Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 August 1919 — RED CROSS STILL BUSY BRINGING FIGHTERS BACK [ARTICLE]

RED CROSS STILL BUSY BRINGING FIGHTERS BACK

UNDER the Department of Military Relief the Red Cross with the beginning of war mapped out an elaborate program for the care of soldiers “all the way over and back again.” Now the “back again” part of the service is being carried out. The Canteens in Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky alone took care of 246,200 doughboys last month, according to the last monthly report to the Lake Division headquarters in Cleveland. Ohio. In Red Cross convalescent houses, recreations and amusements of all kinds keep the boys interested and make getting well easy. Red Cross Home Service men In camps, constantly in touch with the Home Service workers in the 857 Lake Division chapters and the branches and auxiliaries can get almost any information about the soldiers and sailors famiUea. Anxiety over the safety, uncertainty as to the welfare of loved ones can be overcome by. the Red Cross’ ability to bridge the gap between the soldier and his distant home folks. At present 500 Red Cross Home Service representatives are working with 50,000 patients in the camps of the country. Practical service to your boy has been and continues the end and alm of the Department of Military Relief of the Red Cross. One example of how effort is being made continually to accomplish this emj, is shown by a recent arrangement made at Camp Sherman and Camp Taylor in the Lake Division. Representatives of the American Bankers' Association and Red Cross men have established a banking system on a small scale which issues to the discharged soldier a non-negotla-ble receipt and secures the safe transfer of his fund free of charge to the home town bank he selects. Within two hours of the opening of the bank at Camp Taylor $5,780 were deposited. On one day in June 283 men deposited $28,930. By seeing needs and arranging to meet them, the Red Cross Is continuing and will continue indefinitely its service to American fighting men, their families and to countries beyond our own shores where wrongs need righting.