Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 September 1919 — KENTUCKY MAN ASKS HELP FOR SERBIANS [ARTICLE]

KENTUCKY MAN ASKS HELP FOR SERBIANS

AFTER a month’s investigation of conditions in Serbia and a survey of Serbia’s man-power. Lieutenant Colonel Edgar E. Hume, Frankfort, Ky., an army officer, heading the American commission for relief service in the Balkans, has recommended that the American Red Cross continue its work there for at least another year. “The hospitals need help most desperately,” he reports. "If assistance is to come it must,come promptly; and if it is to come promptly it must proceed from American sources. The need for rubber is very great and surgeons are forced to operate without the protection of rubber glove® even in the most infectious cases. Soap is another essential that has disappeared. The lack of laundry soapmakes clean linen almost Impossible. By continued washing with caustics, the hospital linens have worn out and cannot be replaced. The most necessary medicines are no longer in the

hospital stores.” To assist In relieving the distressing situation in Budapest, the American Red Cross recently ordered the shipment of a trainload of medical and surgical supplies from its warehouse In Belgrade. The train will carry American hos« pltal equipment at all times—soaps, hospital garments and dletery foods — and will be in charge of an American Red Cross staff. As in many parts of Eastern Europe, the Red Cross work of relief will be done in co-operation with the feeding program undertaken by the American Relief Administration. Colonel Hume also appeals to the American people for the relief of the orphans of Serbia, numbering half a million. He recommends an extension of this particular Red Cross activity which, due to the limited number of foreign workers, Includes only a small proportion of the fatherless and motherless children of this country.

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