Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 February 1919 — CHAPTERS TO KNIT FOR DESTITUTE PEOPLES ABROAD [ARTICLE]

CHAPTERS TO KNIT FOR DESTITUTE PEOPLES ABROAD

Plans have been perfected for a new knitting program to be carried out by the Red Cross chapters of the land in behalf of the destitutein European countries. Details and instructions wiU soon be seht out from national headquarters to the division managers with respect to the issuance of yarn in hand to be made into stockings, sweaters and mufflers for children, and shawls for women. It is urged that every energy be bent to speed up production as the need for articles abroad i= very great. One of the recent cables on the subject stated that unlimited use can be made of childrens stockings and strongly recommended that the yarn available when the knitting of garments for our soldiers ceased, be utilized with as little delay as possible for knitting them for the benefit of destitute children in all parts of the world. Refugees from all over the world, who have been driven from their homes by the varying fortunes of war, have been for geveral years in rags or with practically no clothes at all. Pitiable stories have been flashed across the ocean about thousands of children who are barefooted and bare-legged while snow and ice is on the ground. In all of these countries, however, the American Red Cross has commissions and is prepared to make distribution. —The Jasper Gounty Ghapter has a quantity of yarn which will be knitted into children’s stockings. MRS. ORA T. ROSS, ■ , Director of Knitting.