By ELMO SCOTT WATSON
HEN Nature strikes fiercely and
? I with little or no warning to over
? ? f whelm puny mankind with some
? Si disaster; when a tornado whirls
down on village and farm, leaving
-M-M. death and destruction in its
I I I wake; when floods and hurri
Ji ? ? ?canes, fires and earthquakes, ex
^plosions and epidemics take their
I Nl&SL '?" ?' 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,
Alaska, 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 survivors and the reuniting of separated
families, relatives and friends. More than a
S,core of nurses were summoned from their beds
I , the chill dawn to take up long vigils on board
rescue vessels. In hospitals, at piers and at
morgues. There they ministered to sufferers
from injuries, exposure, shock and grief.
Andyet 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 25 insular and foreign catastrophes and the
aggregate Is 103?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 119,000 vic
tims. Tornadoes and fires were the leading
agencies of destruction with 25 cases of each
?MUABsiiotlx. 11 ?.n.lr
uvvcoonaiiug ncvi vjioog iciici num.
Besides these, 17 floods?one of which took
the life of a Red Cross relief worker on duty?
swept down out of the hills 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
coast.
There were also epidemics, cyclones, erplo
sions. hail storms, a typhoon, an earthquake, a
cloudburst and other emergencies which acted
to bring the Red Cross with shelter, food, medi
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 local chapter
officers, community leaders, 0police, fire and
health officials in the surveying of hazards and
- organizing of-frt the of-- -
approaching storms, disaster experts from na
tional Red Cross headquarters rushed to the
acene 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 30,000 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
phoid epidemic. Still others performed heroic
work in connection with a forest fire In a Cali
fornia canyon. To a first aid 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
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
babies, 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 their 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.
? technical qualifications but on the basis of cour
age and stamhia, 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 mure man o*iw,wu
children in the schools?heading off rases of
Incipient disease, noting defects in teeth and
eyes In time to correct them, suggesting ways of
personal cleanliness, advising as to hot school
lunches and other means of preventing mal
nutrition. Their work resulted not only it* 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
?enrolled in classes: more than 40.000 of them
completed courses and were awarded certificates.
As regular year round services proceeded,
E
emergency calls multiplied and weie met as they
developed. Civilian home service involved the
giving of aid to more than 284,000 families;
transient veterans were assisted and classes in
home hygiene, food selection, first aid and life
saving were organized, at the request of the
Federal Relief administration.
Red Cross first aid service, always 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 300,000 members of the Civilian Con
servation corps, a program still under way. Al
together, the number of first aid certificates
awarded within the twelve months totaled more
than 130.00Q; the number since establishment
of the service 25 years ago, more than 703,000.
The Red Cross life wiving emblem was in
evidence at an increasing number of beaches
and pools and summer camps. More than 72,000
life saving certificates were Issued during the
fiscal year, bringing the number issued during
the two decades since the initiation of the service
to more than 559,000.
With the economic pressure continuing and
new regulations In effect, the Red Cross war
service moved to top speed on behalf of veterans
and service men. Approximately a third of a
million ex-service men or their families brought
their problems to Red Cross workers. Aid was
extended by representatives of the national or
ganization to more than 67,000 men in govern
ment hospitals, or to their families.
The picture of the most recent Red Cross
accomplishments is not complete without note
being taken of the completion of distribution of
?fgi.Olkl.OOO hnsheht?of? ion WfTUionf?WT;- Imir--i
pluses end 844,000 bales of government cotton |
surpluses. Volunteer achievements?aside from
the preponderantly important work. In disaster
relief?Included production of 4.734.000 gar
ments, 340.000 pages of hand-braille and 314.000
pages of dupllcated-braille for the blind, 3,678,
000 surgical dressings, 18,400 layettes. 10.000
Christmas bags for lonely sailors and soldiers at
distant points. Canteen workers fed 149,000 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 Ked 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 100,000 senior members and more
than a quarter of a million junior members
to the Ked Cross rolls during the annual roll
call in 1933. And now the 1934 roll call will
soon be under way?from Armistice day until
Thanksgiving day?offering Americans an op
portunity to register their approval of the work
of TIIKIR Ked Cross by enrolling under its
banner of mercy.
C by Western Newspaper Union
1. Taking the eky 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. Coke-oven 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 fierce 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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UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL
Sunday i
chool Lesson
(By REV P. B FITZWATEK, D U..
Member of Faculty. Moody Bible
Institute ot Chicago >
?. Western New*i.i|ier Union
Lesson for November 4
CHRISTIAN GROWTH
LESSON TEXT?Lull* 2:42-52; IJ
Peter 1:5-8.
GOLDEN TEXT?But grow In grace,
and In the knowledge of our Lord and
Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be glory
both now and forever. Amen.?II Peter
8:18
PRIMARY TOPIC?When Jesus Was
a Boy.
JUNIOR TOPIC?When Jesus Was a
Junior.
INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR TOP
IC?How a Christian Grows.
YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULT TOP
IC?Making Progress in Christian Liv
ing.
t. Jesus Christ Growing (Luke 2:42
52).
While Christ was Indeed divine, his
deity did not interfere with his devel
opment as a normal human being.
L Jesus tarrying behind at Jerusa
lem (vv. 42-43).
At the age of twelve a Jewish child
took his place In the temple as a wor
shiper. He was considered a "child of
the law." Being conscious of bis mis
sion, when Joseph and his mother
were returning from attendance at the
Passover, he tarried behind to enter
the temple and Inquire into the mean
ing of the ordinances of God's house.
He had an alert and eager mind which
Inquired after the truth.
2. Jesus found in the temple (vv.
44-50).
When Joseph and Jesus* mother had
zone some distance on their return
Journey they discovered that Jesus was
missing, and therefore sought him
among their kinsfolk and acquaintance.
Not finding him. they turned back to
Jerusalem, where they found him in
the temple.
a. He was "sitting" (v. 46). was
perfectly at home in his Father's
bouse.
b. He was "hearing" the teachers
of God's word <v. 47), was eager to
learn God's will.
c. He asked questions (v. 46). The
growing mind is Inquisitive. It more
than merely receives that which Is
taught; it goes out toward. It inquires
after.
d. He answered questions (v. 46).
His answers showed great wisdom,
such as to astonish those who heard
him. It was not an exhibition of his
divine wisdom, bat an expression of
the workings of a perfect human mind
suffused by the Holy Spirit.
3. Mary's complaint (vv. 48-50).
She remonstrated with him for his
behavior. While he replied with dig
nity and tenderness, he made no apol
ogy, showing that he was more than
the son of Mary?that God was his
Father.
4. Jesus' obedience (v. 51).
Though he was conscious of his di
vine being and mission, he lived a life
of filial obedience.
5. Jesus' development (v. 52).
a. Mental?"Increased In wisdom."
b. Physical?"in stature."
c. Spiritual?"in favor with God and
man."
II. Growing in Grace (II Pet. 1:5-8).
This is not growth into grace, but
growth In grace. We get into grace
by the new birth. This new nature
which has Its source In God must he
developed In order that our lives may
be fruitful for God (v. 8). that they
bear testimony to the cleansing power
of Christ's blood (v. 9), and that we
may nave assurance or salvation (?.
10). The following lines of growth are
Indicated:
1. Virtue (v. 5) here means energy
and courage. This Is not "added," as
In the Authorized Version, but "sup
plied," as In the Revised Version?
"in your faith supply virtue." It means
Increase by growth, not by external
Junction. The graces named develop
out of each other from the root of
faith. Manly courage Is the first vir
tue which must be supplied in order
to grow stronger.
2. Knowledge (v. 5) means a right
understanding. It means, therefore, a
practical knowledge.
3. Temperance (v. 6) means self-con
trol. Practical knowledge will supply
to Itself the government of all appe
tites.
4. Patience (v. 6) means endurance,
having control of self within. Kndur
ance of that without will follow.
5. Godliness (v. 6) means piety, rev
erence for God. the submission of the
human will to the will of God. This
Is a part .of that practical knowledge
whlr.h mntt ho mipplio^ ?-?
6. Brotherly kindness (v. 7). Love
of the brethren must be developed In
godllnesj. The proof that one Is godly
Is that he loves the brethren (1 Joho
5:1).
7. Charity (v. 7) means love. Peter's
climax Is reached In love. Out of faith,
which Is the root, springs this seven
fold fruit. In order to prevent apos
tasy. Peter calls all to be diligent In
the development of these graces.
Humility of Heart
Walt on the Lord In humility of
heart, that thou ma.vest dally feel thi
change which la wrought in the heart
and conscience by the holy, eternal
ever-living Power; and so th<?u mnyesi
witness, "that which Is born of th?
Spirit, Is spirit."
An Absurd Thing
What an absurd thing it Is to pn?;
over all the valuable parts of a mas
and fix our attention on his infirm!
, ties.?Addison
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That Antedated Indian
Four (skeletons, remnants of a race
believed to have inhabited Minne
sota before the Indians, were un
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southeast of Albert Lea, reports the
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?University of Minnesota scientists
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The skeletons were buried about
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One of the skeletons had a large
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