Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 April 1920 — NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS OFFERS ANNUAL PRIZE FOR RED CROSS WORK [ARTICLE]

NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS OFFERS ANNUAL PRIZE FOR RED CROSS WORK

npHE American Red Cross issue® 1 four prizes each year for remarkable examples of First Aid work. These are: Ist Prize $50.00 2nd Prize 25.00 3rd Prize 15.00 4th Prize 10.00 Competition for these prizes Is open to all holders of Red Cross First Aid certificates and in special cases to others who have been instructed in First Aid under the ausplcei of the Red Cross and yet may not hold certificates. An account of the nature of the injury is required, together with the statement of the person doing the First Aid, supplemented by a statement from the physician to whom the case goes following the First Aid work done. This competition is decided every year In December by National Headquarters of the Red Cross. It has been the experience ot National Headquarters that a great many people delay sending In these accounts until December. * Then thej arrive too late to be considered as First Aid work done in that calendar year. It is reqv- sted further hat these accounts of First Aid rendered be sent to the Lake Division director of First Aid, Cleveland, typewritten if possible with a carbon enclosure. These accounts will be sent speedily to Washington. . Five doctors and 11 other workers of the American Red Crosj Commission remain in middle Siberia to distribute the large amounts of relief supplies previously shipped into the interior. Much of the work was halted and .mmediate evacuation of several warehouses made necessary through the wars jetween the various factions. American Red Cross workers at Chita supplied clothing for 3,000 miners, 5,000 railway employes and their families, 3,000 Austro-German prisoners and approximately 1,000 civilians during the recent particularly bitter cold of the Arctic winter there.