Show i d Cross ross ry Had Us Its H Beginning Beguiling ill in Work of 01 Florence L i Nightingale ale in Crimean War WarI I Conditions Prevailing Among Sick and Soldiers Leads to Organization of Great Society for Mercy and Relief By Dy Selma Miller r IS to the gigantic accomplish accomplish- I of a a. woman that the American Amer Amer- I. I can ican Red Cross as well a as 88 every ther thor Red Cross Crosa organization in world Is Indebted for Its eats eats- Florence Nightingale an Eng Eng- of unusual accomplishment ird a a. born nurse was the tho woman Crime Crimean an war of 1854 and 1855 ho showed the wo world d what could nd jid d should be done In a a. humanitarian ay y for those who suffered Buffered In war during this war when Eng- Eng t mJ l and other European countries fined hands with Turkey against sia that Miss Nightingale NI set in the forces force which eventually ormed ed the great Red Cross CraBs move move- lent jent Thousands of brave English boys ere Le dying of disease and wounds In for tor the the- lack of ot attention lay helpless on the tho floors rambling hospital buildings dying 1 ir- ir the want of food and proper at at- to their wounds Filth ro- ro and vermin abounded An Engh Eng Eng- gh sh h- h newspaper correspondent wrote ondon asking if there were not who for tor tho sake of i 11 m English fighters would go to tho thi I amen mca and allevIate the suffering of ofie I ie 0 warriors Nightingale was a a. friend of ofte I 1 te IC head of the war department of ot She volunteered to go and WI up thirty women nurses set flet sail Ball for tor 18 r Crimea CONDITIONS thc Khe e found round thousands of wounded r Trig In hospitals with their wounds for and with rats running Ur jr r their helpless bodies She found disobedient and slovenly vitals Inefficient and operations fund nd up with red tape She took tool large larce of thou thousands ands of ot wounded and ill elf soldiers opened up warehouses W w 1 obtained linen for tor the beds and otnes hes for tor the wounded many of or orm gom jm m had not one change since the II sluing sluing- Ung began Thousands of tons supplies of at medicines and hospital I had been shipped to the ther r mea but through the negligence department officers they had been beena t ft a In Jn warehouses while white the few tew J worked the best way they II uld without them MIss Nightingale used her persia persia- nce and authority conferred by their ther the tho Jr ir r department and had them opened gr r the heads of ot officers and pre- pre irod tred decent hospital wards She a II bl big l kitchen itchen within a a. i Sf y days after afler her arrival and was ving the wounded with hot chicken up lUp and other delicacies In the place the soured bread and unfit food tood out to tho the men before her her iming I Ih She h established he laundries and she i it t dirt to flight Out of chaos she ehe I order She and her gell es carried cheer and sunshine to toia tok k ia 10 English lads winning for tor herself herselt lE e name The Angel of the Crimea ER IER NAME SACRED The he name o ot Florence Nightingale camo sacred to th the men who fought taught the Ft he Crimea England was wall elec- elec at what she ehe had accomplished nors norn Were were showered upon her and ores res of ot poems were written about 1 r. r Miss Nightingales Nightingale's accomplish accomplish- became known In all aU the tha civil civil- I ed world and to her liar Is attributed 5 beginning of or the tho Red Cross move- move tnt ent which took tool place some nine ars era later at Geneva Switzerland ter ter a book on tho the need of such a a. afat fat eat at humanitarian organization W was S ritten by Henri Durant an Italian n ho witnessed some of ot the gruesome gruesome- ss SJ of a war between Italy and AusIa Ausla Aus- Aus la Ja In 1869 1859 Tho he ho Society of Public Utility of at Ineva nova became Interested In Jn Durants Durant's Idea Iden and In October 1953 the he Invitation of the Swiss govern- govern ent an International was lied In Geneva to discuss the subject nations cent ent representatives fd td they signed tho the treaty of Geneva day forty throe i governments have rued this treaty which provides for tor ford Id d Cross Cron societies and certain courtes courte- courte is s between such Buch organizations durar durET dur- dur ET g war ar In compliment to Switzerland uniform o m flag consisting of or a n. arad red Mel Mal tese cross on a white background was adopted the flag flog of the Swiss Republic I lic being a a. white cross on a a. re- re red rel l back back- ground I AMERICA SIGNS It was not until 1882 that America signed the Geneva tr treaty aty through tho the efforts of another woman Miss Clara Barton Darton an American nurse who did much to alleviate the suffering of sol sol- dies In the Civil war and who was decorated dec dec- orated by the emperor of pf Germany for tor torI excellent nursing service she rendered during the tho Prussian Franco war of I 1870 and 1871 At Miss Bartons Barton's request tho the duties of or the American association were en enlarged en- en barged to include national and International International international disasters The majority of ot other countries have also enlarged their spheres as did America at that time I Thou Though h remarkable relief relict work was done by the American Red Cross In such disasters as the yellow fever epidemic epidemic epidemic epi epi- demic in Florida the Johnstown and G eston floods and in the Spanish Spanish- American war the tho society did not at attain attain at- at tam tain national scope until 1905 when by act of congress It was reincorporated reorganized and put under government supervision and made mado the official rell relief f of the United States Statu Perhaps tho the greatest work of ot the Red Cross Cross' is the civilian relief reller Since Its organization In 1905 there have ben been more than eighty relief operations following earthquakes volcanic eruptions eruptions fires floods famine mine explosions explosions explosions in this and in foreign countries for tor which disasters the American Red RedCross RedCross Cross has received and expended 10 in cash and donat donated d relief lIef supplies supplies supplies sup sup- plies to the value of not less lees than 5 The compilation of Red Cross data shows that disasters needing tho the help of ot the Red Red RedCross Cross Cross occur on an average of ot every two months The TheRod TheRod Rod Red Cross maintains corps of persons I In rendering such assistance who can bo ho called upon at a a. moments moment's notice JAPANESE PREPARED At the tho outbreak of the world war ar in 1914 the lack of ot preparation and foresight foresight fore tore sight BIght caused terrible suffering Buttering Infection Infection infection tion and preventable disease the history history history his his- tory of or the tho Red lIed Cross sets forth Japan was WIlS the only country whose Red Cross was prepared and Japan Is the only I country which has not been given some I assistance by the American Red fled Cross Among the great nations the American Red Cross has hIlS tho smallest m m ship yet in the s second cond month of the war it sent sixteen hospital units to Austria Hungary Belgium Ium England France Franco and Serbia These units operated operated operated oper oper- military hospitals of over ZOO beds each I Besides sending supplies and hospital hospital hospital hos hos- pital units the American Red Cross working with the Rockefeller foundation foundation 1 tion has conquered a nationwide ty- ty pus plague in Serbia A plague of 01 locusts lo- lo I in Serbia has also received the thc attention of ot the American Red fled Cross l Food clothes and medical supplies have been sent to the Serbian sufferers from tho the locust plague In Egypt It is 15 carIng caring car- car Ing Int for tor the remnant of persecuted Armenians In brief during the first two years of ot the war the American Red Cross gave e I personal service to all the warring countries of or Europe Asia and Africa and also sent cent one and one half million dollars dollars' worth of supplies But there there- are still vast relief relict problems to be met metIn metIn metin In the warring work one ono being the eradication of tuberculosis among amon the 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