Mother And Baby Care in Pictures

Abstract

sion. Operations were carried on, oftentimes almost without funds. Mobs were subdued and their energies shaped to useful ends. Well meaning but foolish or ignorant donors and wouldbe helpers often proved as great problems as the emergencies. What could be more embarrassinig than to have the millers of Minneapolis send enough flour to San Francisco in 1906 literally to block the avenues of transit and to suffice the inhabitants for 10 years! Or, the case of the Yakima farmer who placed a note in a sack of potatoes (of which that fertile Washington valley sent trainloads to Ohio flood sufferers in 1913), and who received, later, a letter from an irate Cincinnatian who had paid full price for the potatoes on the open market, and to have a great Oregon newspaper get hold of the incident-with all the explanation which had to follow-and yet everything was strictly according to Hoyle, when the facts became known. No moving picture ever spun its tale more interestingly, or with better themes or more rapid changes of scene. The mine disaster, the forest fire, the volcano which burst without warning in far away Luzon, border warfare and intimate glimpses of the Madero-Villa revolution, ship disasters, etc., and the parts played by women and nurses, doctors and hospitals, philanthropists and governments, railroads and battleships, and so on without end. The reader gains a coherent idea of the evolution of the American Red Cross during its formative years and, in the aftermaths of catastrophes, the triumph of case work over stultified relief. The development of the Christmas Seals as a means of funding local and national Red Cross, and especially tuberculosis work, forms an interesting interlude. We have in this volume the memories of a man who was constantly being found out and called to greater responsibilities. A study of the bases upon which he made his decisions is worth any one's time. A suitable index accompanies. EMERY R. HAYHURST