The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, October 30, 1926, Page 34

PAGE THIRTY-FOUR SSIES RED CROSS INNOCULATION STATION AT MIAMI WHERE HUNDREDS RECEIVED PROTECTION AGAINST TYPHOID FEVER Richest Country in the World Has its’ Quota of Suffering: Red Cross Active in Relief Work HE richest nation in the world—that is the accepied picture of the United States, a land where every man owns an automobile. But a study of the work of the American Red Cross, the foremost. agency of relief in the country, gives a different conception of the field for human service Within the borders of this pros- perous land. Norman B. Harris, Chairman of the Red Cross Committee of the National Fraternal Congress, before the last session of that body, cited au thentic statistical data showing that 3,000,000 people in the United States are sick at all times; that 1,250,000 people died last year in this country from sickness; while 187,000 chil- dren died under one year of age; that all told, the nation- al economic loss from sick- ness and death in 1924 prob ably reached five billion dol- lars. By other sources, {t has been estimated that 75 per cent of the nation’s school children are suffering from physical defects which in gen- eral are serious “enough. to retard both their physical de- velopment and their progress in school. Figures such as these indi- cate that there {3 need for something to be done. The Public Health Service esti- mates that it would require 000,000 to provide for adequate rural health service throughout the United States but that this expendi- ture would save a billion dollars annually, based on cost of prevent- able illness, loss of earnings, and value of human life The RED CROSS es WELL as TOWN. derstanding of the relation of food to health, the Red Cross developed Hits Nutrition Service, which the past year alone instructed 4,000 jadults and 114,000 children in iis | subject. Helps War-Disabled in danarioan: Hed Cross canbe Practical and invaluable as are | utes towards meeting this vital need | SUCH services to the country, the by maintaining throughout the |PFedominating devand for Red % yikes - (Cross ministra:ien tie past year country, s 01 han 835 idles tl toe has come from the disabled vet- Red Cross Public Health Nurses. Stationed in communities all over the country they care for the sick, assist in disease prevention, and teach adults and children alike the fundamentals of health. Periodic inspections of school ch en by these nurses reduce the danger of epidemics, and detect physical ¢e- | fects in children which, with! Prompt treatment, often prevent more serious ailme t these nurses made erans, their families, and those still serving their-country, Im the year; trom July, 1925, to June, 1926, the | fted Cross served an average of 83,-; 000 disabled veterans and. their families every month, while main- tainiag contact with the 242,000 | men still in active service. | Why this major need of Red| Cross service should contique .in such .a quarter eight years “after | the Armistice, is due to a number | Mon visits to homes during the last |Of Batural factors. Among them 4s year, in carrying out their miasion |‘#¢ fact that the further war. re- | 7 | cedes, le ore dl H of health. Among other services, |Cedes, the more difficult it fs: to they instructed ‘approximately (5, | CAST out such duties, owing to the | 000 women and girls in home b dispersion of the veterans over. the | giene and other subjects affecting country, with resulting obstacles to health in the home. To maintain |@stablishing necessary and just! “ v claims to Government benefits, ac- this service, the National Head- |°'4! | Quarters of the American Red |4¥itement of family responsibilities | Cross and iocal Chapters together |2 the part of the veterans, and expended a total of $971,000 on Pub- | Other changes in their situation due lic. Health nursing, and a total of |? Passage of time. _ | $142,000 on Home Hygiene and) AtyP case encointered in Red Care of the Sick services, from July Cross service the past. yeary Was 1, 1925, to June 30, this year. The that of a dying, veteran whose value in improved health, and pre- | 84lly due claims of certain benefits | ventable suffering to the communi-/f0r his family depended on gf-| ties thus served, can readily be esti-|@avits of a physician on the other: mated. side of ihe continent. To procure . this. necessary document im time. Nurses Prove Vatue it’ was necessary for an aviator to Besides the continuing task of|win a cross-continent raée with | fighting disease and developing death, then for « Red’ Cross répre- | public health, the Red Cross meets | sentative in that part of the coun- the Mability to sudden eiiergency | try to picke together mitite duty by maintaining an enrolled | before the physician could nursing reserve of 42,876 Red Cross|the case and supply the needed pa- nurses, ghee ,be called on for| per, which was then rushed back to service in the disasters. which 20) the veteraw by air mail in time to suddenly sttike the country, while | establish his ripe properly. acling as a reserve for the Army] May opportunities for Red Croas’ Nurse Corps, the Navy and U. S.|service arise through the surpris- Public Health Servicc. During the/ing number of otherwise ‘well: hours following tho explosion. of |{nformed then and women, many the Navy Arsenal near Dover, N. \them dependents of, deceased. vel J.,/last July, a ‘detachment, of Red | erans,,.who. are: suffering in-igno-. Cross nurses hurriedly assembled,|rance of the compensatory provi- establistied an emergency hospital | sions which the Government ha! in- which 86 injured received treat-|enacted for them. Especfally ap- ment after heing brought from the|pealing are cases of widowed and gone. é Aeprodent mothers, sons given to ‘ . fear a that there is a/the country, unknowing that they isingly © percentuge’ of | were entitled to Government. ben-. ee el children, one which Poe best fae least, re- even in the United | lieve-their burdens. Red:Gross States, furnishes the Red Cross an- | hée-helped such cases, and not i Fi IS KNOWN in the retamlees 7 those entitled to and in need of} such helt. { Vets Service Ch) | Judged from scope Bf work in-| volved, and size of appropriation: the’ Red Cross work for disabled and other service men and wonten, | and their dependents easily over-' shadows its other. responsibilitics. | In the past year expenditures under | this head approximated a total of | | $4,020,000. Of this amount, National | Headquarters appropriated $1,637,- 000 for'disabled veterans alone, and $310,000 for men in active service, | while local Red Cross’ Chapters ex- | pended $2,037,000 for both classes. A map: which. hangs in. the Na- tional Heatquarters builaing in| Washington furnisnes a. clue to what is undoubtedly the most spec- other opportunity for a contribu-|such dependents, but the veterans THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE ield or a a a | ARED CROSS ieee TEACHING HOME HYGIENE end ARE of the tistic situation of its kind. case not only was National I quarters well represented, but’ tie locgl Red Cross Chapters in the affected area demonstrated tic preparedness for u pected de- mands, and their ability ta cope with emergency. In this operation the Red Cross forces treated 86 jured, provided emergency feeding jfor upwards of 800 refiigees, pro- vided shelter; and at the conclu- {sion of the danger period, under- }took permanent rehabilitation for ;more than 455 people in need of such assistance as a resylt of the destruction. a This disaster emphasized the usefulness of the volunteer serv- ices which are an important phase of many Red Cross activities. Among such services are the units of the Red Cross Motor Corps. In the Jersey explosion, the Moto! Corps groups from Trenton. New- jark, ‘Madison, and other Chapters jin’ the territory near the scene of the catastrophe, performed valua- |ble service. Sweater§ knitted by volunteers were sent in quantitics for the troops called out for emergency duty in the zone, to sup- the year which ended in June, 392. ploment their light sunimer uni- The munitions explosion in Jersey | forms against the ,suddenly cold Bave the organization a character- | weather. tie WELL with RED CROSS FIRST AID facular of all Red Cross duties— that of relief in disaster. This map, by means of symbols, shows the location and nature gf every disaster to strike the country in the past year, in which the Red Cross served. The frequency of these symbols in the country’s ont- lines, and the manner in which they are scattered over the map, indicate the basis of the Red Cross problem to be prepared at any time, and for any place, because disaster may happen anywhere, and it seldom warns of its coming. Meets Disaster Needs The Red Cross ved the coun- try in approximately 55.disasters in In this ; SIckK 3 these services volunteer rained by the Red Cross gave peuto of m than 190,060 hours of service at resorts d other swimming places in the past year Many Volunteers Gne of important of all volunteer is that of tran- scribing Braille-typed reaaing ma- terial for the blind. More than 60 per centapf all Braille transcribing in the United States is done by Red Cross volunteer workers. _ In ‘the i past year volunteers in Red Cro: Chapters completed 1,333 volumes comprising 15¢,599 page’ of such matter. t Other services of Red €ross vol- includé the Canteen Corjs, ments and istance, work, and , unteer production of hospit ‘surgical dressings, sta [heme service, health other dutios contributing to coms; munity well-being. | ‘phe intensity of American) life thas resulted in a demand for one | Red Cross function strongly remi- niscent of the war origin of the organization—first aid instruction. .| The automobile in city streets, the accidents on the highway, thena- tion's industrial life, all are respon- sibfe fdr an accident rate which would be even) more deadly wore it not for Red Cross first afd in- struction. Accordingly one of the i strongest servigés of the Red Cross jis that branch which goes through: ‘ont te country, training. thousands annually, to combat accident with | prompt treatment. As an instance (of this work among tlié nation’s ‘industries alone, a staf of Red | Cross, instructors, utilizing - thelr famous rallroad car, in six days last summer taught more than 3,000 railroad shopmen first aid for levery kind of accident. -The car jtraveled over 400 miles of the | Union Pacific railroad during this time, stopping ‘at strategic points for instruction purposes. From January 1 to August 1, the “instructor's. aboard’ ‘ihis car taught first aid to\a total of 59,77 persons, while 19,000 persons throughout The, country. received cortifieates af qualified first aid ex- Despite such. varied demands tn’ their’ owit, country, Americans: still must observe ain obligation ‘to the rost of the worltt, afd this they do ‘|through the mediuni' of thelr Red | | Crdss organization. the. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 39, f 926 UNLOADING RED oss UPPLIES et NEW JERSEY MUNITIONS EXPLOSION SITE. important member of the League of Red Cross Sotleties composed of | the Red Cross organizations of the world, and promotes the progress of [wartd wide Red Cross service, In j --cognition of a typical American Red Cross relief service abroad in the name of the United States, Helgian Red Cross presented merican organization with a | beautiful silver medal, with an ex- | pression of Belgian, gratitude tor ;the American assi8tance during | foods In that country this year. | Another flood’ in Mexico early ithe past*year took approximately 1,000 Tives, and the suffering on that casion: at once awoke American alhy expressed through our al Cross organization, together with very practical assistance to the Mexican authorities in coping with the destruction. A flood in the Netherlands dui the same period next claithed: American as- sistance, which, as usual, was | despatched through the Red Cross. ‘These are merely representative: of Ameriemt sérvice abroad, through the recognized rellef agency of the United States. Disasters within dur Insular ter- ritories, especially in the Philip- nines, are cared for by the Insular Chapters, the Philippines possess- ing 4 noteworthy organization ~ which functions. ona large. scale. Aside: from the work of this fine Chapter inthe occasional cataw ‘trophes which strike the islands, that group maintains 61 Public Mealth nurses for fighting disease and carrying out generally the mis- sion performed by such nursés ‘in , the continental United’ States. The Junior Red Cress Closely; allied with the foreign work of the Red Cress, and-playing a major rele in dey: ig Ameri. can contacts 2round the werl4, are | more than 6,000,000 American mom- jbers of the Junior’ Red Cross, an ;organization sponsored by the {American Red Cross proper, and | Which has_represeutative groups in {nearly every country of the world, | The work of these young people jhas’ been hailed througbout the world as one of the most promising movements towards crcatual eqm- ‘plcte understanding between na- | tions, ever inaugurated. s | The history of Red Cross oper-. ;| jations in the United States alom iduring the past year, tlds. detiof- ewe that even a rich, country {lke the United States need#a min- istering hand ready dt ali’ tlmes, and that when its own borders are tree of trouble, those-of another na- tion may claim our'sympathy. ‘The size of the pabt year's efforts may be pictured finanelally by the fact that the Atierical Red’ Cross et. pénded' a total of pig tea! in the year clostig June 30, 1926, of wiileh amount,’.the “Jargest single ttem | Went: for assistance to disabled vet- erans and’ other gervice tei oF | Higley famittes, , ‘ | While the’ Red Cross ts the of. jclaily designated agency of rollet for the Americin’ ple, it of j Course. derives.no sup) 8 vernment, but its: ie Koma ee poss! epSroly” throtigh er: cohgh pg bete — does, through. me-xtotinip Is er tended from November 11th’to 25th | +f |