The Democrat-herald., 1922-11-10
Southwestern DIVISION
LOOKS AFTER SOLDIERS
Red cross Workers In That Section
Assist, Care For and Entertain
Men In Camps and Hospitals.

pitals In the United States have been
assisted In obtaining compensation and
in the solution of their other problems
by the American Red Cross, according
to E. 8. Transue, director of war serv-
ice Of the Southwestern Division of
the American Red Cross.
"Ited Cross workers in the camps
and hospitals In the Southwestern Di.
vision are rendering much-needed serv.
ice to the men who are In the army at
the present time" said Transue.
"Tliose service men undergoing hospi-
tai treatment for one cause or another
and ex-service men who have been
hospitalized both In the army hospitals
and hospitals operated by the Vet
ernns' Bureau, nre some Of the men
in need of this service.
1.-The army camps and hospitals In
this division covered by Red Cross
workers ure located ut Jefferson Bar
rncks. st. Louis, Mo-; Camp Travis,
Tex, including Fit. Sam Houston Hos
pital; Ft. Bliss, Tex, including Vim.
A. Beaumont General Hospital; FIT.
Leavenworth, Kan, including the U.
8. Disciplinary barracks ut that point
Fl. Riley. KAN; Ft. Sill, Okla; Fitz-
simons General Hospital, Fitzsimons,
Colo; Camp Furlong, New Mex. /;
Camp Hurry ]. Jones. Douglas, Ariz.,
and the Army and Navy General Hoe
pital Mt Hot Springs. Ark.
"The Veterans Bureau hospitals
served by the Southwestern Division
10 ~ al Nntarnns'
Hospital No. IS, st. Louis, Mo-; Vet
erans' Hospital No. 25, Logan. Tex. ;
u. 9. Veterans Hospital No. 90, 1T.
Bnyard, n. Mex; u. S. Veterans Hos
pital No. 07, Kansas City, Mo-. L. s.
Veterans Hospital No. rs, n. Little
Rock, Ark, and U. S. Veterans Hos,
pitul No. so, Fort Lyon. Colo.
"of the 5000 patients. approximate
iy T5 per cent are undergoing treat
ment for tuberculosis and mental dis
eases. This makes the work one of
considerable difficulty, lnasmuch as 1t
Is ofttin,es real problem to provide
proper recreation or to connect the
mans present condition with his serv'
ice.
Cross program for service md eN-
eervice men In the cnnps and hos
pltals-Home Service, Recreation and
Medical Social Service. Our regular
camp service program consists of what
is known as home service work. This
calls for cooperation between the Red
Cross worker In the camp and govern
mental and chapter agencies In taking
care Of problems of the enlisted man
III the army. Difficulties relating to
aliOtments, allowances, insurance, com
pcnsation. state bonus, travel pay, etc,
are all brought to the Red Cross by
the enlisted man. The Red Cross also
contacts the families through the chap
ters in case Of distress, sickness or
death.
THE recreational and entertainment
program In the hospital brings movies
for the boys, amateur theatricals,
dances, parties and those many other
things that the sick man longs for, but
for the Red Cross.
"The Red Cross medical and social
service program calls for study OF the
individual needs Of the man, TO help him
In solving his personal and family diti-
culties, to aid him by mnterial assist
ance when he is without resources, to
aid the doctor In his treatment of the
patient by obtaining former medical
or social histories which may lead to
an accurate diagnosis and to interpret
the whole situation to the Red Cross
Chapter home service worker In the
mans home community, so that not
only will the proper attention be given
70 the family during the mans alb
sence, but he may he free In mind and
thus derive maximum amount OF
benefit from his treatment.
In carrying out our work for the
ex-ervice man undergoing hospitali'
cation the Red Cross has constantly
borne In mind that the great object
has been to play the right part In the
period Of adjustment through which
the ex-service man must safely pass II
he is to continue to be good citizen.
THIS work has required personnel who
are not only sympathetic in tile deal
ing with patients but who must have
nm understanding Of the social prob
lens of civil life.
"Just us 1t has always been recog.
nized thnt the time spent In gov
ernment hospital is only brief cpl
eode in the life Of n patient, so has 1t
been recognized that the activities of
the hospital worker are only part OF
the responsibility Of the Red Cross to
the ex.service man; that the hospital
work can be successful only us 1t cor
relates Itself closely with the work of
the Red GROSS MS n whole. The hos
pl,al worker IS the outpost detailed
to special duty. 1t is his endeavor TO
Interpret the present condition of tho
man In the hospital to the home people
and as each Of us, MS individuals,
watched the men who marched away
TO service, as each one of us helped
10 "keep the home fires burning" while
the boys served in the front line
trenches, so does 1t become our duty
today to render a very definite service
to these men, who are still lighting
the great bnttle Of humanity, begun
In 1917. and In which TO date no
a,mistIc has been declared. Through
tie lied Cross you are helping them