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Show I Red Cross Membership Campaign To Start In Ogden Armistice Day "The only person who does not t.e-lieve t.e-lieve in the continuation off the dol-lar dol-lar memberships in the American Red "'ross in the one who does not know what the Red Cross has been asked .io do right here In our United Btat .. well as nbrond during ih past year." said John Edward Carver, president of the Weber county chap-i chap-i yesterday- H ' I .ft nie tell yon whs; heed trier has been for the nd Cross in our i ountry and you will know whj we should ask for the renewals this month of the SOO'i 1ollar inembci-ships inembci-ships in W.eber COOnt) The drive Is to Itart November 11. 'Thirty thousand people in one hnn-dred hnn-dred and sixty-four rims of 73 disasters, residents of these I'nlted Slates all of them :i9ked and received lied Cross aid lasi year. Nine hundred thousand dollars In cash and supplies were distributed; thirty tenri-porary tenri-porary hospitals called into existence thirty odd tnotoi corps organised; seven special relief trains Sent to places of disasters. J what i ion br; "In these 73 disasters including l'9 loinndoos and cyclones, two hurri-I hurri-I canes, two cloud bursts, one hu.il-storm, hu.il-storm, two earthquakes, The landslide, lS flies, one explosion, nine floods, teji shipwrecks, one trmn wreck, four riots, one motor accident and two droughts, S&O persons were killed 1500 hundred weie injured, 18,000 ' approximate!:- i were rendered home-li home-li ss, w hile property valued of $85,- ,000 w as destroyed. "The largest and most destructive disaster of the year was at Corpus Chrlstl, Tex in September, 1919. Ap proximately 4uo wo- killed and 1 made homeless. The Red I i ion director with a staff of 85 as- slstanls administered . fund of $400,- 00. giving aid to 3600 faihlliei four towns and rural districts and suf- ficient supplies to enable it to stand -n Because of tornadoes, the gulf and like divisions were called upon to send emergency relief with trained workers to nearly 8 mm unities. The two droughts In Montana and I North Dakota exacted service from the northern division; shipwrecks proved the readines-i of tli- Atlantic division, w Inlc a flood in 'ev M ' 'when the Rio Grande flooded a wide area around San sfarcial exiled into action the disaster relief department of the mountain dh ision ECMSRGI n I t i "In over 40( chapters, special dls-aster dls-aster preparedness committees have been formed and S.'.iiKn.nnii i e n set aside as an emergency fui:d by the national organization. "The American Red Cross has fln-jtshed fln-jtshed such relief acti itlei abroad could be consistently discontinued and ; In this, and carrying on suh u ;.-ties, ;.-ties, actually ne ded, has expended ' over fifty-one million dollars in foreign for-eign work. t "From the signing of the armistice $H :o January j. 1920, ihere was a gen- ppsj ral consolidation R i ress op- erating departments. tty June operations hud so d thai ppH were confined t.. Poland, S pH .Montenegro, Albania. W..-..I Russia ,. the Baltic. Vienna and Budapest Coii-pH Coii-pH s;.intlnople anu squth Jn (dosing Its relief v. pjjpjj ,ind Belgium, the most estensjve of all pjjpjjj its overseas activities the American pH Red Cross furnished supplies lo pjjpjJJ villages and dlrectl J00 Persons bj giit .,: nom- Inal prices. LLh ,-, ' Durlng the v- i. American t: d JJIJJ t ross distributed Ju.oyu warm pH ments in ,. ,. i, i,,. pH kcts and 20,0 , Th pjjpjj hnd Smyrna ami 50.000 garincrie n pH .the Greek colonies in A:;: Minor 'The work In Ruma f,-pjpjfl f,-pjpjfl J'ear consisted in operating st hos- ppj pltals. totalling HO bods, and in fur- nishlng supplies to 2?.', olhei JIJB Pltals; m treating over 6000 patients! pjlH at dispensaries, m conducting 3 Jpa soup kitchens where :ioarl 100,000'! pjpj were fed. In dry food distribution to' ovei 170,000 and In distributing mis-cellaneousi mis-cellaneousi articles to half a, million. pH From .Much 3, 1919 the Amorl-' 85 Red i ' - i as isi led , LH rv!"rn ,Jls,rl,t " Poland where the sB : hti!?K 1,1 Prog;-esa. in establish-! m,A58, hJpi,als "' - ap.ict. ,Jf pH ...12., beds, it aided 30 established! pjfJH dispensaries and helped establish 82 pjpfl mliers. li fuinisne,! si.ppii,, u, pjBBB sanitary a.id bath trains li estab-i pH iished and maintained three medical pjpj trainiiiK Institutions with i capaclti of 1075 bed,. rt ald 80, JJJgJJ iH S5l?n i,n'1 Kavc eni-ai relief to LLi towJ1' wlth a p';p"iatlon of mors J than iOO.OOQ. In Vienna, the American Red BB Cross unit, which began work .lanu- lary 1, 1?20. had DP to June 30. aided 1S hospitals with a :upnclt i '.'3. 'mo 'beds distributed more- than 7tl u;u articles of mr-ilicine and clothing. 56,- ' 000 pounds of milk, meal and COpOS nd had helped to care for 40,000 undei -nourished children. In Siberia, tli task since June, 1 1 1 has been comparatively iigiu. the chief work has been arid continues to be educational along sanitary lines M .NTI1V DESTITUTE. W hen the American Red Cross entered en-tered Albania In February, 1919, it found that the country was destitute of hospitals, orphanages r -t virtually every sort of relief institution 'Phe commission lmmediatel began the creation of such Institutions so that now I hers are hospitals si nianj centers, cen-ters, five medical dispensaries, twn 'mobile ami two stationary dental y-iensarir-s and numerous infant weir ; fare and milk stations. In Monte- iieKi'n the same problem prevailed as I in Albania onl the child problem was greater, There wn- 30.000 or- (bans In Montenegro loday Imn. Cored for by agencies whh ii .ire drww-j iug their sUppllss largeT. from the i Red Cross. i "Relief work in Constantinople dls-jtrici dls-jtrici has been confined t the Oare, i feeding, clothing and medical trtat-1 I ment to Russian ami otnsi refiigeei I w ho poured through the BosDhprut I last winter on theii WS) from tin- threatened ports. Che Red Cross I instrumental in providjhg transporLa-, transporLa-, tion for hundreds to various peaces I of safety in Constantinople there iin three large Red fross warehouses with tu tmal Capacity of 18.0"0 iiui In K -ban the Red Cross unit distributed 1 ".00 tons, of iiifdlcrtl S'.ppli -. fre.d and nothing, with ais6 a complete equipment Coi a "u-bed hospital. When the Red Cross entered count tries it laid the foundation for local 1 self help Its w o: k :il 11 f oe s v. i s educational, and it left, in ;). fields from whhh it hfs withdrawn, J a body of trained workers from among the people themselves, j-'ho earn carrj on the activities as it has been h Si -luted and supported." |