New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1920-04-03
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RED CROSS ACTIVITIES.

i You can buy a box OF candy or the
atre ticket for dollar. Here's what
that dollar you gave the Red Cross in
1920 has bought.
| About three cents Of ito to be ex-
act--has been spent on the salaries Of
the vast army of workers, who, all over
the world, are still lsboring in the in
terests Of the Greatest Mother.
You read in the papers every day Of
earthquake, or fire, or flood sufferers be-
| ing relieved; Of soldiers and sailors and
their families being helped of cases Of
restitution taken up; of sorrowladen
women and children in the Far East be-
ing fed and clothed and employed-and
yet there is another part of Red Gross
activities that your dollar is pushing for
ward that maybe you have not heard OF.
You ask, "Why doesn't the Red Cross
close shop now that the war is over7 or
whats the Red Cross doing now that
most Of the men are home"
Right now 1t is entering into another
field that is every bit as important as its
war work, although not 50 spectacular.
1t has just started into, operation the
immense wheels Of vast peace time pro
gram, which will stretch out everywhere
ia the United States, a broadening of ac-
tivities that have hitherto been confined
mainly to soldiers and sailors and their
families.
II will deal with public health and
prevention Of disease--has not our 1921
flu epidemic shown people the absolute
necessity Of knowledge of this and oil
home care Of the sick2 It will deal with
First Aid---commencing right in the
schools and forming an important part OF
its educational activities. It will broaden
the Home Service, which was so beneficial
during the war to the fighting men and
their families; 1t will continue its emery !
ency disaster relief measures scarcely
week passes that Red Cross representa-
tive is not speeding somewhere with
funds to assist a stricken community. It'll
will see that the rising generation CON.
inues its work. through increasing Jun
or Red Cross activities-th the membership
las already passed the ten million mark.
And last, and most important of all.
will teach community self-government.
The time has passed for the slapdash
method Of living in ignorance Of how
cur community is run, how your chill :
rem are being educated, what is being I
one with the taxes you are paying to {
he country. 1t IS as necessary nowadays
or community to take an inventory OF
S assets and liabilities as 1t is for its
aost prominent merchants to take. ac-
cunt of his debts and assets.
Who is TO take such an inventory Mol
ne but the community itself But there
need for skilled assistance along these
mes, and this is where the Red Cross
omes in.
II IL planning to send skilled workers
TO the field to show the people in cities,
'wns and country how to meet existingl
eeds, how to further its resources, how
} prevent diseases, how to meet cpl
emic, how to compare their own mu- 9
icipal affairs with the affairs Of the ad- y
cent community TO sec what II lacks
! short, Il viii bring to every right
inded citizen realization that he IL =
! important and responsible factor ii E
IS community.
And when he has become interested In y
Iese vital problems that affect his home, !
$ children, his pocketbook. and Is able :
deal with them himself, the Red Cross
III stem out Of the field to fulfill what 2
'er duties may be laid on it in other Z