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Show AKEF.ICANS ABROAD l!i RED CROSS WORK United States Citizens Far Away Enthusiastic Members of the "Fourteenth" Division. Among the most enthusiastic and energetic members of the American Red Cross are those citizens of the United - States who live outside the continental boundaries of their country sons and daughters of the Stars and Stripes residing at the far corners of l the earth. These people compose the Insular and Foreign Division of the parent organization, or-ganization, generally known as the : "Fourteenth" Division, which has Jurisdiction of all territory outside . the country proper; that is, Alaska,! Porto Rico, Hawaii, Virgin Islands, the Philippines, Guam, and even the Island Is-land of Yap, which came under our into a iir.-5iui oi uie woiiu war. r ui the year 1920 this division reported 30,S0S paid up members. The main object of this division Is to give our citizens everywhere the opportunity op-portunity to participate in the work of ti.e organization which stands for the best national Ideals. Americans in far places intensely loyal and patriotic, pa-triotic, treasure their membership in the Red Cross as the outward expression ex-pression of their citizenship. It is another an-other tie to the homeland and to each other. There are chapters of this division in Argentine, Bolivia, Brazil, Canal zone, Chile, China, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, England, France, Guam,. Guatemala, Haiti, Hawaii, Honduras, Japan, Manchuria, Netherlands, Nicaragua, Nica-ragua, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Porto Rico, Siberia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Syrit,, Turkey, Uruguay, Venezuela and Virgin Islands. During the war 'these scattered members of the Red Cross contributed contrib-uted millions in money, and millions of dollars' worth of necessary articles for the men in service, and sent many doctors. and nurses to France. At the same time they carried on an excellent excel-lent Home Service in their respective communities for the families of those who had gone to war, and in some regions re-gions gave large suras of money and immeasurable personal service to the relief of disaster and disease victims. The division is now establishing service clubs in foreign ports for the benefit of sailors in the American Mer- cnant marine, making pians to tuu Americans in tiduble in foreign lands and completing arrangements for giving giv-ing immediate adequate relief in case of disaster. It is the Fourteenth Division's part in the great Peace Time program of the American Red Cross. SLICK OUL. Red-headed people are supposed to be quicker-tempered than other folks. Our observation is that this is absolutely ab-solutely true, except for brown-haired or black-haired, whlte-hained or bald or tow-headed people. AVe do not know why red hair is a joke. But It is. Otherwise to should never have written this ac-d you , wouldn't have read it. Sucker ! O ! |