Red Cross Scrapbook 1934: page 55 - October/November
Collection: Red Cross Scrapbook 1934
Title
Red Cross Scrapbook 1934: page 55 - October/November
Subject
American Red Cross
Great Depression, 1929-1939
Food relief--Kansas
Unemployment
Description
A page from the 1934 scrapbook of newspaper clippings from the Arkansas City (Kansas) Traveler, dated from October 19th, 1934 to November 2nd, 1934. The scrapbooks were created by local Red Cross volunteers. Articles during the Depression years covered food and other relief efforts, and documented unemployment issues.
Creator
Arkansas City (Kansas) Traveler
Source
Arkansas City Public Library, Arkansas City, Kansas
Publisher
Arkansas City Public Library, Arkansas City, Kansas
Date
1934-10-19
1934-10-26
1934-11-02
Contributor
Red Cross Volunteers
Rights
Used with permission of copyright holder. Further reproduction prohibited without permission.
Format
application/pdf
Language
English
Type
Clippings
Identifier
RC34051
Coverage
Cowley County, Kansas
Citation
Arkansas City (Kansas) Traveler, “Red Cross Scrapbook 1934: page 55 - October/November,” Digital Arkansas City, accessed December 22, 2024, https://arkcity.digitalsckls.info/item/107.
Text
About Our Crippled Children
________________________10-19-34
Notes from the desk of Mrs. Par-man, Cowley County chairman of crippled children’s work.—Helen S. Woodman.
The annual meeting of the National Rehabilitation association, a division of the International Crippled Children’s Society, is in session this week at Louisville, Kentucky.
This association, formed twelve years ago, has as its aim the vocational training of the handicapped, transforming them from discouraged public charges into busy self-supporting citizens.
This work, operated by the various states and aided by the federal government, can be considered as an extension of the public school systems; it is by no means an act of charity.
Eighty radio stations, from both the Columbia and the National broadcasting systems, are co-operating with the “Crippled Children’s Radio Broadcasting Chain,” in weekly discussions. These talks treat of the care, cure, education and prevention of cripples. It is not a “chain” in that the members are joined in a “hook-up” but all links are individually devoting some time to the work. WIBW, Topeka, is the Kansas representative in this “chain.”
Many handicapped children, after being dismissed from the hospital, must still wear heavy casts —’tis dreary business, this time of inactivity. It would help greatly if the patients might be moved about in a wheel chair; but a stout, comfortable wheel chair with the proper adjustable foot rests is an expensive piece of furniture. ... If only there were such a chair at the disposal of the Arkansas City Red Cross. Scarcely a week would pass without its adding cheer to the long | days of some “shut-in.”
About Our Crippled About Our Crippled
Children 10-26-34 Children 11-2-34
A MODERN MIRACLE
By HELEN WOODMAN The Wichita Forum blazed with brilliance of the Shriners’ Annual ball last Thursday evening. Suddenly, at a pre-arranged signal, the lights were lowered and a silver screen flashed into view. Upon it was thrown the appealing picture of a crippled child, her form twisted and bent, one little leg shriveled and much shorter than its mate. ’Twas the picture of a tiny victim of infantile paralysis.
The story, however, has a happy ending. The “Magicians of the Red Fez” became interested in this Arkansas City girl and sent her to their “House of Magic” in St. Louis for treatments.
Now the guests were to see the remarkable results of those treatments. While they looked at this pathetic picture, the screen faded from sight as the spot light found the figure of a charming girl in her teens— straight and sturdy she stood, beautiful in her glowing health— rejoicing in her physical perfection, no longer a crippled child.
Then, as the orchestra softly played, the girl danced. No one, watching those twinkling feet in an intricate tap-dance, would have guessed the performer had spent long, pain racked years as an invalid and had undergone eleven orthopedic operations. Truly it was a modern miracle.
Floyd Vosberg of McPherson, Kas., who formerly conducted the “Shut In” hour weekly over KFBI at Abilene, was in the city last week calling on a number of his crippled friends.
For the past eight months Mr. Vosberg has been publishing a paper called “The National Shut-In Sentiments,” which is being made possible through the assistance of the Wichita Eagle. This monthly publication is a welcome visitor in many Arkansas City homes.
Thursday morning, Mrs. Fern O’Bannon, Red Cross social worker, and Mrs. Bessie Holmes, city nurse, accompanied five handicapped young people to Wichita. There was corrective shoes to purchase and rebuild for two; one pair that must vary three sizes to fit, and a back brace to be adjusted for another. The others re-entered the orthopedic clinic for their monthly recheck. It meant a busy day for these workers.
The statistical data for the second biennial report of the Kansas crippled children’s commission was placed in the hands of the state printer today for publication.
The Wichita Junior League is making plans to start their swimming class for children crippled by infantile paralysis. This is the second year for this project. Last year the class was held each week and was under the supervision of a trained physiotherapist. Members of the league transported the children to and from the Elks pool.
Original Format
Newspaper clippings on scrapbook paper.
Title
Red Cross Scrapbook 1934: page 55 - October/November
Subject
American Red Cross
Great Depression, 1929-1939
Food relief--Kansas
Unemployment
Description
A page from the 1934 scrapbook of newspaper clippings from the Arkansas City (Kansas) Traveler, dated from October 19th, 1934 to November 2nd, 1934. The scrapbooks were created by local Red Cross volunteers. Articles during the Depression years covered food and other relief efforts, and documented unemployment issues.
Creator
Arkansas City (Kansas) Traveler
Source
Arkansas City Public Library, Arkansas City, Kansas
Publisher
Arkansas City Public Library, Arkansas City, Kansas
Date
1934-10-19
1934-10-26
1934-11-02
Contributor
Red Cross Volunteers
Rights
Used with permission of copyright holder. Further reproduction prohibited without permission.
Format
application/pdf
Language
English
Type
Clippings
Identifier
RC34051
Coverage
Cowley County, Kansas
Citation
Arkansas City (Kansas) Traveler, “Red Cross Scrapbook 1934: page 55 - October/November,” Digital Arkansas City, accessed December 22, 2024, https://arkcity.digitalsckls.info/item/107.Text
About Our Crippled Children
________________________10-19-34
Notes from the desk of Mrs. Par-man, Cowley County chairman of crippled children’s work.—Helen S. Woodman.
The annual meeting of the National Rehabilitation association, a division of the International Crippled Children’s Society, is in session this week at Louisville, Kentucky.
This association, formed twelve years ago, has as its aim the vocational training of the handicapped, transforming them from discouraged public charges into busy self-supporting citizens.
This work, operated by the various states and aided by the federal government, can be considered as an extension of the public school systems; it is by no means an act of charity.
Eighty radio stations, from both the Columbia and the National broadcasting systems, are co-operating with the “Crippled Children’s Radio Broadcasting Chain,” in weekly discussions. These talks treat of the care, cure, education and prevention of cripples. It is not a “chain” in that the members are joined in a “hook-up” but all links are individually devoting some time to the work. WIBW, Topeka, is the Kansas representative in this “chain.”
Many handicapped children, after being dismissed from the hospital, must still wear heavy casts —’tis dreary business, this time of inactivity. It would help greatly if the patients might be moved about in a wheel chair; but a stout, comfortable wheel chair with the proper adjustable foot rests is an expensive piece of furniture. ... If only there were such a chair at the disposal of the Arkansas City Red Cross. Scarcely a week would pass without its adding cheer to the long | days of some “shut-in.”
About Our Crippled About Our Crippled
Children 10-26-34 Children 11-2-34
A MODERN MIRACLE
By HELEN WOODMAN The Wichita Forum blazed with brilliance of the Shriners’ Annual ball last Thursday evening. Suddenly, at a pre-arranged signal, the lights were lowered and a silver screen flashed into view. Upon it was thrown the appealing picture of a crippled child, her form twisted and bent, one little leg shriveled and much shorter than its mate. ’Twas the picture of a tiny victim of infantile paralysis.
The story, however, has a happy ending. The “Magicians of the Red Fez” became interested in this Arkansas City girl and sent her to their “House of Magic” in St. Louis for treatments.
Now the guests were to see the remarkable results of those treatments. While they looked at this pathetic picture, the screen faded from sight as the spot light found the figure of a charming girl in her teens— straight and sturdy she stood, beautiful in her glowing health— rejoicing in her physical perfection, no longer a crippled child.
Then, as the orchestra softly played, the girl danced. No one, watching those twinkling feet in an intricate tap-dance, would have guessed the performer had spent long, pain racked years as an invalid and had undergone eleven orthopedic operations. Truly it was a modern miracle.
Floyd Vosberg of McPherson, Kas., who formerly conducted the “Shut In” hour weekly over KFBI at Abilene, was in the city last week calling on a number of his crippled friends.
For the past eight months Mr. Vosberg has been publishing a paper called “The National Shut-In Sentiments,” which is being made possible through the assistance of the Wichita Eagle. This monthly publication is a welcome visitor in many Arkansas City homes.
Thursday morning, Mrs. Fern O’Bannon, Red Cross social worker, and Mrs. Bessie Holmes, city nurse, accompanied five handicapped young people to Wichita. There was corrective shoes to purchase and rebuild for two; one pair that must vary three sizes to fit, and a back brace to be adjusted for another. The others re-entered the orthopedic clinic for their monthly recheck. It meant a busy day for these workers.
The statistical data for the second biennial report of the Kansas crippled children’s commission was placed in the hands of the state printer today for publication.
The Wichita Junior League is making plans to start their swimming class for children crippled by infantile paralysis. This is the second year for this project. Last year the class was held each week and was under the supervision of a trained physiotherapist. Members of the league transported the children to and from the Elks pool.
Original Format
Newspaper clippings on scrapbook paper.