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Show IF APPROPRIATED Red Cross Is Working Fast and Must Make Another Big Drive. The k--d Cross begins Us woik for 1 M uitli a hiijre roll of new memherH. Appropriation Ap-propriation already made have used up nearly half of the Com, ifu. i.fWO war fund Mil.sniied last summer. A drive for a -erond fund will have to he made this spring. Sis teen Ihoiand graduate nurses are enrolled Willi the Red Cross. Alieady D571 ..f these nurses :in in Fram e and -1 . more are :.i work in the ea n t on me i it s and -i:, lions over here. Tbo. ei-ied and ,-.;, niye.i lor service with the military ror.-es. hut not yet mobiliz- d, number "W::. Tiiis nives a lolal of M'.2 lied Cross muse- in active service. It is estimated thai -Ja "nil of tiic ."-".Oi'ii traine.i nurses of t lie count ry will he needed by the cud of nesl year. Tiie urav-'-lad army nurse is the best svmbo of the work of the Led Cross. Lot the. society hiis shown people other ways of doing their bit besides nursing. American Amer-ican women are making in Led Cross workrooms and in their homes surgical dressings, knit good.-, .hospital garments and comfort kits to an estimated value for the ve;i r of $.4"','.'ifi. The surgical dressings go to eer- ship in the navy, and to juaii war hospitals behind the lines in France. Tlie lied Cross has promised to ship to France ::.r"iiMjii() dressing a a month for the next .six months. More t ha n $.".0n0.i(nt won h . of yarn has l eii purchased or ordered for the lied ( Toss, to he knitted into sw ca I ers and mufflers. This 'reat volume of volunteer volun-teer product ion in A meri'-a supports ft , huyp distributing- (establishment in France. Four I in mired men in the transportation depariment there are handling :;."0 tons of supplies a day. A warehouse personnel i of iLCt operates a storage capacity of 10(j.- i C'iKi ton. .More than -100 motoi- cars, most of them heavy trucks, are in service. Not far from one hundred Red Cross canteens and rest stations have been established es-tablished at the front, in Paris, and at important railway centers.' Over I'O.OOU H'rench children are being- cared for by the society. At Fvian. near the. Swiss border, is a great American hospital for children . that are being repatriated from poinus be- 1 hind the German lines. ( Five la rgc military hospitals, a preat tuberculosis hospital near Paris, and I twenty civilian dispensaries in the Amer-! Amer-! ican army ?,onc are being operated. Fifty ! base hospitals have been organized in America by the Red Cross. More than a. dozen of them have already been sent to Fiance. Fach unit was planned to take care of 500 beds, but several of those in service have been increased to twice or four times the unit size. Forty-five am-i am-i bu lance, companies, a total of"r.5S0 men, jhave been raised by Red Cross chapters and mustered into the armv medical , service. The year JH1S starts off under the darkest war cloud that has ever overhung . the land. Hut never was a war cloud I provided with a more resplendent lining of silver than the American Red Cross society the entire nation, mobilized for charity is setting- against the darkness of the present hour. |