The Wrangell sentinel., 1924-06-05
Red Cross Field Worker Is Now
 In Wransell
Tells How Post War Work of Red Cross Is Now
 Being Carried Out

Miss Yeteye Taake, Field Repre- sentative. Pacific Division, A. R. C.. arrived in Wrangell last Friday for a weeks work with the local chap ter of the Red Cross. Miss Taake has had an extensive training for social service work. During the war she was the social service work CT for Government Explosive Plant C at Nitro, West Virginia. After the war the government sent her to Philadelphia where she was chief clerk in the Rehabilitation Division. Federal Board for Vocational Edu- cation. While serving in this ca pacity 5000 disabled ex-service men were placed in vocational training in the states of Pennsylvania and Deleware. This work links up with the work of the Red Cross for ex-
 
 service men and on this account the attention of Red Cross officials was directed to Miss Taake with the result that for the past four years she has been with the Pacific Divi- sion ARC. having charge of the field work of the State of Washing ton until last July when the field was divided and Miss Taake placed in charge of 2 western Washington and Alaska
 Miss Taake is very pleased with the work of the Wrangell chapter She has spent the week looking over various reports. visiting with the re- cipients of the nurses service, talk ing with the board members and the many others interested and reached by this splendid service.
 In speaking of Red Cross activi- ties as they are being carried out at the present time. Miss Taake made the following pertinent comments
 Loan closets are much appre- ciated in the communities having Red Cross. chapters, and Wrangell has the beginning of a very good loan closet. The help that the many organizations have given in building this up shows that the people are back of a project that is truly bene- hcial.
 Again we must pause and real ize that our post war work is not completed. The War Department has already asked the Red Cross to take the responsibility of seeing that ev- cry ex-service man files his claim for the national bonus recently passed by Congress. A letter has been sent to each of the 300 chapters working under the Pacific Division office at San Francisco to see that they have the machinery ready to put in opera tion as soon as the blank forms of application are of the press. The American Legion and the Veterans Bureau will also assist with the bo- nus claims, and with three such closely allied organizations it should make 1t possible to have the forms filled as rapidly as the government machinery can handle them.
 Another piece of work in connec- tion with the late war that is not completed. and which shows us 1t Is not yet time for us to stop, is the new Veterans Bureau Hospital for mental cases at American Lake. Washington. which has just been opened and already has more than 200 patients to be treated. This is a small number in comparison with the nearly 700 mental cases being given treatment at the Veterans'Bu Feau hospital at Palo Alto. Califor- mia. The Red Cross Chapters play . large part in the care of these men by contacting the mems homes and working with the families. helping to get social history, which helps the doctors and social workers to work with the men more effectively A plan of social follow up is now bs.