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Show PREPAREDNESS if Jfr tie AMERICAN RED CROSS A MERICAN service men fight-ing fight-ing the nation's battles overseas over-seas are making American Red Cross clubs their favorite meeting place during leave periods. The Red Cross clubs, established estab-lished in nearly all the major overseas war theaters, are open to the enlisted men of the United Nations in addition to Americans, but the atmosphere of the clubs is typically American. Such home country stand-bys as hotdogs, soft drinks, hamburgers, and ice cream made the American Ameri-can way, are regulars on the clubs' bills of fare. They may be obtained for a penny at the snack bars which are open throughout the day. The clubs are staffed by trained Red Cross workers with the accent ac-cent upon competent American girls specially selected for conducting con-ducting an active recreational program pro-gram in the clubs. The girls are attractive, too. Typical of the clubs in the larger larg-er cities is the Red Cross Washington Wash-ington club located in the Mayfair section of London. Here service men may use. luxurious lounge rooms, a dance room, and recreation recrea-tion rooms where ping pong and billiards are the popular games. A large restaurant, capable of serving GOO men at one sitting, is maintained in the club, and dormitories dormi-tories large enough to house 1,200 men are contained in the club and adjacent dormitories. For bed and breakfast the Yank on leave in London pays 50 cents. He can get a piping hot lunch and supper for 20 cents each. Prices charged by the Red Cross are below cost, the deficit being met through Red Cross funds. Officials of the American Red Cross were reluctant to make any charge for food or meals and did so only after Secretary of War Stimson requested that a nominal fee for such services be made since other United Nations clubs also charge. Prepared exclusively for WNU. |
