The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1922-11-09
SOUTHWESTERN DIVISION
LOOKS AFTER SOLDIERS
Red Cross Workers In That Section
Assist, Care For and Entertain
Men in Camps and Hospitals.

pitfalls 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. S. Transue, director Of war sery-
ice Of the Southwestern Division Of
the American Red Cross.
RED Cross workers In the camps
and hospitals In the Southwestern d.
vision are rendering much-needed serv-
Ice to the men who are In the army at
the present time" I said Transue.
"Those service men undergoing h0spi-
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
Grams Bureau, are some of the men
in need Of this service.
1.-THE army camps and hospitals In
this division covered by Red Cross
workers are located at Jefferson Bar
racks, st. Louis, Mo-; Camp Travis,
Tex. including Eft. Sam Houston Hos
pital; Eft. Bliss, Tex, including VIM.
1 I.
Leavenworth, Kan, including the U.
s. Disciplinary barracks AT that point (;
Ft. Riley, Kan; Ft Sill, Okla. Fitz-
simons General Hospital, Fitzsimons.
Colo; Camp Furlong, New Mex. !;
Camp Harry ]. Jones, Douglas, Ariz.,
and the Army and Navy General Hos
pital at Hot Springs. Ark.
"The Veterans Bureau hospitals
served by the Southwestern Division
of the Red Cross are: U. S. Veterans
Hospital No. 80, st. Louis, Mo-; Vet
Grams Hospital No. %, Logan, Tex.
U. S. Veterans Hospital No. So, Ft.
Bayard, N. Mex; U. S. Veterans Hos
pital No. 67, Kansas City, Mo-; U. s.
Veterans Hospital No. IS, N Little
Rock, Ark. and U. S. Veterans Hos
pital No. 80, Fort Lyon. Colo.
"Of the 5000 patients, approximate
ly IS per cent are undergoing treat
ment for tuberculosis and mental dis
eases This makes the work one Of
considerable difficulty, inasmuch as it
Is Ofttimes real problem to provide
proper recreation or to connect the
mans present condition with his serv-
Ice.
"rhere are three phases of the Red
! Cross program for service and ex-
service men In the camps and hos
pitals--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
In the army. Difficulties relating to
allOtments, allowances. insurance, COM
pensation. 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
tiers In ease Of distress, sickness or
death.
The rssvsatisnal and entertainment
prOgran N The hospital brings movies
for the boys. amateur theatrieals,
dances, parties and these many other
things that the sick man IsAgs Dor, but
which Ne esuld not have were 1t not
for the Red Cross.
1.-THE Red Cross medical and s0sial
service program calls for study of the
Individual needs Of the man, to help him
in solving his personal and family di1i-
culties. to aid him by material 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 net
only will the proper attention be given
to the family during the mans alb
sence. but he may be free In mind and
thus derive maximum amount Of
benefit from his treatment.
I'm carrying out our work for the
ex-service 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 the deal
Ing with patients but who must have
an understanding Of the social prob
lens Of civil life.
"Just as II has always been recog.
nized that the time spent in gov
eminent hospital Is only a brief cpl
sode in the life of 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 as II cor
relates itself closely with the work of
the Red Cross as whole. The hos
pital worker Is the outpost detailed
to special duty II Is his endeavor to
interpret the present condition of the
man In the hospital to the home people
and as each Of us, as individuals,
watched the men who marched away
to service, as each one of us helped
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