The courier-index., 1920-10-29
RED CROSS REPORT
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The Red Cross sees man thru. More than 26,O00 men are still in bosnitals as the result of the war. your membership will help the Red Cross make their lives happier.
 The Plans of the Red Cross.
 Like all the rest of us who have found the process of readjustment tc 1920 conditions slow one, the American Red Cross has been en- deayoring since a certain 11th of November to find out just what ;s the best thing to do in the inn mediate future. The decision has heen made and on November 11th, will be offered to the country for onnroval. It wants to do for us what it did for France, for Serbia and for every war-suffering coun- fry it could get into. In every one, ;ts mission was to have mercy; to nuts hands of healing on the ill; to feed the hungry; to cloth the ragged and unclad; to offer cheer and hope. Red Cross chapters throughout the nation declare that inc same service is needed here But here the angle of approach will he different. In Europe the task was to carry for suffering humani- tv part Of It's otherwise unbearable burden and to alleviate ills that were incurable. Here the work is to be curative; to drive out disease; to put a capable sentinel at every danger point; to offer the nation the hope of a people among whom there shall some day be no preventa- ble disease, no poverty through ill., ness or vice versa; no death that is not fought with for victory. Do we need such an effort as the Red Cross proposes to make? We'll, there are a million cases of tuber- culosis now walking the streets of the cities and towns and villages of this country, with over 100000 deaths a year. Tuberculosis is a preventable disease. We lose near iy quarter of million of young e.:dren every year and most of them from preventable disease. Twenty thousand mothers die from want of care. Their deaths surely are preventable. Other causes and diseases bring the annual death toll well over the million mark. To at tack this problem along the line is the task the Red Cross has set for itself. It is one in which every citizen in Lee county, as well as the whole nation should join. The 4th Red Cross Roll Call will begin November II and end on Thanksgiv- ing Day, and your name should be on some list by that time.
 Remember the Red Cross Home Service, the willing and trutworthy friend of the service men, civilians and their families. It joins hands with others to make communities safer, healthier and happier. An other great feature of Red Cross work which has been greatly ex- tended the past year is the home service in the families of civilians, patterned after the home service which rendered assistance to S0O,- 900 families of sailors, soldiers and marines during the war.
 From the entrance of the United States into the World War until the close of the last fiscal year, the report discloses that there were T. 000000 cases in which service was rendered the American soldier or his family at his home by the Home Service of the American Red Cross. Approximately $1O,OOO,0O0 being ex- pended for this form of relief. Home Service cases among ex-serv- ice men and civilian families in Lee county for the month of De- tober up to date, 107 cases.