Woman's enterprise. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1921-19??, 1921-07-22

OScU OIlSS DdSk LlOIlSS AoSS
ny men, getting cheering messages TO M
hem from home, following them mto
amps and across the sea, adjusting lie
heir claims asd sometimes tldlng m
heir families over times of financial
distress.
When the men returned to civil lie
many found they wee net equal TO t.
their home work. Disabilities arising e
from illness, from exposure, from e
wounds, shell-shock or gas have n
brought to the desk of the trained ID
Home Service secretary no less than
five hundred men who needed hospital /
treatment, vocational training or
both, and they are yet coming for 1t
is stated from government officials IN
position to know that disabilities
arising from war service will reach
their peak by 1925.
Perhaps no better piece Of disaster
relief was done than that of the chap
ter people in the fall of 1915 whes the
"Au" swept the city like scourge'
A large corps of volunteer workers TO-
gether with the office staff worked
out and carried int effect a syste-
matte plan fer relief that reached the
uttermost parts of the city, and min
|istered as we'll to hundreds Of sick
men in training at the Louisiana
State University.
Having such opportunity to get &C.
ouainted with the city's needs brought
out clearly the fact that it would be
a shameful waste of excellent material
to let an organization that sumbered
in it's membership thousands of citl-
zens. and that had a volunteer corps
greater than had ever been dreamed
of in former times to slip gradually
back into nothingness.
When the decision that the Red
Cross was to live on as permanent
ORGANIZATION there was a blending of
{ the Organized Charities and the Red
I Cross into one, and the peacetime
program was granted from the Ma
a tional Red Cross. Since then the
: chapter had been constantly moving
q forward in not osly relief work but
I toward goal Of constructive family
n welfare work with disadvantaged
families.
Each month sees the volume Of
: work increase for almost every stu
I alton be it relief, morals, health, juve
; nile delinquency, or a case that call!
= for study and then advice and guild
D. ance, is reported to the Red Cros
y for consideration. There is a sin
e cere effort that no call go unanswere
e though with small staff their effort
y are taxed to the limit.
l., The opportunity for health work
~ limited only by the size asd populatio
: of the parish, for whereas Bato
Rouge appears to be smilingly health
.. on the surface the records in the chap
!, !, ter office of sickness and disease, an
~ =, compiled only on the diagnosis Of ply
IN sicians, reveals the need for intensiv
work.
In our own state Of Louisiana ou
i" side of the city of New Orleans the1
'e died in 1918 nearly two thousand Fl,
= husdred children in their first year
~ Il, life. This exceeded the number
~ men from our state that were kill
w. in battle and yet it caused not a ri
Co. pie of excitement. Hundreds died
cry tuberculosis in their best years Of lii
!" vet the economic loss to the state W
''s scarcely considered. The vitality a
leu future health Of thousands of oh
dren is lessened by communical
-" disease but school nurses are yet OF
'i something to be dreamed abo
az Lloyd George has fittingly said ~
cannot have an Al country with
~ CO population" If our country '
800 worth fighting for it is worth an eq
Wy effort to make it hereafter fit pl
:. : a. in which to live. In view Of this
!" aim of the Red Cross is to make
w" real contribution to our ~,untl
'" progress in the new era Of liberty t
'a.n has been so dearly bought.