Who Does the Work? From national policy to surgical dressings, responsibility for the work of the Red Cross rests in the hands of volunteers—businessmen and housewives, bankers and farmers, career women and students. Side by side with the volunteers is a staff of professional workers whose job is to maintain professional stand¬ards and assure continuity of service. The ratio of volunteer workers to paid employees is approximately 100 to 1. More than one-half of the national Red Cross paid staff, including those in army camps, navy and air force stations, and mili¬tary and veterans hospitals, day and night provide Red Cross services to the armed forces and veterans through established wel¬fare and recreation programs. Of the 9,000 employees of Red Cross chapters, 6,000 are Home Service workers, discharging locally the chapter's responsibilities to servicemen, veterans, and their dependents. Nationally, the volunteers who make up the Board of Governors are responsible for the total Red Cross program. They decide its service activities, set its policies, and deter¬mine the total sum needed for the job. Locally, volunteers in chapters put into effect the Red Cross programs in their com-munities, guided by volunteer boards of directors. Volunteer Services, which comprises the largest group of trained volunteer workers, is composed entirely of vol¬unteers and is adminis¬tered by volunteers, in the chapter, in area offices, and at national headquarters. Look around in any chapter to see who does the work of the Red 24 WHO DOES THE WORK? Cross. You see volunteers working in the blood center. You see them conducting health and safety courses. You see them helping busy nurses or preparing gift boxes for children over¬seas. Day and night you see them sewing and knit¬ting, delivering supplies, taking patients on outings, planning recreation activi¬ties, assisting in welfare problems of servicemen and veterans, feed¬ing, clothing, and sheltering disaster victims. Volunteers—thousands of them—solicit the funds. The future of the Red Cross, like its past, rests in the hands of volunteers. Volunteer Services While all Red Cross services could be called "volunteer," the title "Volunteer Services" is used to designate nine distinct activities for which men and women are especially recruited, trained, and organized. The activities, as. suggested by their titles, are Arts and Skills, Canteen, Entertainment and Instruction, Gray Lady, Motor, Pro¬duction and Supply, Social Welfare Aide, Staff Aide, and Volunteer Nurse's Aide. You have seen them often—sometimes in hospitals wearing the gray uniform with the Red Cross emblem, sometimes in the Motor Service uniform in the car pulling into the ball game with a load of soldiers. You may have noticed, too, the blue pinafore of the volunteer nurse's aide at the blood center. 25