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EL PASO HERALD
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The health comfort and peace of mind of our fighting men is a national
obligation. In its thorough care of our men the Government reflects the coun-
try's determination that ours shall be the best-cared-for soldiers and sailors
m the world:
The whole nation stands pledged to every sacrifice that will add to the
happiness or effectiveness of our men.
The Red Cross is the people's agent in this as it is authorized by Congress
Canteen Service.
A troop train rolls in at four o'clock three hours
late. No one has had dinner. It isn't any one's
fault. There has beerr a freight wreck or something
has delayed it.
Everyone i tired; everyone is hungry. A sol-
dier in the first coach passes along the word. Here
they are! Down the yard come the Red Cross wo-
men; the coffee is ready and hot trays of sand-
wiches a portion for every man for Red Cross knew
they were coming and is ready for them.
Best of all there is a word of cheer. In five min-
utes all hands are in good spirits. The postcards
are ready for the men to write home the Red Cross
Motor Corps stands beside to take the one sick sol-
dier to the hospital and there will be Red Cross
women to see that he is-not forgotten there. All is
conducted in an orderly way in full co-operation
with the Army authorities and railway manage-
ment. This is typical of what the Red Cross is doing at
700 important railroad points in the United States
today.
Camp Service.
The great army cantonment or naval station is a
new kind of city. Here are 40000 young men in
a new environment living a new kind of life. There
is every problem of the city of 40000 always with
some novel phase. The Red Cross has filled a real
place in these new cities helping the Army and
Navy in keeping the men healthy comfortable and
happy.
In the camp the young soldier finds that elaborate
preparation had been made for his arrival. The site
has been made healthy and comfortable by the
Army or Navy. The area surrounding the camp
has been in charge of the United States Sanitary
Service the Red Cross Sanitary Service and the
local health authorities.
If an epidemic threatens the camp as during the
recent winter and the hard-worked Army Medical
Staff is baffled they may call for a Red Cross lab-
oratory car to be rushed to the scene with its expert
bacteriologists and scientific equipment to study the
situation and help protect the men.
In every camp there are the Red Cross Store-
houses filled with emergency medical and surgical
supplies. Then there are the knitted goods made by
the devoted women of America and there were
few of our men who were not thankful to those wo-
men for additional comfort during the ttymg winter
months.
If the soldier falls ill in the cantonment he is put
in an ambulance perhaps the gift of a Red Cross
chapter its driver quite possibly a member of a Red
Cross ambulance unit which has been given to the
Army; he is taken to the base hospital operated by
the Army Medical Corps; possibly the doctor at-
tending him is an officer of a Hospital Unit organ-
ized and equipped by the Red Cross; his nurse in
all probability is one of the thousands of Red Cross
nurses recruited by the Red Cross for service in the
Army and Navy.
When he begins to recover he has the Red Cross
Convalescent Houses. Here are reading and loung-
ing rooms an entertainment auditorium a place to
meet his friends and hasten his recovery. Then
there are sleeping accommodations for his mother
who may have been summoned in the critical stage
of his illness.
In every camp there are Red Cross Home Service
representatives to keep the man in touch wi(h his
home folks to advise them of the details of his sick-
ness to co unsel him about family or financial com-
FOR FRIDAY.
The management of the Grecian
Theater has agreed to donate its
gross receipts for tomorrow for the
benefit of the Red Cross. Local
Red Cross members will act as
ushers ticket takers and sellers. In
fact the Red Crow wUI be in
charge at the Grecian tomorrow and
every cent taken in will be given to
the Red Cross. This feature should
easily provide the Red Cross Fund
with $700. However to make this
amount possible it is necessary that
the afternoon shows be largely attended.
plications to take home worries from his shoulders
and through the Red Cross Chapter in his home
town to remove the cause of those worries.
Home Service
The care of the soldier's family is as necessary
as the care of the soldier himself if the spirit so neces-
sary to his effectiveness as a fighting man is to be
maintained. If he is harassed by anxiety about
those dearest to him at home he cannot be on fight-
ing edge.
Red Cross Home Service meets this problem.
It is a new condition that such a large percentage
of its young men should be removed from a town
with all they have meant in moral and financial sup-
port. Their absence creates new problems in the
aggregate so large they must be coped with in a
large way. Red Cross Home Service makes the
sympathy interest and help of the whole commun-
ity available to the family in a practical manner. It
is playing the part of the old neighbor in a new way.
To see that the family is not disorganized while
he is absent; to give temporary financial aid when
necessary; to care for those who though they are
related to him have no legal claim upon the Gov-
ernment; to give information about pay-allotments
terms of enlistment war risk insurance; to co-operate
with the Government in the after-care of the dis-
abled soldier and his readjustment to life; to act as
the good neighbor and friend of the family in
troubles large and small wheh the soldier is absent
these are the aims of Red Cross Home Service
established in every section of the country and al-
ready serving one hundred thousand dependent
families of soldiers and sailors.
to be the "medium of communication between the people of the United States
and its Army and Navy."
The Red Cross supplements in every practical way the' excellent care
which is taken of each boy by the Army and Navy. There is the closest co-
operation between the Government and the Red Cross; the two Surgeon-Generals
are members of the Red Cross Executive Committee: Armv and Navy
officers are assigned to Red Cross headquarters; a Red Cross Field Director
with necessary assistants is stationed at every cantonment or naval station.
teens operating right behind the front line giving
him hot or cold drinks.
If the soldier is wounded a Red Cross bandage
made by Red Cross women at home binds the
wound. The Red Cross man follows him to the
hospital sees to his welfare and supplements the
prompt cable advice of the Government to his folks
at home by the full story of his condition and prog-
ress. Abroad it is a great comfort to him to know that
Red Cross Home Service is seeing to it that his fam-
ily is not in want.
Red Cross is anticipating the soldier's possible
permanent disablement by an institution already
established where the best methods of rehabilitation
work are being studied the results of the experi-
ments to be put at the disposal of the Government
which is making adequate plans for the care of mu-
tilated men.
If the worst befalls him the Red Cross repre-
sentative talks with the men who fought beside him
in the battle and supplementing the Government's
cable advice sends his people the story of his final
heroic sacrifice.
Prisoners' Service
If the soldier is taken prisoner he still finds the
Red Cross caring for him. The Red Cross in co-
operation with the Quartermaster General of the
Army furnishes all American prisoners in Germany
with food clothing and tobacco. These supplies
are shipped to the Red Cross warehouses in Beme
Switzerland and from there twenty pounds of food
are sent to each prisoner every week. The prisoners
receipt for the packages so that delivery is almost
certain. The notations on the receipts "With all
my heart I thank you" "There is an American touch
to that parcel" are ihe best evidence of the impor-
tance of this work.
Then too the Red Cross is able to correspond
with the prisoners' families keeping their informed
of their condition and whereabouts. Letters are
sent back and forth gifts of money and individual
packages from friends and relatives are forwarded.
The Red Cross alone has permission from both the
United States Government and Germany to con-
duct this service.
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SECRETARY BAKER in making a recent
inspection tour of Red Cross activities in France
said:
"When one is in the zone of the armies or in the
supply areas words of appreciation or praise for the
American Red Cross seem superfluous. The fore-
sight that has characterized its present and prospec-
tive operations has been a source of pride to the com-
manding officer of the American forces and should
be a source of comfort to the people of the United
States who I know enabled it to carry on its work
and to expand."
This is the third of a series of five announcements
covering the work of the Red Goes. The Times
will carry an interesting chapter Friday morning on
"Our Red Cross and Our Allies."
We Will also say thai although the drive for tht
second Red Cross War Fund does not officially
begin until Monday May 20lh the drive in El
Paso really begins tomorrow. The Grecian Thea-
ter Will bt in charge of local Red Cross workers
and every cent derived from admissions will form
the nucleus to fill El Paso's pot that sends a rainbow
of cheer to relieve our boys in France
A REQUE5T.
The executive committee of the
Red Cross requests that the public
attend the earlier shows. The hours
are 1:00. 2:30. 4:00. 5:30. 7:00.
8:30. and 10:00. A bill of unusual
excellence has been arranged for.
It includes the big Red Crocs pic-
ture by James Montgomery Flagg.
"The Spirit of the Red Cross."
"Mile. Paulette" a special Triangle
comedy drama concludes the bill.
All seats are 25c and every cent
goes to the Red Cross. Attend the
earner shows and you will add con-
siderably to the Red Cross Fund.
Home Service is not a charity; it is as much the
soldier's right as any protection which the people
give him.
Foreign Service
1 American troops are now in France in great num-
ber greater numbers will follow day by day and
America's task abroad will become sterner.
The need for the Red Cross abroad is but great-
er for the distance. Red Cross preparation for the
reception of our troops in France has been going on
since the first month of the war. The Red Gross
Commission in France has built a great extensive
organization in people and material to assure that
our men will have every care the Red Cross can
give them. Through all the months since war be-
gan Red Cross supplies have occupied a part of
many ships; piling up in the great Red Cross ware-
houses in France against the arrival of our men. The
great Red Cross motor fleet has been organized to
transport Red Cross supplies.
All through these months the organization has
been studying and training so that it would be able
to cope effectively with the problems created by the
arrival of our men. Red Cross in France is sup-
porting our Army and is ready for any further task
that may within reason fall to it.
On the way to his camp in France the American
soldier gets food and rest at the Red Cross canteens.
On the way from the trenches to his camp he meets
the great Red Cross canteens on the lines of commu-
nication. Here the tired nerve-worn soldier cov-
ered with vermin gets food a bath rest and clean
clothes. The great canteen at Chalons is typical.
As he goes into the front line trenches and as he
comes out he is met by the Red Cross rolling can-
The space for this announcement has been contributed by the El Paso Clearing House Association to aid the work of the Red Cross.
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