. The Ladies' home journal. search has shown the necessity forwider use of blood and blood products in medicine,surgery and disease prevention, but when obtainedthrough commercial sources the cost is greater thanmost families can pay. The goal of the National BloodProgram of the American Red Cross is to provide formedical use, without charge for the products, sufficientblood and blood derivatives throughout the nation tohelp save lives and prevent needless suffering. Commu-nity chapters of Red Cross, working closely with medi-cal societies, official health agencies and hospitals, willhave the
. The Ladies' home journal. search has shown the necessity forwider use of blood and blood products in medicine,surgery and disease prevention, but when obtainedthrough commercial sources the cost is greater thanmost families can pay. The goal of the National BloodProgram of the American Red Cross is to provide formedical use, without charge for the products, sufficientblood and blood derivatives throughout the nation tohelp save lives and prevent needless suffering. Commu-nity chapters of Red Cross, working closely with medi-cal societies, official health agencies and hospitals, willhave the responsibility for the general conduct of theprogram. There is no satisfactory substitute for human blood—the only source is supply the need, it is conserv-atively estimated that aboutone person in every 35 inthe United States wouldhave to give blood each National Blood Pro-gram of the American RedCross will call for and de-serve the continuing sup-port and active co-operationof all the American TWENTY-FIVE INCHES OF SNOW 2^ Dvtotfaf *7&6**tfi4aK IT started during the night, and in the morning the city waswhite. All day long it snowed, without storm, the flakesfalling silently, tenderly, but persistently. In the littlegarden of our old-fashioned city house, a round metal tablehad been left outside, from the summer, and the snow, fallingwithout wind, piled up on its surface, perfectly round, like agreat fluffy white cake. It stands outside the dining-roomwindow, and as we passed through we could see how thecake was rising. When, finally, the newspapers and radiosaid twenty-five inches had fallen, and it was the greatestsnowfall in the recorded history of New York City, we couldsee that the cake was just that thickness. The snow not only blanketed the streets and the trees,burdening the buildings, piling on ledges to half coverwindows, turning wires into strings of popcorn and parkedcars into streets of igloos; it blanketed sound too. When wewent out
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