Show THE GARLAND International Red Cross Aids TIMES For War Prisoner Kathleen Norris Says: Helps to Locate’ W ar Prisoners Instrumental in Obtaining Fair Treatment of All Internees Perhaps you know a soldier or sailor who is a prisoner of war? Or perhaps you have been notified that he is missing in action but have no official word that he is a prisoner? In any case you want more information You want to know about getting more news of him forwarding lists of those captured in the Philippines If after a reasonable time you have received no word of a man believed captured you can ask your Red Cross chapter to help you fill out an inquiry form and the Red Cross will make every effort to a report Each nation also agreed to provide suitable prison quarters with adequate heat and cooking facilities and food similar to that given to its own soldiers in barracks and to allow the prisoners to write home and receive mail and parcels War prisoners are confined in camps or compounds usually surrounded by barbed wire and armed guard? in which they may move about comparatively freely but they may not be shut up as in a jail Prisoners are allowed to send a limited number of letters or postcards depending not only on the country but the camp in which they are situated Prisoners of war and civilian internees held by the United States for example— German Italian and 'Japanese — may send two letters and one postcard per week and may receive an unlimited amount of incoming mail from Letters German prison are sometimes received ramps within two or three months but obviously mail from prisoners in the Far East must be expected to take much longer Parcels Delivered It has also been possible to deliver standard Red Cross food weekly You want to know if you can send a letter or a parcel with warm clothes and some of those cookies he is so fond of The best place to get that information is through the Red Cross Your nearest local Red Cross chapter can tell you what you want to know If possible go to the chapter yourself rather than write If you don’t know where it is or can’t find it in the telephone directory call the city hall or any government or municipal agency and they will tell you The Red Cross chapter will you exactly how to address a letter to the prisoner or will help you fill in a message on a special form If he is only listed as missing In action They will tell you too about parcels And they will explain what is being done by the Red Cross and other agencies to make life as bearable as possible for him while he is in enemy hands The situation changes frequently but you can always be sure that if ‘New’ Clothes you go to the Red Cross chapter you will get the latest information on what you can do International Committee There is of course no direct contact between nations at war but the American Red Cross can work through the International Red Cross committee in Geneva Switzerland which is recognized by everybody as strictly neutral and has acted as in wartime ever since it was founded for that purpose hearty 80 years ago Under agreements made at Geneva before the war— in 1929 to be exact — the nations promised to give humane treatment to prisoners and drew up a set of rules for use in time of war Long before the present war Germany and Italy were among those who agreed to abide by those rules and In February 1912 Japan announced that she would observe them Each nation agreed to set up a as well as prisoners of central bureau for prisoners of war warCivilians benefit from the cargo of a information The United States has Red Cross Evidence of mercy ship set up a Prisoners of War Informadistribution through Red Cross tion bureau in the office of the prochannels of cracked wheat is s ee$ vost marshal general — in the war in the garments worn by these ChiThe Japanese governdepartment nese children ment established its Central Prisoners bureau in Tokyo in December to supplement the diet of parcels 1941 prisoners in Germany Italy and ocCabled to Geneva These supplies are cupied France Names of prisoners and civilian distributed through the Internationinternees are assembled by these al Red Cross committee at Geneva bureaus cabled to the International Delegates of the committee are alRed Cross committee’s agency in lowed to inspect the prison camps to Geneva listed and filed for refercheck on whether the prisoners are ence in the committee’s Central being treated in accordance with Agency for Prisoners of War and the international agreements and to see that the parcels reach them tU safely Contents of the parcels vary from time to time but at present each weighing approximately 11 package lb pounds contains milk powder 8 oz cheese liver paste 6 oz corned beef 12 oz pork meat 12 oz raisins 16 oz sugar 8 oz lemon powder 12 oz cocoa 8 oz coffee 8 oz chocolate 4 oz candy 6 oz cigarettes 40 tobacco 2H oz lunch biscuit (type C) 7 oz matches 2 boxes The sending of packages to Japan is a more difficult matter due to the refusal of the Japanese government to allow neutral vessels in the western Pacific areas It is hoped that This strange device is a circular machine - Installation of machines of this type was made necessary by the large number of messages passing through the Red Cross inquiry service at Washington D C filing transmitted at once to the central information bureau of the country interested The provost marshal general of the United States keeps a permanent official list of all names received from the International Reef Cross committee and arranges for notification to the next of kin Names of some prisoners captured by the Japanese have been received but there has been long delay on the part of the Japanese government in Long before this nation entered the conflict Red Cross mercy ships were sailing from the Lnited States laden with provisions for the peoEurope Here the ples of McKeesport is shown passing the Statue of Liberty as she heads for the open sea eventually arrangements may be made for the shipment by the Red Cross of a regular supply of standard food parcels cigarettes clothing and medical necessities In the meantime the American Red Cross has been able to send food parcels for to the Far East on the neutral Swedish vessel the Gripsholm sailing to Portuguese East Africa where American and Japanese diplomats and other noncombatants are exchanged On her first sailing the Gripsholm carried 20000 parcels $50000 worth of drugs and medical supplies 1000000 cigarettes 10000 tins of smoking tobacco and large quantities of clothing and toilet articles supplied by the army and navy departments for their respective de- partments On her second voyage the Gripsholm carried 60000 of the 20000000 food parcels cigarettes over $33000 worth of drugs and medical supplies $95000 worth of UTAH GARLAND classified: DEPARTM ENT What a Job in Washington Holds for You Bell Syndicate —WNU Feature RAZOR BLADES KENT 1 m BLADES i OUSEHOID HITS! make pumpkin pies bake a rich golden brown add a tablespoon of molasses to the filling To e Cocoa tastes best when the cocoa sugar and salt are mixed well with the water and then boiled for from 5 to 10 minutes before adding the scalded milk and all heated together A Red Cross worker is shown assembling a “prisoner of war packPreage” of food and cigarettes paring these packages is only one of the many services performed by volunteer Red Cross canteen workers blankets and toilet articles and large quantities of underwear shoes and other articles amounting to more than half a million items Distribution of supplies to prisoners in the Far East is being carried out by International Red Cross committee delegates in Tokyo Shanghai and Hong Kong who will make every effort to see that part of this aid goes to the prisoners captured in the Philippines even though the Japanese government has not yet allowed the appointment of a delegate of the International Red Cross committee in the Philippines There is naturally anxious speculation on the treatment of prisoners especially in view of reports of brutality brought back to the United States by some internees particularly newspaper correspondents returning on the exchange ship the Gripsholm Political Suspects These latter were detained by the Japanese equivalent of the Gestapo and were in most cases thrown into j?il on the pretext that they were political suspects The Japanese did not recognize that they came under the protection of the Geneva Prisoners of War convention The International Red Cross committee delegates are strictly limited by the Japanese government to efforts to protect the interests of the men of the armed forces held as prisoners of war and of civilians interned in recognized camps These are held in prison camps or compounds International Red Cross committee delegates permitted to inspect these camps in Japan and to speak to China and occupied the prisoners have reported that conditions are satisfactory and that they have received no serious complaints Any report of ill treatment of men in the armed forces who have been captured usually applies to the period when the prisoner is still on or near the field of battle when the animosities engendered by hostilities are still strong As soon as the prisoner has been placed in an organized prison camp governed by the agreements made at Geneva his situation is usually much improved International Red Cross Grew Out of Eye Witness Story of Italian Battle In 1862 Henri Dunant a Swiss who had been an eye witness wrote a graphic account of the Battle of Solferino He told of the suffering of the wounded soldiers and discussed the possibility of organizing in all civilized countries “permanent societies of volunteers” to care for the wounded of all nationalities in time of war A lawyer from Geneva named Gustave Moynier read Dunant’s book As president of a local philanthropic society Moynier appointed a committee of five members of the society to consider the possibility of putting Dunant’s plan into action The “Committee of Five” then issued an invitation to all European governments and military medical and philanthropic societies to send delegates to a conference to be held at Geneva on October 26 1863 The 36 delegates who attended the now famous Geneva convention recommended that relief societies be formed in each nation authorized by the government of that nation and with its army The original “Committee of Five” became the International Red Cross In 1919 the League of committee Red Cross Societies was founded thus' uniting all the separate national Red Cross societies And in 1928 was instituted the International Red Cross conference governing body of the International Rpd Cross Shoes that are old and do not polish satisfactorily should be well rubbed with methylated spirit or petrol Allow to dry thoroughly out of doors apply paste and polish in the usual way When a sponge cake is turned upside down in the pan to cool it clings to the sides of the pan and is kept stretched in position until it cools and becomes firm This prevents shrinking or settling Cooking apples are inclined to white and tasteless when the best of the summer crop is over But add a little lemon juice to your next apple pie or put a strip of lemon peel in the pot when stewing apples and it will give them a delicious flavor be To (Tasking abandon ton uihost a prosperous every inch dairy farm and land herself and her threa children in living space is fiercely disputed would be insanity I of NORRIS KATHLEEN the consolation of of women who want to get into some sort of dramatic war work let me state definitely that most war work in these tremendous days falls very rapidly into the not to say drudgery routine class and that Washington itself is far from the exciting center that everyone who isn’t there fondly imagines it to be Washington was essentially a with all the delightful small town features of a small town until war In the last preparations began it has grown— spread out wildly year in every direction blossomed with great office buildings and hurriedly constructed apartment houses Transportation is difficult for the thousands of new workers who crowd into the city street cars and busses are jammed restaurants are the romance and beauty suffocating of the Capitol are dimmed for the By FOR time Girls who get jobs in have their fun and glory leave home The family with new respect the and boys frankly envy Washington before they treats them girls other them Merely One of Many Cogs But on reaching Washington the lucky immediately discovers that she is merely one of a great number of eager willing unin a important cogs great machineunNo not unimportant no cog is But a cog may be useimportant ful and still not have a very exciting time and reShe gets to Washington She is given a ports somewhere desk in an office and to that office She walks she repairs every day miles climbs stairs lunches in a cafeteria packed shyly makes friends of her associate workers To be sure her letters home are dated “Washington” but as far as any sense of being on the battle front being a witness to great events havin the destiny of the ing a share nation goes she might as well be else anywhere The conduct of a war like genius depends on an infinite capacity for No taking pains longer do handsome captains of cavalry dash up at the critical moments with flags flying to report that the reinforcements are here General No longer women slip through do the lines to kneel beside soldiers 'War as the young on the field clerks in Washington know it means bookkeeping filing typewriting answering telephones climbing stairs it means complete subjugation to orders from superiors it means seeit ing others preferred to oneself means sacrifice of good times For there are few dances in Washington this winter and there are few theaters — two or three at most —and' only a few picture houses Lonely Girl’i Problem Friendships are difficult for the lonely girl who goes on there to live in a boarding house in a small square impersonal room because what our uniformed men want now is home life and simple hospitality It is no treat to them to take a girl to a second-clarestaurant and afterward to stand in line for an hour to get into a movie The hotels are expensive and often both girl and boy are tired and don’t reel up to the exertion of dressing formally for the evening Motoring is out of course Now this is not to 'say that liRe pleasant evenings in things IMPORTANT COGS There's nothing particularly exciting about being a cog even if you are a cog in an extremely important machine That says Kathleen Norris is what you would be if you went to Washington to work at one of the hundreds of necessary but not glamorous jobs girls and women like yourself think they leant In anmother this swering a week she points out the fact that there is still much work to be done in the home and on the Not all this war’s battles farm will be fought overseas you know There is still the home front —remember? contact with some friend’s home other working girls the novelty of a new job and a new place don’t exist They do But they strangely enough have nothing to do with the war they are just the diversions The real test of a gift is how well it is received Which puts Camels and Prince Albert Smoking Tobacco right at the top of the fist as gifts sure to please any smoker And they’re ideal as It’s a convenient and ecogifts nomical way to remerhber all your smoking friends — particularly men in the service who prefer tobacco and cigarettes to any other gifts You have your choice of the Camel Christmas Carton containing 10 packages of 20’ s or the Camel “Holiday House” containBoth are ing four “flat fifties” ready to give without any additional Christmas wrapping Also the pound canister of Prince Albert is handsomely Your dealer is featuring allthesewelcome gifts now —Adv PCOLDS'MISERIES For oolda’ sought naeal eongoatJon muaela get Pane Wo— modern modulation in mutton suet baa tbt double aupply 864 ache that exist everywhere curtailed Stained Glass Window In Warship more expensive and much more HMS Repulse which ’was torlimited in war times but inevitable pedoed and sunk by the Japanese wherever youth meets youth in the South China sea in DecemThe point I am trying to make is ber 1941 is believed to have been that Washington will offer you noth- the only warship in history that ing just now that any other job in had a stained-glaswindow in its any other city doesn’t offer chapel You may be boarding in the house next to the secretary of labor or the English ambassador but ymj’ll know no more of world affairs than To relieve painful eelloue your father is reading in the evef or tanderneaa oa bottom of fawt ning paper or your mother is hearand lecaovo eallouae— thaao (t pad ing on the radio at home thin nothing euehionlng And added to all its other disadvantages is the constant sense of hurry and pressure the keen comfor places the nagging petition sense that one has volunteered for In Defense of Liberty the wrong work after all that perNo man can suffer too much and new untried recruits are no man can fall too soon if he fectly pushing in to far more advantageous suffer or if he fall in the defense positions of the liberties and constitution of his country — Daniel Webster Eager to Help "I am desperately anxious to get into all this” writes Lily Davis from YOU WOMEN WHO SUFFER FROM an Ohio town “I am 34 and have When we three small children married Oliver was a lawyer with ambitions that I shared political and a series of busiBut If you auffer from hot flashes d ness misfortunes sent us out to this are nees dlatrens of "lrregularltlei" weak nervoua irritable blue at rambling dairy farm 20 miles from time — due to the functional I have help in the nearest town ” period In a woman'! — life the house and on the farm he has try Lydia S Plnkham'a table Compound—the three men continually and more in medicine you can buy today tbat'e We prospef but I am summer made especially or icomen Plnkham'a Compound has helped feverish to do something to help thousands upon thousands of and plan this autumn to go on to en to relieve such snnoytnK sympto see whether the servWashington toms Follow label directions ices of a former school teacher can Compound Is worth tryinQl Should I obtain a be put to use job I must then make some arrangement there for my1 boys now WNU— W seven I and three aged eight would not want to live in the city but near by where there are good Schools and nursery schools My husband has consented to this plan Will you advise me as to the first For You To Feel Well steps toward accomplishing it?” tl hoar mrjr day T day every This is typical of the attitude of verk never stopping the kidneys filter But surety it is obwaste matter from the blood many women If more people were swnjr of bow tbe vious to us all— and in saner and moat constantly kidney renovi plus fluid exoees acida and other waste less restless moments it must be matter that cannot stay in tbe blood to Lily herself—that to obvious without injury to keaitix there would be better understanding of why the abandon a prosperous dairy farm whole system upset when kidneys US land herself and her children in a to function properly too frequent Burning scanty city whose every inch "of living warns that something tion sometimes is You may suffer being fiercely disputed space wrong nging rheusiaUf headaches ache dimotee burden her shoulders with the pains getting up at sights swelling of managing a delicate Yo y by not try Doan't the be tumg a medicine recommended man and three small children a Doan' stimulate the country over a servant and a new job house tion of the kidneys and help them te from tbe flush out poisonous waste How many thouwould be insanity blood contain noth ng harmful They of sands— millions— women in the Get Poen’e today Use with confidence At drug stores God on their world would thank knees for the security and peace of a farm for the children they love far away from bombs and battle- CAU0USE5 HOT HASHES fields! |