The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1922-10-27
STORIES TOLD
OF RED CROSS
STIR HEARERS
Help Rendered in Scores Of
Cases in Western N. ID.
Without Any Publicity
DISCUSS ROLL CALL
Necessity of Continuing Red
Cross Activities Is Out
lined at Conference

Stirring stories of work done by
I Red Cross chapters in western North
Dakota were related at the regional
conference attended here today "
representatives Of chapters of
practically all counties in the south
western part OF, the state.
. Stories of crippled children made
we'll, abused, neglected children
helped; people almost starving re-.
stored and vigor and kept in their
homes and in the state and other
accomplishments were related.
I'VE have often been told that
since thc~war is over the Red Cross
work is not needed, "said A. L.
6chafer, Of ChicagG, representing
the Central Division headquarters.
I'VE have heard this from few of
our chapters. But after they had
learned of the soul-stirring activi-
ties of other chapters they ha &c
realized the Importance of the work.
You don't read about these activi-
ties in the newspapers or in the Red
Cross Courier-the work is such that
you cannot give full publicity to it.
But it is tremendously important"
The conference opened in the par
lors Of the Mckenzie hotel this morn
ing. The coming roll call plans were
outlined at a luncheon at noon and
this afternoon various phases of the
work was taken up. DR.. F. R. Smyth
opened the meeting and turned II
over to Mr.. Schafer. The conference
began with discussion Of the Rcd
Cross Community activities.
Help Detailed
Miss Henrietta Lund, field repre-
sentative, told the delegates Of some
Of the work the Red Cross had done
in western North Dakota. The Red
Cross, she said, had spent upwards
of S75,000 in western North Dakota
in the last few years. She mentioned
service for disabled veterans of the
World War, service to girls, to neg
lected, abused children and others.
II wish those who ask why it is
necessary to keep up the Red Cross
work could see some of the busy Red
Cross offices, that in Bismarck, for
example, where Mrs. Conklin is
full-time volunteer" 7s
Miss Lund declared the Red Cross
had a big responsibility for the gen.
eral welfare. She mentioned little
Bismarck girl who was 50 crippled
that she crawled on her hands and
knees. Through the Red Cross max
ing possible surgical attention the
little girl now is walking. She told
of a little girl in the western part
of the state so horribly disfigured
in a prairie fire that she could not
face other children; children six or
seven years old found in Jail cells
with older people; of children born
in poor houses and declared that the
Red Cross had duty and response
'bility toward all of these.
Miss Elsie Lawrence, of Burleigl.
county, told of work done in the
county. She said that during the war
the Red Cross work extended to FAM
lilies Of service men and to others
and that since the war these people
look to the Red Cross for aid. There
is a real need in community work
for the Red Cross, she said.
Burleigh County Work
The Burleigh county chapter, she
said, last year decided that no child
should be kept out of school for lack
of shoes or clothing, and that the
chapter spent over $500 providing
these. The work for the city and
county, in cooperation with the
in delinquency, truancy and
similar cases was detailed.
L. Winter of Dunn county said
the Red Cross had done great deal
in keeping people who had suffered
misfortune on the farms and in the
state. So helpful has been the work,
he said, that ex-service men had
agreed to handle the roll-call in
Dunn county and that revival Of
enthusiasm for the Red Cross was
expected.
C. L. Young, chairman Of the chill"
dren's code commission, detailed the
work of that body, and asked the
Red Cross workers to support the
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