Show things I 1 never anever knew til now about the red cross back bach la in 1923 japan suffered thi ihorst disaster in its history nex I 1 ito to the orie one they asked for on de 1 cember 7 an earth earthquake devastated an area of fifty squar miles taking a toll of more thai lives ives the city of yoko hama was wai totally destroyed destroy desti oyed edi by fire as was most of tokyo dent coolledge Coo lilge promptly called on thi american peopled people to come to japans aid with five million dollars thi th citizens of this country trample tram over each other rushing tc help th japs and the sum was subscribe in oi a bereten mere mer eten ten days but bt aberici stop there the dollars kep pouring in n until the red cross ha almost twelve million dollars fol foi japan when that nation needed I 1 friend end this however is th bitter tt ao 10 irony nyi the japs we were soap P that they set aside ehret million dollars of the american re cross relief funds to build a me nordal fraternity hospital fl in n thi th earthquake area areas as a permanent per manen testimonial of japans gratitude t ti the tha united states I 1 red cross nurses attached to thi th U S P army are officers with th rank of second lieutenant and vates are strictly prohibited b army regulations from trying tc t date them or make passes posse 8 at them 1 n tho the navy the nurses art ar ensigns n the army re require a its red cross nurses to carry hel mets and gas masks just like th soldiers end no wonder in the las war american nurses lost thell lives ln in the service of their country contributors to the red crost haye the best guarantee in th 11 r world that there wont be any hoku bokus with the funds because iti it f r books are audited annually by th ward war department and reported t congress the red cross op to crating expenses are the lowest ol 01 if 1 any organization in the country less lesa than four per cent of th the e bonev collected you can check chec kIt it in ana an ea t s public library in the congressional Congress iona record the women who are arc members ol 01 0 the red cross motor corps must musi furnish their own automobiles and gasoline as aa well as foot their owr parking bills during the currena currell emergency required tc se serve one shift of eight hours houis each week and be on call twenty tout hours a day the girls take a s six week training 9 course an and d prie one thing taught Is how to repair it a car themselves airedale terriers play an imbor taut tant part in the work of the red jac ja cross in wartime the dogs art are I 1 sent cent out on the battlefields battlefield sto to locate ig wounded men they carry contain era of water and after letting the th kc quench his thirst they race back to the stretcher bearers and lead thern them to the injured abin man in england the red cross dogs are furnished with gas gaa masks the first dist war in which the american red cross took part was the spanish american fracas i clare clara barton founder of the american branch had her hospital next tc major leonard woods tent at sibo ney one day a fellow officer ol 01 major woods stamped into her hos pital with a sack in his hand 1 I have some sick gic kinen men in my regi ment he bellowed and they annl wan whatever delicacies you have here ill 1111 pay for them out of my own pocket will you sell them to mea me 1 not for a million dollars do clara replied 1 I NEED th that a t protested the officer chov ing out ith his law jaw I 1 think a lot ol of my men im proud of them 11 were ere proud of them thern too loo retorted clara but we catt cant sell ho hos 9 pital delicacies we give them 1 f chuckling the officer filled his sack and stamped out which is how col teddy roosevelt became a red cross fan A red cross can be displayed only by the red lied cross society accord aing 1 ing to an act of congress with the exception of army navy and marine corps medical authorities i anyone else who uses a red cross la Is liable hable to a fine and a year in jail i there are a million and a hall red cross volunteers in the united 1 states volunteers receive no pay and must buy their own uniforms j more they must serve hours before permitted to put on their uniforms on the bulletin board of the red cross 7 in L A is this reminder 4 dont forget foigel that thumbs up c can an be alone jone with one hand while tho the other hand digs buy defense bonds war prisoners cfall 0 all nations are looked after and protected by the international red cross which sets minimum standards of treat treatment meril find makes inspections of prison camps the red cross handles rill all communications between prisoners and their families every nation at war sends the names and addresses of their prisoners to the international red cross headquarters I ere in geneva switzerland where an index ot information about pris boners is kept for the benefit of rela tives |