Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 152, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 July 1917 — What Can We Do? [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

What Can We Do?

In previous articles directions for forming a Red Cross chapter and directions for forming an auxiliary to a chapter, have been given, together with suggestions for campaigns to secure members. When an auxiliary has been formed, the next thing to do is to determine what branch of Red Cross work this particular auxiliary will take up and how to go about doing the work. The American Red Cross is anxious to have available for usegi-atiy time a great quantity of surgical dressings and hospital supplies ready for the demands that come from hospitals where wounded soldiers and sailors are cared for. In the preparation of these supplies most women can help, if they will. A newly formed auxiliary can begin its services to the best advantage by taking up this branch of the work, for war makes the need for hospital supplies imperative and -volunteer workers can do the work. Women in the churches throughout the country are interesting themselves in this means of service.

All surgical dressings and hospital supplies must be made, packed and shipped according to the specifications and standards of the Red Cross, which meet the requirements of the United States army and navy. In order that women may know how to prepare supplies that will conform to adopted standards, the Red Cross is directing much effort to the spread of instruction. The educational courses are under the supervision of Miss Clara D.. Noyes, director of the bureau of flursing service, in Washington. This instruction is carried on in two forms — either by supplying Instructors for individual classes or in teaching centers, where permanent quarters are engaged and a corps of teachers conduct continuous classes. These centers are established now in New York, Brooklyn, Philadelphia, Washington, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Chicago, Denver, San Francisco, Los Angeles and other places. For information concerning course of instruction, preparation of surgical dressings, address “Bureau of Nursing Service, Red Cross Headquarters, Washington, D. C.”