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Show i WHAT RED CROSS HAS DONE FOR HOMANITjNWJAT I j Monday commences the Red Cross jj Christmas roll call. Every citizen or I I America will be expected to enroll as i 1 a member of the American Red Cross i I at one dollar a year. This is the only 1 money demand that the Red Cross will I make" this coming year. Owing to the I "flu" conditions, everyone will have H J to help to their utmost. Booths will I I bo in the stores and other canvass U ; methods will be used all over town. t What has been done by the Red 1 Cross members, and how has the war Ijfund money been spent? It is esti-I esti-I mated that about 8,000,000 women are I . engaged in the production of relief I supplies through the chapters. For a the period up to July 1, 1918, Amer-H Amer-H I lean Red Cross chapters, through their y workrooms, have produced: j I 1,464,000 refugee garments. I I 22,225,000 hospital garments. I 14,089.000 knitted garments. a 253,196.000 surgical dressings. 1 A total of 291.2S2.838 articles of an I estimated aggregate value of at least 1 ?50,000,000. J In addition to production the Amer-m Amer-m ican Red Cross increased its stores by nnrrlinsp. From .Tanuarv tn Sentem- ber, 1918, it supplied to men in camps: 2.3S3.832 sweaters. 1,095,119 pairs of wristlets. 797,040 mufflers. 701,674 helmets. 2,292,332 pairs of socks. 506,383 comfort kits. In addition the Red Cross has been able to help the war department in emergency calls with large, quotas of heavy woolen underwear, pajamas, and drugs. It has supplied 100,000 blank-els blank-els during the influenza epidemic, as well as thousands of facemasks. It has built 65 Red Cross convalescent convales-cent houses and 55 nurses' recreation houses at camps. It has supplied 10.000 convalescent robes for use outdoors, in the tuberculosis tubercu-losis camps. It is about to supply a large number of sleveless vests made of canton flannel, flan-nel, paper and wool, as substitute for sweaters, which arc limited on account of a shortage of yarn. There are approximately 70,000 women wo-men In canteen work in this country. These serve our soldiers at 681 canteens can-teens at all hours of the day and night During the year 1918. 5,000 sick were aided or removed from trains and taken to hospitals; 3,000,000 postal cards distributed. Home Service More than 350,000 families of American Amer-ican soldiers and sailors have been relieved re-lieved of family worries, money troubles, trou-bles, legal difficulties, or depressing loneliness, by the Home Service of the Red Cross since April, 1917 . There are over 50,000 men and wo- mom immdiirossi men serving on 10,000 Home Service committees throughout the country. More than 1.000,000 people have been helped by these local committees commit-tees since the war begun. Money has boon the least of the services given, yet, by January 1, 1919, the Red Cross will have spent in Home Service work a total of ?6.000,000 and will then be carrying a burden of nearly $1, 000,000 a month. From home service workers with the army abroad, 20 or more inquiries after af-ter the welfare of soldiers' families reach Washington every day by cable and 100 more come in the daily niail to national headquarters. If conditions are such that a satisfactory answer cannot be sent, the Red Cross home service committee makes them as noar right as possible, and then sends its reassurance of further help and watchfulness. Nursing Service When war broke out April 6. 1917, S.015 nurses were enrolled. On September Sep-tember 26, 191S, 28,000 nurses .were enrolled. Of these half are assigned to service in Europe and half here. By January 1, 1919. 25,000 in all will be wanted for the army and federal fed-eral public health service, and the Red Cross will need 2,000. In addition to this 25,000 more nurses nurs-es will bo wanted by July 1, 1919. The assignment of ihdse now on active ac-tive duty is Army nursing corps 14,368 Navy nursing corps 703 Federal public health service.. 24S American Red Cross direct ... 548' Awaiting orders for army 2,178 ; Awaiting orders for navy 276 j |