OUR RED (ROSS HOSPITALS.
Doctor!" and Nurwii in Red Croi* Base
Hospitals in France the First to
Carry U. S. Flax to the Front.
The boy who goes to war today
faces torpedoes, bombs, liquid Are,
deadly gases, quick-firers and siege
guns. Never before have the menns of
dealing death been so numerous or so
ingenious, or so terrible.
Yet he has a better chance of com
ing back home, safe and sound, than
he would have had in any great war
that has been fought. Base hospitals,
as they have been evolved in the pres
ent war, together with superior meth
ods of surgery, are responsible for
that.
Roger Babson, the statistician, is
quoted as saying that fourteen out of
fifteen men have been safe hitherto in
the Great War ? and the losses at
first were vastly greater than the
loses now. He continues:
"Under present conditions, when
man power is being saved, not more
than one in thirty is killed. Only one
man in 500 loses a limb, a chance no
greater than in hazardous conditions
at home."
M. Andre Tardieu, French High
Commissioner to the United States,
has given out figures showing that
the percentage of casualties in pro
portion to the mobilized strength of
France has fnllen from 2.39 for the
first six months of 1915 to 1.28 in the
last six months of 1916.
How does it happen that soldiers
today arc safer than ever befoie?
The answer, as suggested above, is
that the nations have learned how to
take care of their soldiers, ('amp
sanitation, scientific rationing, busi
ness organizations of the supply ser
vice ? these things count, but the big
vital factor in saving husbands and
sons for the women who wait at home
is the efficiency of the medical ser
vice.
I ho second answer, also, is tnc neti
Cross. As Lord Wantage, father of
the British Hod Cross movement, said:
"However well organized nn Army
Medieal Service may he, it never has
been, and never will he, able to cope
adequately with the sudden emer
gencies of war on a large scale, and
voluntary organizations, unimpeded
by official restrictions, are alone cap
able of giving auxiliary relief and
of providing extra comforts and lux
uries with the requisite promptitude
and rapidity."
That is why, when Americn entered
the war, the first organized forces of
the United States to no abroad were
Red Cross base hospital units which
had been mustered into the United
States Army Medical Corps That is
why right now you would find Amer
ican doctors and nurses desperately
hard at work behind the lines in
France, trying to keep British and
French soldiers from slipping out of
the "Wounded" into the "Death" lists.
Because of the Red Cross they are
ready just as soon as they are need
ed, to perform the same service for
American boys.
Two years before America entered ?
the war, and thus suddenly had need
of all the medical service at her com
mand, the Red Cross began the or
ganization of its base hospital and
ambulance company units.
Under the direction of Colonel Jef
ferson R. Keen, who had been detailed
to the Red Cross from the Medical
Corps of the Army, the Military Re
lief Department set out to enlist the
aid of tht> Red Cross chapters
throughout the country in providing
trained pt rsonnels of doctors and
nurses available for instant duty in
time of war or national disaster.
Altogether a tot-al of forty-seven
hospitals were organized, financed,
and largely equipped. The national
treasury of the Red Cross was scarce
ly drawn upon at all in this work. Not
only did the chapters recruit the staffs
for each of these units from their city
hospitals, but in several cases they
undertook to purchase the necessary
equipment and to make the required
amount of hospital supplies in the
chapter workrooms.
In New York six hospitals were
organized, in Chicago four, and in
Philadelphia four. The New York
County chapter, not content with the
minimum requirements laid down by
the Department of Military Relief and
the medical authorities of the Army,
went ahead on experiments to develop
improvements in equipment. With
some of the most prominent surgeons
and doctors in the United States en
listed on the staffs, the chapter or
ganized a committee on research and
standardization. The work of this
committee has now resulted in the de
velopment of a new type of movable
food kitchen to be attached as a trail
er to ambulances or field columns. It
has made similar experiments in the
field kitchen attached to base hospit
als.
Other cities show the same initia
tive. All over the country the great
est interest was shown in the organ
ization of these great reserve relief
agencies.
As a Jesuit of these activities of
Colonel Kean's department, the Red
Cross had available at the time of the
declaration of war thirty fully or
ganized base hospital units. Each
was practically fully manned with a
staff of twenty-four surgeons and
doctors and sixty-five nurses. The
non-profissional personnel of more
than ono hundred and fifty enlisted
men was not gotten together until
after the beginning of the war. Each
had bed equipment, surgical appara
tus, linen supplies, etc., sufficient to
care for five hundred patients.
Within a fortnight after the decla
ration of war on Germrny, six of
these Rid Cross units were ordered
into active service. The first unit to
sail w:;s Base Hospital No. 4, from
Cleveland Two days later, on May
11th, with Dr. Harvey Unit No. 5, was
off, with l>r. He.rvey Cushing, Profes
sor of Surgery in the Harvard Medi
cal School, as its head. Then went
four others, one from Columbia and
the Presbyterian Hospital in New
York, with Dr. (Jeorge E. Brewer in
charge; one from the Pennsylvania
Hospital at Philadelphia, directed by
Dr. Richard F. Harte; another repre
senting Washington University, at St.
Ix>ui8, with Dr. Frederick T. Mur
phy; and still another from Chicago,
headed by Dr. Frederick Beasley.
More than twelve have now been sent
to the front, and, pending the taking
over of trenches by the American
troops, are serving with the British
and French armies.
The remainder of these forty-seven
hospital units are equally prepared
and ready for the call to service,
whether abroad or at home, on a mo
ment's notice.
So quick was the response that
King George of England, on the ar
rival of the first units in London, felt
called upon to express Britain's grat
itude. To the members of the Presby
terian Hospital unit of New York, on
their reception at Buckingham Pal
a tut hp ;i rfth 1 |
'?*- v I ? ?
"We greet you as the first detach
ment of the American Army which
has landed on our shores since your
great Republic resolved to join in the
world struggle for the ider.ls of civil
ization. Wo deeply appreciate this
prompt and generous response to our
needs.
"It is characteristic of the humanity
and chivalry which have ever been
pvinced by the American nation that
the first assistance rendered to the
Allies is in connection with the pro
fession of healing jind the work of
nercy" -
Such were the returns the Red
"ross was able to draw on the $2,
>00,000 insurance ? as these funds re
ally were invested in the equipment
>f base hospitals, much of it before
:he war began. It was insurance that
paid for itself not merely in the
promptness with which the base hos
pital units were ready for service,
:>ut in the saving of lives and anxi
?ty they effected through being ready.
Look for a moment at one of these
irreat Red Cross agencies of mercy
ns it is now in operation in France.
Perhaps it is quartered in tents on
the sand-dunes along the Belgian
[?oast; perhaps it has been temporari
ly installed in some French hospital
to undergo a period of training before
going up near the actual front.
As soon as the wounded have re
ceived attention from the regimental
surgeon and have gone through a cas
ualty clef ring station, where the oper
ations that cannot be postponed are
performed, they go to a base hospital.
At the base hospital only thoso cases
are kept which can be promptly
handled in three weeks or less. Men
whose injuries will keep them in a
hospital longer than that pro back still
further to the general hospital or to
England.
In the hospital you will find nurses
picked from the cream of The profes
sion in the United States, thoroughly
trained, strong and devoted enough to
support the doctors in their long,
long days of fatiguing service.
You will find college boys and other
boys, accustomed to comfort, trained
for all sorts of highly skilled work,
serving as members of the enlisted
staff ? clerks, assistants, technicians,
orderlies, busy at the hard, dirty work
of a war hospital, harder and more
distasteful than any one who has not
been there can imagine.
The doctors and nurses have la
bored under tremendous pressure. The
size of many of the units has been in
creased. Some now have a thousand
beds instead of the 500 originally pro
vided for, and six of the units have
had reinforcements in all classes of
their personnel.
These men and women are of splen
did stuff. If any proof of this had
been needed, it would have been sup
plied by their behavior under fire
when the Harvard unit was bombard
ed by e German nirman on the night
of September 4tb. Lieut William T.
Fitzsimons, of the Medical Officers'
Reserve Corps, and three army pri
vates were killed, and thirty-two
were wounded. This cable tells the
story:
"The attack occurred at 11 o'clock
at night. Just at that time fortu
nately no convoy of wounded was be
ing received, or the list of casualties
w..ul<l have been far greater, as one of
the bombs fell into the center of the
large reception tent to which the
wounded are first borne for examina
tion.
"Ten secondi sufficed for the drop
ping of the first bombs from the fly
ing plane, and within less than a
minute afterward the surgeons of the
hospital were at the task of collect
ing and attending those who had been
struck down. And for twenty-four
hours thty were at work in the oper
ating room, one in from the trenches
of the Hritish Expeditionary Force.
"At the time the German aviator
flew over it most of the surgical staff
was engaged in making rounds of the
wards.
"The first bombs were directly in
front of Lieut. Fitzsimon's tent, lie
probably never knew what happened
to him. The next two fell a hundred
feet beyond, in a five marquee ward
in which there were many patients,
and the last struck the reception tent.
"Overhead there was no sound. The
German aviator flew too high to be
heard, but he left his identity behind
him, not only in the bombs he dropped,
but in the derisive handful of pfen
nings he scatered upon the hospital.
"Although the exploded bmbs cre
ated horror in the hospital, there was
not the smallest sign of panic, and
the work of discovering the wounded
and collecting them was immediately
begun. This was made cruelly diffi
cult by the darkness, but every one
sprang to it with a will. Many of the
injured had !>een blown from their
cots, some even outside their tents,
where they were found tangled up in
the tent ropes. An American nurse,
although st??i<k in the face by a frag
ment of steel from the bomb, refused
to be relieved and remained at her
task courageously to ine t-nu. nos
pital orderly who worked untiringly
was found later to have been struck
in the head by a fragment and pain
fully injured. He had just tied up his
head and worked on.
"In the operating room, Captains
Horace Binney and Eliott, with their
assistants, worked all night long. Sev
eral delicate operations weTe perform
ed and their work was made all the
harder by the fact that in innumera
ble cases the patients were in serious
rtangt r of infection from the pieces
of wood and nails and dirt which had
been thrown into their bodies."
Here is the picture of the arrival
of a trainload of wounded at one of
the American hospitals, as it was de
scribed by one of the doctors:
"A reasonable time before the ar
rived of a convoy we are informed,"
he writes. "Just before it comes*in we
are called from our billets by the ex
pression, 'Train is now pulling in.' We
dress as soon as possible. Simulta
neously we hear 'assembly' being
blown for the men. They all go on
duty ? every one of them. Most of the
convoys arrive in the dark.
"A certain number of men are as
sign* d to the train. Wounded are tak
en (>!T promptly. The hospital trains
are wonders. The wounded are hand
led here with great care and comfort,
and sleep for the most part of the
journey from the casualty clearing
station to us. The trains have operat
ing rooms nnd pre equipped in first
class style.
"After being taken off the train
the wounded are assigned to ambu
lances detailed for certain wards, de
pending on diagnosis of case and ca
pacity of the wards.
"After the ambulances have deliv
erad the cases to the hospital build
ings our men carry out the patients
to the respective wards. The whole
thing works like a breeze. A convoy
of 500 patients can be taken from the
trains by ambulances to the hospital
and be fixed comfortably in bed in a
few hours."
So the picture might have gone on.
Surgical dressings used in the wards,
all made by the loving hands of de
voted women back in the States ? the
streets, pillow-cases, the bed cloth
ing (each jacket has its tiny Red
Cross sewed near the collar) ? all
stand for the lied Cross and the part
the Rod Cross has to play in a war ?
to relieve the pain and suffering that
are its inevitable results.
I". S. Food Administration.
Raleigh, October 0. ? Food Adminis
trator Henry A. Page enthusiastical
ly welcomed today the announctment
of the organization of the "War
Mothers" for service at home in car
rying out the program of the Food
Administration. "I desire to suggest
through the press that every War
Mother of this State attach herself as
a volunteer to the school district
committee which will have chargc in
her district of the food pledge cam
paign, October 20-28th. No one will
be able to resist their appeal, and the
work that will be done during that
campaign will mean the bringing
back of thousands of their boys who
might otherwise find their last rest
ing place under the green sod of
France."
CAR RFD DOG SHIPSTUFF AT?
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"SELMA*S DOLLAR DAY" THIRS
day, October 11th.
FOR SALE ? ONE YOKE OF OXEN
well trained, weight about 2100
pounds. Will sell at a bargain. See
or write W. M. Lee, Four Oaks,
N. C., Route No.
EVERYBODY IS HAPPY THAT
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LOOK AT OUR WORK SHOES
for Children ? $1.50 to $2.50. N. B.
Gr intham.
COTTER-UNDERWOOD COMPANY
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and save money. Smithfield, N. C.
LOOK AT OUR WORK SHOES
for Boys? $2.00 to $3.50. N. B.
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FOR WIRE FENCING SEE AUSTIN
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GET YOUR BLUESTONE FROM?
Hood Bros., Smithfield, N. C.
FOR SALE? ONE GOOD JERSEY
milk cow. Mrs. W. L. _Brady,
Smithfield, N. C.
LOOK AT OUR WORK SHOES
for Children ? $1.50 to $2.50. N. B.
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TWO CAIt LOADS OF ONE AND
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LOOK AT OUR WORK SHOES
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day, October 11th.
LOOK AT OUR WORK SHOES
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"SELMA'S DOLLAR DAY" THURS
day, October 11th.
WE HAVE SEVERAL GOOD Cus
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having a good farm to rent, we
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LOOK AT OUR WORK SHOES
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COME TO SELMA THURSDAY,
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BUGGIES OF ALL KINDS AT?
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FOUR YOUNG MULES FOR SALE
very cheap at The Austir.-Stephen
son Co.
WHEN YOU WAKE IN THE MORN
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ready for another day's toil. Some
thing New. Cotter-Underwood Co.,
Smithfield, N. C.
LOOK AT OUR WORK SHOES
for men ? $3.00 to $5.00. N. B.
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IF YOU WANT THE BEST FLOUR
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LOOK AT OUR WORK SHOES
for Boys ? $2.00 to $3.50. N. B.
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IF YOU NEED A NICE RUBBER
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LOOK AT OUR WORK SHOES
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LOOK AT OUR WORK SHOES
for Children? $1.50 to $2.50. N. B.
Grantham.
"SELMA'S DOLLAR DAY" THURS
day, October 11th.
LOOK AT OUR WORK SHOES
for Children? $1.50 to $2.50. N. B.
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day, Octobf 1th.
LOOK AT >' R WORK SHOES
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COTTER-UNDERWOOI) COMPA
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Dry Goods at the right price.
LOST ? ON CENTRAL HIGHWAY
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one heavy winter buggy robe. A
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NOTICE.
My son, Lester D. Parker, age 18
years, left my home on September 19,
1917, without my consent. This is to
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feeding him, clothing him, making
trades or contracts with him, or
giving him aid in any way.
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Dunn, N. C., R. 2, Sept. 25, 1917.
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