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Show WHAT THE AMERICAN RED CROSS IS DO-i DO-i ING $1,800,000 VOH SERBIA Tho American Hod Ciobs has ap-proprated ap-proprated $1,800,000 (or Serbian re- ltet work during tho ensuing six mouths. While part of the work will lie hi the supplying ot food and clothing cloth-ing the most pressing work is that I combating typhus fever, whlcl lias 'feLjyrcaked terrible havoc In that coun- i 1 MOUNTAIN STATES LEADS T1IK NATION The Mountain division Colorado, , New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming stood first in the 'leccnt old clothes drive of the American Red Cross, according ac-cording to figures compllod for tho nation. The drive only realized 54 per cent ot tho old clothes wanted, but tho Mountain division led all by contributing 85 per cent of Its quota. quo-ta. It shipped 5 per cent ot all tho , i Ci'Hthlng contributed although It has MWonly 2 per cent of tho population Ou'urance redeemable eighteen months War Risk insurance policies which have lapsed through non payment of pioiuiums may be redeemed any tlmo within eighteen months, according to a new war department ruling. Payment Pay-ment of tho premiums for the month of discharge and for the current jwaiti will secure the policy, If tho applicant Is still In good health. Kia HOSPITAL POPULATION A recent census at United States general hospital 21, near Denver, by the Tied Cross, shows 2,734 people at the hospital, more than half of whom nre patients. This is only one of five similar hospitals In the Mountain Moun-tain division In which the public, through the Red ross, is providing and all forms of service for the boys. $ 1 lB.ooo for nfav mexico post The government has appropriated $115,000 for heating, lighting, water wa-ter and sowarage systems at Fort Ilayardj'N. M.r1 where the .post has been greatlly augmented through tho big army hospital there. REFUGEES INCREASE TYPHUS DANGER One of the most serious problems faced by the American Red Cross forces in Roumanla Is the care ot hordes of refugees from tho border fighting in the Crimea who are rushing rush-ing Into districts ot Roumanla whero typhus and smallpox are raging. TiUNCirES IiURE THE t KIDDIES TO SCHOOL i Among the many reconstruction pntolems faced by Serbia Is that of getting the children back to school, n suspension ot their education liar-f' liar-f' Ing been forced by hostilities. It Is J sot an easy task to Induce the young- sters to resume their studies but Wuchool luncheons provided by the :L American Red Cross have been an 1 , Important factor in repopulatlng the t 1 class rooms. Gradually this work is being taken over by the Serbian authorities". BASEBALL TOO COMPLICATED Baseball Is too '"complicated" to become the national sport In Serbia report American Red Cross workers who havo sought to Introduce the game In their child welfnro program but they find tho children do like a modified form of "one-'o-cat," INCUBATORS IN NO .MAN'S LAND The fit st chickens hatched In devastated de-vastated Doual since tho war swept over that Fiench town are sticking their fuzzy yellow heads through thn shells In American incubators donated donat-ed to tho town by the American Red Cross nnd the "Incubators nro tho chief point of Interest for tho entile juvenile popuation. LARGE DEPOSITS OF ARMY PAY i t In cooperation with tho American Rankers association and the war department de-partment the Amorlcan Red Cros 1ms established batiks nt the demobilization demob-ilization camps In this country whero men can make deposits to tho banks In their homo towns or whoiever desired. de-sired. Reports c&vprlng operations to July 4, showed n, total of money deposited at theso "banks of $1,132,-,077. $1,132,-,077. Of the 131,681 men demobilized demobil-ized in camps having theso banking agencies, 11,262 made deposits, an average ot $100.52 each. NURSES' CHIEF IS HONORED Miss Clara D. Noyes, acting-director of nurslung of the American Red Cross, has been awarded tho Patriotic Patriot-ic Service medal in recognition of "serylco of high and inestimable value val-ue to her country nnd Its wounded." Miss Noyes had charge ot the assignment assign-ment of twenty thousand nurses who respohded to their country's call, ten thousand of whom nerved with the American Expeditionary forces. PliANS FOR AID OF CHILDREN John W. Studebaker of Des Moines fowa,naHcaf dtrcctorofvltio Junior Red Cross, has gone to Europe to completo plans by which the school children of Amorica through their national children's fun will be ablo to provide relief for suffering chll- m dren In the war swept countries. |
