Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 127, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 June 1918 — WHAT CAN WE DO? [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

WHAT CAN WE DO?

From Red Cross Briefs, published In Atlanta the following inspiring account of Red Cross work in France is taken: The national headquarters of the American . Red Cross in Washington has just received a report from Major Perkins, Red Cross commissioner fb France, on the work of civil relief and restoration done in France during the month of February. During this one month, substantial aid was given to over a hundred thousand French refugees, repatriates and other war sufferers. This number included about twenty thousand persona in the devastated areas, seven thousand, five hundred repatriates in provinces and nearly six thousand undernourished Paris school children. More than twenty-two thousand people were given hospital care during this one month, including thousands of repatriate children at Evian, and about a thousand tuberculosis patients in Paris who were given supplementary rations daily. Work is now being conducted by the Red Cross in 98 French cities and villages, not including, the Friends’ unit which has 21 relief stations, or the Smith College unit which works In 11 villages. Nine civilian hospitals with a total capacity of more than a thousand beds and 46 dispensaries give care to children, tuberculosis patients and refugees. Grants of money to French organizations during the month totaled more than half a million francs, and, in addition, large quantities of clothing, food and household goods were distributed. The Red Cross now has a staff of 490 workers in France, 66 having been added during February.

General Pershing has just called on the army medical department to accept 100.000 convalescent uniforms made by American women and offered to the army. The general points out that the medical department is buying in the open market pajamas, operating gowns, bath robes and convalescent suits while’the Red Cross stands ready to supply them. He teßs the surgeon general at Washington that the work of the Red Cross is of immense value in keeping up the morale of the army, and that it also releases labor for use elsewhere.