TRIBUTE TO RED CROSS WORK

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXI, Issue LXXI, 10 January 1916, Page 7

TRIBUTE TO RED CROSS WORK

Sir Frederick Tfeves, in an article upon Red Cross work in the present var,- says that "however effective an army medical service may be, the help cf the: Red Cross organisation is—and ever will be—a necessity." He then proceeds' to point out the mobility of Red Cross administration as^ opposed to the necessarily rigid restrictions that govern the expenditure of the A.M.S. "It is the primary business of the Red Cross Society," Sir Frederic continued, c*vp organise the generosity of the country, to economise it, and to direct it into proper channels/ TKen, of the .peculiar value of personal service typified by the Re>d Cross, he goes on to speak thus: — "What the War Office provides the.soldier accepts as his right, but the provision of the Red Cross he 'recognises as an expression of the solicitude .of his own people." In, conclusion/the eminent physician lays Ms finger upon the sane, healing influence of women's work among the wounded, by which the balance is restored to strained nerves, and faith in human: charity brought back to war-wearied hearts. For what men in anger do upon one another only women in loving forgiveness can undo. "Official sympathy," says Sir. Frederick, "is inevitably mechanical, But the work of the Red Cross is a labor of love, springing with affectionate impulse from the very heart." *