Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-11-20

with most satisfactory results and
with the determination of the local
committee to complete the roll call
with another days efforts, those who
have contributed by becoming mem
bers, and those who have in mind
enrolling with the organization, will
be interested to know what the Red
Cross has been doing in. Arizona dur
ing the last year. The answer is
available.
The Arizona organization has been
active and there is q, carefully kept
record of its activities. They have
been along useful channels and have
brought much good. The annual re-
port of the state Red Gross organiza-
ton shows that there are seven
chapters engaged in the volunteer
work of the Red Cross. Those chap
tiers are constantly maintaining q
state of preparedness for the unex-
pected in the way of emergency aid
where disaster strikes, such as the
Mississippi flood They make gar
ments, and do other acts in getting
ready for anything that may call for
the helping hand when misfortune
falls upon the human race, either in
this state or wherever the Red Cross
functions, and that is world wide
scope.
There is junior department in the
Red Cross in which the school chill
dren are enrolled and in which they
learn the spirit of helpfulness and
charity, so needful in everyday life.
Arizona has $4,000 juniors in the
Red Cross organization, school boys
and girls today but the business men
and women of the state tomorrow.
There are junior organizations in 88
Of the schools Of the state. These
young people are enjoying social
contact through correspondence foS-
tered by the organization with the
boys and girls in the schools Of many
other lands, thereby broadening the
vision Of the youth as. to their re-
lationshipS with their fellow men. 1t
is also enlarging their grasp OF geog-
raphy and history of those other
lands and thereby improving their
citizenship.
Red Cross Aid Work
The Arizona Red Gross work, too,
includes campaign for safety in the
daily action of the individual, and as
a part of that, there is maintained a
work of instruction in life-saving as
where person has been overcome
in the water, or by gas fumes or
other causes. First aid methods are
taught More than 100 enrolled for
those lessons during the last year
Another of the features of the
Arizona Red Cross activities is the
work in disease control and preven-
ton through trained nursing. Schools
of nursing have been conducted
wherein public health work and by
giene in the home are featured.
There is a reserve force of nurses
carrying an enrolment of 145 in Ari-
zona and these are subject to call
for emergency duty at any time.
There is also a public health nurse
in active work all the while and for
the last year she made 1903 visits to
homes or an average of almost three
for every day of the year.
Ex-Service Men Aided
Giving thought to the ex-service
men is another avenue of action for
the state branch of the Red Cross.
The state report shows that there
were 468 ex-service men and their
families given attention and assist
ance during the year. These efforts
included assistance in settling the
claims with the government. prOcur-
ing hospital treatment and actual aid
rendered directly by the Red Cross to
the family needing it.
These are only a few of the activi-
ties in which the Red Cross worker
has a part and it is for the, further
ance of such work as these indicate
ao11 friI Vr,1oi
makes by enrolling as a member is
to be used. But there is far more
work performed than the things that
have been enumerated as the activi-
ties during the last year in Arizona.
If one takes a general view OF the
Red Cross work, he will find that it
had share in relieving distress IN
n disasters in the United States
during the last year, the outstanding
one being the big flood in the Mis-
sissippi river valley and the latest one
the floods in the New England states.
1t also had hand in relieving SUI
fering in 81 foreign lands. And in
being member of the organization
one becomes a real assistant in that
great work because the membership
fee is the vital force, that carries the
work along and keeps the organiza-
ton going.
Membership Helps Garry On
The membership fee, however, is
only what might be termed the or
ganization fund, For the relief work
necessarily requires vast sums which
come to the organization through
contributions raised in campaigns as
they may be required But it is the
spirit of the average American to be
anxious to help such a cause and it
is that spirit which urges the enroll
ment upon citizens in general.
Citizens of Douglas in past years
have demonstrated that they want
to have share. in the work of the
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