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nation had reposed in it. During the war, from 

 all sources, the people of the United States gave 

 the Society over $315,000,000. In addition to 

 this, the labor they performed in its behalf was 

 stupendous. Up to July 1, 1918, the women of 

 the American Red Cross Chapters had produced 

 221,282,838 articles needed by the Soc: 

 France, including refugees' garments, hospital 

 supplies, knitted articles and surgical dressings. 

 The total number of articles prepared before 

 the armistice was almost 300,000,000. American 

 women were truly soldiers at home; the money 

 value of their services is beyond estimate. 



In Canada the ardor of the Red Cross kept 

 pace with the Dominion's gift of its hundreds 

 of thousands of men sent to the help of the 

 mother country. The Canadian Society is not 

 a branch of the British Red Cross Society, but 

 is a separate chartered organization. 



Organization in the United States. The 

 American Red Cross Society was incorporated 

 by the Congress of the United States in 19Q5, 

 by which act the government practically as- 

 sumed the right to control its operations; for 



AMERICAN RED CROSS BUILDING 

 AT WASHINGTON, D. C. 



the law which effected the incorporation dis- 

 solved the first organization, which had been es- 

 tablished by Clara Barton in 1881. The Presi- 

 dent of the United States is President of the 

 American Red Cross Society, but its detailed 

 operation is in the hands of officers of a com- 

 mittee whose chairman is named by the Presi- 

 dent. Every dollar given to it must be ac- 

 counted for to officials of the government. 



In 1913 Congress voted $400,000 towards the 

 erection of a national Red Cross building in 

 the city of Washington, conditioned on the rais- 

 ing of an additional $300,000 by the Society. 

 The task was easily accomplished. 



The Turkish Red Crescent. The only nation 

 which ever opposed the Red Cross is Turkey, 

 an opposition due solely to religion. The Mo- 



hammedan is bitterly hostile to the Christian, 

 whose religious symbol is the Cross. When in 

 Turkey, by consent of the world's societies, the 

 Red Cross was replaced by the Mohammedan 

 Crescent, but without change in theory or prac- 

 tice, the Turkish Society began a more or Lea 

 efficient career. 



The Red Cross in Peace. In all countries the 

 Society is a humanitarian arm which alleviates 

 distress in all forms. Its motto is, "In time of 

 peace and prosperity, prepare for calamity." It 

 is therefore always ready, always alert. Some 

 of its heaviest expenditures in recent years were 

 in connection with the following events: 



1906 San Francisco fire $3,087,469 



1906 Japanese famine 245,855 



1908 Messina (Italy) earthquake 985,300 



1912 Titanic wreck victims 125,933 



1913 Ohio floods and storms 2,472,287 



1916 U. S. National Guard, Mexico... 100,000 



Scarcely a month passes without a call for 

 Red Cross aid from some desolated section of 

 the country. G.W.G. 



Consult Barton's Story of the Red Cross; 

 Vivian and Williams' The Way of the Red Cross. 



RED DEER, a city in the central part of Al- 

 berta. It is almost midway between Calgary 

 and Edmonton, being ninety-five miles north 

 of Calgary and ninety-nine miles south of Ed- 

 monton. Red Deer is a division point on the 

 Calgary-Edmonton branch of the Canadian Pa- 

 cific, and is also located on the Alberta Central 

 and on the Brazeau branch of the Canadian 

 Northern. There is some traffic, in scows only, 

 on the Red Deer River, which flows through 

 the city. Population in 1911, 2,118; in 1916, 

 2,203. 



Red Deer, which took its name from the na- 

 tive deer of the vicinity, was founded in 1880, 

 and was incorporated as a city in 1913. It 

 adopted the commission form of government 

 in 1907. It is the distributing point for the 

 mixed-farming region of Central Alberta, and 

 every year ships thousands of pounds of butter 

 and milk as well as hogs, cattle and poultry. 

 The largest plant in the city is a lumber mill, 

 employing about a hundred men, and there arc 

 large brick yards, creameries and cheese facto- 

 ries. The Presbyterian Ladies' College, erected 

 at a cost of $80,000, the Roman Catholic con- 

 vent and the armory are conspicuous buildings. 

 The city has several attractive parks, including 

 Waskasoo, and several summer resorts are ir 

 the vicinity. 



RED 'FISH, the name applied to several 

 drum fishes, particularly to the red drum, or 



