Show RED CROSS WANTS TRACING CLOTH AND LINEN american manufacturers architects and all draftsmen are called upon to render an important service to their country when the workman has finished with the piece of cotton or linen cloth used in his trade it is flung aside to be destroyed the red cross is asking now for that discarded material all over the country thousands of women are earnestly engaged in the manufacture of surgical cai dressings to be used in the hospitals for our wounded soldiers and sailors the problem of getting enough white goods for this work is enormous As long as the war goes on the work must go on if we are to live up to the humanitarian ideals typified to the world today by the red cross two kinds of cloth are available drafts mens tracing cloth and old linen and cotton articles to be donated from private households and often in large quantities from hotels these can be collected and handled easily by the modern laundries which have now been called upon to perform this work for the red cross with their facilities for collecting washing sterilizing and delivering to the local chapters the laundries are in a position to perform an invaluable service and the least that other trades can do is to help them in every way if any manufacturer architect or draftsman will go to the slight trouble of calling up either the local laundry owners association or one of the large laundries of his city he will find them only too glad to send for such cloth as he can give them these materials the laundry will handle with the greatest possible care because as the national laundry journal for december 15 1917 says remember it is a matter of life and death first that you do this work and second that you do it right the greatness of the demand for old linen and cotton cloth is being measured up to by the willingness of the laundries to take over this work be sure then to notify them if you have any of this much needed material your promptness to respond to this call may jn in sober earnest become a matter of life or death to some of our wounded men across the sea |