Cottonwood Chronicle Newspaper, November 19, 1920, Page 7

2 * Home Service Work Broadens. %& community throughout the United ALL COMMUNITY WE to Include Civilian Families. By DR. J. E. CRICHTON Manager Northwestern Division American Red Cross An integral part of the great health program of the American Red Cross, | undertaken after the suspension ot | many of the war activities of the or- ganization, is the establishment of Health Centers—which now are being | installed in many communities throughout the northwest. It is a movement of compelling interest to the citizens of this part of the country. | The health center as organized by the Red Cross is proving the greatest preventive medicine known, as well as | protection of great value in times of | widespread illness or epidemic. From | health centers radiate all kinds of healthful influences from the giving of proper advice and the furnishing of | competent nursing, medical and sur- gical aid, to the inauguration of many forms of beneficial exercises such as community singing, athletics and out- door gumes. From health centers go the visiting nurses. There are held the teaching classes for home nursing, children’s clinics and proper welfare work. The Red Cross says that no longer shall curable physical deformities curse the lives of our children. It believes the time is past when tuber- | culosis should be allowed without hindrance to fasten itself upon the tender bodies of our little ones. It A BEDSIDE VISIT Care of mother and babe is part of the follow up work of the American Red Cross health center at Bridge town, New Jersey. Miss Anna Miller, home visiting nurse from the health center, is reading a mother’s tempera- ture, 2 | believes that through health centers | established in every considerable States, health can be safeguarded and therefrom greater happiness be brought to our people. Ignorance of diseases, ignorance as to what are the best means to pursue in combatting them, ignorance as to the standing and competency of cer tain medical men—these today are responsible for a vast number of deaths in the world. Quacks prey upon our people with their glaring | and lying advertisements and in hun- dreds of thousands of cases individ- uals absolutely deceived by their pre- tensions pass beyond the days when | their infirmities might be cured. For these perils the Red Cross health center forms a safeguard The health centers being established become the people's clubs, with mem- berships designed to reach vast num- bers of the population since member- ship costs but $1 a year—the annual Red Cross dues. | [ | | | | | | | | | | | WRITES FROM CHICAGO. As I entered Chicago on the North Western Ry., I was amaz- ed at its magnitude. This is accounted for when we realize that the city is 26 miles long and 1414 miles wide having an area of 199 square miles. Then to Chicago has a population of {2,701,705 and is the second largest city in the United States. Rightly they term it the windy Another phase of the peace-time pro- | city for the wind surely attains gram of the organization which rapid- | veat velocity. It was on Sun- ly is becoming of paramount value in | day March 27 with the sun shin- the northwest is comprised in the ing brightly, I was strolling Home Service activities. Designed along the boulevard with a y originally for the benefit solely of f fri d when the wind be- disabfed service men and their fam- of friends WV ; flies, it has grown to occupy a far | came very violent assuming the broader ficld. Red Croas welfare proportion of a gale. Neverthe- workers look to the interests of for-|less it was a delightful walk mer soldiers and sailors in hospitals | through Lincoln park along the and schools; maintain personal con- | shore of Lake Michigan and lit- tact. with the disabled who are at | ¢je did we realize that only a few home. Home Service forms the con: | niles away in the northern part neers Tink between the disabled man | of the city terrible destruction n hospital or schoo! and his family. A . Roe or service has grown be- | Was being wrought by a tornado. yond this, In nearly 40 of the 106 Thirty-eight persons lost their chapters of the Northwestern Division | lives and thousands of homes experienced social workers are em- | were wrecked, a total property ployed, and the service is being ex- | Joss running into millions. tended to civilian families. In some | : i ar . ie BS During the three weeks in this been established. In Raymond, | joyed the hustle and turmoil. Washington, the Home Service depart- | My time was well occupied every ment maintains an office close to the | minute, among some of the railway stations and hotels where any | events I will briefly describe a day may be seen the visitor inquiring | few. for the residence of a friend, or the | ecompanied by a special re- +0 eae DRA # ae ae sadn 4 |presentative of the American waa vr Steel & Wire Co., I journeyed to Social Service extends down through | liet 37 miles south, to see how the chapters to the branches and aux- | steel was made. Two large mills fliaries. Several Northwestern chap- ere visited there. As I be- ters have branches which maintain | held the long rows of gigantic local Home Service operatives, their | blast furnaces, which are most activities being financed through | picturesque indeed, with their smal! revolving funds from the chap- numerous cupolas shooting forth ph hafts of fire high into the y es Fifty cents of every dollar of mem- hug ] bership fees stays in the community alr. I was simply spellbound. in which it has been contributed. It Entering one of these great iron 4s that fifty cents which aids ir this | works the sight was dazzling for ‘mportant Home Srvice development. i all around us seething HOENE | ing. TURKEY DAY CUTLERY AND ROASTERS Thinking about that Thanksgiving Day dinner aren't you? To have the turkey done to a turn, the pie delicately crusted and all the good “fixing s” just right, you'll doubtlses need one of our Carving sets, roasters or one of our Pyrex Pie Plates. ALUMINUM ROASTER helps you save money. Every day in the year youcanuse the “Wear-Ever” Roaster—on top of the stove over one burner, or in the oven. The “Wear-Ever” Roaster serves so many purposes that it saves the cost of other utensils—and it will outlast several ordinary roasters. It saves fuel because it absorbs heat so readily end retains it so long. “Wear-Ever’” utensils give enduring satisfaction. They cannot chip, scale or rust. They are made in one piece, from thick, hard sheet aluminum, BS rN kJ Replace utensils that wear out with utensils that “Wear-Ever”’ eS Our Thanksgiving Window is “plum” full of Suggestions IN OBSERVANCE OF THANKSGIVING DAY THIS STORE WILL REMAIN CLOSED. HARDWARE | _——— — — ———) (a SO wants to see you at the it is drained and baked in an oven. After being cooled it is drawn through dies to various degrees of fineness by machines. Weaving wire fence is done by big and noisy machines with such rapidity that it is astound- ing. Making wire nails is simple with wonderful human like machines. In one operation the head is formed the size cut and point formed. With the noise of the factory still ringing in my ears I return- el to Chicavo towards evening feeling that I had passed the day in a most interesting and highly instructive manner. Again I founl myself dodging vehicles an! pelestirians amid the din and roar of the surface and elevated car traffic. Somehow I always enjoyed crossing State at Madis- on street, the busiest corner in the city especially when the crowds were the largest. roaring flames were leaping in the air. As steel enters into hundreds of articles of every day use from the eyelet of a shoe to a plow and from a common pin to a locomotive, a breif outline of its manufacture may be of in- terest. The process of melting iron from its ore is called smelt- The ore with coal and limestone is placed in a blast furnace and set on fire. Gas and coke are sometimes used. Hot blasts of air are forced through the burning mass to strengthen fire. At 3,000 degrees of heat the iron settles to the bottom in the form of a heavy liguid and is drawn off and poured or run into frms. The impurities cal- led slaw flcats to the surface and runs off continually during the smelting. Steel is made by sub- jecting the iron through a series of heating processes in a con- verter. It is cast into ingots Now I want to take the reader with me for a trip through the great stock yards located in the southern part of Chicago. My first trip there I was disappoint- ed to find the packing plants closed. Due to the switchmen’s strike. The next time the same result was met with. Not to be outwitted I sought entrance at Swift’s plant and our party was the first to be admitted there in two weeks. To begin with the stock yards comprised 640 acres and in itself is a fair sized city. It is a mile long and has 315 miles of railroad and eight pack- = plants in the enclosure. We were told they handled 3,000,000 head of stock daily and employ 13,000 people. It is owned and controlled by the Union Live Stock Co., and the packers buy 19 by 19 inches by 6 feet. Giant machines ball and squeeze these huge pieces of steel and roll them into various forms such as slabs, sheets, bars, blooms, billets and rods. Each in turn are rolled and drawn into many kinds of other shapes. It is fascinating to see the billets rolled into rods a tiny stream of firey liguid several hundred feet in length flowing along continuously and after reaching its proper size is cut in specified lengths or coiled into bundles. Next we visited a large wire mill at Rockdale a few miles dist ant. A thousand men are em- ployed at this plant and they make wire from the heaviest up to 21 guage also woven wire fence. Its a rare treat to see a coil of rod weighing 480 lbs } dipped in a tank to remove the} the live stock fromthem. With iron seale. Then to watch it as}a well informed guide we were they wash and spray and dip it} taken through all departments again in a lime solution whence }of Swift & Co., which is said to fol } and stuck, bleeding as they move | along: the track. next they are | entrailed and at the same time | skinned cut in half and washed. Government inspectors are ever present and deftly examine the | vital organs for any sign of dis- jease. We watched the kill | operations for three hours | marveled at the wonderful skill = | and great speed the men worked. | verything is utilized from the animals except the noise. anoth- }er thing that surprised us was the great cleanliness that exist- ed ——— this immense ———) ————) ———) Our next treat was to see how meats were canned so we were guided through to establishment of Libby McNeil & Co. The first thing we were shone how corned beef better known as “Canned Willie” and so on down the line till we had seen how all the various meats were prepared jand canned, They have a mach- ine that pastes labels on glass jars at the rate of 60 per minute then they have a tin can making machine which is an ingenious | affair and likewise the machine test the tin cans at 1700 pounds air pressure and has a capacity }of 75 cans an hour. — In this |plant trey cut up 250 cattle every 24 hours and manufacture 208 varieties of food stuffs em- ploying 4500 people. Filled with enthusiasm over what I had seen and learned that day and eager to employ the few hours left to rood advantage I hurried cross-town and out to the suburbs of the city visiting Sherwin-Williams White Lead Works. It was a great sight to | view those hugs stacks where | pie lead was beine chauped into | white lead with the aid of tan | bark and acetic acid. Its a slow | process taking 100 days to finish }a batch of white lead. | In my next letter I will tell a | little more of Chicago and then | describe my trip down through | Illinois. | FRANK A. KELSEY. | Why not build a machine shed and stop the rust and decay. Rough lumber will do the trick and it won’t cost much either. Hussman Lumber Co. 45-tf THE AMERICAN RED CROSS IN 4PEACE TIME Child Welfare be the largest of the eight pack- ing plants. Well its thrilling to} see them kill hogs. In rapid succession they are shackled and raised on a large revolving plate, then lowered to the trolley and| as they move on are stuck and/| bled. Each hog is handled by | 240 people and it only takes 30} minutes to cut it up into finish- ed products. We seen one hog} that weighed 875 pounds dress- ed. Next we were conducted to | the sheep killing department} and seeing a large Angora goat standing there alone wondered what his duty was, after an hour’s wait we see him proudly leading a band of sheep to the slaughter pen. Each sheep in| arrangements are being made here, turn is shackled on hind leg and | according to information from division raised to the track moving along | headquarters of the Red Cross, for till they reach a man who stabs | the observance locally of “Red Cross them behind the right ear. via vere —o, gprs ete iff, i erally throughout the nation a day amp pg an by! has been set aside in honor of the it was interacting ro learn ‘that rh ED by “yaa nee bat 7 | Sunda: chools an oun) eople's the Rabbi kills andibrandsall he|ccetires ce aatl as aneoial sermons. beef and mutton used by the | According to plans considerable jewish people, only the fore | time at these special services is to be quarters of the lamb are used by | devoted to discussion of peace-time them. 820 sheep are killed in | activities of the Red Cross, including an hour. We went in one re-| somewhat detailed information regard- “i eT . ‘ ing future work which has been plan- Sheree te ee 3000 sheep | ned. No subscriptions will be asked, 7h * While to| unless special arrangements should have witnessed the killing and) pe made by officers of the local chap- dressing of hogs and sheep it | tr was much more spectacular to see them despatch cattle. They | are driven into collapsible pens | in pairs each facing opposite, a) man with a 314 pound striking) hammer walks along the deck | and swiftly deals them the fatal blow on the forehead. As the, cattle freely move their heads, | it is not so easy to hit the right} spot, but as those men are skill-| full they seldom miss their aim. Instantly the critters tumble to the floor which tilts and the car- cass is deposited on a solid floor. They are raised to the trolley Boys and girls who learn early to take proper care of their teeth, throats, eyes, ears and stomachs, have made a long step toward healthy manhood and womanhood, Through its public health and nursing serv- ices, the American Red Cross aims eventually to reach all school children with teachings regarding disease per- vention and health promotion. Here's a school nurse treating a little girl for sore mouth, at the same time im- planting a valuable lesson in teeth- brushing and proper diet. SPECIAL RED CROSS SUNDAY SCHEDULED HERE IN NOVEMBER YOUR PHOTOGRAPH MADE TO YOUR STYLE AND LIKING —AT THE— COTTONWOOD STUDIO —ALSO— Enlargements of all kinds. Kodak work at pre-war PRICES