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Page Four FLORIDA LEADS 1 I RELIEF RECORDS Heads Major Disasters of 1926. ; Red Cross Active in 62 I Emergencies in Year. r _ ALSO SERVES FOREIGN LANDS Preparedness to Cope with Great * Disturbances Gives Good Results in Action. ■ / * i' Facing one of the largest rehabilita tion efforts of its whole history, as a result of the Florida hurricane, the American Red Cross already had be hind it a record of service in 62 dis asters at home, up to the close of the fiscal year, June 30, 1926. i When the hurricane struck Florida with such devastation and loss of life, the Red Cross National Headquarters was just congratulating itself that a year had passed without a major dis aster within the borders of the coun try. The destruction in Florida ha 3 been tentatively estimated by Direc tor of Disaster Relief Henry L. Baker, of the American Red Cross, in te:n*3 of relief work ahead cf th* organiza- . * This takes into account all suf i . who must be cared for. j efuj surveys by experienced au l 'es place the injured at 4,000. e ive of the stricken Gulf Coast c of Moorehaven and Clewiston. ( > 1,200 injured sent to Miami ho als, 500 were suffering with ma jor fractures. In two other east coast communities the injured numbered nearly 1,000. The homeless were con servatively estimated at 50,000. Such figures sketch only vaguely the human and material problem which the American Red Cross is still doing its utmost to solve. For comparison the other outstand ing recent disaster, the Midwest tor nado of March 18, 1925, can be de scribed in more detail. In that catas trophe the final check showed SOO dead, 3,000 injured and 6,847 families of approximately 30,000 men, woman and children * "" mus final relief operations cf ike P*':d Cross were brought to a close March 18, 1926, exactly a year from the day the tornado struck five states. So terrible did the death and de strutcion impress itself on the experi enced Red Cross forces rushed into Florida that Chairman John Barton Payne did not hesitate to call for a relief fund from the whole country of j 15,000,000. The Red Cross concen- j trated every resource in trained per sonnel on the stricken region. The New Jersey munitions explo sion, jn July, while terrible as a spec tacle, could not compare with either I of these other two disasters in final destructiveness. It gave the Red Cross an opportunity for service in which Red Cross nurses treated 86 injured, < and during the height of the emeu gency fed between 700 and SOO peo ple driven from their homes. More than 400 cases were registered with the Red Cross after the explosions • for assistance in regaining their hold ' on life through mhabllUxiion work. ; -Thjjj latter 1" a regular part of the j Reu Ai’utS relief operations in all dis- j asters, and means a task continued , long after the country has ceased to \ think of the occurrence itself. { The year has seen a new measure of disaster relief preparedness inau gurated by the Red Cross, under : which a trained reserve of medical [ i. #» J. • 4 41— t and other relief experts is constantly j on call for any service. This prepar edness justified itself in both the New . Jersey explosion, and in the Florida hurricane. In the latter the Red Cross had at call more than 300 experienced disaster workers with a network of prepared Chapters all over the coun try. This preparedness, constantly demonstrated, is cited as material as surance that the country is better protected today than ever before from the suffering such misfortunes engen der. Bad as were domestic disasters in both the last fiscal year and recent months, some of those abroad in the same time have been comparable, es pecially a flood in Mexico. Altogether the American Red Cross served in the name of the American people in more than 15 foreign catastrophes. The Tenth Annual Roll Call for membership ta maintain such activi ties will be held from November II to 25, and is an opportunity for all to enroll themselves in the American Red Cross. Mrs. H i is -map. , “TALLEST BUILDING" j TITLE HELD BRIEFLY Superior Height No Longer a Distinction. New York. —With the skyscrapers of each year being lost in the shadows of the taller ones erected in the next, the designer who wishes to plan a dis tinctive building no longer can rely 1 upon superior height alont?. Most of the cities of the United States are seeing their “tallest build | ings” eclipsed, one aser the other, j as the result of a construction trend | which has been gaining momentum 1 for several years. 1 In the past, especially in the early part of the century, the erection of a building taller than any of its neigh bors, or taller than any in the same town, was a guaranty that it would stand out prominently for a consider able lime. I “World's Tallest" Record. In New York city several buildings successively acquiring the title of “tallest’’ held it long enough to gain national reputation. The American Surety building, one of the first down town skyscrapers, was followed by the Flatiron building, and then by the Singer building. The title of “world’s tallest” was then captured by the , Woohvortli, which held it unchal • lenged until the planning of the 81- story new Book tower in Detroit, j Most of the cities of America today are witnessing similar y'acesses of “overtopping.” In CleveUjd the new Union Terminal tower will rise 711 feet, considerably higher than the pre vious tallest building, except the Woohvortli building. The peak of the Brooklyn skyline was for years at 23 stories, the height of the Chamber of Commerce build ing. Suddenly it went to 28 stories with the Court Remsen building, and scarcely was this completed when work was begun on a new 30-story ! structure, and another, which is to go to 3f> stories, all within a few blocks iof one another. In nearly every see ( lion of New York city buildings which , previously stood ext as isolated sl:y --| scrapers are today surrounded by tall er ones, like groves of trees. Try for Distinction. this overtopping occurs a ( structure c;.;i JStiU hold its rank as one of the “leading buildings" through dis tinctive features other than height. , Architects now plan to insure per manent prestige for the buildings they design by modern floor plans and lighting effects, exteriors made attrac tive by skillful use of terracotta and other decorative materials, efficient el j evator facilities and generally con j venient equipment throughout. Care is also being taken to avoid the buildings’ ever assuming air ap pearance of “oldness” by the use in many cases of facing materials which I can be washed with soap and water. I Devise Instrument for Testing Tension of Cloth Washington^—How tight should the covering on an airplane’s wings be? A new instrument that measures the ; tension of the cloth that holds the j helium In a dirigible as well as" that i'used on planes has been perfected in ; the laboratories of the United States l bureau of standards. 1 It is of great importance, srry ex perts, that the tension of tjie fabrics? f used in aircraft should be exactly l ; right. If it is not taut enough, the : operation of the planb is unsatisfac tory. If it is drawn too tightly, there* |’is likely to he strain on the metal j framework. The new instrument was construct i ed at the bureau of standard's for use I in the bureau of aeronautics of the Navy department. Tt Is simple and' easily operated and will test differ- ; ent portions of the fabric used! on a j machine without disturbing the coy-, ering as a whole. Contrary Hesd of Deer Haled Into U. S. Court j Eos Angeles, Calif.— I Thirty thou-- ; : sand deer in Kaibab forest in northern ! I Arizona, having outwitted, outrun and’ ; j generally defeated plans of cowboys j to transfer them to new forage pre- 1 J serves, face the mandate of a- special I United States court. Each year as snow drives- the deer I to lower altitudes a forage shortage ’ develops, forcing the animals to eat ■ bark of trees which threatens large i stands of valuable timber. Thus far i the animals have evad d numerous i ingenious schemes to transfer them, in cluding a rodeo which was to end in a drive across the grand canyon to a new preserve. The case was submitted to a spe ! c*ial conr* of three judges here recent ly, the government contending the excess deer short*d be shot, while the state claims existing laws forbid hunters to enter the preserve. Indians Hunt to Buy bquaws b:—: ... T^^mgs New York. —John ?T TT ol::-,vorth, re turning from northern I>: i. 1; !i Colum bia and Alaska, where be b - fged 12 mountain sheep, caribou and Alaska sheep for the United States biological survey and the National museum in I Washington, told of penetrating re ; gions never before explored. In this S country, b • said, ho found a nomadic 1 Indian Cube living in primitive fash | ion by hunting and fishing, but with some of the Indian women wearing high-bee' ' shoes and silk stockings, which t! men had V ined at trad i # ing po-' exchange f their furs. MIGHT. .. '**— ' ■'X. , Mr Collier Down —This chicken is tough. Mrs. Collier Down —But the dealer assured me that it was tender. He wouldn’t tell a lie for a mere chicken. Mr. Collier Down —But he might for ,an old hen. GIRLS WILL BE GIRLS \ Vivian —Young Sweetly tolu me that he proposed to you the other eve ning and you refused him. Viclet —Yes, poor boy! I really felt sorry for him, and if he hadn’t left me so hurriedly I might have relented and accepted him after all. Vivian—Yes, that’s what he said. THE ONE ADVANTAGE. t Bronson —How do you like living- in a flat? ■Woodson —Great! Splendid! Bronson —But you haven’t as muvb room as you had in your house. Woodson —That’s just it —no roo® for my wife’s relatives. HE HAD PLENTY OF COLOR. Bang—So you are back from tfrr mountains, eh? Well, you didn’t get reddened up very much. Wang—Didn’t, eh? You ought to see my back from sleeping on a corn husk mattress three weeks. THOSE SEASHORE PRICES. ! 1 Green (seaside)—Hello! old man Here tor the season? Wise—No; merely for a day or so 1 only brought a couple of hundre< •with me. THE CHATHAM RECORD Russell’s “Franklin” ly Praised in Reviews (From ITie Chapel Hill Weekly) ‘‘Benjamin Franklin, the First Civilized American,” by Phillips itussell, alumnus of the Univer sity of North Carolina, has won much praise from the book re viewers. It is published by Brentano’s. Harry Hansen, whose column, “The First Reader,” appears in the New York World and other papers throughout the country, says of the book: “The next statue in the Hall of Fame to be taken down and j dusted is that of Benjamin Franklin, who comes to us reju * venated by Phillips Russell. This ' entertaining book on a sturdy ’ old American patriot tells so many tales not in the official biographies that Mr. Russell au tomatically cuts himself off from mention in the list of books rec ommended for Sunday school li braries.” \ The News and Observer, after remarking that Franklin made the labors of his biographers ex ceedingly difficult by writing one of the most fascinating auto biographies in the English lan-j guage, says that Phillips Russell “has written a life of Franklin which in frankness, emphasis' on the human factor, and spirit-. ed treatment will not be shamed by comparison with Franklin’s own autobiography.” The author has been skilful in his choice of passages quoted from the autobiography, and he has woven these in with infor mation obtained from govern mental archives from the Frank lin letters preserved in Philadel phia, and from 1 documents in France and England. Particular ly entertaining are the chapters that tell of the friendships be- : tween Franklin and Frenchwo men when he was an ambassador i at the court of Louis the Six teenth; Explaining why he calls ; • Franklin “the first civilized A- i merican,” Mr. Russell says: for narrowness, ’ superstition and bleak beliefs, he was mirth ful, generous, open-minded, lov ing, tolerant and humor-loving.” s PEPPERMINT Jiiiir* FLAVOR JEW Used by % % Pe-spSe oS Restatement— Because Wrigley’s, besides. being a delightful confection, I affords beneficial exercise* to the teeth and clears them, of food particles* Also it aids digestion* gi2s AStes? Every Meal ■ u __ IN THE SUPERIOR COURT North Carolina, Chatham County. J. N. Lasater, Administrator of •he estate of Needham H. Har- deceased*. vs., Willie H. Harris et als. Notice The defendants, Willie H. Harris, Mamie Harris, R. G. Harris, Fannie (Harris, Nathan Harris, Daisy Harris, Abraham Harris, Dora Harris, Till Bennett, Lola Bennett, A. Davis and Lillie May Davis, and all other per sons interested in the' estate of Need nam H. Harris, deceased will take notice that an action as above en titled has been commenced in the Su penor Court of Chatham County, North Carolina, for the purpose of selling real estate which is described m complaint; and that said defen - dants will further take notice that \TI ars . to appear before the Clerk oi Superior Court at his office in the C° ur t House at Pittsboro, North Car olina, on or before the second day of mur U> complaint filed in this cause or the plaintiff will apply to the court for the relief demanded. This Ist day of November, 1926. I Roofing j ALL KINDS—ALWAYS IN STOCK f 1 15-V’ Crimp Galvanized Roofing v g X. Composition Shingles f 8 "% Rolled Roofing # g Other Kinds for the Asking 8 AND ALL AT RIGHT PRICES | LEE HARDWARE CO, J: SANFORD*. N. C, i 'Sell Yoirr Tobacco in Sanford 8 J WRENN BROTHERS COMPANY | I SILER CITY § E. R. Wrenn, Mgr., Furniture Dept. fj Home Furnishings J Wi DELIVER § J We Desire to Serve I This Bank is here not only to make money for 8 the stockholders but to serve,the people of Chatham |j county. It is our desire to help every legitimate enter- |j i prise in the county so far as it is possible for us to do so. Every farmer, particularly, should feel that we are his U friends, and ready to assist him in anyway in accord with j[ | safe banking. li | CONSULT US | g We feel that the people of the county must eeono- 8 mize, must spend wisely, and work harcb in face of the § effects of the past two difficult years. Two heads are 8 | better than one. Consult your banker before making g investments. We shall be glad to give you the benefit g g of whatever knowledge and experience we have. There- « | fore do not hesitate to consult us at any time. S Beware of buying on time. 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C | —Dealers In— Dodge Brothers Motor Car | Parh and Service. | Thursday, November \\ % 1926 E. B. HATCH, Clerk of the Superior Court for Chatham County, N. C. ’Nov. 4, 4tC,
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