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Show 50,000 IN UFE-SAVING SERVICE OF RED GROSS Additional 50,000 Water Safety Experts Probable Gain of Summer Campaign. A boy watched an expert give a class a lesson in the way to revive a person unconscious from water Immersion. Im-mersion. The next day the boy tried it on a bathing companion and saved his life. Such a boy justifies all the effort aud the cost of the Life-Saving Service, American Red Cross officials declare. The Red Cross method or restoring partly drowned persons Is so simple that the continual large sacrifice sacri-fice of life must decrease as an informed in-formed public insists upon general in-struction in-struction in prone pressure practice to induce respiration. The Red Cross Life-Saving Service in every part of the country, summer and winter, is engaged in teaching this method as an integral part of swimming and life-saving. This service ser-vice has grown from a single expert in 1914 to a corps of almost 50,000 active ac-tive life-savers. In this tenth year of the work it is predicted that fully 50,000 more experts will be eligible for membership in the corps. This large accession in a single year is confidently expected as the result of the campaign among 22,000 troops of Boy Scouts under a plan to qualify at least two life-guards in each troop. During the past year 4,746 men, 3,374 women, 9,731 boys and girls successfully suc-cessfully passed the rigid tests of the Red Cross an increase of 5,331 over 1923. Intensive instruction is developing develop-ing hundreds of qualified examiners for the Red Cross Life-Saving Corps, who supplement the teaching staff maintained by the national organization. organiza-tion. " The cause of water safety is therefore penetrating to new sections and eventually will cover all American Ameri-can territory. Recognition of this Red Cross service ser-vice for humanity is growing apace. At the request of the War Department every military training camp had life-saving life-saving instruction last; summer. Municipalities Mu-nicipalities have adopted the Red Cross course, public and private schools are offering it to students, business, civic and athletic organizations organiza-tions are promoting campaigns, and police departments are making it a part of the conditioning process for their recruits. Volunteer life-savers throughout the country, the American Red Cross reports, re-ports, are eagerly advancing the cause of water safety, 388 volunteers receiving receiv-ing medals for giving from 200 to 300 hours' service in two or three years. In addition 36 rescue bars to medals were awarded members of the Red Cross Corps who saved one or more lives during the year. It is for the work and extension of life-saving that continued support through memberships is sought, and the American Red Cross urges all persons per-sons to join or renew membership during the enrollment campaign opening open-ing Armistice Day, November 11. |