By ELMO SCOTT WATSON
HEN Nature strikes flercely and
with little or no warning to over-
whelm puny mankind with some
disaster; when a tornado whirls
down on village and farm, leaving
death and destruction in its
wake: when floods and hurrl-
canes, fires and earthquakes, ex-
plosions and epidemics take their
toll of human suffering and prop-
erty damage, then it is that
those messengers of mercy, Amer
ican Red Cross officials and workers, mobilize
swiftly and speed to the place where they are
most needed,
It was only a few weeks ago that word flashed
down from the north that fire had swept Nome,
laska, leaving that town, once famed as a gold
camp but now a modern American city, a heap
of ashes. Within a few hours after the receipt
of this news a Red Cross relief director was
stepping into an airplane at San Francisco and
a few minutes later he was winging his way
toward the stricken city,
When the ill-fated “Morro Castle” burst into
flames off the coast of New Jersey, Red Cross
disaster units in coastal chapters of that state
immediately rallied to the work of rescue, the
care of survi ivors and the Yeuniting of separated
€amilies, relatives and friends. More than a
geore of nurses were summoned from their beds
{ 3 the chill dawn to take up long vigils on board
rescue vessels, In hospitals, at piers and at
morgues. There they m sinistered to sufferers
from injuries, exposure, shock and grief.
And yet these spectacular examples were only two
of the 78 disaster jobs in the continental United
States in which the Red Cross was active during
the past year. Add to these, assistance given
in 20 insular and foreign catastrophes and the
aggregate Is 108—just about the average for an
organization that has been shouldering this sort
of task through more than half a century.
No part of the United States escaped some
sort of disaster, there being a total of 163 coun-
ties In which the Red Cross assisted 110,000 vie-
tims, Tornadoes and fires were the leading
agencies of destruction with 25 cases of each
necessitating Red Cross relief work.
Besides these, 17 floods—one of which took
the life of a Red Cross relief worker on duty—
swept down out of the kills and forests to lift
houses from their foundations, to destroy crops
and live stock, and to send refugees scurrying to
higher points. Tropical storms hung up a new
record for frequency within a single year, and
for the first time in a hundred years a hurri-
cane starting in the West Indies whipped with
undiminished force as far north as the Virginia
const,
There were also epidemics, cyclones, explo
sions, hall storms, a typhoon, an earthquake, a
cloudburst and other emergencies which acted
to bring the Red Cross with shelter, food, med!
«cal supplies, nurses, hospitalization and rehabili-
tation programs,
In the highest state of disaster-preparedness
in history, the Red Cross Introduced something
new when It conducted 28 disaster institutes at
strategic points in particularly vulnerable zones,
Veteran disaster workers schooled loeal chapter
officers, community leaders, police, fire and
health officials in the surveying of hazards and
organizing of relief. In the case of a number of
approaching storms, disaster experts from na-
tional Red Cross headquarters rushed to the
scene hours and even days In advance of the
calamity, saving many lives by the precautions
they invoked,
Members of the Red Cross nursing reserve,
public health nurses, home hygiene Instructors
continued as one of the nation's first lines of
health defense. More than 36,000 nurses are on
the active list of the reserve, ready to respond
to calls from army, navy or Red Cross disaster
service,
Several were dispatched to a North Carolina
community stricken by pernicious tropical
malaria. {Others were sent to cope wit' a ty-
phold epldemie. Still others performed heroic
work In connection with a forest fire In a Call.
fornia canyon. To a first ald station In connec
tion with a convention of Spanish-American war
veterans was assigned another group. And these
are only a few instances from a record of varied
and numerous services given by this nursing
army which Is always available for duty.
Some 750 public health nurses were regularly
employed by 424 Red Cross chapters, for the
. most part in rural territory. They made more
“than a million visits In line of duty—giving
CENTRE
1. Taking the sky trails to fire.gutted Nome,
Alaska, Bowen McCoy, sent as relief director,
saying good-by to A, L. Schafer, manager of the
Pacific office of the American Red Cross, before
taking off from San Francisco.
2. Cokeoven dweller in a Pennsylvania in.
dustrial center being given first aid by a Red
Cross public health nurse,
3. The old folks are not forgotten by the
friendly and helpful Red Cross. Here is a public
health nurse and two of her patients, the couple
not only receiving needed nursing attention but
having previously been recipients of Red Cross
flour and clothing.
4. Streets flooded at Harlingen, Texas, in the
wake of one of those flerce coastal hurricanes
which strike inland from the Gulf of Mexico.
Note the Red Cross car in the foreground on a
mission of rescue and relief,
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baths to bedridden patients, massaging aged
Joints and little crippled legs, assisting physi.
cians at childbirth and in many instances finding
it necessary to preside alone at such occasions,
administering medicines and hypodermics under
doctor's orders, bathing mothers and their new
bables, advising on health problems in the home.
They responded to the needs of miners and
their families, of steel! workers, of the white
collar group, of ranchers and small croppers.
These gray uniformed nurses drove thelr small
cars as far as they could up mountain trails,
then walked the rest of the way to isolated
cabins where the sick awaited. They forded
creeks In summer, crossed on the ice In winter,
to get to pneumonia cases and broken legs.
Selected by the Red Cross not only because of
technical qualifications but on the basis of cour
age and stamina, they rang up another record of
quiet heroism, ‘
Children are always of first concern to the
Red Cross health services, and public health
nurses last year inspected more than 620,000
children In the schools—~heading off cases of
incipient disease, noting defects in teeth and
eyes in time to correct them, suggesting ways of
personal cleanliness, advising a® to hot school
lunches and other means of preventing mal
nutrition, Their work resulted not only In per
manent health improvement but in better class
room performance, The Interest and generosity
of Will Rogers and of the Scottish Rite Masons
brought about the support of 52 and 33 public
health nursing services, respectively,
To take care of widespread demands for in-
struction In simple nursing In the home, the
Red Cross added more than 1,400 specially pre-
pared nurse-teachers to its army of health evan.
gels mobilized under the banner of home hygiene
and care of the sick. More than 62.000 students
-not only housewives but men and young people
wenrolled in classes; more than 49,000 of them
completed courses and were awarded certificates,
As regular yearround services proceeded,
emergency calls plied and were met as they
developed, Civilian home service involved the
giving of ald to more than
transient veterans were assisted and classes in
home hygiene, food selection, first ald and life
saving were organized, at the request of the
Federal Rellef administration,
Red Cross first aid service, slways in high
gear, added to its responsibilities the training
of 70.000 foremen, time clerks, and other key
employees of the Civil Works administration
did such an efficient job that it was asked to
give the same sort of instruction to approxi.
mately
servation corps, a program still under way. Al
together, the number of first ald certificates
awarded within the twelve months totaled more
than 130000: the number since establishment
of the service 20 years ago, more than 763.000,
The Red Cross life saving emblem was in
evidence at an increasing number of beaches
and pools and summer camps. More than 72,000
life saving certificates were Issued daring the
fiscal year, bringing the number Issued during
the two decades since the initiation of the service
to more than 558,000,
With the economic
new regulations in effect,
service moved to top speed on behalf of veterans
and service men,
28400 famiiles :
ment hospitals, or to their families,
being taken of the completion of distribution of
85,000,000 bushels of government wheat sur
pluses and 544.000 bales of government cotton
surpluses,
the preponderantly important work in disaster
relief—included production of 4.734000 gar
ments, 340,000 pages of hand-braflle and 314.000
pages of duplicated-braille for the blind, 3.678.
000 surgical dressings, 18400 layettes, 10.000
Christmas bags for lonely sallors and soldiers at
distant points. Canteen workers fed 140,000 per
sons; members of the motor corps made 64,000
calls; home service workers made 67.000 visits.
Volunteers numbered more than 322.000,
Because such a splendid record as all of these
signify has been characteristic of the Red Cross
for decades, the American public responded with
an almost war-time fervor last year when the
battle with the depression was still being waged
and added 100000 senior members’ and more
than a quarter of A million junior members
to the Red Cross rolls during the annual roll
call In 1038. And now the 1084 roll eall will
soon be under way—from Armistice day until
Thanksgiving day—offering Americans an op
portunity to register their approval of the work
of THEIR Red Cross by enrolling under its
bancer of mercy,
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