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Show WORK OF VOLUNTEERS RED GROSSBAGKBONE .Men and Wbmen Who Give Services Serv-ices Aid Greatly Surgical Dressings, Knitting, Sewing I Still Carried On. Thousands ot women, who were first enrollod aa Red Cross workers during tbe period ot the World War. have never ceased In their labors tor that organization, but still carry on knitting garments tor. disabled soldiers, sol-diers, making dresses and layettes tor children and Infants, and giving hours of their time In the various volunteer activities of Red Cross work. Volunteer work by men also plays a large part In the organisation of Red Cross. This volunteer work la the backbone back-bone ot Red Cross. Fully eighty-live per cent of the service this humanitarian humani-tarian organisation Is able to render the public, through public health. American Junior Red Cross, lervlce to disabled veterans of the World War, and tbe service men of tbe regular regu-lar establishment, and Its many other activities, must tall upon the shoulder ot the volunteer worker. Not only Is this true ot the national headquarters headquar-ters where such distinguished volunteers volun-teers are enrolled as Judge Jobn Bar- ton Payne, chairman, and Miss Mabel Boardman, secretary ot the Red Cross, and Col. EL P. Dlcknell. vice chairman In charge ot foreign operation, opera-tion, but also In every community Where Chapter chairmen and other men and women devote hours of tbelr time to fostering and planning the valuable and humane work ot Red Cross, so that It may be ever ready to serve In time of distress, catastrophe catas-trophe or great national emergency. In tbe year Just ended, 253,000 garments gar-ments were provided by Red Cross Chapters, Including 1,399 layettes with nineteen articles each, for use In disaster areas. Women who rolled surgical dressings dress-ings ten years ago, with the help of new volunteers, still carry on this work tor hospitals In tbelr communities, communi-ties, and tor the Chapter's stock, where a supply must be maintained to answer emergency calls. In the year Just ended, the women made 1,276,000 dressings. No type of volunteer work Is more Interesting or meets greater appreciation apprecia-tion from Its beneSclarle than the distribution each December of Christmas Christ-mas bags one of which goes to every service man In tbe Army and Navy stationed on a distant post Each year the, request comes for m.irs bags, nntll tor Christmas. 1928. Red Cross volunteers have been asked to provide 42.000. Tbe bags, containing small necessities dear to a service man's heart, go to the Philippines. China, Guam, Nicaragua and all the distant ports where Uncle Sam's men are stationed. , , Another service these volunteers perform, which hag generally gripped the Imagination of all who have come In touch with It, Is the transcription Into Braille for the blind of hundreds ot books. Need ot certain types of books for the blind first came to tbe attention ot Red Cross through the blinded veterans of the World War. From work begun for the war blind, with a few devoted workers, this transcription of books now la being carried on by 1,02 Braille transcrih- ers, who during this year bave hand-copied hand-copied 150,705 pages, and S4S titles have been completed. It lent ftonalale. . "Man has Ive se-sne," agrees W. O. Palaier, "bat aoae ef the- tells h why a worn a a waats to dean hot beo It doesn't need It" 1 |