Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 231, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 September 1919 — RED CROSS EXTENDS ACTIVITIES TO BENEFIT RURAL COMMUNITIES [ARTICLE]

RED CROSS EXTENDS ACTIVITIES TO BENEFIT RURAL COMMUNITIES

B THE Red Cross is your Red Cross, serving you at home, representing you abroad. It is for you, now that the war emergency is past, to make the most of its far-reaching ability to serve. Home Service work, undertaken by the Red Cross Department of Civilian Relief, served in war time to aid the families of fighting men and to relieve anxiety of soldiers in camps. Out of experience gained in this work comes the Red Cross plan for the future. The common objective of all Red Cross work Is to Improve general living conditions, to conserve the health and to promote the welfare of all people. In the larger cities community improvement has already reached a high state of development. It Is left for the Red Cross to assist in furthering such work at the request of established agencies. But in the small cities and towns the Red Cross service is only limited by the Interest and response of the public to the opportunity offered by the peace time extension of the Red Cross. Home Service is not charity work. The Red Cross organization is opefi to all. All may benefit by making the most of its far-reaching ability to serve. Health, education, the development of the public health nursing Idea and allied forms of coSfthunity betterment work will be dealt with as individual problems where Red Cross assistance is invited.