gation for the individual pupil is that of service. This service obligation implies that pupils will take their part in Junior Red Cross activities carried on by the school, including creating a Junior Red Cross service fund which may be used (a) for local educational or relief purposes and (b) for foreign educational and relief projects.

National Children's Fund is established by contributions from Red Cross School Auxiliaries. Devoted in the main to the support of localized projects in Europe, involving both the relief and education of children made destitute by the World War. Provides a medium for administering contributions received from various sources for child welfare work overseas. An American Red Cross School Auxiliary may designate the particular project in the list of Junior Red Cross projects for the support of which its contributions are to go. If a Division wishes it a list of projects may be assigned it for selection and adoption by schools, but to prevent oversubscription of any project, no one project is assigned to more than one Division.

Junior Red Cross News, monthly, September to May inclusive, 50 cents a year, makes available materials to vitalize school studies such as geography and history; cultivates Red Cross ideals and an understanding of life under conditions different from those of the children reading it. School subscriptions should be forwarded to the local Red Cross Chapter School Committee or to Red Cross Division Headquarters if this committee is unknown to the prospective subscriber. If both the Chapter School Committee and the Division Headquarters are unknown, subscriptions should be sent direct to Junior Red Cross, National Headquarters, Washington, D. C. All subscriptions for individuals should also be sent to Junior Red Cross, National Headquarters, Washington, D. C. Military Relief serves both the Army and the Navy.

Camp Service conducts the following activities: (a) Home Service for men in the Army and Navy; (b) entertainment and recreation for convalescent patients in the Red Cross convalescent houses, in hospital wards on the various military reservations, and for hospital personnel; (c) communication service, furnishing relatives and friends information regarding soldiers and sailors away from their families; (d) supplemental hospital and am

bulance service, distribution of minor supplies for the comfort and welfare of patients, and all such incidentals as may be determined by individual commanding officers to meet their respective local needs; (e) supplemental emergency supplies when required and necessary in an emergency and when lack of time or facilities of the War and Navy Departments makes such a request necessary.

Nursing Service: The Red Cross has a National Committee on Red Cross Nursing Service, composed of representatives of the Army, Navy, the U. S. Public Health Service, the national organizations of nursing, and the American Red Cross. The Committee cooperates with and advises the Nursing Service in the performance of its functions, and is also advisory to the Chairman of the Central Committee. Nursing Service of the Red Cross maintains:

(a) Enrollment: Enrolls nurses through its local, State, and national committees, primarily as the reserve of the Army and the Navy. Applications for enrollment are routed from local committees through the offices of the Division Directors, in order that they may have full information concerning the nursing resources in their Divisions. The Divisions maintain an enrollment of Home Defense nurses, not eligible for national enrollment, but who may be available for local purposes. From this group are obtained a large number of the instructors in Home Hygiene and Care of the Sick. The general enrollment supplies nurses to the U. S. Public Health Service, as well as the Public Health Nursing Service of the Red Cross. All other Red Cross Nursing Services, including foreign, are served through this enrollment.

(b) Assignment: Assigns Red Cross nurses to the Army and Navy Nurse Corps; recommends nurses for appointment with the U. S. Public Health Service; assigns them to Red Cross Public Health Nursing Service and also as instructors in Home Hygiene and Care of the Sick, for domestic disaster relief, and Red Cross foreign nursing service. Red Cross foreign service includes the organization of schools for nurses, the establishment of nursing service in dispensaries, clinics, child welfare units, and classes in Home Hygiene and Care of the Sick. It also concerns itself with the promotion and advancement of modern nursing in countries hitherto without this. In addition it secures nurses for other organizations.

(c) Equipment: Functions at Branch Office, National Headquarters, 44 East 23d St., New York, N. Y. Provides or furnishes equipment for all Red Cross nurses assigned to active service under the Red Cross.

(d) Affiliated Enterprises: In cooperation with the three national organizations of nursing, conducts a national movement to recruit Student Nurses and assists with the maintenance of a National Nursing Association Headquarters, Penn Terminal Bldg., New York, N. Y. (See description elsewhere in Handbook.) (e) Publications:

"Information for Nurses Called Upon for Active Service" (A. R. C. 702).

"Information for Nurses Desiring to Enroll With the Red Cross" (A. R. C. 703).

"Red Cross Nursing Service" (A. R. C. 710).

These publications are distributed free of charge.

(For information concerning Red Cross Instruction in Home Hygiene and Care of the Sick and Public Health Nursing see descriptions of these Services.)

Nutrition Service activities include:

(a) Food Selection: The course in Food Selection is a study in food and the factors which determine the selection of an adequate diet for the family. This course is taught by enrolled Red Cross dietitians and consists of 15 lessons or a minimum of 221⁄2 hours. It may be given by lecture and discussion; lecture, demonstration, and discussion; or by lecture, demonstration, and laboratory work by the class. There are two courses, the Standard and the Modified. The Standard course requires a written examination, while the Modified may be given without an examination. Requests for instructors should be addressed to the Division Office of the Red Cross through the local Red Cross Chapter. The pamphlet, "Food Selection", was prepared primarily as the textbook for this course in Food Selection. It may be purchased from the Division Office or National Headquarters at 50 cents a copy.

(b) Nutrition Classes: In the Red Cross Chapters in which special nutrition classes are being carried on for undernourished children, a nutrition expert has been placed. These classes may operate in the school, in the health center, community center, or dispensary. This worker has charge of all the nutrition

activities of that Chapter and acts as a nutrition adviser. She organizes classes for the undernourished children and follows them into the home where she helps the mother with food problems relative to the feeding of the whole family. An effort is being made to enroll the mothers of the children of the nutrition classes in the course in Food Selection.

(c) Hot School Lunches: In counties not served by a county Home Demonstration Agent and where request has been made for this service, Red Cross Chapters stimulate interest in hot school lunches and help in establishing them. Demand for these lunches sometimes grows out of the work of the nutrition classes. Post War Services is responsible for continuing to a final conclusion the work included in the Home Service war program. It has three particular activities for the benefit of service and ex-service men and their families as follows:

(a) Service Claims and Information makes investigation of or personal inquiry into claims which service men may have against the Government and in which have arisen complications which they themselves cannot unravel by direct communication. Wherever possible, this Service secures action regarding these claims, which may involve unpaid allotments and allowances, compensation, insurance, back pay, liberty bonds, or the like. Cases of this nature originally taken up with the Red Cross Chapters are handled with the Federal departments at Washington by a special force at National Headquarters. By means of the "Handbook of Information and Instructions for Home Service Sections" (A. R. C. 207) and other material, this office keeps Red Cross personnel throughout the country advised concerning Federal legislation, Governmental procedure and practices relating to service and ex-service men and their dependents, and the beneficial opportunities offered by the Government, in order that Home Service workers may render more efficient aid to the men and their families.

(b) Medical Social Service endeavors to aid the disabled exservice man wherever he is receiving treatment. It maintains personnel in U. S. Public Health Service Hospitals and the district offices of the U. S. Bureau of War Risk Insurance, and through visits and surveys seeks to reach also the men in private and public hospitals which are under contract with the B. W. R. I.

It also has workers in certain Soldiers' Homes which are caring for War Risk patients. In the hospitals, Red Cross social workers cooperate with the hospital authorities in rendering personal service to the men, necessary for their comfort, happiness, and recovery, but not provided for by Governmental regulations. These workers keep in touch with the Home Service Sections of the Red Cross regarding the home problems of the men in hospitals, and when they are discharged notify the Home Service or other community agencies, in order that they may follow the doctor's instructions and adjust themselves to civilian life as readily as possible. They also furnish supplies such as socks, sweaters, and similar articles, to men in hospitals who are not receiving compensation, and furnish to the hospitals certain recreational equipment which by law the hospitals cannot provide. The workers in the District Offices endeavor to see that men examined by the Medical Section and entitled to treatment understand how to secure it; that they receive it, and also that they understand the procedure concerning compensation, insurance, and Federal Board training. They cooperate with the Home Service workers of the Red Cross in all this work and secure home adjustments of personal or family problems through this channel.

(c) Vocational Rehabilitation Service includes (1) cooperation with the central office of the Federal Board for Vocational Education by a member of the staff at National Headquarters, and (2) cooperation with all district and local offices of the Board by Division and Chapter personnel. The Red Cross formerly had representatives in the Board's district offices. Their work is now conducted by Personal Service Officers of the Board. Many of these were previously Red Cross workers, and the salaries of a number are still paid by the Red Cross. The Federal Board has very few field workers and depends largely on Red Cross Chapters to inform ex-service men of their rights to Federal Board training and to assist them in filing applications, affidavits, and so on. Personal Service workers in the Federal Board offices interview the men, discover their troubles, and send word concerning these to the proper Home Service Sections when their cooperation is required. They also report to Home Service Sections men who discontinue training because of illness or other