Dresden enterprise and Sharon tribune. (Dresden, Tenn.) 1907-1997, 1920-10-29
GREATEST MOTHER IN The WORLD
IN FOURTH RED CROSS ROLL CALL
PUBLIC MEN AND WOMEN BY THOUSANDS LAY PLANS
TO BREAK ALL MEMBERSHIP RECORDS

1.-THE military. To other citizens-the
afflicted, the diseased, the disaster
stricken-Red Cross has been the
friend, the shield, the helper.
Red Cross health work has been
one of the prime factors in its 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 $4,000 Red Cross nurses
who were on duty during the influen.
"a epidemic last year, to inspire the
people to rejoin the Red Cross. IL
only to carry on such splendid work
as this.
5000 Health centers
Then there are the health centers
the Red Cross has inaugurated In
about $4,000 communities, through
which health education has been
spread, disease checked and many Of
the 10000 annual deaths In 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 q, public health
nurse in every county where the need
IL great and the people sufficiently
interested.
Much other splendid work has been
done and will continue to be dOhe by
The Red Cross in teach iag ps0ple hog
10 get well and ksep well. TAers are
First Aid classes Of the Red Cross,
which taught more tAan q million
AneFicaRs last ysar what 10 do hel
fore the doctor comes. The ton 0i
deaths inS America nom accidents
each year 10 more than 100000, Of
whom 7.ooo are drowned. The Rcd
Cross has been particularly active n
the South in orsaRiSihg Life Saving
corps TO stop sucA lamsntRbIe and
preventable loss Of life as this. Many
Southern papers In tAe past year have
carried accounts OF rescues at beaches
and lakes where life was saved By Red
Cross first aidera. Other classes Of
This character thGt have accomplished
splendid work are the classes in home
hygiene and care Of the sick, eand
classes in home dietetics, In which
laEt year more than $4,000 women ana
girls Of America learned how too care
for the sick people In their homes
and what Is best for the family to eat
In order for the members to keep
veil and strong.
Right on The Jsb
Disaster relief has been the job Of
Red Cross for many years past.
During the Wall street explosion not
% long ago, Red Cross was on the
lob with doctors and nurses almost
Is soon as the police and as q re-.
sult number Of lives we're saved out.
light and many wounded people kept
rom being lnvalids and Cripplea Tor
he. People In the South VIM recall
DO numbers OF times when Red Cross
las been the only relief and helper ii
irae Of. flood and fire inpseyeral com
nunities In the 80 yeara of lie 81
Bssnce Red Cross has given relief in
30 floods, fires, tOrnRdOes and other
Iiaastefs and last year alone Il gave
Ia to more than $1,000 uhtortunates
b t6O different Communities.
while so much has been done BY
led Cross IL America II thu last two
sars, It has not stopped administer.
ID wise, economical but Rnstinted cid
) starving peoples 10 other lands. BY
ghting typhus, cholera, tuberculosis
nd other horrible diseases Ia fever.
idden European countries, Red Cross
as saved thousands Of liwes, partic
larly those Ok women and children
tho had no one else to turn to save
he greatest mother in the world"
This is the sort Of work the Red
ross has been doing. This is the
OFT Of work It viii continue to do,
the people Of America viii Join zone
pndrea per cent n the forthcomin
.on call