The courier-index., 1921-04-15
THE RED CROSS By MRS. J. I. MORRIS.

| To supplement the effort being
 made today for the salvation of
 European children through the feed
 ing program of the European Re-
 lief Council and the Medical Vel
 fare Service of the American Red
 Cross, 1t is now planned to provide much needed clothing for these
 destitute children. This is held to
 be absolutely essential if the feed
 Ing and welfare progress is to reap
 any measure of success. For con | dItlons are such that there is no
 chance, without Americas help, for l these children to be properly cloth ed and return to normal life be-
 comes an impossibility.
 Reports indicate that conditions
 Tn Poland, Austria, Hungary, Czecho | Slovakla, the Baltic and the Balkan | States are beyond description. The
 cities are full of refugees and poor,
 all of whom are in desperate need
 of clothing. Countless children are
 kept in bed when they should be in
 school, because they have absolutely | nothing to wear
 l To its lack of adequate clothing
 Poland in particular, the other
 countries in lesser degree, may
 attribute the greatest of calamities,
 the epidemic of typhus, which has
 caused thousands of deaths and
 which serve as a constance menace 1 to the entire.
 To offset this desperate condition
 the Red Cross is once more appeal ing Go the thousands of women who gave their services during the war and who have continued to meet the appeals for help that have come 1 to them. No appeal ever issued by the American Red Cross should ap- peal more directly to the hearts of American women. For unless these children are clothed, as well as fed, their chances for becoming useful citizens are nullified. While form CT requests have gone to your chapter for clothing, thepresent nee d is so great that your are ask ed to give this appeal special con- sideration. The quota assigned to the Lee County Chapter has been re- ceived and been accepted, and Mrs. Morris, director of production, will begin the work on these garments, and same will go forward to the American Red Cross Clearing House at the earliest possible date.
 Additional appropriation for fam inc sufferers of $500,000 for the relief of the famine sufferers in China has been officially announced by the American Red Cross, bring ing the total donations by the or ganization for Chinese relief to $1,000,000. Fifty thousand Chinese sufferers are being fed today by the American Red Cross in the sec tion of the famine area are allot- ted to the organization, according to the latest reports from John E. Baker, in charge. When the Amer ican Red Cross Proffered it's aid in behalf of the starving Chinese, it was decided that the best method for aiding them was to provide them with work and pay for their labor with food supplies. Money would have been useless to purchase food. | The Red Cross buys its supplies in Manchuria and other places, ships it to the famine area and pays it OuI lo anu CHIOuSH SdISlully ul- rected commissary department to the heads of families employed in road construction. Ten men from the 18th U. s. Infantry in Tientsin help to oversee American Red Cross l stores and fourteen Marines under an officer, assist American Red | Cross engineers in charge of the road construction work. Each la borer is given daily ration and each two weeks is allowed one day |