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Show it D wed FOB s USE il ST POST Victrola Is Also Sought for Installation in Hospital at Fort Douglas. Tiic hospital and the Red Cross nurses' house at Fort Douglas are in nerd of a Vk:trola. and a piano, the first for the hospUal and the latter for dormitory. The need, bcinj,' local in character, must be can-d for by local contributions. Oeoi K'J M. Miller, conneou-il with the relief section of the Red Cross department depart-ment at Fort -DouMla;-;, made a similar .'tj;ji;al a number of weeks a so, which v.;. met only in part. A local Victrola house donated a machine to the hospital for a period of f:Ixty days. There was no response, to the request for a piano, either by loan, lease or Rift. Immediately afier Christinas the term for wnich the Victrola wad loaned will expire and the hospital will be without a machine. There are several dozens of lied Cro.-s nurses employed at Fort Doug-law. Doug-law. Their home has no music of any character. Many of the women conneet-J conneet-J jd with the mercy work are accomplished musicians; some piny the piano well and f others are capable sinners. These accomplishments accom-plishments are dormant because of no facilities for exercising thorn. Recently Mr. Miller made an appeal to the department of military relief of the Red Cross, setting forth the facts as they e.vlst here with respect to the need of musical instruments and failures to move the local spirit of. charity. Mr. Miller asked that he be granted authority to make purchases of musical instruments i that he considers necessary for the hos-V- pita! and dormitory. In reply to this letter, let-ter, Merritt W. Gano of the military relief re-lief department in Denver has written explaining that such a course is inconsistent incon-sistent with the policy of the Red Cross, that institution depending entirely upon donations for support in all departments. "I have always been able to obtain such tilings as these by donation," Mr. Gano , explains, adding that he knows of no instance in-stance where the lied Cross has been compelled to make purchases of musical instruments, "and they ore installed in all Red Cro'ss houses," he declares. "I do not feel," Mr. Gano says, "that we are j list Hied In this expenditure of Red Cross money. I would suggest, however, how-ever, that you make one more appeal to the people through the papers. If this does not bring the , required results, 1 know I can accomplish it from here and send you a Victrola." Mr. Miller suggests that instruments In storage, owned by persons absent from town nnd who do not expect to return soon, be donated to the use of the Red Cross at the post, "but," he says, "no one is barred." |