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The Red Cross Is You „
“W* fmcm m grueling period of bird work, self-denial end danger. The times ere unusual and so will be the effort we shall all be called upon to make. Of all the nongovernmental agencies of the American people, the Red Cross will hare to bear the hoariest burden."*— Gen. Con. C. Marshall.
Ton often hear it' said that "women are the practical sex." It is mother who sews on the buttons and repairs the rips and tears in the family’s clothes; it is she who applies the first aid to cuts and bruises, and it is most often a woman who nurses the sick and injured back to health. She faces these tasks, when she must face them, without fear; if she has any question it is one to which she doesn’t expeet an answer—“If I didn’t do it, who would?”
She knows the answer to that one: “Women are the practical sex.”
In the present status of world affairs, there are many questions about war and peace which no woman or man can answer, but here are some facts about which there is no question: 1—For the first time in the history of the United States, there is now an' enemy capable of attacking our homeland at any time. 2—Modern atomic weapons change all previout concepts of offensive and defensive warfare. 3—The role of the Red Cross in civil defense is more important now than it ever has been before.
The American Red Cross is today embarked on what may be the greatest work in its 69-year-old history. At government request, it has undertaken the task of providing the cation with a trained first-aid force of 20,000,000. That’s almost one ou^ of every seven people in the country. This (program 3s not limited to the needs of civil defense alone, but is a valuable peacetime program being expanded to meet emergency. To have one member in each family trained and responsible for the care of its own members is good insurance any time.
Again, it is the women who must be “practical.” The Red Cross must train 250,000 nurses’ aides and hundreds of thousands of housewives in home nursing. The goal for the coming year is 700,000 women newly trained and 300,000, with previous training, drawn back into service.
If you don’t do it, who will?
(The above editorial is reprinted from the Ladies Home Journal, March, 1951, at the request of Mrs. D. D. Miller, chairman of the Rappahannock Red Cross, in the interest of the Red Cross Fund Drive during this month.)
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