[Illustration: VOLUME EIGHT APRIL, 1913 NUMBER TWO THE AMERICAN RED CROSS MAGAZINE ISSUED FROM THE NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS WASHINGTON, D. C. FOUNDED TO AID IN THE PREVENTION AND ALLEVIATION OF HUMAN SUFFERING IN TIMES OF PEACE AND WAR] CONTENTS American Red Cross Officers 2 Form of Bequest 3 Frontispiece 4 Opinion and Comment 5 New name, new paper, new department. Mayor Gaynor’s Southern Flood Relief Committee. Cincinnati Chapter wide awake. Chapter news wanted for publication. Red Cross law and those who violate it. Our countrymen’s splendid service in Turkey. Brigadier-General Carroll A. Devol, U. S. A. Physicians will help the Red Cross. The forty-ninth State Board. The Red Cross in Baltimore. The Red Cross Building. Vivid Glimpses of the American Red Cross in Turkey 12 Fighting the Cholera in San Stefano. Situation in Salonica. Red Cross Work for Refugees in Western Asia Minor. Activities of the Red Crescent Society. Savages four hundred years ago. Faik Pasha Della-Sudda. Red Cross and White Cross in Mexico 27 Dynamite Explosion at Baltimore 33 Public Works and Relief in China 34 Nicaraguan Famine Relief 39 Important Conference on Red Cross Christmas Seals 41 What the Red Cross Seal has done for Brooklyn 45 First Aid Department 48 First Aid in Australia 52 Red Cross Nursing Service 54 Rural Nursing. Home Nursing and First Aid Instruction for Women. The Red Cross at the Inauguration 60 Red Cross Endowment Fund 63 Advertising Section 65 THE AMERICAN RED CROSS _President_ HON. WILLIAM H. TAFT _Vice-President_ MR. ROBERT W. DE FOREST _Treasurer_ HON. SHERMAN ALLEN _Counselor_ HON. WILLIAM MARSHALL BULLITT _National Director_ MR. ERNEST P. BICKNELL _Secretary_ MR. CHARLES L. MAGEE CENTRAL COMMITTEE _Appointed by the President of the United States._