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Newspaper
Fairfield Tribune
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1918
Page
6
The Red Cross efforts to unify diverse races under one flag grow through Home Service with 10,000 committees aiding soldiers families. The Christmas Roll Call aims to boost memberships from 22 million to maximum capacity as America stands indivisible for honor mercy and good faith.
A tuberculosis patient enrollment drive linked to the Red Cross Christmas Roll Call aims to recruit every tuberculous patient in nearly 600 sanatoria nationwide. The National Tuberculosis Association and Journal of Outdoor Life organize special campaigns to achieve 100 percent enrollment per institution and have each patient recruit one more. This patient action supports Red Cross funding for 1919.
American Red Cross trucks operate on the Belgian front. In the last two weeks they handled 240 tons of foodstuffs and salvaged goods while saving residents’ effects in Furnes Abeele Coxyde La Panne Alveringhem Oost-Dunrick the Trappist Fort St Jeanle-Biezen and Reningheist without injuries to trucks or drivers.
The American Red Cross will manufacture many water sterilizers and disinfecting plants for Italy. They are to be turned over to the Italian military authorities at Rome and used at their discretion.
Through American Red Cross efforts scientific farming is taught to Italy’s younger generation. A Rome farming school outside Porta Furba trains orphans of peasant soldiers under Salesian Fathers with modern American machinery and fieldwork to build attachment to the soil.
Bishop John J. O'Connor of Newark advocates Red Cross Christmas roll call urging citizens to enroll. He says the organization embodies humanity with practical aid, and notes only two duties for members to relieve suffering and show pity. He calls on all to join and place their names on the rolls.
George E. Scott, general manager of the American Red Cross, outlines the Christmas Roll Call as a call to universal Red Cross membership. A nationwide response would uplift soldiers and sailors, renew devotion at home, and inspire workers overseas.
The American Red Cross runs sixteen convalescent hospitals in Italy with twenty-nine more in construction. Soldiers receive wound care and health support plus trades training. Each hospital provides typewriters sewing machines and cabinet making tools to teach useful skills and offer restorative activities during recovery.
Springfield Mass Republican argues the president must attend Paris peace talks to secure a favorable outcome. It notes naval leverage, sea-law uncertainty, and Allied leverage from his presence, warning against domestic opposition and stressing U S detachment and worldwide influence.
John E. Giller of Warsaw Illinois and Frank Springer of Warsaw Illinois pleaded guilty before Judge Hale in the district court to maintaining a nuisance on liquor charges. Each man was fined $1,000 plus costs. The proceedings marked a first in the case.
A non resident paid a record fine into the Iowa county treasury for a charge the largest ever in the state. The money will enrich the local school fund.
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