Evening star., 1928-04-29

I ganizations that they remain unit,
educated for emergency.
Many men. many of the professional
workers in the Red Cross. believe in the
policy of using it as great peace-time
social agency. They would direct its
efforts into specialized channels which
grow out of its emergency aspects. 1t
would, nevertheless, function By the
regular methods of accepted charitable
or social bureaucracieS Of the regular
kind
When Miss Boardman speaks Of a
Red Cross station in a small town, she
at once sees it's under local commit
tee and. with the cooperation of the
local physician, a center of health ac-
tivitieS Such a station might consist
of a small house. one room provided
with a few beds and emergency equip
ment. another arranged for a little dis
pensary and the rest used for the
nurses and caretaker's home"
Details flower for her imagination like
buds In May.
When We entered the war and woman
volunteers were fiocking 10 every chap
ter and creating new chapters every
where, she went TO Mr.. Wadsworth
then director of the Red Cross. 70 sug-
geSt that there should be an official
uniform for woman Red Cross workers
with official badges for them TO wear.
She was told that they didn't believe
in women In uniform. But another Of
her best known qualities is her deter
mination. She went into conferences
with higher-ups In the War Depart
ment. She got the District of Colum-
bia Chapter into uniform as an object
lesson. She had her way. Gray
ladies. blue wells. yellow and white.
Snappy motor uniform~-marched In the
great war parade in New York in Octo-
her. 1917.
And surely no one familiar with aver
age woman psychology will deny that
what the male mind and frequently the
'silly"-~veilS and pins and sam Browne
heltS---added a high per cent to the en-
thusiaSm of the enrolment Of women
In the various chapters.
Her first return To Europe since she
had begun her Red Cross work took her
back to different scenes from those OF
balls and teas and playing at being an
officer.
NOV IL was war. She went to Bor-
deaux to study Red Cross work,
then TO Italy, She went from Havre
10 Rouen and visited reconstruction
hospitals In France, England, Belgium
and Italy. Reconstruction hospitals
for again she was looking ahead
Just as. years before she had recon-
mended the italian plan for govern
ment coordination with the Red Cross
So now she was struck by the italian
method of contributing vocational
training and oceupational theFapy she
wrote home enthusiastically. too, OF the
French and Belgian systems, which
made thorough study Of each individ~
ual I'm an effort TO suit his pecullMritieS
To the proposed new Job.
Walking among our men lying con-
valeSeent upon the beach at EtretatS.
she observed how many lay unShaded In
the binding sun, Suffering from lack
OF SO simple u thing as eyeShadeSl
Again her imagination hloomed she
suggested sending q woman 20 interview
the head nurses In various eonvaleScent
hospitals to collect details on exact
needs for those So-ealied comforts"
which seem sometimes 60 the invalid to
mean as much AS living itself
After the war was over. in 1890. she
was appointed by President Wilson,
although she Ii Repuhlieanto be
the only woman who ever served as one
of that neard of Commissioners which,
under presidential appointment, governs
the City OF Washington, Miss hoard
man carried into that work the same
patient energy she has always displayed
IN her work for the Red Cross.
She was given charge of the eharita-
BILE institutions OF the District, Char
aeteristieally her first deed VAS To visit
and TO survey every public Institution of |
the sort personally~-beginnlng with the |
pest house. She worked at such sur |
veys at her desk tlum o'clock In the /
morning often until late at night. she |
biased trail along which any other |
woman who may come To such once In |
the future may be proud 10 follow.
one might multiply examples OF the |