Cottonwood Chronicle Newspaper, November 19, 1920, Page 2

j RED CROSS CHEER IN SOLDIERS’ HOSPITALS Cretonne Curtains, Pianos and Phonographs Remarked By Writer. | By J. F. LANDER “As dreary as a hospital.” It’s an often-heard statement, orig- inating probably with someone whose father or mother or baby had lain in a hospital for days—someone whose experience had stamped on his mind forever a picture of white, plain bed; white, plain room; white, silent corri- dors deserted by all but white-clad, silent nurses. There are many such. Hospitals now are being established | by the score, institutions of the Unt- ted States public health service which | ure to care for the former service men who need medical or surgical atten- of the patients will make tion Sc short stays. Some will be there years. Many are tuberculosis wreck- ed, with none too much joy in life ahead at best The public health service has a full- sized task on its hands in actual medi- cal and surgical work. There must be something more if these institutions— some of them here in the Northwest, at Tacoma, Port Townsend-~ different from the hospitals too many of us have known. The Red Cross is that something more. | learned that when I went out | to the old Cushman Indian school, now au new public health service hospital. The buildings were old and alteration | Boise work had progressed just far enough to pert of the reception of forty-odd | patients who couldn't be crowded into | the older institutions; paint was lack ing everywhere It looked dreary | enough to be a hospital Then | found the Red Cross build- ing, headquarters for the social service workers assigned to the institution. | I found the recreation hall—cretonne- curtained, equipped with piano, phono- graphs, books, and furniture which wasn't white and square. I found it filled with “walking cases” listening | to Ted Williams’ Jazz Band and Al Jolson. I went with the Red Cross workers to boys who two years ago were fight- ing men but who now spend day and night in bed. They were not nurses’ visits; they were the talks of friends. I saw the auditorium; the motion pic- ture machine from the national Red Cross; books, music, nice things to | eat, magazines, tobacco, from the local chapter of the organization. I saw a strange thing—hospital patients who all were happy. After all, they really don’t need to be “as dreary as a hospital.” Measuring the Baby Red Cross Aids Mothers in Directing Proper Care and Attention for Chil- dren. RED CROSS RUSHES AID IN EXPLOSION ON WALL STREET According to the superintendents of the Broad Street and Volunteer hospi- tals of New York, the work of the Red Cross after the r nt Wall street ex plosion proved almost invaldable. The explosion happened at noon on Ser tember 16. Ked Cross ambulance units with those of downtown hospi- tals and the police department, were on the scene in time for first aid work. But the principal activity of the Red Cross was to assist the hospi. tals to which the injured were taken. Before the afternoon had passed 92 nurses had gone to aid the regular forces at the Broad street and Volun teer hospitals. Eighteen Red Cross field directors assisted in hospitals and in compiling and furnishing in- formation concerning dead and injur- ed. Large quantities of hospital sup plies and apparatus were furnished, as well as food. Three ambulances and two trucks were on duty, and through the Red Cross social service the matter of getting in touch with the families of victims was competently handled. The Red Cross Remembers. Ever since demobilization the Red Cross has kept in constant touch with the families of 800,000 soldiers and sai! ors and marines. This service hes embraced almost everything from sup plying first aid to seeing a man through to a better job than he ever had before. When Disaster Comes. Last year in the United States, the | Red Cross aided more than 30,000 victims of food, fire, tornado or oteer | unavoidable disaster in 160 stricken communities. _——— | country’s population may, | of course, PUBLIC OPPOSES GOV'T OPERATION Canvass of 5,154 Editors Shows 4,466 Communities Against Socialistic Experiment. — OPPOSITION GROWING Elghty-seven Per Cent tn 1920 as Against 83 Per Cent In 1919 Think Public Is Opposed to Radicalism. The American public ts more tn- tensely opposed to Government opera: tion than it was a year ago, according to the newspaper editors of the coun- try. Out of 5,154 editors replying to f@ questionnaire sent out by the Press Service Company of New York, 4,466, or 86 per cent, gave It as their Judg- ment that the people of their commu. nities were overwhelmingly against the Government competing ln business with its own citizens. In 1919 the Press Service Company conducted a similar canvass of editors on the government operation of rall ads. That questionnaire showed thar per cent of the editors considered their communities against Govern ment operation of public utilities, Apparently, then, if editors estimate public opinion accurately, that opin fon tp @ year, considered by commu nities, has swung 8 per cent farther away from socialistic experiments, Eleven Million Circulation, The combined circulation of the pa pers whose editors replied ts 11,428,- 817, which means, according to the usual estimated ratio between circula- tlon and readers, a constituency of at least 44,000,000. And this constituen cy la pretty evenly scattered through out the country, no considerable sec- tion of any state being unrepresented | The estimate of opinion based on this thoroughly diffused 44 per cent of the therefore, be considered a fair representation of the people as a whole, . Another feature of the result ts Its evident lack of partisan bias. The major political affillations of the pa- pers represented are fairly evenly di- vided, being 1,857 Republican and 1,850 Democratic, There ere also 1,485 independent and 462 miscellaneous, including labor organs, ete, How little the results are affected by the politics of the papers is shown ip an analysis by sections. In the Southern section, for instance, where replies came from 65 Republican pa- pers and 389 Democratic, the per- centage against Government operation was 88; in the Great Lake section, with conditions reversed, 478 Repub- | Mean and 155 Democratic, the oppo- sition was 87 per cent. Replies from the West, Middle West and Southwest show that it ts a mis- take to consider those sections vastly more favorable to radical Government | experiments than the East. The rad- leals can get little comfort out of the 89 per cent of thumbs down—2 per cent above the average—in the South west, including Arkansas, Loulsiana, Missourl, Kansas, Oklahoma and Tex- as, Texas, once suppesed to be much given to Government regulation ex- periments, returned 92 per cent of un- favorable replies. Out of the 244 edi- tors replying from that state only three edited Republican papers. The 82 per cent opposition of the North- west, including Iowa, Minnesota, Mon- tana, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota and Wyoming, end the 83 per cent veto of the Far West group, In- cluding Arizona, California, Idaho, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Colo- rado, Utah and Washington, are sig- nificant of the prevailing conservative sentiment on this question even in the more radical sections. Judgment Apparently Unbiased. The questionnaire closes with a re- quest for the editor's personal opin- fon on certain concrete cases as fol- lows: “Do you personally belleve that the Federal Government should own and operate competitive Industries to pro- vide: (a) Fertilizer? (b) Clothing? (c) Automobiles? (d) Farm imple ments? (e) Foodstuffs? Substantially all the editors who gave estimates of their readers’ opin- ions also expressed thelr own by re- plying to this last question, Proof of OVER HALF OF YOUR CROSS MEMBERSHIP DOLLAR WORKS AT HOME AND MANAGEMENT COST AT NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS AND THE 14 DIVISIONS IS LESS THAN 4 PER CENT OF THE TOTAL EXPENDITURES! MANAGEMENT COSTS LOW FOR RED CROSS quarters Take Less Than 4 Per Cent of Funds. Red Cross Roll Call—the fourth an- | | American organization—wil! be held here November 11 to 25. Officers in | charge of the Roll Call for the chapter | ever, feel that the canvass in this section practically can be completed | should the present plans for intensive | work be followed out. | In all its work preparatory to the Roll Call the Red Cross this year, as last, has laid stress on the point that the movement is purely a dues-gather- ing activity, and not to be confused with “drives” or other campaigns. The national body also is laying em- phasis on the fact that more than 50 per cent of all membership fees se- cured here remain in this community, and on the low “overhead” cost of the organization. | “While the Red Cross has not been subjected to that violent criticism of extravagance and waste which has been attached to some activities re- | sulting from the war and its after-ef- fects,” said an officer of the national | body recently, “we are pleased to be able to make public the fact that management cost at national head- quarters and in the 14 divisions has amounted to less than 4 per cent of the total expenditures by the organi- zation. This is a turnover expense so small as to establish a mark for many a commercial concern to work toward, and on its face proves that for the Red Cross, organization efficiency and economy are not only ideals but achievements.” JUNIOR RED CROSS HELPS 1M COMMUNITY'S WORK Through the Junior Red Cross the school children of this county have an important part in work of the local Red Cross chapter. Throughout the Northwest school children are taking a keen interest in the activities in which they are engaging as members of this organization. These activities do not interfere in any way with the regular work of the schools, but they do add zest to class room studies. In Portland, Tacoma, and Spokane the Juniors have financed clinics, where children have been given dental and medical examinations. In numer- ous counties throughout Idaho, Ore gon and Washington they have made provisions for first aid kits in every rural school. Besides other activities, the Juniors of Boise, Idaho, are provid- ing flowers for the Barracks Hospital in that city where many disabled ex- service men are receiving treatment. | Poor, crippled children in many towns considerable effort to avold personal | have received badly needed atten- bias Is found in the fact that In many tion, and the bills have been paid out cases the editor differed from the | °f funds raised by the Junior Red opinion he credited to his community. The percentage of “nos” ran: (a) 76; (b) 83; (c) 86; (d) 82; (e) 79. Cross. | Through the Junior Red Cross thousands of children in Europe have While the questions were based on| been fed and given medical care general principles involved in the Government participating tn competi- tive business, the so-called Muscle Shoals Bill now before Congress was used as a concrete example of a Gov- through contributions by members of the Junior Red Cross in this country. The Juniors ofsthe Northwest gathered large quantities of clothing for the “Wild Children of the Urals,” who ernment operation scheme. Under this | Were recently returned to their homes bill a Government-owned corporation by the American Red Cross after hav- would be given broad powers to oper- ing wandered uncared for over the ate and develop Government plants | Wastes of Siberia. And now, through and properties. It would produce at the Junior Red Cross, it is being made Muscle Shoals various fertilizer prod- | possible for children in this country to ucts and sell them In competition with producers and toerchants tp the fer- Ulizer business, Tho strength of the opposition to Government operation ts indicated by correspond with children in other lands, { One Month of Red Cross Work. | In an average month this year, the the replies from Alabama, where the Red Cross aided 423,888 adults and Muscie Shou!ls war plant ts and where, there Is intense Interest and locai pride in getting its expected | peace-time operation under way at the earliest possible date. Fifty editors from that state replied, of whom 88 101,755 children in Europe; people who otherwise would be without even the simple necessaries of life. Protection for Future Years. were opposed to Government opera-| Last year 92,000 women and girls, tion, 8 im favor and 4 doubtful, under Red Cross instructions, complet ‘Tip Top, the flower of flours. | ®4 courses im home care of the sick National and Division Head. | 2 nual re-enlistment of members in the /fl of which this city forms a part, how: | SPECIAL Prices on Ladies’ Hose ————$——_— J] $1.25 Hose cut to 85 cents 95 cent Hose cut to 65 cents BURSON WE ARE FOLLOWING OUR POLICY OF GIVING THE VERY BEST MER- CHANDISE AT REDUCED PRICES WHEN THERE IS A DECLINE IN ANY CER- TAIN ARTICLE. TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THIS POLICY AND WE WILL SAVE YOU A GOOD AMOUNT ON YOUR EVERY DAY NEEDS. . within the first week of the time set | 5A J. V. BAKER & SON WHERE QUALITY AND PRICES MEET Donse BRoWers In most businesses which have adopted it, it is on the go from morning till night. Sturdy construction and uninterrupted ser- vice contribute greatly to the pronounced economy of the car. . ‘ ‘ ‘ . . 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