Nogales international., 1941-10-31
Red Cross Helps
Solve Problems
Of Our Recruits
Through It's Directors in
Camps Red Cross Links
Men With Home

Washington, D. Con the home
and military fronts the American
Red Cross is turning its focus on
the man in uniform. In his behalf.
more than 10000 nurses are being
recruited. Volunteers are donating
their blood for huge plasma bank.
Red Cross women in chapters
throughout the country are making
100000 surgical dressings, and
knitting sweaters for men in out
lying posts and sailors on patrol.
But these are just fragments of
the story. In military and naval
stations, the Red Cross is concern
ing itself with the personal prob
lens of the service man, helping
him adjust himself to military life.
For the disabled, the Red Cross is
on the job in service hospitals,
helping to speed recovery Of the
sick through a morale-building pro-
gram.
In mobilizing a 2,O00,OOO-man
fighting force, the personal prob
lens of the able-bodied man in uni
form have in turn become problems
of the morale divisions. Red Cross
field directors stationed in all
camps and reservations have been
entrusted with the task of helping
to solve these problems.
Speaking in a nationwide broad
cast recently, Chief of Staff Mar
shall, of the Army, addressed the
following words to Red Cross field
directors:
when you help straighten out
any of the great variety Of tangles
that human beings seem unable to
avoid, you are helping to maintain
morale on the home front and on
the military front; you are helping
US in training for defense"
The disabled man in a service
hospital also can look to the Red
Cross for help in speeding recov-
cry. Medical-social wo- kers, trained
for their specialized assignment,
are on duty at Army general and
Navy hospitals to aid service physi-
clans, to act as a medium Of COM
munication with the families Of
hospitaliZed men and to conduct
recreational programs for GONZALES
cents.
The Red Cross provides recrea-
tional service for patients in all
Army and Navy hospitals. Sixty
five new hospitals are under con-
struction by the Army, and their
recreation buildings are being
equipped and stated by the Red
Cross as each one opens.
! AS part of the Army and Navy
safety programs, members of the
national Red Cross staff are quail
flying instructors in First Aid and
Water Safety among the ranks of
the enlisted man.
The number OF Army and Navy
cases assisted by Red Cross field
directors has increased in volume
140 per cent since Selective Service
has been in operation. During the
past year 126,515 cases involving
active service men have been han
died in the camps.
The Red Cross recently made
available $1,OOO,OOO to meet an
emergency need for athletic equip
ment for the Army and Navy. This
need arose when Government ap-
propriations for the purpose be-
came exhausted.
In addition to providing the Army
and Navy with an official reservoir
! Of nurses, the Red Cross is catalog-
! ing the nations medical technolo-
gists. Through this program, in
which approximately 5000 techni-
clans have registered, the Army
and Navy will select such profes-
sional personnel as laboratory
workers, deititians, dental techni-
clans, pharmacists and other cate
gories Of trained technologists.