1942 Sep. 24 FIFTEEN MEET AIDES’ GROUP Committee Will Present Broadcast on Sunday Morning Fifteen applicant for Weber county Red Cross nurse’s aide study appeared Wednesday before the chapter nurse’s aides committee for personal interviews. On the committee are Mrs. Leonard G. Diehl, chairman; Mrs. John T. Rushmer, Mrs. O.C. Hammond, registered nurse, and Mrs. Herbert N. Woods. Mrs. Hammond is instructor of the classes. The nurse’s aide committee will present a radio program directof rom Thomas D. Dee memorial hospital on Sunday at eleven-fifteen a.m. over KLO through cooperation of the Commercial Security bank, Supt. Lawrence H. Evans of the hospital, and the radio station. The script for the broadcast was written by Jed Snyder, new publicity chairman for the chapter, and participants on the broadcast will be Merrill J. BUnnell of the radio station staff, Sophie Reed, enrollment chairman for the nurse’s aide committee, Miss Lucille Taylor, R.N. Viriginia Loveland, nurse’s aide, and a patient of the hospital. “Classes will be started in early October,” Mrs. Reed said. “At that time most of the women who are now working in canning factories as their share of the war effort will be through, and we hope to enroll many of them in the course. After working at a canning factory, the work required for nurse’s aide service is easy. “Three hours a day, five days a week for six weeks is all that is required to complete the entire course of training for nurse’s aides and the work they accomplish as a help to registered nurses is price-less. The time could not possibly be spent in a more valuable effort to the community, threatened by a shortage of nurses, or to the women’s own families. “Those who have boys overseas can be assured that by becoming nurse’s aides they are helping provide trained nurses for their boys in time of need.” Enrollment will continue through this week, and will be taken at the Red Cross office in the city-county building. Sep. 27 Seeks Nurse Personnel 9/27 Recruiting personnel for the Red Cross nursing reserve, Miss Louise Baker, San Francisco, assistant director of the National Red Cross nursing service for the Pacific area, will stop in Salt Lake City October 11 to 14, officials here were informed Saturday. Sep. 22 Sept. 22, 1942 OVERSEAS JOB BY RED CROSS DRAWS PRAISE American Doughboys, Sailors Say They do “Swell” By WALTER CRONKITE NEW YORK, Sept. 22 (UP)-The American doughboy and the American sailor, traditionally scanty in their praise of anything, today are sending word back from the British isles that the American Red Cross is “doing a swell job.” The United States service man is better fed, better clothed, better paid and better housed than any other solider or sailor int eh world, but there are some points in making him comfortable where the army needs a helping hand, and the Red Cross has pitched in valiantly overseas to lend it. The Red Cross, with the aid of the British Red Cross, is furnishing thousands of soldiers with living quarters when on leave, with restaurants where he can get staple American fool in almost the full unrationed quantity to which he is accustomed, with recreational services and, of course, with the usual hospital and first aid services as needed. The soldier’s first contact with the Red Cross comes the minute he sets foot on foreign soil. He has spent more than a week crammed into a transport on the north Atlantic. IT usually is raining in British isle ports and it usually is cold. Because of the difficulties involved on a docking transport, the soldier usually hasn’t eaten since breakfast and it is dusk before he gets ashore. He is chilly, wet, lonely and unhappy as he is herded into a long line under a train shed that leaks like a bargain basement dishpan. Then, seemingly out of nowhere, pops the Red Cross. Friendly British girls and women dig into the backs of their truck-mounted mobile canteens and begin passing out sandwiches, biscuits, cookies, fruits and hot tea or coffee. UP and down the line they go dispensing their visuals and telling the American doughboy how glad England is to have him along. Backs stiffen along that whole row of hundreds or thousands of pack-laden soldiers, smiles come back to dreary faces. And someone, through a mouth full of sandwich, opens up with an old khaki song such as “Tipperary” or something humorously inconsistent just as “Jingle Jangle,” and all join in. The Red Cross does enough tummy-filling and resultant morale building under those bleak train shed to win undying gratitude, but that is only an infinitesimal part of the work for which soldier after soldier, sailor after sailor and officer after officer, upon learning that it was returning to the “States” invariably said: Have Own Hotels “You can’t tell them back home too much about how we like the Red Cross.” Most of those statements were made in the lobbies of Red Cross hotels. In every big city near which Americans are based or into which they pour on leave, the American Red Cross has taken over a hotel-lock, stock and barrel. They’ve taken out the fine fixtures and most of the luxurious equipment and now each room accommodates two to eight beds with springs that spring and thick mattresses that bear no resemblance to army cots or navy hammocks. Sep. 10 4/10 Visit Planned To ASF Depot Between 35 and 40 members of the Weber county chapter of the American Red Cross will be guests of Utah army service forces depot Friday, Sept. 10, the depot public relations office announced today. Assembling at the Twelfth street gate at eleven twenty-five a.m. the aprty will be met by Lieut. D. K. Usher, depot public relations officer, who will conduct the visitors to the assembly point at the base of the flagpole. Here an orientation talk will be made by Col. Joe S. Underwood, executive officer of the post, after which the group will embark in government vehicles for a tour of the installation. Points to be visited included the settler’s cabin; exterior of the Ogden internment camp, hospital cars, depot display rooms, interior of warehouses, war dog compound. At one p.m. the group will return to the Officers’ club where they will meet Brig. Gen. and Mrs. Ralph Talbot, Jr. Luncheon will be held at one-fifteen p.m. at the searchlight detachment and at two0fifteen p.m. the party will return to their cars at the parking lot. Sept. 22 U.S. IN PERIL, GREW CLAIMS Japs Ready for Total War; Are Prepared, He Says NEW YORK, Sept. 22 (AP)- “Don’t let it happen here.” With that admonition, Joseph C. Gre, former ambassador to Japan told a civilian defense rally today that the Japs had geared themselves for total war, and he declared that this nation and “The priceless heritage of our American citizenship” were in peril. “To us who have recently returned from that land of fanatical unity and determination,” Grew said in his prepared address, “it is inconceivable that any of our fellow-countrymen whose eyes are open to the facts, who understand that this great land of ours, the priceless heritage of our American citizenship and the freedom and the duties that are part and parcel of that citizenship, are in peril- it is inconceivable that any American can continue to follow his or her accustomed rounds as in time of peace. “I say in peril and I mean in peril. We who lived in the far east do not easily forget the rape of Naking, the details of which are far too revolting to mention here; We do not easily forget the Panay nor the bombing of two or three hundred of our religious missions throughout China… nor can we forget many of those personal friends who appeared on the evacuation ships-shadows of their former selves after long months of solitary confinement and the tortures they suffered. “They who have suffered can never forget. This is the sort of peril that confronts our own beloved land today.” Red Cross Needs You “Women of America, the Red Cross needs you. Here is your opportunity to serve. You should, and I believe you will, welcome this opportunity with joy. Your service will support and strengthen and encourage the valor and fighting spirit of our boys at the front. “It shall not happen here-if only you will volunteer and serve your nation in its hour of perils.”