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Craig: Your correspondence must be enourmous....and there's your work with the Red Cross.....as National Director of Arts and Skills...I wish you'd tell our listeners what this work means..........

Craig: This war project grew right after Pearl Harbor. I told you I collected art work for the Fairs and went to every state in the union to find the best art work, and that I became acquainted with many artists and craftsman. After the disaster at Pearl Harbor I began to get letters from these artists who knew me asking if I could find dome [[some]] way to use their talents. Many of them were working in war plants, ship yards and factories but they still wanted to contribute to the war effort. I immediately realized that here was a huge volunteer manpower thatmight be of use to our sick soldiers. Our hospitals on the coast were filled with thousands of wounded - many of whom who would take years to be cured. I have had a lot to do with therapy and I went to Washington to offer some of my ideas. Mrs. Davis of the Red Cross heard of the project and asked me to come to see her, which I did. She said, "This is something for the Red Cross," and went to Norman Davis, who was then the head, and secured the necessary money to support the project. That meant buying of equipment, tools, etc. for various handcraft activities to start in three big hospitals, one in New York, Chicago and San Francisco. I enlisted the support of many of the local artists and crafstmen who had written to me wanting to help.....and they each gave a day a week to the hospitals to teach different skills and crafts.

Craig: And that was the start of a project which has since spread to hospitals all over the country, hasn't it?