Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1920-12-09
Splendid RECORD
OF RED CROSS IN
NORTH CAROLINA
Work Of Society Throughout state Has
Been Of Great Aid to All.
ACTIVITIES BROADENING
Aid to Soldiers and Public Health
Nursing Are Two Out
standing Features

Atlanta, Ca, Oct. 00.-Leaders OF
American Red Cross in North Caro-
lima are planning to base their ap-
peal for memberships in the Fourth
Red Cross Roll Call, November 11.25,
not simply on the general worthiness
OF the Red Cross cause, but on the
specific work Red Cross has done for
the state in the last two years since
the signing Of the armistice.
They declare, in letters to Division /
headquarters here, their confidence
that once the people of North Caro-
lima, realize the actual service Rec
Cross has given them in peace as vel /
as in war, and the fact that such serv /
ice can be continued and broadeneL l
on greater scale than ever with
proper support, they will eagerly re-
new their memberships, and will
do all in their power to secure a rec
ord membership throughout the state.
In order to emphasize the splendid
asset the Red Cross has been to North
Carolina since the war, they have
made report on Red Cross work in
North Carolina, which was given out
at Division headquarters here re-
Gently.
The first mission of the Red Cross
in North Carolina, as the country
The report says in part:
over, has been to care for the inter-
ests of the ex-service man and his
family. This duty the Red Cross has
discharged since the war at the rate
OF 1,S40 cases-soldiers' and sailors
families-a month, assisted in a varie-
ty oNWays. In addition, the Red Cross
has Eeen able in North Carolina to
help 1859 civilians or civilians famt-
lie. to put the states public nursing
service on a firm footing, to install
20 public health nurses in the state.
conduct IT'S classes in home hygiene
and care Of thexsick, teach more than
5000 students, these principles and
knowledge Of dietetics, look after the
tubercular soNiers at Oteen, teach
first aid in high schools and colleges,
train large number of social gerv-
ice workers, and interest more than
$4,000 North Carolina children in the
work Of the Junior Red Cross"
The report states there are 1872 Red
Cross chapters in North Carolina, with
a total membership of about $4,000
and with 1874 full-time secretaries and
workers, of whom are trained work
ers, 33 are paid workers, and the rest
are volunteers.
Red Cross Nursing Service
tt report gives examples Of spe
cific nursing activities at Andrews,
ASHORE, Boone, Bryson City, Car
thage, Chapel Hill, Gastonia, High
lands, Edgeconib county, Morgantown,
New Bern, Newton, Catawba county,
Oxford, Granville county, Salisbury,
Rowan county, Tarboro, Washington,
Wilson and other North Carolina
towns where, statev the report, amy
citizen will testify to she value of Red
Cross nursing Service, particularly
during the influenza epidemic, when,
all of the nurses worked to the limit
of their endurance, to which fact many
people owe their lives"
The report comments on the num-
Der of social workers trained for serv-
ice in North Carolina, and mentions
the Red Cross Institute being con-
Quoted in cooperation with the Uni
verstty Of North Carolina at Chapel
Hiil. 1t describes community studies
which have been made, such az att
Raleigh. N. c., tells of the first aid
courses conducted at d number of
chapters, relates the work Of the Red
Cross for patients at oteen, and con-
cludes with description work by tns
Junior Red Cross, ranging all the way
from "bixd dinners given by VII.
mington Junior 70 dolls and washtags
made by the Juniors Of StatesviIIA.
Mnoresviile and ChAriostA.