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Mfft9N6 SERVICE IS RAPIDLY EXPANDING This American Red Cross Work Flourishing in Small Towns Throughout Country.

Aor* than 87,000 graduate oaraes here been enrolled In the American Bed Groan to date and Its department of nursing U dally Increasing this enrollment The department of nursing lias been authorised to maintain an adequate reserve of nurses .'or the army and nary. It will continue to supply the needs of the Doited States Public Health Service to which It baa assigned more than 1.000 nurses in the last year. It will aaalat In establishing proper •uraing service in foreign countries where the American Red Cross has organized hospitals, dispensaries and schools tor nurses. Courses In home hygiene and care of the sick have been started for thousands of women who have never received any education In this direction. Rural nursing which was in its Infancy e short while ago tias been pot -ahead at least a decade through the work of the department ■of nursing and local Red Cross chapters. Public health nnrslng has been extended to many rural communities and now flourishes actively in hundreds of small towns and counties. Nearly a thousand efficient nurses have already been assigned to this kind of work. The department of nursing Is uniting with other organisations In a year's campaign In recruiting nurses for training schools, In educating the general public as to standards of nursing education and in showing communities their responsibility toward schools of nursing. "It will endeavor to meet all these needs as well as to continue the '■enrollment of dletltlnh* who will be utilized as Instructors Id borne dietetics, In developing nutritional clinics, end In supplying dietitians for the United States Public Health Service *nd the civilian hospitals. The Nursing Service will contlnne to offer to women and young girls the opportunity of siiur'ng Instruction in home hygiene and care of the sick In every community In the country. This Instruction has not only laid the foundation for public health but In some places has given impetus to the estahgmwrs nan £ivcu uu|,«riu9 vo tue romi--

Ushment of hospitals and community school houses. "As a community profits by the work of the nurse." says Miss Clara D. Noyes. director of the department of nursing, "It la logical that the community should be aroused to Its responsibility. The A fori can Red f>o«« stands ready to help in a general cam palgn of recruiting end must have the support, sympathy and understanding of the medical profession as well as the Intelligent co-operation of ' the people at large."

HOME SERVICE FOR j 1 EVERYBODY IN NEED ! — 1 t Do you know what the present day Home 8ervlce of the American Red i Cross isf t Many people do Dot know that, be- I sides completing the work for ex-sen- ■ Ice men. especially the disabled. It pro- I vldes the same neighborly service to t families In general that It formerly ( gave families of soldiers, sailors and t marines. "Home Service covers a wide and < varied Held," says Frederick C. Mun- I roe. general manager of the American ^ Ued Cross "It gives aid to famllli-s I 'tn solving such problems as budget •planning, marketing, tiding over times 1 •of financial stress, keeping children In < school, helping crippled children, wtd- I -owed end deserted mothers. -Children backward In school and children In i conflict with the laws. It renders sen ' lee to the homeless and transient, to i the Illiterate, to tenemen; dwellers, to the unemployed, and gives friendly assistance and advice to foreign speck- ' Ing gronpa." In addition to helping families in the solution of their own problems. Borne Service helps In strengthening the weak spots In the social life of -communities. It Joins hands with others to make communities safer, ibealtfaler and, happier. Organizing action along lines in which tbe community la already Interested la one of the objects of Borne Service. It has established community meetings, patriotic celebrations, pageants and picnics. Rest roams, recreation facilities, play supervisors and moving pictures hare been provided. Through Home Service other agencies -are influenced to bring about Improved commercial amusements and better school facilities and to promote traveling libraries as well as to secure coun^^agri cultural and borne demonstraIf yon* need UflitUC* St may ttma, go to the secretary at tb* MSfWt Bad Orooa chapter and toafts OH «*■- tics. Tonr conftdaMs will bo •creBly Mgoctad and srary possible offset wffl be made to aid yea. ^ AmiHua Hod Creao HoB Calk ."■TTV Jr.

AMERICAN RED CROSS TO 6IYE RURAL HEP Program for Public Health and Community Welfare Is Now Wei Under Way., Rural communities and towns of less than 8,000 popnlaUon benefit in a very Urge part by the pnblic health and community welfare work of tbe American Red Cross Almost all of tbe 8,000 Red Cross chapters have some rural sections In their territory. 3-bero-fore tbe Red Cross Rural 8ervlce. Briefly, the purpose of Rural Service Is to akaist people to get out of life more health, wealth and happiness. In this purpose public health instruction and general educational progress of both children and adults play a big part. / Recreation U found to be ODe of tbe biggest needs In rural tlfe. There U lack ftt sufficient play-life for the children j and social life for the adults. Picnics, pageants, debating clubs, baseball leagues, community singing and other social events which bring the/people of surrounding communities together have been organized and carried on under the guidance of Red Croiaa rural wpr^era t* great advantage. tn many Instances solving recreational problems and getting people together proves to be the awakening of the community to other conditions which may be Improved by united action. As a result of community organization, townships In which there been neither plans nor interest In community progress have been organized to work together with the unified purpose of bringing their community, np to the most enlightened standards. Lecture and musical entertainment courses have been started as a result of community meetings, as well as clr- - culatlng libraries, Red Cross, schools of Instruction In Home Nursing, Care of the Sick and First Aid. In the larger towns the need for restroomS and public comfort stations Is being met. Playgrounds for the children have been established and recreational activities worked out for the year. In order that there may be concerted effort in carrying on the programs of 1 the various welfare agencies In the rural districts. Red Cross Rural Service helps the organizations already on the ground. The main object of the 1 service Is to lend a hand everywhere and take the lead only where neees-« sary.

JUNIOR RED CROSS ACTIVE IN EUROPE Garden seeds for Polish orphans, - milk for anaemic Greek babies, carpenters' tools for Czecho-Slovaklan cripples — these are only a few of the gifts that young Americans are sending to the war-crashed children of the Old World. Through the Junior Red Cross the boys and girls of the United States are giving a fresh start in life to Uttle war orphans scattered ail over Europe. I have set up orphans' homes In France, school colonies in Belgium and Montenegro, and day schools In AlThey are sending dozens of young Syrians, Montenegrins, rnd Albanians to American colleges In Constantinople and Beirut, and maintaining more than hundred orphans of French soldiers •t colleges and trade school a la or- ' phanages and farm schools up and down the peninsula of Italy there are nearly 500 wards of Americau Juniors. Last winter a thousand French children from the Inadequate shelters of the devested regions were sent by the Red Cross to spend the cold months In warmer parts of France. At the same time five thousand little were having a hot lunch every day at Junior Red Cross school canna. American school children bare al- | ready raised soroeth'ng like a million j dollars for these enterprises, and they j are still hard at work. In China, through campaigns of ed- i u cation, the Junior Red Cross Is help- j to combat widely prevalent -blind- j oess and. cholera. RED CROSS RELIEF IN CENTRAL EUROPE But for timely assistance of the | American Red Cross during the last | year, a large proportion of the 20.000.000 population of the Balkan States might have starved or perished from disease or exposure. 8lx million dollars worth of food, clothing and medical supplies have been sent to the Bal kans — RoiimrTYta, -Bulgaria, Albania, Montenegro, SerblaTRoznls and Greece —since tbe beginning ftf Red Croes relief operations in Central Europe, while millions of dollars worth of food aloes has been sent to the needy in these states. Hie money expended by the Red Cross In this stricken portion of Enrope has 'been used to set np hospitals, orphanages. dispensaries, mobile medl cal units end to help In the general reconstruction of devastated areas Amer llcan tractors and ether farming Imple menu have been tent to the agricultural regions where aid has boss given in plowing tbe land. By the last of this year probably afl American Red Cross agencies ad ministering relief In Central Europe will have withdraws. By that time, M Is bettered, the tm'i win have ap preached a normal state aC ttvtof and wfll he able threegh their own aaandet vMeh the Bed Crete hat helped am

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