The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1944-08-31
Red Cross

Several months nave passed since the
Chapter has made a report of the differ
ent activities we are called upon to pro-
mote. The calls made on the Chapter to
serve the men who are winning this war
for US and their folks at home are daily
routine work and require attention TWEEN
ty-four hours a day. This report, how
ever, has to do with the work volunteers
over the county are doing. Every branch
of this work is for the boys overseas.
For those actively engaged in the COM
bat zones and for those who have been
wounded, are i'll and are hospitalized,
as war casualties.
When we forwarded our last Quota Of
filled Kit Bags, LA in all, we Immediate
ly received from headquarters a request
to make $50 bags to be sent overseas
at once. These bags are not to be filled.
They are needed as soon as they can
be had. WILL YOU HELP MAKE THESE
BAGS?
We are shipping fifty suits of hospital
pajamas as soon as we can get them
made. We asked that they be finished
by July 1st. So far the response has not
been encouraging and we are forced to
wait not later than September 1st-
These pajamas are for the war casual
ties to be used in hospitals. They are
begging for them.
Can we do less han supply pajamas
for these wounded men?
In February we received 200 pounds Of
yarn to be made into sweaters, mufflers
and helmets for our armed forces. This
was a quota assigned by the War De-
partment and our Chapter was urged to
get the articles knitted as soon as we
reasonably could do SO. This quota is
1873 sleeveless sweaters, 100 mufflers
and 100 helmets. We still have so lbs of
yarn on hand.
Our Surgical Dressing program is be-
ing dom by the faithful few who, over
the entire county, go week after week
and fold, pack and get ready for ship
ment the thousand of b~andgaes our
Chapter is assigned by the War Depart
ment. Each week a list is published
showing the names of the workers. 1t is
startling to note the same names week
after week in all of the units. In Du-
rant, Goodman, Tchula, Pickens, Lexing-
ton and West. More startling though is
the fact that many morning and after
Moons in Lexington one worker only is
on duty.
This is not a "pass-time" interest but
a job that our Chapter is assigned by
The W.. TL.k
is being insistently called upon by the
hospitals and medical stats overseas to
send these bandages forward as speedily
as possible. Our Quotas are large.
Thousand and thousands of dressings
| per month.
In Lexington two groups of the busi-
ness women work Tuesday and Thurs
day nights every week. They are doing
a fine job. One afternoon last week a
group under the supervision of Mrs.
Mary Roach made 1900 dressings in
three hours. One of this group was a
little ten year old girl whose contribu-
ton was ITO bandages. Our daily papers
show the list of the casualties-the
wounded, sick and dying. How can we
ignore the call for workers when what
little we can do may be the means Of
stopping the flow of life blood of one
of these men who is fighting for us?
Our Chapter is not going to let these
men down. We're meeting the Quotas by
working day and night. We do not feel
we can do less-Can we count on the
help of more volunteers?
Holmes County Chapter
American Red Cross.