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Show AMERICANS ABROAD IN RED GROSS WORK United States Citizens Far Away Enthusiastic Members of the "Fourteenth" Division. Among the most enthusiastic and energetic members of the American Red Cross are those citizens of the United States who live outside the continental boundaries of their country sons and daughters of the Stars and Stripes residing at the far corners of the earth. These people compose the Insular and Foreign Division of the parent organization, or-ganization, generally known as the "Fourteenth" Division, which has jurisdiction of all territory outside the country proper; that Is, Alaska. Porto Rico, Hawaii, Virgin Islands, the Philippines, Guam, and even the Island Is-land of Tap, which came under oar' flag as a result of the world war. For the year 1020 this division reported 80,808 paid np members. The main object of this division Is to give our citizens everywhere the opportunity op-portunity to participate in the work of the organization which stands for the best national Ideals. Americans In far places intensely loyal and patriotic, pa-triotic, treasure their membership in the Red Cross as tbe outward expression ex-pression of their citizenship. It Is another an-other tie to the homeland and to each other. There are chapters of this division In Argentine, Bolivia, Brazil, Canal zone, Chile, China, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, England, France, Guam, Guatemala, Haiti, Hawaii, Honduras, Japan, Manchuria, Netherlands, Nicaragua, Nica-ragua, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Porto Rleo, Siberia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Syria. Turkey, Uruguay, Venezuela and Virgin Islands. During the war these scattered members of the Red Cross contributed contrib-uted millions In money, and millions of dollars' worth of necessary articles for tbe men In service, and sent many doctors and nurses to France. At the same time they carried on an excellent excel-lent Home Service In their respective communities for the families of those who had gone to war, and In some regions re-gions gave large sums of money and Immeasurable personal service to the relief of disaster and disease victims. The division is now establishing service clubs In foreign ports for the benefit of sailors In the American Merchant Mer-chant Marine, making plans to aid Americans In trouble In foreign lands and completing arrangements for giving giv-ing Immediate adequate relief in case of disaster. It is tbe Fourteenth Division's part in the great Peace Time program of the American Red Crosi. j |