nor necessary, but is a disease of de-
fective civilization.
Last year 100000 American babies
died before they were one year. old.
One hundred and fifty thousand of
them did not live month";
This slaughter of the innocents was
largely the result of ignorance, indif-
ference and economic inhumanity.
The records of the war show that
our civilian population is blighted with
Venereal Disease.
The Public Health Service indicates
thus contaminated.
The American Red Cross does not
claim responsibility to analyze and
solve these great questions of Public
! Health.
1t only recognizes that under its
carry on measures for mitigating the
suffering incident to pestilence and
disaster.
1t seeks, therefore, merely to aid
existing agencies, to cooperate with
organized effort, and to place its or
ganization and it's workers alike at the
!, disposal and the service Of the COM
munity.
In furtherance of such a program
the Community Public Health Nurse
is destined to play an important part.
One thousand of these-most of
them returned army nurses-have pre-
pared themselves for this new cru
SADIE for higher standards Of physical
life and the expansion of our national
strength and vigor.
|, The Roll Call contemplates practical
demonstration and instruction in Do.
nestle Sanitation, Community Hygiene,
Dietetics and Child Welfare.
The establishment of Public Health
Center is as most important feature
of this work for better America.
This will be exactly what its name
signifes-bringing to definite place
in each community a combination OF
: all the agencies that may promote
health, in order to maintain high
standard of physical manhood and
, womanhood in our country.
Il A distinct line of usefulness will be
, the formation of classes in First Aid
, teaching people how to meet the emer
gency of accidents and to make pos
sible the saving of life.
The continuation, enlargement and
coordination of the Junior Red Cross
q as related to our American public
: schools is an lem SO vast as TO BIZ
). incalculable.
! The whole fabric, not only of oul
American democracy but of the fu
. ture civilization of the world, rest
upon the child and the school.
:, The ideal out of which the JUNO
Red Cross springs is that of Servic,
:, I-self-sacrifcing service for others.
Fifteen million American children
: trained in the philosophy of unselfish
= ness, schooled to a life Of service
vowed to the furtherance of interna
!, tional understanding and good will. cal
u save the world.
Finally, the American Red eros
must broaden and make more perm
anent its preparedness for the Dis
aster Relief that has been 30 great
: part Of its history.
III Tempest and food; earthquakes an
- oS,d ~ 10 ~ ho%
:. of these fall into the machinery of lif
throughout the world. the America
Red Cross holds itself ready to go an
!. Il minister in the name Of humanity an
n mercy.
.e There IL still room for the Re
Cross.