RED CROSS WOMEN.
[TO THE EDITOR Of THE "SPECTATOR."]
Sts,—With reference to the letter from the late County Director for the County of London which appeared in your issue of December 27th, 1919, we are afraid that gentleman has missed our point. We heartily concur in the noble sentiments expressed in the penultimate paragraph of his letter, and it was this spirit which prompted us to give up the little spails time we had. We were sorry to think thit the remarks in our former letter were 'read as referring to the British Red Cross Society as a whole; to disparage so greatly respected and in- spiring an organization is our last wish. We can, of course. speak only of our own Detachment, and express our regret that we did not make ourselves clear on this point. We fully concur in Colonel Badeley's suggestion that whole-time workers should receive the gratuity which they have well earned. We enrolled as voluntary workers without thought of recognition either by decoration or by gratuity. Our point is that all V.A.D.'s should be treated identically the same—the grievance being that some members of our Detachment (voluntary part-time workers like ourselves) have received at least a .P.5 grant for expenses, while the others have had nothing. We would choose to have done onr bit as voluntary workers, but if grants were made to part- time workers to meet travelling and laundry expenses, &v., we contend that all should have been treated alike. With regard to the future of the V.A.D., we might mention that we are not in any way in touch with our Detachment, as all meet- ings have ceased to exist for some time. We should prefer. and are quite willing, to interview the late County Director to explain what prompted us to write our previous letter.—We
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