| Show WASHINGTON 2 h LE i or UP iii BOSS IM J I TELLS OV 01 jilt IllS wom Note This Note This Is the thelast thelast last of oC a series of ot three ar ar- articles articles ar- ar tides telling how the th Amer Anier- American AmerIan lean Ian Red lied Cross functions in time of ot public po need nee 1 liv ISY nOEY nO EY XEA NEA Set lc c Writer WASHINGTON w. May 1 a IS I 1 In S.-In In Incomplete complete charge chargo of or relief chief In the Mississippi valley nile Is Henry M M. MBaker 1 Baker Daker national director of at ills dis- is- is aster ister relief for the American Red fled Cross At A relief TelI headquarters hea In Mem Mern- plus Baker Raker Is directing movement of ot flood refugees to safe terri tern tory ton housing them In tent lent cities and seeing that they the receive food tood clothing and an 1 medical care This Is Is by b far fa Ca the biggest Job Baker Daker or or the th Red Cross ever tackled but linker Baker hiss has had ha 1 more s experience at this sort ort ot of f thing than han any other American Sines Sine's he bo 10 Joined d the Red fled Cross force Corce he le helas has las personally directed relief reller op op- operations operations op- op operations In bit more than 14 0 strick- strick stricken en communities communities' and administered total relief funds of or lie Ho Io has held hl 1 his hl present p Job ob since 1922 Ho ilo was educated in Aus- Aus Australia ralla worked his liis way through a university and did post-graduate post work in social economy at the University of at Missouri Misouri I and the St. St Louis School of or Social Economy Econom entering Pod lied Cross work tork ork In the tho theold theold old southwestern southwestern division In 1919 lie He Ic Is 44 H years ears old The annual Mississippi floods are the big river nit problem of ot the United States Baker remarked In n private ate conversation shortly be before be- be befOre fore this years year's floods began benn With knowledge of or this fact and through operation co cd with the government o and the the- weather bu bu- bureau bureau bu- bu bureau reau wo we are arc able to save sa any number of or lives lI by by- warning pep peo people peppie pIe in sections about to to be flood flood- ed Cd co now hOW w. n I GS ro roo OUT Weather bureaus bUrNIUS all nil along the river telephone to the St. St Louis bureau hureau as the river rises s each pach day The St. St Louts Louis bureau Is U Uthen able to draw raw Its deductions We 0 know that a normal rise ot or three feet Ceet In 24 21 t at Cairo III IlL will trill will willm moan nuan m an so IW many many acres Flooded along the lower sippi The RedCross Cross then wires the lh danger zones so so that people can get out of or the bottom Ian lands We Weare Weare are ne able ablo to give I hours' hours notice on possible po floods This system of ot co operation o co-o has been working for Cor five e years Soon after Baker spoke pOke the Ut Red ned Cross was wali doing this very vel same thing and preparing to cope with Its major peacetime JE Job Baker told tol of or levees leveO-II SO go feet high at Nest cW Orleans built in five tiers erl Thousands of ot persons lie he said lived lIv between T the tiers where the land Is very ver fertile be because be- be because because cause of or river rj silt slit Red fled 1 Cross Cro s officials watch the i newspapers nc for storm news stews he j I I explained Suppose se they y th y get et word that a hurricane Is coming up from Crom the tho sea to hit the Texas coast coU t tomorrow afternoon Immediately y It 11 vires Its chapters to mobilize o canteens doctors nurses I rs and em varlo is facilities In Iii 1921 word of or a possible hurricane was flashed Clashed to Xo the Tex Tex- Texas Texas' Texas as as' coast The world mobilize was wired to Red fie Cross Crol S In each ch town loan and to the com cont- commander comman mander man of ot the Eighth Eighths army corps area ar arat at San Antonio Supplies including rolling rOiling kitchens and first aid materials were prepared for removal to storm sterns areas areal within a mile radius The hurricane failed to arrive But lInt a flood floo struck San Sast Antonio next day lIay and nn the preparations for Cor hurricane aid were used U for flood Cloo relief The flood WIt was due to an nn npr lel cloudburst RO fiO to to- miles away which caused a wall at of water to sweep over or o r the town I BUREAU HELlS The weather man can cart warn of or hurricanes tidal waves a floods and pestilences There is 1 no means yet ct to predict earthquakes but buto wo o can chart earthquake zones and discover the tho first rumblings which Indicate approaching dis Tornadoes arc alno also un unpredictable un- un unpredictable predictable but bt one town can tele lOb telephone phone another If It Red Cross chapter A spots an n Approaching column oft off going in i the tho direction of or the thu town to r. r next It can an notify chapter B n In the path of or the tornado Chapter B likewise notifies chapter C and the word goes on down the line so Ito people can take to their cel cel- lars is ra raIf If JC we had hail been prepared as IlS we weare weI ore are I re now no the toll of or lives ilses and property loss taken by the Johns Johns- Johnstown Johnstown town flood and the Galveston hur hur- hurricane hurrIcane could have e been cut at least 50 5 per cent The sea wall built In Johnstown after the flood bias withstood every ery onslaught since then The same Is true of or orthe the Pueblo flood of or 1921 which cost lives in prop prop- property property property erty damage e. In relief reller funds and homes of ot hundreds of oC families Today roday It is physically Impossible for Cor l 1 i blo bio to have a flood and pro pertly alucs alues there have Jumped Immensely I L look for Cor the tho day when we e will have havea a complete International system of ot of operation co that will help reduce red re the disaster hazard In n countries where the Red lied Cross operates ori rats |
