New-York tribune., 1922-11-22
Red Cross Calls
w omen to Join
Emergency List
Back TO the War Spirit
Is Slogan of Speakers at
Rally of Workers to OBJ
tain More Recruits
Training Season Fixed
$1,000 Members Gained
When Manufacturing
Plant Enlists EMPLOYEES

"A call to women to enlist under the
Red Cross for peace time training
against period of national emergency
vas sounded yesterday at meeting Of
Red Gross workers, at the home of Mrs.
Whitelaw Reid.
Back to the war spirit" was the
slogan Of the meeting, by which the
Red Gross officials meant the zeal and
the devotion which animated the women
of the country during the war.
Women are to be asked to enlist for a
service of three hours week for six
weeks. Their work will be classified
under eight heads just as it was during
the war--administrative clerical, pro-
ouction, canteen, motor, health, home
service and recreation.
Miss Mabel Boardman sounded the
call for peace time duty, declaring that
the country needed to keep an army of
trained women ready to respond to any
emergency, such as great food, a
great fire or epidemic like that when
influenza swept the country.
The regular welfare workers and
charitable organizations are sufficient
to provide for ordinary peace time
needs" she said, "but when an emer-
gency arises they are not adequate,
nor can they leave their everyday oc-
cupations in order to answer sudden
need. We must have trained women
workers in addition to the peace-time
forces, just as we have the National
Guard ready to respond to a military
emergency.
Need of Keeping Prepared
Moreover, we must provide training
for the young women just coming out
OF colleges and schools. 1t is all very
well to say that the women of the
United States learned during the war
now to run canteens and make surgical
dressings, but these women will not be
available twenty years from now We
must keep our women's army up to the
mark every year. The girls can co.
operate with peace-time organizations
during their period of training. There
is no town which has not hospital or
school which could not use the serv-
ice OF women. / suggest, for example,
that the women who enlist for canteen
service could be put to work canning
and preserving for the local hospital
The women enrolled for production can
always find organizations needing gar
ments and surgical suppies-just now
the cry is from the Near East-and the
clerical assistants can be put to work
on the records of the Red Gross itself"
Miss Boardman then explained that
the peace-time volunteers would not
wear uniform Except those in the
workrooms for surgical dressings), but
each worker would wear regulation
button. These buttons would designate
the branch Of service to which the
wearers belong. Administrative but
tons would have q red border around
the regulation white button with the
Red Gross in the center. Clerical but
tons would show yellow crossed quilts
behind the cross. The button OF tho
production corps would be marked by
sun rays behind the cross; of the can
teen corps by heads of wheat; OF the
motor corps by q green wheel, and
SO forth.
Letters to Designate Branch
Each button will be marked on the
back with a letter designating the
branch of the service and a serial num-
Der for each worker. If a woman re-
signs from the army she must turn
in her button, and if she moves to an
other town she must transfer her mem
bership. This is to make sure that
the offic ais of the organization will
have an accurate knowledge at any
moment of the exact number of work
ers they can count on in each corps.
Following Miss Boardman's address
Mrs. Louis A. Baker made a plea for
workers to assist in making garments
for the sufferers in the Near East New
York's quota is $4,000 garments, while
100000 are to be supplied from the
entire country. The materials have
been supplied, but workers are needed
Women willing to serve should apply
at the Red Cross county headquarters
Of greater New York.
More than 500 women attended the
meeting, which was marked by enthu-
siasm such as New York has not seen
since the var. Old friends of canteen
days greeted one another with delight
Fifteen thousand memberships in
the Red Cross were reported to the
roll call headquarters last night from