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N MM RELIEF
Porto Rico and Florida Victims
Helped by Prompt Action;
$5,000,000 Given by
Public.
One of the greatest disasters, in
point of loss of life and devastation
of homes, in which the American Red
Cross has ever carried relief was the
West Indies hurricane of September
last, which swept across Porto Rico,
parts of the Virgin Islands, the coast
of Florida and north to end in tor
rential rains, flooding streams in a
half dozen states. The known dead
in all of the areas affected was 2,259,
although it was admitted that the
complete total of dead in Florida
would never known. The number
of injured waSk estimated at 3,170. Ap
proximately 20,C00 buildings were de
stroyed and damaged.
At the height of the emergency the
Red Cross was caring for 506,410 peo
ple—that is, feeding and clothinff
them and arranging for whatever
shelter was obtainable. As long as
three weeks after the hurricane
struck Porto Rico and Florida, the
Red Cross was aiding 20,236 people
who were sick, of these 236 in Florida
and the remainder in Porto Rico,
where influenza and malaria were be
ing treated to prevent epidemics of
more drastic diseases. Large num
bers of Red Cross nurses were active
at both points.
In Florida more than 11,000 persons
applied to Red Cross for assistance,
and a great number of people in Flori
da and also in Porto Rico still were
being cared for in the matter of food,
clothing and shelter as long as two
months after the hurricane, while
they awaited maturing crops which
would enable them to again become
self sustaining.
For this relief task, the American
public gave the American Red Cross
a fund of $5,000,000 —the sum set
forth in a proclamation issued by
President Coolidge a few days after
news of the hurricane was received-
The relief given by the Red Cross
in this great emergency, spread over
such a wide territory of sea and land,
was everywhere commended and es
pecial emphasis was placed upon the
promtitude with which the organiza
tion responded. The hurricane struck
Porto Rico September 13, and the
first brief cabled word of it came
September 14, to both Red Cross and
the news agencies. Before nightfall,
the national director of disaster re
lief for the Red Cross and a staff of
four trained men had left Washington
fpr Charleston, South Carolina, to
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board a navy destroyer which upon
instruction of the President of the
United States had been placed at
command of the Red Cross by the
Secretary of the Navy. And although
the next day was Sunday, a Red Cross
man arrived in New York to purchase
a thousand tons of food for the Porto
Ricans, already reported to be starv
ing, and the Navy again placed a ship
for the cargo at Red Cross command.
Late on Saturday evening there came
another cable —a Red Cross nurse at
St. Croix, in the Virgin Islands, ad
dressed a plea to the mother organi
zation in Washington and gave first
warning of the plight of the people of
the American possession, where no
family in a population of 11,000 had
escaped injury.
In the meantime the Red Cross had
notified its Florida Chapters that it
stood- ready for any service, in event
the hurricane, headed toward them,
did any damage. Not content with
this, the Red Cross on Sunday night
entrained a disaster relief director
and six workers for Florida.
Money, food, clothing were dis
patched immediately to both points,
and before the end of the week the
Red Cross was feeding a half million
people.
This prompt response was made
possible by the disaster relief organi
zation the Red Cross has brought to
gether and trained through a series
of such national calamities.
Support of this work is through the
annual Roll Call for memberships.
The goal in the twelfth annual Roll
Call to be held Armistice Day to
Thanksgiving Day, November Jt to
29, is 5,000,000 members.
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Ssrvlss tc D!:* v !:d I;i Tan Years
Sin do fmr.uoo Has Ccst
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In this year of the tenth anniversary
of the Armistice, which ended the
world war, the American Red Cross
still finds a great army of disabled
and sick veterans requiring assistance,
and whose families also must be aided,
according to a statement by James L.
Fieser, vice chairman in charge of do
mestic operations of the Red Cross at
Washington. In the ten years since
November 11, 1918, the Red Cross has
expended approximately $65,800,000
in veteran relief work, Mr. Fieser said.
There is a daily average of 25,500
disabled and sick world war veterans
enrolled in Veterans' Bureau and other
government hospitals which care for
these men and women, and about the
same annual average of veterans suc
cumbing to wounds and illness, for
whose dependents the Red Cross is
THE FOREST CITY COURIER, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1928
pledged to give required assistance,
Mr. Fieser pointed out.
In addition, the Red Cross, under its
charter granted by Congress, has a
definite duty towards service men of
the regular establishment of Army,
Navy and Marine Corps, and follows
them to all foreign ports or duty. The
expenditure in this work for the year
ending June 30, 1928, was $307,458, the
annual report states.
"Upon the Red Cross rests the sa
cred obligation of carrying on relief
work for the disabled service and ex
service men and women and their de
pendents, taking up the work where
the Government is not able to carry
on," Mr. Fieser said. "The Red Cross
has 349 trained workers, serving either
full or part time in the field, in liaison
work, camps and hospitals, who are
always in personal contact with the
sick and disabled in hospitals, with
the men in the regular Army, Navy
and Marine Corps, and who stand ever
ready to serve veterans back in civil
life, who need the help of a friendly
agency to aid in establishing their
rights and claims.
"To maintain this staff and to sup
port the practical services they ren
der, the Red Cross made expenditure
of $1,169,795 for the year ending June
30, 1928. In addition 2,700 Red Cross
Chapters, in that number of communi
ties, who have established special
work for the disabled service and ex
service people, expended during the
past year $1,732,000."
The annual report states that the
number of death claims alene of vet
erans which are handled through the
War Service at national headquarters
of the Red Cross, has increased from
12,010 in 1923-24 to 24,602 in 1927-28.
j During the year ending June 30, 1928,
I War Service assisted Chapters in ad
-1 justing Government claims amounting,
in benefits to veterans or their depen
dents, to $693,203.42 in awards for
compensation, insurance, adjusted
compensation, burial expenses, etc. In
addition to this amount, which repre
sented lump sum payments, awards
were obtained for $183,389 in monthly
installments of insurance and compen
sation and in quarterly adjusted com
pensation payments.
Mr. Fieser points out that Red Cross
Roll Call comes once each year, and
that it is the only occasion upon
which the Red Cross asks for funds
with which to carry on its activities,
of which War Service is one. From
Armistice Day to Thanksgiving Day
the American people are asked to sup
port this work through their Red
Cross memberships.
Fifty nations fly the Red Cross flag.
For all it carries the symbolic mean
ing of help in time of distress; of
health preservation; disease preven
tion, and international co-operation*
in humane effort, which recognizes
no frontier, no difference in language,
but only merciful help for all men.
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I Harris, R-l, Nov. 4.—The farm
ers of this section are very busy pick
ing cotton, gathering potatoes and
! corn.
' Many of our people attended the
(funeral of Mr. Wellington Honey
fCutt 'Sunday afternoon at Floyd's
j Creek.
On last Thursday, Mr. Matt Hen
son of Henrietta was buried at Holly
Springs. He has been* a member of
ithe Baptist church for many years.
ißev. M. M. Huntley had charge of
the funeral service and Mr. High
i tower was the undertaker.
Mr. Rector Robbins and Miss Mag
igie Cole of Boiling Springs spent the
'week end with home folks.
Dr. Davis, the president of Boil
! ing Springs school will preach at Hol
ily Springs the third Sunday night,
| November 18. Everybody is cordial
j ly invited to come and hear this great
speaker.
Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Frashier and
family visited Mr. and Mrs. Memory
Morgan Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. Daniel McGinnis and
family visited Mr. and Mrs. Claud
Lowery Sunday.
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The big stock reducing sale of the
McKinney Mercantile Co., Ellenboro,
will come to a close Saturday night.
People have been coming from far
and near to this sale.
An ad in this paper will give you
a partial list of the bargains. Turn
to it now and see what they are
offering.
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