What the Red Cross is Doing!
BY MRS. I. N. BARNETT
The most stupendous and
appealing call in the history of
the world to aid suffering hu
manity confronts our RedCross.
We shall not realize what the
war is until our men. those be
loved by us. have been expos
ed to the dreadful dangers, to
the character of wounding
that is so horrible under this
modern system of warfare.
The Red Cross is the only me
dium through which we may
help to take care of the wound
ed of the armies and the na
tions that are fighting our bat
tles. Every country has a Red
Cross, and every country must
have it, because no army can
furnish the instrumentalities
adequate to meet the propor
tion of wounded that this war
furnishes. Forty million at the
colors. Seven million dead,
six million on beds of pain, and
the whole of Europe taken up
with hostilities. You cannot
exagerate this function that
our Red Cross will have to per
form merely in attending to
the wounded of our army and
other arimes in carrying on
this fight. The medical work
of our army is divided into two
parts: One, the regular line—
men enlisted in the medical
corps—regulars in the army;
and the reserve medical corps
—the American Red |Cross al
ways under the direction of the
army and navy and in war
time subject to their colors. It
is supported by voluntary con
tributions, to be sure, and some
think it is like state militia.
Here is the difference. The
state militia is a state affair;
the American Red Cross is a
\government affair, always
working in connection with,
in colloboration with ,and un
der the regular army and navy.
The Department of Military
belief of the American Red
Cross has fostered and helped
clubs, social organizatons and
big business, railroads, mines,
manufacturing concerns, etc.,
to organize and equip ambu
lance units which may volun
teer for service upon call; and
it has, under the Red Cross,
given first aid calles to men in
every walk of life- Then there
has been the organization of
base hospitals which cost $25.
000 apiece. To adequately
operate one of these hospitals
it is necessary to nave a train
ed hopital staff. It would be
as criminal to send wounded
and sick into a hospital where
the staff was not co-ordinated
and trained as it would to send
untrained troops into battle.
The Red Cross, in addition to
the organization of units has
undertaken in conjunction with
five great national medical so
cieties an enrollment of the
profession so as to acquire a
record of the capabilities and
accomplishments of the medi
cal profession of the United
States.
By an arrangement with the
National Association of nurses
it has enrolled and holds ready
for service seven thousand
nurses, the cream of the nurs
ing profession of this country.
Non-professional personnel is
also being enrolled for service
in war, such as stenographers
clerks, chauffeurs, cook and
hospital attendants.
The Red Cross units organ
ized for service with the army
or for the purpose of training
personnel therefor are:
Ambulance companies, base
hospitals, hospital units, sur
gical sections, emergency nurse
detachments, information sec
tions, refreshment units and de
tachments, supply depots, gen
eral hospitals, convalesced
homes. Also the Bureau ol
supplies is one of the greai
pieces of work of theAmericar
Red Cross. When supplies
come in—as they are coming
in now from every part of th(
country, it is a real piece o1
executive work to know when
they are most needed anc
where to send and store them
Ifthere is a call for certain sup
plies the supply Bureau musi
1 know where to get them. Aftei
! much work the Red Ckoss has
standardized the supplies need
ed for our soldiers. Storing
shipping and keeping track ol
these supplies—caps gloves
bed socks, bandages, etc. up tc
base hospital outfits—and
knowing just where and when
to get them; this entails an
enormous amount of work,
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Cross better organized or eq
uipped in personnel than the
Nursing Service and daily
there are hundreds of patriotic
women enrolling and studying
to fill places which can be fill
ed by non-professional women
From the moment the
wounded soldier is placed in £
Red iCross ambulance back ol
the firing line, to the time he
is discharged from the bas(
hospital, the Red Cross eithei
had prepared or is preparing
to care for him. They knov
where the supplies are oi
where they can get them, anc
theyr have trained and an
training the personnel for th<
work. However, this does no
mean that there are no neec
for workers. There is hospita
units from small hospitals, am
bulance companies, sanitar:
units, to take training course:
and first aiders are still want
ed and needed. An Americai
Base Hospital with about fiv<
hundred beds is regarded a
sufficient to care for the sicl
and wounded of one of ou
army divisions of about twent;
thousand men. Each unit or
dered to the front consists o
23 doctors, 2 dentist, 65 nurses
and 150 enlisted men from th<
sanitary sendee and in additioi
a resene quartermaster anc
two officers of the regula:
medical corps. The seniors o
these will exercise military
command of the units and th<
juniors will be the adjutant
and act as company command
ers of the 150 enlisted men ii
?ach hospital.
There are various stages o
removal of the wounded fror
the firing line. The thcarte o
operations is divided into thre
main zones; the zone of ad
i vance, directly behind the
' first line trenches; the line of
communication and the zone of
the interior or home territory.
In the first zone are situated
. the field dressing stations and
■ the field hospitals; in the sec
, ond, the evacuation and the
■ base hospitals and in the third
, the general and home hospit
als.
There are several field dress
. ing stations directly in the rear
of the trenches, located in the
dugouts or in some protected
, place if possible. Here, first
aid remedies can be applied im
mediately and the danger of
infection minimized. From
here the wounded are taken to
field hospital containing about
21G beds. This is the first
stopping place in the journey
to the rear, of the wounded,
after leaving the first line
trenches. The second stop is
the eavcuation hospital. Here,
removed somewhat from the
firing line, the slightly wound
ed are kept until recovery
wnne ine more severely wounu
ed are sent to the base hospit
al. From the field hospital in
the zone of advance the
wounded arc taken by motor
■ ambulances to the Evacuation
, Hospital containing about 432
, beds and from here to the
• base hospital by Red Cross
• train to the Base Hospital.
. where there are 500 to 1,000
. beds. The final pause on the
[ road to recovery is the home
, hospital. Here at great hos
, pitals in peace and quite far
. from the battle strife, the
[ wounded of the warring na
I tions are held until they are
fit to return to the firing line,
, or discharged.
i The first and supreme of
. American Red Cross is our own
i army and navy. The Ameri
. can Army in France is received
5 in large reception camps on
■ the coast, and after several
- weeks of preliminary training
r the men are sent across the
. country to permanent training
: camps back of the firing lines.
Along the route followed by
. the troops the Red Cross has
i established infirmaries and rest
I stations, each in charge of an
■ American trained nurse, with
• an american trained man to as
r sist her.
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Canteens are being estab
lished by the Red Cross at
railway stations where Ameri
can soldiers on reerve duty or
on leave, and those returning
to or from duty, may find rest
and refreshment. Near the
firing lines the Red Cros is es
tablishing field canteens.
One of the most important
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Ckaabcrhia "A good cough remedy is one that can be
depended upon to cure coughs. Not one
that cures some particular cough, but coughs in general.
It must be a cough remedy that can be relied upon for all the
different coughs that are so prevalent. While the causes of all
coughs are primarily the same, yet the condition of the patient
is what makes the difference in the nature of the cough itself.
Coughs of healthy persons are easier to cure than the coughs of
invalids. The powerful convulsive cough of a large man is
harder to cure than the cough of a baby. If you get a remedy
that will cure a large man’s cough and yet not be too powerful
for the baby, you have a good cough remedy.
Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy
is just this kind of remedy. It is good for any member of the
family. It relieves coughs of all kinds. It is the product of much
thought and study to produce an ideal cough remedy. It is com
posed of things which cure easily and soothingly without harm
ing the most delicate tissues of the throat It acts as easily and
safely on the young as on the old, and is the ideal remedy for
+r>ughsi colds, croup, influenza, whooping cough,and bronchitis.
1<hMt ^-’£*0*2 QfomJvUuiu
undertaking's of the Red Cross'>
in France is to combat the tu
berculosis peril. The repotrs
say that at the present time
500.000 persons are afflicted
with tuberculosis as a direct
result of the war, and that
scientific efforts to control the
spread of the malady are not
only of supreme concern to
I Franeq herself but they are of
great importance in making
France healthy for our own
troops.
For the relief of the wound
ed and sick French soldiers
jand their families the Ameri
can Red Cross has appropriat
ed $1,000,000.00 and the or
ganization has made plans to
take care of the hundreds of
thousands of destitute refu
gees in France.
Generally speaking, the Red
Cross is making constant ef
fort in accordance with the ex
pressed views of the President
of the United States and the
civil and military authorities of
France, to co-ordinate along
helpful lines all relief work
being done in France and Am
erica. Every man, woman and
child ought to consider it a
privilege and honor to be a
member fo the Independence
county chapter now being or
ganized. Pay your dollar and
wear the Red Cross button and
plac the Red Cross seal in your
window, showing your loyalty
to Uncle Sam and those who
are jeopardizing their lives for
us.
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FORMER Y. W. C. A SEC’Y. _
AT U. OFA. NOW IN INDIA
Fayettevile, Jan. 8.—Miss
Margaret Wilson, formerly sec
retary of the Y. W. C. A. at
the University of Arkansas is
now engaged in Association
work in India- Due to her su
perior work at the University
of Arkansas, Mis? Wilson was
sent to India without being
required to take the one year
graduate work in the National
Training School for Y. W. C. A.
workers. It is understood that
Miss Wilson is conected with
a school for the children of
English officers.
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ear. Owner may recover same
by paying for this advertise
ment and cost of feeding. If
not called for in reasonable
length of time will be posted.
C. E. JIMERSON.
R. F. D. 1. Newark, Ark.
N EW
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