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...past two months. 150 pints of blood, enough to save the lives of ten persons, were promised to the Red Cross Blood Bank in Boston. Yet, in the face of a critical shortage caused by the use of some 500 pints in the treatment of Cocoanut Grove victims, Harvard students have failed to take advantage of the best means yet offered to "do something" while waiting Army call...
Citing examples from the recent fires in East Boston and the Cocoanut Grove, Dr. Martin Spellman, Medical Examiner of the Boston Fire Department, addressed a group of ARP workers and doctors last night in the New Lecture Hall on the subject of rescue work at fires and other grave emergencies...
Assistant firemen will aid him in showing how such equipment as a pullmotor, various kinds of gas masks, and types of stretchers are used. Applying first aid to victims, a procedure which is said to have saved numerous lives in the Cocoanut Grove holocaust, will also be covered thoroughly in the talk. Under Walton's direction, the University ARP course was completely revamped and Red Cross courses applying strictly to air raid emergencies have been devised for those interested...
...efficient and honest municipal government which has arisen as a result of the Cocoanut Grove fire, will be futile until the American public realizes that it is itself responsible for inefficient and dishonest city government. This particular idea has been recounted time and again, but with the glaring example of this horrible fire before the people it should be drummed into them that efficient city government can only be had with efficient and honest governing bodies. The people must come to the realization that higher salaries must be paid to city officials so that: (1) men with greater ability...
...graft must inevitably go hand in hand with municipal government. But, to have efficient and honest government the officials must be paid in accordance with their abilities, and the people must prepare to pay them. Otherwise, they will continue to pay as did the 494 victims of the Grove fire. Alexander L. Jackson...