Photograph by Paul Thompson 

 SURGICAL DRESSING-ROOM, NURSES, AND INTERNE IN U. S. ARMY HOSPITAL 



RAILWAY CAR 



Every facility for performing emergency operations en route from a battlefield to a base 

 hospital is provided in these modern operating rooms on wheels 



in the United States. We have had a 

 multitude of bodies engaged 'in that ef- 

 fort, a multitude of overlapping effort, a 

 multitude of overlapping in collection of 

 support, and a multitude of overlapping 

 in distribution on the other side. 



HELPING HEROIC PEOPLE HELP TPIEM- 

 SELVES 



Furthermore, as the war goes on, as 

 limes become harder, we will require a 

 greater and a better organized effort in 

 order to maintain that support. It re- 

 quires an effort that not only covers the ' 

 field of charity, but also covers the field 

 of helpful finance. I do not think that 

 .any thinking person wishes to pauperize 

 a population by pouring charity upon 

 them. 



We ourselves have undertaken to do 

 .some rehabilitating and have made some 



study of that subject, which is only one 

 of the three great problems. 



We have developed a method by which 

 we believe that these people may be put 

 back on their feet and made self-support- 

 ing again. If perhaps only 10 or 15 per 

 cent of the total cost may be founded in 

 charity, these people themselves will re- 

 pay the entire cost of their reconstitu- 

 tion. They must be given time. The 80 

 per cent may be accomplished by finan- 

 cial measures, but some one has to pro- 

 vide the first 10 or 15 per cent to give 

 the foundation for any adequate devel- 

 opment of that problem. 



Since coming to America I have had a 

 number of discussions with your officials, 

 and I have urged upon them, and they are 

 only too glad to undertake, that problem 

 as the problem of the Red Cross. 



The Red Cross is perhaps founded 



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