Odessa Montour Central High School - Odessanean Yearbook (Odessa, NY)

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The Red Cr:3s has done w nderful work in .time 'of war but weOmust not forget the work it has done in time of peace with regard to gl .ds, fire, fa.mine, and disease. Every year hundreds of people die a3 a result of accidents ju3t because there is no one present who kn W3 h w to care for the injured person. The Red Cress had now established first Aid courses in which it teach s boys and girls how tc treat cuts, burns, attacks f heart trr.ublej. sunstroke, how to revive a man who has been long under waver, and how to act quickly and intelligently in -ther imergences. The Red Cross workers are always willing to sh w people how t live clean, healthy lives. They saw that in many rural districts, especially ?„mong the p■•r whites in the south. People did not know that disease comes frote dirt; that proper food, well cooked is necessary to health; that babies must be carefully bathed, clothed and fed,that they may grow into strong men and women. So it established the Red Cross Home Nursing Service, and now Red Cross nurses, women carefully trained in r.urstimg, prepartion of food, household cleanliness, care of babies, and prev = ention of disease, go into these poor homes all over the country and show the fathers and mothers how to ke -p their homes 30 tha thsese children may be well. Another activity of the Red Cross is the ped Cross Magazine, owned by the American Red Cross which tells of the work all over the world which the Red Cross i3 doing. And atill another in the of Christmas Seals each year by the workers of the Red Cross. The money recieved from this enterprise is used to help to take care or some men, women, boy or girl who is suffering from tuberciosis. The moviey which the Red Cross recieves has been spent in caring for the sick ande educating the well so that they will learn not to spread the terrible diseases by unsanitary-habits. The motto of the Red Cross is In time of peace and prosperity prepare for calamity ,therefore it is always ready for some unexpected disaster . Scarcely a month pas3es th:t it does not recieve a call from some stricken section of the country. The emblem of their organization is a red cross on a white banner. TThe treaty of Geneva provided for a flag for hosritals and convoys and an arm badge or persons. The disign proposed was a c°d cross on a white background This wa3 in compliment to the country ir. which the Congress was sitting, the Swiss tlag being a white cross on a red background. The Sed Cross flag, therefore, is the nationa.1 fla.g of Switzerland with the colors reversed.