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Show i RED CROSS VOLUNTEER WORKERS BIG FACTOR Broader Industry in Home Chap-tor Chap-tor and in Field Development of Disaster Service. Volunteer Indii-try In tho American Red Cross is on na upward trend, duo i to the broader demand for assistance In meeting disaster relief requirements. require-ments. Men and women from Red Cross Chapters In the last year exampled by their worl: for disaster victims a greater great-er activity than lu any year idnce the end of the World War. This oorvico was gUon without stint nnrf ,1th the finest of spirit, according accord-ing to Red Cross officials. Volunteer Red Cross workers have served hy tlie thousands with the local Chapters In garment production,-' printing raised-type raised-type reading matter for the blind, In hospital service, as canteen workers and motor corps aids. Nearly all active ac-tive Chapter workers are volunteers. 1 More than 90 per cent of the available avail-able reading material for the blind Is produced by volunteer Red Cress workers. Volunteers produced 175, 4 S 1 garments, 2.057,012 surgical dressings for hospital use, and 6,398 articles for emergency closets maintained by Red Cross Chapters in various communities for disaster and other emergencies. The garment production, large as It was, did not include the thousands of garments made for the Mississippi flood sufferers by volunteers. Another Important volunteer service is the preparation prep-aration and sending of 30,000 Christmas Christ-mas bass to soldiers and bluejackets on duty iu foreign stations. Approximately 250 Chapters participate partici-pate in Motor Corps service, while the growing interest of volunteers In health work constitutes an additional community safeguard in emergencies J when the services of regular nurses j might be overtaxed. Volunteer sewice will be an lmpor- j tant factor in the forthcoming elev- i nth Annual Roll Call, from November 11 to 24, In enrolling the 6,000,000 j membership to be sought. |