Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1918-02-24 | Page 22 | Permanent Commissio of Red Cross Doing Great Work in Rome

PERMANENT PER COMMISSION OF RED Ep CROSS DOING GREAT WORK IN RO fly 11 C. C FARR CIA x a Service Staff Cor- Cor rf n cJ C n c. c Home Pome With the arrival In Home o of the permanent commission of or the American Amerlean Amer Arner- lean Ian Red fled Cro Cross I society the relief work ork among the destitute population of or the th Eternal City be begun un b by the emergency commission lon under Mal Maj Carl Taylor ha has received a n now new n Impetus anI and will he be continued without interruption till the end of or the th th war near And If necessary as alre already d seems eem to he th ca case c. c for tor an any length of oC time after aCter the thear war star arTh The Th fact tact that the American Red Rell RedCross RedCross Cross ross ha has hai decided not to confine contine its ItA charitable work to p lr purely ly mill military tar ho hospitals an and kindred institutions Institution but hut extend It to the civilian victims of oC the thear war ar of oC man many large lale cities and rural districts district districts dis dis- ha has attracted widespread attention attention attention atten atten- tion and Is being favorably commented upon while tho the whole press hn has lias bestowed bestowed be he- stowed d unreserved pral praise e on the commission commission commission com com- mission for It Its work aiming at nt alleviating alleviating allevi l suffering among the families Camilles of or orthe the men In tho trenches Speak Speaking In of oC the tho s mission mission mis mis- sion slon In Italy one of ot the high officials of or th the tho American R Ri Rc 4 q Cro Cross s who was wal for Cor years ears engaged In settlement work In a large New F England city and Is Isnow now non entrusted with the tho work amon among the civilian population said that Just now relief relic work In some rural districts districts dis dis- and anel in the poorer quarters of oC the tho large cities Is more urgent than work in military hospitals i When hen the question of oC sending a permanent commission lon to ItAl Italy as we had alread already done for Cor France came up for tor discussion slon this officer said laid the directors of oC the or organization were full fully fully- satisfied that the sanitary Ic ice Ico of ot the Italian arm army armas as was amon among the best developed de by allied nations durIng during during dur dur- ing the war that that according to reports I received from medical co commissions lons I that had from Crom time to time visited the I Italian front the tho sick lIck and woun wounded ed soldiers rs were being taken excellent care of oC and that the percentage of or woun wounded ed soldiers who returned to the front compared favorably with the claims ClAim of oC an any other allied sanitary service Un Under er the circumstances the directors of th the organization thought the American Red fled Cro Cross s would send some somo of oC Its units to the front I but ut it would at the same time extend its re relie relief re- re lie lief Ilef work to the civilian population whose suffering was then reported to tobe tobe tobe be quite intense owing to the rapidly increasing cost of oC living lIvinS and the scarcity of ot man many necessaries of oC life liCe The excellent results h In the work done onE In this direction b bv by the emergency emergency emer emer- gency commission which was dispatched dispatched dis dis- patched to Italy as soon as It was vas known the extent of the rev rP reverse r. e at tho front confirmed the permanent commissions commission's comI commissions commission's com com- missions mission's lons lon's belief that work in the back I lines and in n the cities I Is what Is 11 actually actually actu aNu- ally all needed and Colonel Perkins ln head hend of or the permanent commission will de develop develop develop de- de I it a far tar as s the means placed at atour atour atour our lj disposal will permit Ambassador Page Is III fully fully- fUll in sympathy with this I branch of oC our work and has promised to us hl his heartiest co For the tho present and until the personnel personnel per per- of the commission has familiarized famil d Il itself with local conditions the work among tho the destitute population of oC the capital is being carried on through the existing Italian org lions for the a Ir tot have havo a call all the a attention or f the sire tt Cross to et r case Inert ca cathe curty de attention A I sJ the part of oC American n In and then as is help In a hoer liberal l r given gl al tape 1 Because of oC the erl numerous r re from people out outside of OC the for fOI training In dramatic building and effective S ps b fessor Babcock of oC the public slut br department has announced that pt IrI in instruction will be he offered to t b- b in the speech art arts j o oiven The Tho teaching of oC t this work ork hu given iven to Mr Ir Moroni O Oteen Olen eno Mr r Ota On PJ is a graduate of oC the Leland ho hwn school of spoken word la 11 ri a former Conner student and teacher at ittu university lie He has but recently a turned to Salt Lake from an tn W Chautauqua tour of ot the states u uI ail Cana Canada a. a Since only a limited number c eta l w accommodated registration shout k h made Immediately