The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1922-11-06
RED CROSS To
HAVE ANNUAL
MEMBER CALL
Will Start in Burleigh County
The Week After Armisticc
~. Day.. Nov. II
COM MITTEE MED
Service Men to Lead Cam.
paign in Recognition Of
Work of Organization

PoISN III ASeCO8 AllIlOAI VI
Work of Organization
"Every American everywhere a
member of the Red Cross" is the slo-
gan for the Red Cross. Roll Gail
which will bgin Armistic Day, Nov.
II, and close Thanksgiving day, Nov.
20. under the National leadership of
Judge John Barton Payne, chairman
of the American Red Cross. Philip
Elliott, chairman, Henry T. Murphy
and George Little form the commit
tee for Burleigh county.
Nearly 1000 veterans or their fam
ilities have been aided by loans from
the North Dakota Red Cross, to en-
able them to maintain their families
while in the hospital or while re-
ceiving vocational training.
"The SO chapters and 1929 men,
bers of the Flickertail state are in
spring every county from the REQ
River of the North to the slopes Of
the Missouris higher head waters
and from the Canadian boundary
southwark TO fulfill its obligations
to the oWrld War veterans or to
other community welfare service
Walter Davidson, manager Of Central
Division has said.
Twenty-Five Red Cross public
health nurses have helped improve
health conditions of the state es-
nccially in the isolation Of rural life.
They have examined approximately
10000 children to detect physical de-
fects that are impairing their efic-
iency. .. .-a
The Junior Red Cross. @:ss ss,,
With the motto ~ serve" .Juni6t
Red Cross members consisting Of
over 10000 schol children of North
Dakota have made wash cloths and
other conveniences for the disabled
soldiers in hospitals. They have
also made scrap books and filled
Christmas boxes for the destitute
VI CAIOpc.
North Dakota has known the Dis
aster Relief service. of the Red Cross
through the aid extended to its
drought sufferers for more than two
years.
Starts After Nov. IL.
Burleigh county roll call will start
during the week following Armisticc
Day.
Care of disabled soldiers and sail
ors, disaster relief, public health
nursing, first aid, home hygiene and
ohter service works are performed by
the American Red Cross in times OF
peace.
More than 145,OOO persons render.
ed homeless or needing assistance
and over $30,0O0,O0O property dam,
age in the 72 disasters, including 26
floods, 19 tornadoes or storms, 15
fires, four epidemics, two theater COL
lapses, two shipwrccks Gone an air
ship, bridge collapse, mine explo-
sion, railway collision and drought,
in which 674 persons were reported
killed and 52l injured were aided by
the American Red Cross. For these
emergency relief measures $l,44l,-
486 was expended during the year
ending June 80, 1922.
Helps Veterans Bureau.
"The Red Cross acquires and dis
tributes information among the men
and. their families; acquaints the
U. S. Veterans Bureau with the per-
sonal equation in individual cases;
prepares and furnishes comforts,
recreation, and the many necessary
services which the government can
procure only from the voluntary as
sistance," said Judge Payne. "These
obligations and privileges fall pri-
marily to the Red Cross chapters"
More than $4,000 veterans will be un-
der treatment in government hospl-
tails on Armistice Day of this year.
AS "a medium of communication
between the American people and
their Army and Navy" service Isl
rendered in the government welfare
program in investigation OF home
conditions of enlisted men at the re-
quest of authorities, locating men
in handling business difficulties ana
Family problems, furnishing enter
tainment and recreation for con-
valescents in Red Cross convalescent
houses and in friendly visits to the
sick and disabled.
IN the Near East, DR.. B. j. Hill,
resident of Athens for 18 years and
member of the former Red Cross
Commission to Greece, will supervise
distribution of much needed blan-
kets, clothing, medical supplies and
fod, in cooperation with the Ameri-
can Relief committee at Athens
More than 100000 refugees in Athens,
10000 in Salonika and thousands
pouring into these cities are in need
Of aid.
DIES FROM INJURIES.
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