Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 261, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 November 1917 — Red Cross [ARTICLE]

Red Cross

Think over the following statements gleaned from the Red Cross Day speeches in Cleveland. “We have heard that we are operating at a big overhead expense. This is false. For every dollar you give us we get about $1.02 of value. We work this by a fine system of interest with the banks.” —Chairman Davison. “We havedecided to carry the theory of our knitting department into the work of the whole organization—this is 90 per cent common sense and 10 per cent instruction.”— General Manager Gibson. “Red Cross nurses unfortunately are not always prettily clad, as you might imagine from- the magazine covers. - In Serbia the Scotch nurses worked in pajamas in parafine to keep down the vermin, shaved their heads for the same reason, and because there were no stretchers, carried their patients through the streets on their backs.”—Miss Burke. “A-bout 3,000,000 surgical dressings are now being supplied each month by the American Red Cross. This is not sufficient. We need 5,000,000 a month. At this point let me say that no supplies are sold to soldiers by the Red Cross. I want to make this plain to offset reports to the contrary.”—General Manager Gibson.