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MID DDKS . DID LAST SIM I Report of War Coumll Sorely Will Thrill the Hearls of AH # merican*. « { —- -- WOfcEN GIVEN HIGH 1;RIR1££ Contrjiutions of; Material* anti T^rn Have Been Identically Unending -T^igures Work Blow by the ya£i£i s Chapter*. Octoberthe 3.-js*o chapter* >of ilfo4 Red Cross,held thelr.innuul aoeoti»j(s to elect Queers and un ke re|M>rt*. J'o be read nt:«!l these Meetings throng* - ont the United States.,, he lted Cities* War Connejl .sent the ..following ae nuat message covering ,:he work <*tf the Red Cross£or. the pa*i year: To tlie Clmpte** ,ef the( American Rest Crons : The War CounOI. sends greetings to l he chapters of .the Amrfletn Ke«f Cross mi the oertmiqn of thea animal meetings tor 1018. " '*« >»*«*■ greet t*yjs go coupatula Hons on the great work of (he eiippters during the j»nst year and, ahovt all things, on (lie wonderful spirit of jsnc tiflee and patriotism .which lias per vaded that work. The strength ut the K*i*! OfOS* rest, upon Its chapters. They ;»re Its bone and sinew. They supply Its funds, they supply Its men and women, tliey supply Its enthusifixtu. i,et «s, then, review together the Red •Crwxf story of the past year. Some Idea of the size lu whut^ your Red Cross family has grown may be gathered from the following facts.1 On May 1, 1917, just before (lie ap pointment of the War Council, Up American Red Cross had 486.194 mem bers working through 562 chapters. On July 31, 1918, the organization numbered 20,648.103 annual members, besides 8,000,000 members of the Junior Red Cross—* total enrollment of over one-fourth tbs population of the United States. Since the beginning of the war you of the chapters have co-operated with the Wnr Council In conducting two war fund drives and one membership drive, lu addition to the campaign 011 behalf of the Junior Red Cross. The total actual collections to date from the first war fund have amounted to more thun $115,000,000, The sub scriptions to the second wnr fund (•mounted to upwards of $176,000,000. 1 From membership dues the collec tions have amounted to approximately $24.500,060. Splendid Work Done by WomeA 1 To the foreglng must be added that eery large contribution of UilUeripIs aiid time given by the millions of woni ep throughout the country in surgical dressings, In knitted articles, in hos pital and refugee garments, In canteen work, and the other iicttvtttes the chap ters have r.e‘;: "“l-d j?.p^,on1": It Is estimated that appr. ^ 8,000.000 women are euguged In can teen work and the production of relief supplies through the chapters. _ ' •'"■loti up to duly 1. 1918, for tne p--- - *. . T ’ American Red Creek chaut#-., MdVUSU their workrooms, had produced; 490,120 refuge* gur^--' J,123.021 (ni 8uppll‘‘s> * ,o,,-80,489 hospital garments. 10,i:$4,501 knitted articles. 192,748,107 surgical dressings. A total of 221,282,838 article*—of an estimated aggregate value of at least $44,000,000. These articles were largely the product of women’s hands, and, by the same token, infinitely more precious than could have been the output of factories or machines. These articles going to the operating room of the hos pitals, to homeless or needy refugees, and carrying comfort to our own hoys in the Held, convey a message of love front the women of this country entire ly distinct from the great money value attaching to tlielr handiwork. Money Spent in Work. 15.v the terms under which tlie first Ked Cross war fund was raised, the chapters were entitled to retain *25 per cent of the amount collected. In order defray local expenses, to carry on their home service work, to purchase ma terials to he utilized In chapter produc tion and otherwise to meet the numer ous calls made uisrn them. The chap ters were thus entitled to retain nearly $29,000,000. As u matter of fact, their actual retentions utnounted to only about $22,000,000. Out of collections front annual mem berships. the chapters have retained about #11.000,000. Krom this total sum. therefore, of $.*«, 000.000 retained hy the chapters, they have met all the oftentimes very heavy local demands upon them. hikI in ntldl tlon have provided for use by national headquarter* products valued, as stated above, at upward* of $44,000, 000. The chapters have la effeet returnet to the War Council, not alone the $.'M. IN*i.ood retained out of the war funt membership tines but. In value o actual product, an additional contrlhu tlon t.f at least $11,000,000. It will thus been seen thut durlui the eighteen mouths which have elap-i d since the l nlled Slates en lend the war, the American peopl will have either paid in or pledged t tie* A uteri call Ited Cross for It* worl of relief throughout the world. I . tt.iiivti n ne This «rtp»ui1ug'«t'*enerosIty In ma terial things has been,accompanied by a spontaneity in tbecglvlng, by au eu thuiasm and a devotion in the doing, which, after *11, are greater and bigger than could be anything measured in terms of time <*r dollars. It has been becumnwof this spirit which has pervaded flfb American lied Cross effort In this wat that the ngef governor of one of the stricken anil battered provinces of pHwnee stated not long since that, though France had long known of Americas greatness, strength and euterprl.se.illt remained fortlie American tied t'rus%,ln this war to reveal America",* ihear.t. In this country, art this mmipent, the workers of the tied (Cross, through Its chapters, are helping to add , to the comfort and health-nr the, millions of ' our soldiers In 3*>2 rumps au<i anton ' nients. as well as .of those traveling on irailyoad trains or enfbwrking. pujshipa f;> or duty oversea*. The home set-vine of CU> kedtirO'-S Trpr tli its now more than 40t000. workgxs-, is extending its ministrations of. Win 1*0'.hy and counsel mouth - Njfyiwis of 1011.000 families bit behind by .soldiers at the front—n number .ev-yr^. growing with the Inerefio* <jf, our ■ ju«MVPnder anus. MV. of course, the heart of the ijlod j <3rons..grid Its money and attention fll wnys ^ove toward and focus ,t3iem selvesnc Kurope where the Anmcirim Jtbd Cvojs. us truly “the greatest mot ti er In the^ orld.” Is seeking to draw “a vast pet.^f mercy through on oemsurn of mispe&kmiie pain.” nea vcn° worm necogmzea. Nothing (1» withheld that can be Riven over iU-*re to supplement the efforts of otw tf<my (Hid navy In caring for our own toee. Thd Bed Cross does not pretend tc ,<jo thd work of the medical corps of she army* or the navy; its purpose 1* to i|>eU> and to supple ment. {'-or does the lied Cross seek to gloglfy what It does igc those who do It; *ur satisfaction Is |p the result, which., we are assure? by Secretary Baker, (Jeneral Pershing, general Ire laud awl all our leaders, ,is of Ines timable value and of Indispensable im portance. By the .first of January ;».ur Bed Cross will have working In Fratme up ! wards of 5,W>0 Americans—a vivid contrast to the little group of eighteen men and women yhlch, as the first Bed Cross commission to France, sailed about June 1, 1037, f.o Initiate our ef forts in Europe. Under your commission to France tho work has been carefully organized, faculties have been provided, and ef fective efforts made to so co-operate with the army as to carry out the de terminal Ion of the American people, and especially of the member* of the Bed Cross, that our hoys “over there’* shall lack for nothing which may add to their safety, comfort and happiness. Your I ted Cross now has active, op erating commissions In France, in Eng land, In Italy, in Belgium, In Switzer- 1 land, tu Palestine hiiU In Greece. You have sent a shipload of relief supplies and a group of devoted workers to ' hortliern Bussla j you have dispatched 1 a commission to work behind our arm- 1 les in eastern Siberia; you have sent special represent}! tiY?s* tu penmnrk, to ■ Serbia and to tho Island of Madeira. < Carries Message of Hoo^ i Youi' Hed Cross is tlurs extending re lief to the artfties and navies of VjUr allies ; and yon are carrying $ ^racUcal messAge of hope tiad ,.epef t„ Hie fflpmUy peui*»-flurofe and Asia Indeed, we are told hy those liest In j formed In the countries of our allies that the efforts of your lted Cross to aid the soldiers and to sustain the morale of t lie civilian populations left at home, especially in France and Italy, have constituted a very reul fac tor In winning the war. The veil has already begun to lift. The defection of Bulgaria, which by the time this message can he read may have been followed by events still more portentous, may point tin* way to yet greater lted Cross opportunity and ob ligation. "The cry from Macedonia” to come and help will probably prove one of the most appealing messages to which the world has ever listened. What the lted Cross may be called upon to do in the further course of the war. or with the coming of victory, peace und reconstruction, It would be idle to attempt to prophesy. But your great organization, in very truth "the mobilized heurt and spirit of the whole American people," has shown Itself equal to any call, ready to respond to any emergency. Spirit of All Best and Mignesi. The American lied Cross has become not so much an organization as a great movement, seeking to embody In organ ized form the spirit of service, the spirit of sacrifice—In short, all that is host and highest in the Ideals and as pirations of our country. Indeed we canuot hut believe that tills wonderful spirit which service in and for the Ked Cross has evoked In tills war. Is destined to become in onr national life an element of permanent value. At Christinas time we shall ask the whole American people to answer the Hed Cross Christ lima roll call. It will constitute a unique appeal to every man, woman and child in this great land of ours to become enrolled in onr army of mercy. It Is the hope of tiie War Council that this Christmas tmnnliershlp roll call shall constitute a reconsei'ratiou of the whole American people, an in stilling reussertlon to mankind that in tills hour of world tragedy, not to con quer hut to serve is America's supreme > aim. THE W.Mt COC VCI1. OF Tll'K AMKB i ICAN HKD CKOSS. Henry I’. Davison, ’Chairman. ►! VIEW OF METZ, WHICH THE AMERICANS ARE SHELLING 1! ^ ^ View of the city of Metz, which is now under tire of the American artillery. This Is tile most powerfully fortified city in the world. TROOP SUPPLIES 3 MONTHS AHEAD Toura«r~The American nripv in Et nope,could he fed and clothed and a Its creutuec comforts looked niter fc flhrce months if not another pound t supplies was. secured. This was th *tn foment mule here by officers of Ki nrmy (juarteMnnster's depsrtmeu' which directs Hgs mammoth work o supplies. It gives an Idea of the vast *u»cl of reserve resources stored In ffc miles of warehouses stretching fnm the coast inland to -the fighting line and it is a comforting assurance, too that this huge reserve will be kept up through the coming winter period so that the American soldier's warmth, as well as ids food and clothing, will be fully looked after. Some Big Job. It is a huge undertaking to feed a million men even for a single day—a million men scattered to a thousand points, in trenches, on battlefields nnd ramp*, along 300 miles of front and for a depth of 500 miles. And when are added houslug and clothing and the period is extended through the win ter months of cold and frost, with the prospect that another million or two )f men may tie headed this way before ong—with these elements one gets <oine idea of the magnitude of the supply problem for h million or more nen. Here at the center of the system, there the receipts are regulated and he distribution made, there was an ipportunity of learning some of the letalls of how the system operates. In the food branch alone it takes iver 4,(XX),000 pounds of food every lay to feed the nrmy. This 0 — r* •'-r I ,ivuh finny consumption of fowl ein tfttWS i.uoo pounds Of flolir baked luto a million pounds o? bread every Jay, 875,000 pounds of fVvsh beef, 875,000 pounds of potatoes. 200, nOO isiunds of sugar unu 1Z»,1*JU pounds oi ; | tomatoes. The pepper and salt f<ri a (| single day is 42,600 pounds. Army coffee Is roasted c,r the fate ; of 70,000 pounds a day, and Vi takes ; 20,fKX) pounds of suilOttlod nleoliol to ( cook this coffee through the month. 1 The Iteef Is the bulkiest product Used each day, and occupies a daily apace of 45,000 cubic feet, or about the dimensions of a business Mock, of solid meat. Flour comes next, requir ing 25,000 cubic feet of dally space, and potatoes about the same. A Few Daily Items. These nre only a few of the main items. But the list runs nil through the many requirements of the over see army ration, with vast quantities | in ench case. Here nre some of the other diflly Items; Bacon, 225.000 pounds; beans, 75,000 pounds; rice, 60.000 pounds; onions, 250,000 pounds; evaporated fruit. 70,000 pounds; Jam, 70.000 pounds; milk, 62,600 pounds; vinegar, 40,000 pounds; lurd, Pl.000 pounds; butter, 51,000 pounds; syrup, 40.000 pounds. These being tncl.Med In the over sea ration, every one of the million I- men Is entitled to fela full allowance, II and It must go forward to him wber r ever lie Is. So that besides the vast f ilail.v stock there is the question of e ttnfuillng daily delivery, first by rtill ways and cumlon trains, and then to p | tlie individual soldier. ' j Besides this 4.000,000 fMiunds of food f 1 moving forward dally to the troops. j<eAch man carries with him two days’ : I.emergency ration, 5 pounds to the man, ■ | an additional 5,000,000 |M>unds of food i j for aji army of a million men. Of the I emergency ration, carried on the back, j there 1* outstanding every day 2.000. 1000 pounds of corned beef and 2,000, i 0110 pounds of hardtack. 300,000 pounds of sugar, 02.500 pounds of coffee, 20,- I (KNf pounds ut suit, and 500.000 pounds of solidified alcohol for heating and cooking while on march. * j j GET WRITING CRAZE - * Yankee Fighters Heap Troubles on the Censor. When Out of the Trenches He "Telle 'Em About It” in Ream* and Reams. I'nris.—The letter-writing crure has struck the American army. Just as soon as lie gets out of the trenches the doughboy washes up, scurries around for pen and paper and sits down to tell ’em all about It. And he tells ’em in ream! and reams. ..... -•>*>.’ nr Sli^S, as he ffiptllttlllvely kicks his steel helmet PAL TO TtiMMY ATKINS i---*--11 Only n little wiry, French terrier,! but a pnl to this lonely Tommy out on “No Sinn's Land.” Picked up between the lines during a raid the little dog and : great big man have become Insepara ble. The terrier bus at lust found a peaceful home even If It Is only In a I tin hat of n P.rltisli Tommy. “Y” MAN NEEDS SLEEP By E. M. BATCHELOR. | “No boys, l*iii not so very tired," I tuld the Y. U. C. A. secretary, “.lust | a little after a week of lliat,” indicat ing with a wnve of his hand the coun try behind, from which came lncessaut sounds of artillery and machine-gun lire. I’.ut he was dead tired, and the am bulance driver who was giving him a ride knew It. The secretary's head bobbed from side to side as the ambu lance thumped along the rough road. At Intervals the Y. M. C. A. man slept, roughly roused whenever a shell-hole Jolt threw him agulust the side of the vehicle. The ambulance was stopped by the Fide of tlte road so that the driver j might tighten a loose bolt. ”j Kuess I’ll He down for a minute 1 t bile you are working.” said the Y. M. | t\ A. secretary. In a second he was I uml asleep by the road. | uu hour later the driver shook him “Sorry to wake you up." lie said, “but I absolutely must be getting on. I'm likely to be court-martialed now for l>elng so long on tills Job, but I would rather tuke n ‘month and a month' than have robbed you of that sleep. I decided thut the wur could go on for an hour without me. while you tore off 40 winks." This Is Just one of many Instance* showing how the Y. V. C. A. stand* j with the army. That driver bad vol | untarlly risked getting Into troubU with Ills commanding officer becaus* he knew the lied Triangle man need ed sleep. Wants Twins In Same Company. Topeka. Kan.—Martin I.itke, a farm er of Council drove, does not ask ex niptlim for his twin sons, deorgp am j Jerry. All he wanted of the dlstrie . draft board was that they should o 1 to war together. The board gruutc I the request. f SAILOR SYMPATHIZES | WITH LORD BISHOP | « • T > < Queenstown.—Tlie Right Itev- J * J erend Doctor Browne, Lord Blsh- X «< op. Is a person of consequence, |r ') »s his title might Indicate. X o He hud settled hitnself coin- T * ] fortutiljr In the corner of u first X ■ • class compartment when. Just T ! us the train pulled out, a happy X ‘ • and carefree crowd of American T sailors piled Into the compart- X ; 1 nient. I , They were on leave an 1 every- T ■ bisly’s friends. X i "Are you a priest 7” asked X | one. -• T • “I supisise I was at one time." T J was tlie good-humored reply of X ■ the man who was known T ) throughout the land as "Ills X ■ lordship.” + J "Well, I was a chief gunner at $ ■ one time,” khe Jackie replied. + ! "hut I have been disrated also— X ■ through booze!” T ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦♦•H-M-H ♦-f-l'I 1 If 4"f-f4 H-. under his cot "I've got to write to ms ••nd pa. Kittle and Johnny Hoggs over ut Canton, O. Then, I owe Nell John son a letter. And I’ve got to scribble ii few lines to Uncle Abe and Aunt Minnie. After that I’ll answer those letters of Bill and Tom.” Writing materials—paper and en velopes—are not always plentiful where the doughboy Is stationed, and for a while It wns doubtful whether the Inst of his correspondence list would receive their letters, for the supply In the small town stores soon exhausted. Hut the (• \ , ••r.rnlnd of this ac»7city, soon ar ranged to supply all contingents. It j sent out seven million sheets of writ ing paper and some S.fUin.OUO envelopes a month. With the tremendous growth of the expeditionary force, orders have been Increased and the estimate for next year Is 120,000.000 sheets of paper and 00,000,000 envelopes. This means that the Yanks will use 1 about 720 tons of writing materials i 720 tons of news and comfort for the J folks at home. And when the censor officers stop to consider It they grow weak, for It Is their duty, along with everything else, to censor the letters and see to It that 1 the soldier uses discretion ind doesn't mention things of military Importance. TWO CHAMPIONS ARE WED Best Dishwasher and Best Cook Ought to Make Useful Combi nation. Kansas City. Kan.—Two Knnsas | champions. the tiest pastry eook In ttie state anil the hcst dishwasher In the state, were married here recently. Frauds A. l>avis, seventy, a veteran of ' the Civil war and eldef pastry eook at the Soldiers' home at Leavenworth, Knn., and Mrs. Ida N. Wilson, forty nine, a widow employed ns a dishwash er at the home were the parties. YANKEE BAPTIZED ON A RUN Made Chaplain Hurry Because He Wanted to Catch Up With Hla Company. With the American Army at the Marne.—A long line of dust-covered Yankees were pushing their way through a shell-battered village near I Chnteau-Thlerry toward a ridge of Idlls from which came the rumble of artillery tire. At a crossroad# they came upon u chaplain, waiting beside a broken-down sidecar. One of the doughboys fell out of line uud walked rapid>y up to the crossroads. ''Say, Chaplain, baptize tve quick, ! will you?” he urged. “We'll he in the line to-night!" The chupluln walked away trom tlw sidecar. "I»o you believe”-lie began. “Yes, sir; I believe everything!” in terjected the hoy; “hut I've got to I : catch my company. Can't you make It t ! quick?” > In less than a minute the ceremony I was over and lie was running up the * 1‘outi DOCTORS CALLED WITHOUT CADSE Imperative That Physicians and Nurses Not Be Summoned Unless Necessary. PROPER CARE OF PAT ENTS Surgeon General Blue Tells What te Do for Persons Sick With Spanish Influenza—Use of Gauze Masks Recommended. Washington.—In an effort to reduce unnecessary calls on the over worked physicians throughout the country be cause of the present epidemic of |u. tluenzu, Surgeon General Blue of tt,u United States piddle health service calls upon the people of the country tu learn something about Hie home care of patients 111 with IntluenZa. |>|,v. slcians everywhere liave complained about tlie large number of unnecessary calls they have had to make because of the Inability of many people to die tlngulsh between the cases requiring expert medical care and these which could readily he cared for without * physician. With Influenza continuing to spread in many parts of the coun try. and with an acute shortage of doc tors and nurses everywhere, every uu "•*.wry call on either physicians or nurses makes it so much harder to meet the urgent needs of the pntiem, who are seriously III. Pretent Generation Spoiled. "The present generation," sni.l the aurge..n general, "has been .sfM,||,-<i hr ! having had exjH*rt medical and nursing '-are readily nvallahle. It was i„.r <„ in the days of our grumlinolh, rs, when every good housewife was expected t„ know a goo.I deal about the cur*1 of the sick. "Every person who feels sick and appears to he developing an attack of inltueoaa should at once he pnl t# l»e.| In a well-ventilated r.s.ia, if hia bowel* have moved regularly It la not necessary to give a physic; where a Phy sic la needed, a dose of castor oil or Itoehelle salts should he given. "The room should Is* cleared of all unnecessary furniture, hric a-hrac, and rugs. A wash liasln. pitcher, and slop howl, soap and towel should |>e at hand, preferably in the r.s.iu or Jud outside the door. "If the patient is feverish a doctor should he called, and this should be done In any case if the patient appear* very sick, or coughs up pinkish (t.i.ssl stained) aputnm. or breathes rapidly and painfully. "Moat of the patients cough up cod alderahle mucus; In some, thera la much mucus discharged from fhe noa* pud throat. This material should not by collected In haiMtfcevsfoers.se-' rather In blta of old rags, or toll, and Tier, o{ tin pn|>er napkins. As sooires It sc.I, these rags or paper* should !d. placed In a paper hug kept beside ty. I.e.1 I'm-ket handkerchiefs are out pluce In the ah k room and should mi he n«ed hv patient*. The rugs or pa pers In the pajMT hag should he hurtled. "The patients will not he hungry, an.I the diet should therefore he light Milk, a aoft-holled egg. some toast or crackers, u hit of Jelly or Jutu. stewed fruit, some cooked cereal llk« oatmeal, hominy or rice—these will suffice I* Host cases. Comfort of Patient. • The comfort of the patient de|*MsH >ii a number of little thing*, “lid these du.uld not he overlookml. Ho se may he mentioned a well vent luted room; a thoroughly clean be* with fresh, smooth sheets and plbo" rase*; quiet, so that refreshing »*"t may he had; cool drinking water f"0 venleut'" place>l; it cool nonpros >' the forehead If there Is headache, keeping the patient * hands awl clean, and the hair combed k<s-| n| his mouth clenu, preferably with IMI,n* pleasant month wash; letting ,l“‘ ,l* tlent know that aomeone Is within •* ■ hut io>t annoy log him w ith t"» ulU fussing; giving the patient plenty 11 opportunity to rest and sleep • It Is advisable to give the *!ek r>«" a g>»»l airing several times a “So much for the patient, equally Important to consider the P" ■*•11 who Is caring for him h i port nut to remember that the > me Is spread l.y breathing germ laden ter sprayed Into the air by the jl# In coughing or even In ordinal y lug. The attendant should there wear a gauae mask over *"’r nnd nose while she Is in the sick r _ Hiii'li a mask Is easily made by " a piece of gauze four fold, sew piece of lii|>e Ht the four corm ■ ^ tying the upper set of tape* j, ears, the lower set around it" If the folded piece of g»,,,!,> l!l six Inches sipinre It will nhc y both mouth and none. Sl"" * f(,r ran he worn without discomfort ^ several hours, after which 1 1 boiled In water, dried and use Observe Cleanliness. “The nttendnnt should, 11 „ W;iir a washable g.iwn or an .# which covers the dress. This « II much simpler to avoid Ini" 11 ,« •it Is deslruble Unit nil »"*' r lenrn how to use n*fe-ver tin "" .pj Tills Is nut at all a dlMW ult mat > • # the use of such n tlienii"'1'1 _( ; great help In coring for Um ''.,-,,10111 Tho drupirfiR who mj1ls mh'**' ^ I *»t«>rn will l»«* Kind ,NV *" HT** unlit'1" i ‘i;i cb.slc*;. and l«*st I 1“' ' () (1f st>sal. 1 wish to leave aim , caution• If In lUcfl't, g*1'1 ,llt’ ' i