Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 94, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 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 es the land in behalf of the deatltate in European countries. Details and Instructions have been sent out from national headquarters to ths division managers with respect to the issuance of yarn In hand to bo made into stockings, sweaters and mufflers for children, and shawl< /for women. It is urged that every energy be bent to speed up production as the need for articles abroad Is very great. One of the recent cables on the subject stated that unlimited use can be made of children's stockings and* strongly recommended thnt the yarn available when the knitting of garments for our soldiers ceased, bo utilized with as little delay as possible for knitting them for tho benefit of destitute children in all parts of thq world. Refugees from all over the world, who have been driven from their homes by the varying fortunes in war, have been for several 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, ths American Red Cross has commissions and is prepared to make distribution. The Jasper County chapter has a quantity of yarn which will be knitted into children’s stockings.— ORA T. ROSS, Director of Knitting.