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The "Greatest Mother" concept which was visualized In the famous art
poster used by the American Red Gross In Its second war fond campaign
has hadi its symbolism adapted te the Red Gross, works of the post-war era
and will Illuminate the mala poster to be used in the Fourth Roll Gall Novem
ber 11-25. This adaptation will bear the title "Still the Greatest "Motber la
the World." Everyone is familiar wltn the original "The Greatest Mother !■
the World," v the effectiveness of which has been shown la by the fact
that it has furnished a synonym for Red Gross that has come to almost a
household term. More than any other symbol, except the red cross Itself, the
public has made it the tradessark of the American Red Cross.
WHAT WOULD YOU
DO F DISASTER
HIT YOUR TOWN?
80,000 Victims of Budden Disaster*
Helped Last Year by
Red Cross
Atlanta, Ga., NOT.-pWhat would
your town do tomorrow, were it sud
denly stridden by disaster? ,
The question is not as foolish as
It may sound to people who are living
today in safety and happiness and
who no more anticipate disaster to
morrow than they do the end'of the
world.
For no one knows when or where
disaster will strike.
There was no warning of the San
Francisco earthquake and tire. One
moment the people of that mighty city
were bustling about business,
utterly devoid of fear fr premonition;
the next their entire was tum
bling about their ears.
One morning two miles of the city
of Atlanta, 6a., were swept by fire
in less than four hours.
Wall street never expected a bomb
explosion until it came and killed
more than thirty people and maimed
scores of others in less time than it
takes to read this paragraph,
Even gathering storms and rising
floods, such as the souty has known
on its coasts and at river cities like
West Point, Ga., give scant warning
before homes are Inundated and people
forced to flee for their lives.
To any one at any time, tornado,
fire and storm may bring peril and suf
fering. So the question is * asked
again: «
"What would your town do tomor
row If disaster struck?"
It la to provide an answer to that
question that the American Ked Cross
bas been In existence for years and
years. It Is the recognized official
agency for disaster relief, and It has
lived up to its responsibilities In a
wonderful way.
That is one reason why the Red
Cropb deserves the support of every
one ox* its Fourth Roll Ca;l —to main
tain it so that, when disaster strikes,
the stricken will always have k help
ing hand to turn to, the American Red
Cross.
The disaster relief part of the Red
Cross organisation has been so thor
oughly perfected that* it can answer
calls for help in' th&. briefest possible
time.
People of the south well remember
how promptly the Red Cross respond
ed to the need during the West Point
flood last year, the Corpus Christ!
storm and several other southern dis
asters, while fresh in the memory of
the entire country Is the fact that
Red Cross doctors and nurses were
"first on the scene" at the Wall street
explosion.
In addition to furnishing suctf
prompt relief as this, practically ev
ery Bed Cross chapter has a per
maaest dfcMtsr rdM iff Mtfr
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In their respective conununiileg and
is prepared to act promptly with the
means at hand when disaster occurs.
Illustrative of the genuine need for
just such preparedness as this in the
United States is the fact that, last
year alone, the Red Cross aided io,-
000 persons in 114 communities, ail
victims of 78 separate and distinct dis
asters.
In the accomplishment of this re
lief work 140 Red Croes chapters were
called upon to assist, the stun offtOO,-
000 in cash and supplies was expend
ed. Thirty temporary hospitals were
called into existence, twenty-odd mo
tor corps WSre organised, seven spe
cial relief trains were sent out and
110 special representatives and nurses
were furnished in addition to the'aid
given by the local JM Cross workers,
in the community visited by disaster.
In these 78 disasters. Including 19
tornadoes and cyclones, 2 hurricanes,
2 cloud bursts, 1 hall storm, 2 earth
quakes, 1 landslide, 16 flrea, 1 explo
sion, 9 floods, 10 shipwrecks, 1 train
wreck, 4 riots, 1 motor accident and
2 droughts—Bso persons were killed,
1,600 were Injured, 18,000 (approxl
lmately) were rendered homelesi
while property valued at $6,000,000 was
destroyed.
The largest and most destructive
disaster of the year waa at Corpus
Christl, Texas, In September, 1919.
Approximately 400 were killed and 4,-
000 made homeless. The Red Cross
division director with a staff of SS
assistants administered a fund of $400,-
000, giving aid to 8,600 families and
four towns and rural dlatricta and suf
ficient supplies to each famlfe to en
able it to stand on its feet.
Because of tornadoes, tbe Gulf and
Lake Divisions were called upon to
send emergency relief with trained
workers to nearly 80 communities. The
two droughts in Montana and North
Dakota gave abundant opportunity for
trained workers from the Northern Di
vision to help the Red Cross chapters
demonstrate their usefulness, while a
number of shipwrecks proved the read
iness of the Atlantic Division and the
New York Metropolitan Area Commit
tee to assist in tbnt line of work.
The record of last year emphasises
the need of abundant preparedness
along the line of disaster relief, and
has resulted in the organization of
Disaster Preparedness Committees by
about 400 chapters and the setting
aside of a special emergency fund by
the National organisation of 15,000/
000 In addition to the regular annual
appropriation for this purpose mad*
la Its fradget
OOLD IN VANCOUVER.
A veteran Australian miner has
produced samples of ores found in
Point which show
gold assay values of over SI,OOO a
ton. -
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CHILDREN OUT OP SCHOOL.
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Latest figures obtained by the fed
eral bureau of education show that
between tOOfiOO and 400,000 chilr
drro Butm last jm
GRAHAM, N. C., THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 25. 1920
FARM
ANIMALS
VERMIN ON HOGS EXPENSIVE
One Cent Per Pound Is AdVed to Coot
of Producing Pork by Presence
of Insects.
(• *iptr«4 by the United Ststei Depart
ment of Agriculture.)
Lice add a cent a pound to the coat
of producing pork. TJils has been
found,ln tests Just completed at the
farm of the United States
department of agriculture at Belts
vllle, Md. Twenty-four lousy hogs
were secured and divided Into two
lots as neatly equal as to quality of
anlinals aa possible. The two lots
were managed and fed the same way
with thft exception that one lot was
treated to prevent lice. The anlmala
were weighed at regular Intervals and
at the end of the fattening period it
was found that the hogs Infested with
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Champion Berkshire Barrow Pree of
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Uce coat a cent a pound more to fatten
than those which, were free of the trou
blesome pest. The officials ,*tf»o had
charge of tills experiment give, an in
terests side light-lib connection with
•ecurlig the. lousy animals. ' They
communicated with some of the de
partment's field men, asking them to
locate lousy hogs. It was some time
before a reply was received to tbis
surprising order. After the loopy hogs
were purduuwd the owner learned
why, and be Immediately built a dip-'
ping vat and began to treat the an
imals to prevent lice.
COUNTY BREED DIRECTORIES
Catalogues- Are Valuable In Identify
ing Owners and Effective In'
Promoting Bales.
(Prepared by the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture;)
Indexing counties as to_jk>minant
breed of live stock maintained, through l
the use of county breed directories,
has won great favor In lowa, where
several years ago Linn county Inaugu-.
rated this work. Such catalogues are
valuable In Identifying the owners of!
different breeds and are effective In •
promoting Mies and in attracting!
prospective purchasers to tbe locality.
They constitute a relatively perma
nent form of advertising, as ordinar
ily they are kept for future reference
by those who receive them, the di
rectories are best Issued under tbe
authority of a county live stock breed
ers association or the local farm bu
reau Ordinarily tbe expense* of these
booklets are raised by the sale of ad
vertising space to breeders. Practi
cally any rural printing office can put
out creditable productions of tbls
class.
COMMUNITY BREEDING PUNS
r
Fanners In Certain Section Agree to
Stick to One Breed and Use
Purebred Sires.
Community breeding simply means,
that the farmers In a certain com
munity agree to do two thinga:
Klrst, to breed but one breed of cat- i
tie, sheep or hogs.
Second: They agree to use none
purebred sires, these sires being own
ed either Individually or collectively.
Everyone is absolutely free to do ss
he pleases Just so long as he sticks to
one class of stock and uses a purebred
sire. These Ideas can best be carried
out if the farmers are organized In a
body and get together at stated peri
ods.
SUFFICIENT.
"Did yotir audience find, your ar
guments sufficient?"
' "They must have," replied Sena
tor Sorghum. fChe committee sent
a man rp to whisper to me that it
vat fitting Isto and I had «*id »11
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UTMDE R6HT :
AGAINST DISEASE
American Red Cross Will Have
Health Centers In All Parts
of United States.
The American Red Cross has launch
ed upou a nation wide campaign of
fighting diaeaae and physical defect
among tbe American people. A new
and unique health institution has come
Into, being as the result of several
months' study by the Red Cross Healtk
Service Department at National Head
quarter*. , v
Offlctais. la charge of tbe department
predict that before long this new health
activity will be In actual operation all
over the country, and that the sign—
"American Red Cross Health Center"
—will become as familiar to the peo
ple everywhere as are now tbe signs ol
tbe telegraph companies.
, Busy Lang Before War.
Tbe Interest of the American Red
Cross In the fight against disease, Is
not, however, of recent origin. Lonr
before the war the organisation began
tbls heatth service through Its medical
Units In disaster relief work and Its
department of Town and County Nurs
lbg. During the war and following
tbe armistice thousands of American
Red Cross officials have been lighting
disease In the wbr-strlcken countries
At the same time tensof thousands of
local Ited Crows officials have been en
guged at home fighting disease, nota
bly during the tnAuensa epidemics.
The American Fed Cross has de
termined that all tais valuable experi
ence In health service abroad and at
home shall not go to waste. So long
aa there are a half a million |>eoplt
dying yearly in this country from pre
ventable pauses, uud so long as more
than one-third of t.ne American chil
dren and young people are victims of
physical defects, the Red Cross recog
nizes the argent need for continued
Red Cross health service at home. *
How Organisation Work*.
The Bed Crosa Health Center U
governed by business principles, ap
plies business methods, and, ID Its
more simple form, can be established
and conducted b; lay people.
It proceeds opon the demonstrated
fact that health la, a commodity that'
can he bought and sold tffce brooms
and *oap. Therefore, It eatdhllshea It
self In a storeroom In t|M, principal
business settlor? of the community, it
displays Its goods In the form of at
tractive health exhibits In Its show
windows. It adverthiea constantly and
extensively. And it,usea every boat
neea and social device to attract* cus
tomer*.
The (fed Crosa Health Center la of
service to t)ie alck In that It gives put
reliable and complete information
about existing clinics, hoepitala. sana
toria «od other Institutions for the alck
and Ihe defective; about available
nuraea. both trained and practical;
about when to conault a physician and
why to ahuo the quack and hla nos
trum*.
Teaching Dlaease Prevention.
The Rlid Crosa Health Center la
however, of even greater service to dM
well. It teaches people how to pre
vent, alcknees and disease. This is done
la many Interesting and attractive
ways—first of all, *y the distribution
of popular health literature and
through health lectures Illustrated with
,lantern slides or with health motion
picture films. Then *pacta| exhlMtaere
given, one after tke other, on varleoa
health anhjecta. Practical demonatra
tiona are made; alio health playieta by
children to interest and Instruct them
selves and their elders. Classes are
organised In personal hygiene, home
care of the atck, drat aid and In food
aelectlon and preparation. Health
cluba. both for younger and older peo
ple, are formed; also Little Mothers'
Leagues. Nutrition and growth dlnica
are conducted for children.
Already more than a hundred of
these Red Croaa Health Center* are ta
actual operation throughout tbe conn
try. Many of them also conduct med
ical clinics, hut tbe ooe chief, out
standing feature of the American Red
Croaa Health Center la Its health edu
cation service which teaches well poo*
pie how to keep well.
FRENCH PRAISE FOR
OUR RED CROSS WORK
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Lauding the work accomplished by
American philanthropy for war
stricken France. Andre Tardlen, form
er high commissioner from that na
tion to tbe United States, In a recent
article widely commented on through
out the French press, soys:
"Tbf American Red Croat baa ae
compllshetf a work which calls for
the heartfelt gratitude of erery true
Frenchman. In 1918 thla great relief
organization spent In behalf of France
nearly 57.000,000 franca, and In 1919
Ita expenditures on charitable projects
In our country attained tbe tremen
dous total of ITUNftOOO. It bas ro-
plies whose value must be counted fa
tbe hundreds of thousands of francs.
"Fifteen million American boys and
girls, banded together in tbe Junior
RM Cross of Amerlcq, are back of a
movement to establish tbe closest ties
between themselves and France's
younger generation through the char
itable works they have financed and
are now carrying Oat among obr llttle
war sufferers.
'The bends of friendship between
Fran's -ml America la cemented with
mutual admiration, reflect and graftt
tide."
FIRST AID TRAINING
TO MEN AND WOMEN
American Red Cross Is Teaching
Hundreds of/Thousands Life
saving Methods.
The purpose of Instruction In First
Aid to the Injured offered by the Amer
ican Red Cross is to train men and
women to administer First Aid treat
ment promptly and Intelligently when
emergencies demand It First Aid
treatment is not Intended to take the
place of a physician's service. A sur
geon should always be summoneed as
a precautionary measure where there
Is an Injury of any consequence, but
when one cannot be secured a few min
utes' delay may mean a fatality. In
such s case a person trained In First
Aid Is Invaluable not only to the In
dividual, but through him to tbe com
munity In which be llvea
There Is perhaps no wsy of ascer
taining tbe number of deaths or seri
ous dlssbleroents which result from
lack of proper safeguards or prompt
emergency treatment. It is safe to as
sert they number thousands dally.
There can be no doubt that the appli
cation of First Aid methods to each
case would Immeasurably lighten the
country's toll of suffering snd death.
The dissemination of First Aid train
ing and Information has already pro
duced a farreachlng and beneficial In
fluence In tbe prevention of accidents
on railroads. In mines and In great In
dustrial concerns.
' Tbe benefit of a widespread knowl
edge of First Aid In tbe event of a
great disaster, such as a train wreck,
an explosion, an earthqulke, etc.. Is
obvious. Laymen who hsve had First
Aid training can render efficient as
slstance. |fany lives may depend upon
such emergency care.
Red Cross First Aid work Includes
(1) the formation and conduct, through
Red Cross chapters, of classes for In*
■traction In accident prevention snd
First Aid to tbe Injured among men
and women In all communltlea and In
every Indaetry; (2) the Introduction of
courses of Instruction in high schools
and colleges.
Tbe Red Cross Is prepared to supply
First Aid books and equipment at rea
sonable prices.
Kvery person la this country able to
do io should. In his own Interest, re
ceive Red Gross First Aid Instruction.
Information about the course and In
struction classes may be bad at the
nearest chapter headquarters.
RED CROSS EXTENDS
RELIEF TO POLAND
Mora than 90*000,000 has tarn spent
by the American Red Crosa In aiding
the strlckten people of Poland. The
organisation has nursed the sick, fed
the starring, clothed the naked, shelter
ad the homeless, schooled the children
and cared (or the orphans there. It has
conducted a talentless light sgalnst
tvpliax, cholera and other terrible dis
eases. 80 today millions of men and.
women In that resurrected nstlon
speak In grateful appreciation of "The
Greatest Mother In the World."
Nearly 200 American Red Croa*
workers are now engaged In relief ac
tivities in Poland. Four large relief
bases are In operation and eleven nn>
bile units are In tbe field. - During the
last twelve months this organization
was largely Instruments) In the re-es
tabllshment of a million refugees at 1
coat for general relief of more than
91,000,000. Last winter one-half mil
lion war orphans were aided material
ly, and since then a series of large or
phanages have been estsblished 0 give
them permanent care.
But for American Red Cross aid. of
ficials of Poland declared recently, roll
tlona of people In that country would
have perished of disease, exposure or
starvation the last eighteen months.
And the work there must be kept ay
Cor soother year.
FINE OLD HANDWORK SOCKf,
Their Writing and Artistic Decora
tion Were Equally Wonderful
as Works of Art. ,
As the patron saint of the go'd
smiths, St Dunstan became sufficient
ly celebrated for his efficiency la
working the precious metals, especial
ly as It affected the Incasing of valued
voiumea to gold, silver and gems. It
l» 4tft« doubtful If ft Dunstan was
MN m fopt U, |« fsct, careful W*
torlans refuse to assign any pa-tlctpar
date for his birth, bein;j content to fix
the time between A. D. 910 and 1*25. '
it Is well known that the monks of
the ninth and tenth centuries were par
ticularly skillful la work of this char
acter, and tbe books, when finished,
were jealously guarded.* Smaller and
less ambltieus volumes for tbe use of
students or at tbe. masses and other
services of the church were more sim
ply bound; but they were frequently
enriched by an Ivory carving let into
tbe cover—a practice which seems to
have ceased In the sixteenth century,
when leather of different kinds wa
used, - upon which ornamentation was
stamped In relief.
Before the Invention of printing tin
labor requlalte for the production of a
manuscript book was so great that It
became a treasured heirloom, and half
a dozen such made a remarkable li
brary, even for a nobleman, 'and a
score would fjirnlsh a monastery. Spine
of these books took years to write and
bind, and vast waa the labor of the lit
erary portion, yet tbe artistic decora
tion Is equally wonderful. Gifts of
such hooks were the noblest present a
monastery uould offer, and the debt
dua to these patient, secluded work
era Is of the greatest magnitude.
Books made for common usage were
bound in boarts and sometimes cov
ered with skins held together by strong
cords, to which the bade waa stitched,
again secured by bands of leather and
nails.—Chicago Journal.
EXPLANATION OF OLD TOAST
"Here's Hew" Had Its Origin In Pea.
tlvltles That Once Had Place
In Army Life.
The expression "Here's how"
originated at the old regular army
toasts, in the days before prohibi
tion was established in the encamp
ments. The officers used to gather
together on state occasions for the
purpose of welcoming new officers
aqd their families into the garrison.
Thaw occasions always fell upon an
anniversary of some important bat
tle in military history.- The object
of theee celebrations, therefore, was
a double one.
The toasting was accompanied by
a drink consisting of whisky and
water. As each hero was "toasted"
the master of ceremonies would give
a detailed account of each hero's
achievements, and would start off
the toast by calling the famous one's
name, adding the name of the drink.
For instance, "George Washington!
Here's half whisky and water!" In
time, the latter part of this toast
was switched to "Here's H'-O and
W"— then to, "IT-O-W" and still
later to. "Here's H-O-W," and
finally to "Here's How."
" NATUBALLY
"What a biting wind!"
"Of course, it is biting. Don't
you see wc are in the teeth of the
gale?"
BEAUTIFUL WEEO.
The handsomest member of the
milkweed family in northwestern
United States—the butterfly weed,
asclepias tuberosa —now glows in
sandy fields and along railroad em
bankments in central New Jersey
counties and to a lesser extent in the
highland region north of the
tan, the New York Evening Pdst
states. Tt is common in Monmouth
county, from Atlantic Highlands
along the hills extending westerly
toward Freehold and Jamesburg.
Its brilliant light orange or
orange yellow flowers, in flat-topped
clusters at the top of the brandling
stems, and its light olive green
leaves make a color combination
that arrest* the eye from train or
automobile, and rewards the closer
•semination of the walker. „
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Burlington, N. C. ?
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