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DISASTER RELIEF COST Red 'prosi Aided 1 4506b Vie Ytims in United States Losses Total $30,000,000. ' Seventy-two disasters, wlth hun dreds reported killed and Injured, and ' more than 145,000 cither homeless or requiring assistance, called for emer gency relief measures and the ex penditure of $1,441,486.30 by the ; American Red Cross during the fiscal ' year ending June 30,. 1022, according to a statement based on the forth coming annual report of the Bet Cross. The greatest toll of life wu taken by hurricane and ' tema4 u while the overflowing of rlvera, ' the breaking of dams and torrential ralM drove the greatest number 'of people : from their homes. The -property lea was estimated j at more than 939k 000,000. The year's disasters reported In cluded twenty-six i floods, nineteen tor nadoes, fifteen fires, four epidemics, two tneatre collapses, two shipwrecks (one an airship), and a bridge col lapse, mine explosion, railway colli- - Ion, and a drought. Of the floods In the United States that at San Aa tonUv Texas, caused the greatest property loss, $6,000,000 and the high mark; of fatulities, 100, while the flood ;ln the vicinity of Vicksburg and Natchez, Miss., forced 31,000 persons from, their homes. - : A National Calamity In '.'the Red Cross disaster relief records there will probably , remain for many years one calamity which touched nearly every state with a ' sense of horror and of loss. This was the distressing collapse of the roof of : the Knickerbocker Theatre In Washington, D. C, resulting In nine-ty-Blx deaths and 125 persons Injured. Situated In ,the center of the benutl ful Northwest residential section, this motion picture theatre was patronized by many persons of prominence both In the official am civil life of the Na tional Capital, whose family and per sonal connections radinted out over the entire country. The horror was Intensified by a terrific snowstorm which, though It retarded, did not block Red Cross relief. Airship Crash Flndj Aid at Hand The crash and destruction of the U. 9. Army's large airship Roma in Vir ginia Inst February with the losi of 34 officers and men and 11 injured was the first disaster of its kind to call for Reef Cross relief in this conntry. The 'suddenness of the nccldent tested the preparedness of th organization and of the Chapter at Hampton, Va., but the response was Immediate and relief furnished the survivors, also funds for the expenses of relatives of the dead, ;who came from long distances to claim , their own. ' . In the year's oversea record for nid ,rendered by the Pod Cross are two fires In the Philippines, one in Manila, which destroyed 1,000 homes, with a loss of $1,500,000 md C.OOO persons - made homeless, the other at Tonio, which drove 3,000 from their dwellings. . In medical relief that was quick and effective the smallpox epidemic in San Domingo, which had a total of 22,000 : cases with 225 deaths In a single day. tested the readiness of the Red Cross for actlon, and the same can be said of the San Domingo hurricane, which killed 12 persons end reduced the homes of 182 persont to wreckage. A flood In San Salvador, with a death ': toll of 50 and 2,000 refugees, was also i effectually handled by the local Chap !f tejbof the American Red Cross. ;'-i ?f Relief Machinery Perfected ; . The year lins seen the further pe'i. 'f'foctlon of disaster relief admlnlstra tlve measures In every cld of Amerl ,. can Red Cross, activity, and that the work maybe carried on to still greater accomplishments Vm American Red Cross Is appealing for widespread re newal of membership during the an nual Roll Call, to be conducted this year, from Armistice Day (November 11) to, and Including, Thanksgiving Day (November 30). . Run Fox In Hecrt of Lumberton. Lumberton.. A fox race of four ' hours' duration within the corporate v limits of the town of Lumberton end f ed In the capture of a grown male -v fojC, The fox .was ''Jumped'! In town ' rjftnd did not leave. He was so fat from ; Jeating chickens owned by people living ' In town that he could not run with the 'swiftness of a ""country'' fox and the pack of dogs caught him after about i "four hours. A large number of local jpeople gathered to witness the race, ; which was something new in "the old home town," -I- . ' Negro Claim Many Wives. vyton,,v;pho.---WlIllam L. Jones, E8.1 negro, who says he has no home, told the police, they declared, that he , was married to 40 women, none of : Whom are dead or divorced, so far as he knows. ' Jones, according to his story as related by the police, be gan his -matrimonial career In 1890 after1 serving as a minister for several years, and continued nnfll a short time ago when his fortieth A-lfe waa acquired in Chicaga . '" . Jones was arrested for Attemptlag pass a $200 check. . 'l' f '''- f ' '" '!' ' Cpread Chrlstmaa Joy Abrtatf V . ' I!r tjian 100)00 Chrlstmaa hexes :r the children of Central Rjrepe rtr packed by The Junlpf Bed Cress ' S year, y The spread of Christmas ? rv'b'tMse oxes will be largely .-zil thl year bees use ,lof the 3 Uriad r3dcr.w-' nflrll.nln nrrl ril ... - m m b m, v- . . r -i .- IUJII IIUIU IILI UNI pWi CASH CAMPAIGN HAS MADE POSSIBLE : VA8T,ENLARGEMENrOF EVERY : PHASE OF GENERAL WORK CAIN'500,000 NEW MEMBERS Effort Will Be Made to Enlist These and .All Other Baptists In Share ! Ill Forward Movement Dur ' ' ino November ,, t . - Total cash collections on the Ba tlst 75 .Million Campaign up to May 1. 1922 had reached the sum of $35. 152,J11.9, according to the general Campaign headquarters. Tula repre sents an advance of nealy $20,000,001' over what Southern Baptists did for their general missionary, educational .DR. L. R. SCARBOROUGH General Director Baptist 75 Million Campaign. ' and benevolent work for 'the three years preceding the Campaign. The contribution of larger gifts to religious work has been accompanied by larger spiritual results in the local churches, it Is pointed out. For in stance, Southern Baptists baptized 150,090 more converts during the first three years of the Campaign than they did in" the three years before, gained 3,000nw Sunday schools and 400,000 new pupils, enhanced the value of their' local church property by $33,000,000, enlarged their contrl buttons to local causes by $22,390,000 and Increased their contributions tt all causes by $43,480,490. Baptist Institutions Grow Some -other phases of denomination al progress made possible by the Campaign include Increasing the num ber of Baptist hospitals In the South from 12 to 19, with three others un der construction and four more def intely planned; strengthening of 17 Baptist orphanages and the establish ment of two new ones, lifting $3,000, 000 Indebtedness on 119 Baptlbt schools, colleges and seminaries, com pletion and projection of permanent improvements there In the sum of $4,000,000. and the addition of sub stantial sums to the endowment funds. Over 2,500 ministerial students are enrolled at Southern Baptist schools. ' Church Loan Fund Raised Among tho outstanding accomplish ments in the work of the Home Mis sion Board are the aiding of 1,000 churches in building new houses -ot worship, the completion of the million-dollar Church -Building Loan Fund, strengthening the work among the foreigners and Indians and the 38 Mountain mission schools. The Board has employed an average of 1,495 workers during the Campaign and re ports for that period 131,832 bap tisms, 218,371 additions to churches, 2,276 Sunday schools and 759 church es organized; and 1,409 houses of wor ship built qr repaired. On the foreign fields the equipment for misslon work has been practically doubled, more than 250 new foreign misslonarea hive taen sent out, more than 400 new native workers have been employed, and the Board has entered the new fields of Spain, Jugo slavia, Hungary, Roumanla, Southern Russia, Palestine and Siberia. The Board reports for the period of the Campaign 117 new churches on the foreign fields, 21,723 baptisms, 211 new Sunday schools, gain of 17,578 pupils, native contributions of $1,003, 390.63, and 629,642 treatments admin istered by medical missionaries. . Another rerult of the Campaign Is that the Relief and Annuity Board, which Is seeking to care for the aged dependent ministers and their fam ilies, has been enabled to double the number, ot such parsons helped and the amount that lr given these bene ficiaries. Last year the. Board was able to dispense $128,966 among needy ministers. It has invested as sets ot $1,149,088. Receive 600,000 New Members , More than 600,000 new members have been received Into' the local Baptist chuiches of the South since the Campaign began, and in the hope of enlisting all these in the Cam paign, as well as reaching the older members of the churches who have not shared in the forward movement heretofore, the month November 5 December 3 has beat ' jkaignated as ,Re-enforcement Mosfli , if the Cam paign Conservation Oamalsslon. Dur ing this month It is planned that ev ery Baptist -church in the South will call upon all Us members who are not already participating In the Cam paign and secure subscriptions from them covering the two remaining years of the movement, and cash of ferings to the Campaign from all the members. Dr. L. K. Scarborough, of Fort Worth, Texas, who was general director of the original Campaign, has been elected to serve In that capat ity for the Re-enforcement program, although the details are being work ed out In the various states under the leadership of the secretaries of the state mlsson boards. It Is hope! to secure several million dollars ! additional subscriptions and several rouuion in cash as well by ber L I rtf.'vzk m RED GROSS WINNING IN FflJHT FOR HEALTH Better, Stronger. Citizenry Now Emerging Out of Work In United States. - -1 The American . Red Crosa as an evangelist of better health has looked Its problem square In the face. How It accepted the task revealed to It In the nation's physical condition as brought out during the World War. and conscientiously, applied its actlvl ties to correction forms a vivid chap ter In the forthcoming annual report. Historically and practically, nursing Is a basic work for the Red Cross.' In Us public health nursing service, In in struction in home hygiene and care of the sick, nutrition classes, first aid and life saving courses and health cen ters, the American Red Cross Is ap plying effectually the lessons learned during the war and making for a healthier, stronger and better aeur ishfed citizenry. y ' The task of the Red Cross Public Health nurse In the 1,240 nursing serv ices now operating throughout the country instructing their communities In health essentials and disease pre vention Is demonstrating the possibili ties of human betterment and the great benefits of enlightenment. During the Inst year J113 new public health nursing services were establish ed by Red Cross Chapters, and several hundred services so convincingly prov ed their effectiveness that they were taken 'over by public authorities.. In wder to promote this work. $30,000 was allotted to provide, women to prepare themselves for public nursing. The home visits made by the 1,240 nurses aggregated nearly 1,500,000, visits to schools numbered 140,000, and In six months 1,250,000 school children were Inspected by these nurses and where defects were found advised examina tion by physicians. In rural commu nities this service has made a very marked advance and has fwon thou sands of converts to approved methods of disease prevention. In home hygiene and care of the sick Instruction, which fits the student in methods of proper care where Illness Is not so serious as to require profes sional service, the Red Cross conduct ed 3,884 classes during the last year, enrolled 2,350 Instructors, 03,448 stu dents and issued 42,050 certificates. On June 30, 1922, nutrition service' embraced 1,199 classes, with a total of 27,523 children and 2,589 enrolled dieti tians. Seventy-eight food selection classes, graduated 733 who received Red Cross certlflentes. In general health activities Red Cross Chapters maintained 377 health centers, serving as. many communities, provided 38,751 health lectures for large audiences ev erywhere, while clinics numbered over 10,000. . Traveling Men Meet. Cincinnati, Ohio. Adoption of a resolution by the National Council of Traveling Salesmen's associations, of- fering the services of the council to settle all disputes between hotel men auu tummerciai travelers, maraea me closing feature of the annual conven tion of the assoc'nrions here. Many Millions Lost Annually UY CHECK RAISING ' It has been reliably estimated that from thirty to fifty millions of dollars are beinjf stolen annually irom bank depositors who do not protect their checks. . It may never have happened to you-yet your next check may be raised. ' . It is next to impossible to write a check that is safe, unless pro tected with a modern device. Remember that in these days every class of crime is constantly in creasing" and an unprotected check is a dangerous asset. No matter to whom you give your check it is not safe for it may be transferred to another party or get into the hands of a dishonest -employee, who by using a few drops of acid or by clever pen changing1 can make over your check so thai you would scarcely know it. , Do you know that your , signature represents every dollar that you are worth? Is it not worth a few dollars of your money to pro toct it? - . , Don't put this matter off another day-buf write for interesting', literature on check protection. It does not obligate you at all. A post card will do. , . . . - We can supply you with any standard make of check writer or protecting device for half price or less. - - An attractive proposition offered to live wire local salesmen. . Standard Check Dept. 86 ThoDan : "v & BLOWING 3' Cross iVater irst. Aid -Makes liite-Saying Gain Uoiti than 325 Chapters engaged In life saving or water first aid last year wlth;tho result that the American Red Cross Life Saving Corps has set a new high nark , for enrollment and the number' -of qualified life savers' de veloped. The Influence" of "learn to swim week" In many localities is re ducing the water fatalities through In struction andttbe wider dissemination of resuscitation methods demonstrated by the Red Cross representatives; Ex cellenfwork has been done In teaching a large part of the American popula tion how to take care of Itself in the water. Growing appreciation for this Red Cross Life-Saving ; Service la shown by the compulsory Instruction adopted in many cities for members of the police and fire departments In the prone Treasure method of resuscita tion. . " ' ' Plan Big Oelebraflon. .' Norwood. .The Norwood Civic As sociation has planned a big celebra tion to mark the completion of theJ new concrete bridge spanning Rocky River now under construction' near here. The celebration will be a sort of state-wide song, with a "hands-across-the-water" chorus, led by tlip well-known Anson and Stanly sif ters. Mr. J. F. . Shinn, president of the association, and a committee, are now making preliminary Investigation with ft view to announcing the char octeryof the celebration. Britain Shells Out Fifty Million. . Washington. A payment of $50,000, 000 from the British government on account ot -interest on Great Britain's obligation to the TJ. S. was received herb by the treasury, through the New York federal reserve bank. A sec ond payment of approximately Ihe same amount is expected November 15. The treasury announced that the money provides In part for $137,000,' 000 of Interest which became due and payable on Liberty bond and treas ury certificates. 'upreme Court Opinions. Appelas passed on were: 11 Baker vi. Winslow, Pasquotank; no error. 12 Whltehurst et al vs. Hlnton. Pas quotank; appeal dismissed.- ' ' 16r-nampton vs. Griggs, Currituck: reversed. 30 Kafer vs. Hardware Co.. Beau fort; affirmed without written opinion. ' . INSURANCE Fire, Life, Casualty All new business and ex piring policies promptly attended to.Adjustments promptly made. GEORGE f ' BLAIR Office in P. O!" Building BLOWING ROCK, N. C. Writer Exchange .208 BROADWAY, . NEW YORK CITY. Your Balance . will be correctly kept at our. Bank. You will never be an noyed by errors or omissions in your accounts. Our officers and clerks are men of sound judgment, high business in tegrity, and will give you ev ery attention. and treat you with every courtesy. ; s" - -n: ' . '"( ROCJCiN. C. r M M Uf t Uf "Our Family Medidne T.WILL WRITE you In regard X to Black-Draught liver med icine, as I have been using it more than 18 years," says a letter from Mr. S. P. Minti, of R. P. D. 2, Leland.N. 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