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Show FIRST AID TRAINING TO MEN AND WOMEN American Red Cross Is Teaching Hundreds of Thousands Life Saving Methods. The purposo of Instruction In First Aid to the Injured offered by the American Amer-ican I ted Cross is to train men and women to administer First Aid treatment treat-ment promptly and Intelligently whon emergencies demand IL First Aid treatment Is not Intended to tako the place of n physician's service. A surgeon sur-geon should always be summoneed as n precautionary measure where there Is an Injury of any consequence, but when ono cannot be secured a few minutes' min-utes' dclny may mean n fntnllty. In such a cuso n person trnlned In First Aid Is Invaluable not only to tho Individual, In-dividual, but through him to tho community com-munity In which ho lives. There Is perhaps no way of ascertaining ascer-taining tho number of deaths or serious seri-ous disablements which result from luck ot proper safeguards or prompt emergency treatment. It Is snfo to assert as-sert they number thousnnds dally. There can bo no doubt that tho nppll-" cation of First Aid methods to each caso would Immeasurably lighten the country's toll of suffering and death. The dissemination of First Aid training train-ing and Information hns nlrendy produced pro-duced n fiirrcnching and beneficial Influence In-fluence In tho prevention ot accidents on railroads, In mines and In great Industrial In-dustrial concerns. Tho benefit of n widespread knowlcdgo knowl-cdgo of First Aid In tho event of a grcnt dlsnstcr, such as a train wreck, nn explosion, nn cnrthqulko, etc., Is obvious. Laymen who havo had First Aid training can render cillclont assistance as-sistance Many lives may depend upon such emergency enro. ltcd Cross First Aid work Includes (1) tho formation nnd conduct, through Hod Cross chapters, of clnsses for Instruction In-struction In accident prevention and First Aid to tho Injured nmong men nnd women In all communities nnd In every Industry; (2) the Introduction of courses of Instruction in high schools and colleges. Tho Ited Cross Is prepnrcd to supply First Aid books and equipment at reasonable rea-sonable prices. Every person In this country able to do so should, In his own Interest, receive re-ceive ltcd Cross First Aid Instruction. Information nbout tho course and Instruction In-struction clnsses may bo had at the nearest chapter headquarters. RED CROSS EXTENDS RELIEF TO POLAND |