Red Cross Members Making Layettes, Children's Clothing, for Needy in Europe, April 12, 1921

Albanian school boys at the American Red Cross School at Tirana, Albania, wearing clothing from America along with the traditional fez. The lad in the front kept his gorgeous embroidered jacket, the pride of his ancestors, but his other clothes are from America. This photo is from The Library of Congress, online at https://www.loc.gov/photos/?fa=location:albania%7Csubject:tirana&st=slideshow#slide-2

Red Cross Members Engage in New Work

Wherever there is a Red Cross chapter in the South, there must be one member out of three sewing on baby clothes today if that chapter is doing its share to clothe the babies of Europe.

When the Red Cross recently undertook the task of providing clothing for 250,000 newborn babies in Central Europe and 500,000 boys and girls from one to 14 years of age, no definite quota was set for any division.

But an estimate was made at national headquarters in Washington that, on the basis of Red Cross members throughout the nation, every chapter must provide one garment to each three members and one layette—an outfit for newborn babies—to each 25 members, if the supply is to meet the demand.

The reorganized southern division includes the states of Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi and Virginia.

From the front page of The Enterprise, Williamston, N.C., April 12, 1921