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A SEMI-WEEWLi JMiiVvsy APER DEYOTED TO THE iKfESSTS OP WAftBNTON AND WARftfcJ COUNTY
JUST FOR FUN -1
Well Done on the Gridiron.
"What's your favorite wild game?'
"Football." Boston Transcript.
Clever Rascal.
"How extravagant of you. to pay
50 pounds for a diamond ring for me!"
"Not at all- I shall save on your
glove bills." London Opinion.
His First Thought.
Wife "Ta-ta, dearie; 111 write be
fore the end of the week."
Husband "Good gracious, Alice,
you must make that check last longer
than that!" London Mail.
The Villian!
"I call that dress a crime," said
Hupp.
Replied his storm and strife,
"Stop jawing now and hook me up!"
So he fastened the crime on his-wife.
Boston rrrnscript
An Exception.
Flatbush "Do you think a man
profits by his mistakes?"
Bensonhurst "Not if he marries the
wrong woman he doesn't." -Yonkers
Statesman:
He Should Worry
He was a wise man that said that
he hadn't time to worry. In the day
time he was too busy, and at night he
was too sleepy. The' Black and Mag
net (New Concord, Ohio) .
One Place That Stumps 'Em.
"No city," says a newspaper story,
"has yet solved the problem of the
reckless automobile speeder."
How about Venice? Detroit Motor
News.
The Decoy.
"Say, Jim," said the friend of the
"Say, Jim," said the friend of the
taxicab-driver, sanding in front of the
vehicle, "there's a purse lying on -the
floor of your car." :
The driver looked carefully around
and then whispered: "Sometimes when
business is. bad I put it there and
leave the door open.v It's empty, but
you've no idea how many people'U
jump in for a short drive when they
see it." Kind Words.
APPRECIATION OF WILSON
News and Observer:,
Immediately upon the assembling
of the League of Nations at Geneva
last Monday t was unanimously voted
to send a message of sympathy to
President Wilson. The message, which
was sent by Paul Hymarina, president
of the League, was as follows:
"The assembly of the League of Na
tions has by unanimous vote instruct
ed me to send to you its warmest
greetings and to express its earnest
wishes that you may speedily be re
stored to complete health. The as
sembly recognizes that you have done
perhaps more than any other man to
lay the foundation of the League. It
feels confident that the present meet
ings will greatly advance those prin
ciples of co-operation between all na
tions which you have done so much to
promote."
There is only one fault to be found
with the message. The word "per
haps" ought to have been left out. We
do not think there can be any serious
disagreement as to the primacy of the
President's efforts in behalf of the
league.
The message must have been very
Balling to Senator Lodge and other
Wilson-haters. There is no question
that it was very gratifying to the mil
lions of Americans who recognize the
superior wisdom of Woodrow Wilson.
President Wilson is far more ap
preciated abroad than he is at home.
This was shown in the message from
League of Nations and it is also
shown in the utterances of the liberal
nev?spaper writers in Europe. Lovat
Fra.ier, one of the.hest known of the
British journalists, says President
Wilson may be remembered when
ther statesmen at Versailles are for
gotten. He based this prediction on
tJe fact that Mr. Wilson insisted that
League of Nations be incorporat
ed in the peace treaty. He thinks
history will conclude that the
ague of Nations mattered more
n the terms of the treaty and he
7s Wilson alone of the men gathered
tound the peace table saw this one
ijff clearly. The principle, says
aser, will outlive its faltering mak-
FERMENT:
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RED CEOSS REMAINS TO
CARRY ON GOOD WORK
Only Relief Organization That
Government Asks to Continue
Its Work with Boys of Army.
Navy and Marines.
Atlanta, Ga. Of all the agencies
farhich served the soldiers, sailors and
marines of America in the world war.
tne American Red Cross is the only
one which is still, by request of the
United States government, continuing
its service.
The Red Cross, briefly, is an "all
time" adjunct of the Army, Navy and
Marine Corps, Whether in peace or
war, it will continue its Home Service
program for the able-bodied enlisteo
forces of the government, and provide
entertainment and recreation for the
sick and wounded in hospitals.
To give a typcal idea of the scope of
this work, a few statistics are given
here of the work of the department of
military relief of the Red Cross for
one month in 1920, a month that is
typical of this phase of Red Cross
service.
In the first place, 189 military and
naval establishments (and about 50
outposts along the Mexican Border)
are being served. At the larger hos
pitals the American Red Cross is still
operating the Convalescent Houses
and Nurses Houses that were con
structed during the war. Each of
these convalescent souses is presided
over by a House Mother, whose duties
are all that the name implies. The
home atmosphere is always prevalent,
and very comfort is afforded the sick
and wounded during the convalescing
period. In connection with the Amer
ican Red Cross hospital service pro
gram there were 142,155 visits to pa
tients by ward workers during the
month,. 549 telegram sent, and 2,400
"communication" cases. (This num
ber includes the writing of letters no
tifying families when a man is admit
ted to a hospital with a serious dis
ease, the writing of letters in case of
death, communicating with the family
whaever details are necessary and
approved by the Commanding Officer
the sending of bulletins of progress in
case of prolonged sickness, and the
writing of letters for sick and con
valenscing patients). These are tri
vial items in the daily wrk of the Red
Cross woxkerybut this service is nec
essary, specially fbr ftbp patients
confined to bed, and is a material aid
to morale.
Moving Pictures
The America Red Cross presented
421 "motion picture shows during the
month, that were attended by a total
of 87,998 soldiers, sailors nd marines,
most of w"hom were" convalencing pa
tients. This motion picture service,
however, includes the showing of pic
tures on the wall and ceilings of
wards for the benefit of patients. con-
fined to their beds. There were 276
lectures and musicals attended by 49,
409 men, and 316 other forms of en
tertainment in convalescent houses at
tended by 38,397 men. The enter
tainment and recreavon program fur-
PEOPLE OF OUR TOWN
Tha Hen Harder fs" Peeved, for, Old
Stupid, the Prize Boob of the Universe,
was' over in the neighbor's New Garden
and. well nigb Et Up everything in
Sight an 4:. the Neighbor tows that
' . . . in ImnA a Vlatto nt file
Sunday Dinner. -Raising. chickens, like '
Raising Children, Is 'Easy in ' the,
THINGS THAT
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ther consists of the development and
supervision of JamaCaur theatricals,
singing, outdoor recreation, the furn
ishing of writing , material, and en
couraging correspondence, furnishing
home newspapers when practicable,
furnishing and-, maintaing equipment
of phonographs and phonograph
records, supply: fruits, flowers, smok
ing material, and approved refresh
ments to patients and the supervision
of athletics for patients such as base
ball, basket hall, tennis, wrestling,
boxing, croquet, golf, track meets, etc.
Hospital Ward.
The American Red Cross, as , the
authorized medium of communication
between the people of the United
States of America' and their ' Army
ad Navy, with) the return of peace
conditions, is prepared to maintain
representatives at all hospitals and
stations where oeira V!Blef
and the principal ports, to render k
helpful service to the enlisted person
nel in conformance with the wishes
of Commanding Officers. This pro
gram of helpfulness has been design
ated "Home Service" and embraces
assistance in untangling personal dif
ficulties and the establishment of a
tangible connecting link between the
service man and his home folks, so
that the man may be relieved of wor
ry and may be brought to appreciate
the interst of his home people and so
that the family may secure needed
relief and my be kept in touch with
their man - in the service. Contac
ith the families is maintained through
the agency of over thirty-five hundred
Red Cross- home service sections lo
cated - in the home communities
throughout the country, which are
prepared to render any necessary
service that the man or his family
may require.
Array Service
The reports for the month show
237,979 men reported as stationed in
or passing-through the vraious mili
tary and naval establishments thuout
the country. During this period rep
resentatives of the Red Cross Bureau
of Camp Service, through their de
termination to render adequate ser
vice to every soldier, sailor and ma
rine, - gave special home service to
16,727 men in camps and hospitals;
involving the personal problems and
(difficulties of the men such as allot
ment and allowance, compensation, in
surance, liberty bonds, back pay, dis
charge and furlough investigation, af
ter care-personal problems, requests
for family relief, and miscellaneous
friendly aid. Information of a tech
nical character pertaining to the
government's program was also furn
ished to 29,484 men.
GIVE THEM A PLACE TO PLAJY
Proud is the City she finds a; place,
For many a fad today, ,
But she's more than blind if she fails
to find
A place for the boys to play!
Give them a chance for innocent sport,
Give them a ehance for fun
Better a play ground plot than & court
And a jail when the harm is done!
Give then a chance if you stint
them now.
Tomorrow you'll have to pay
A larger bill for a darker ill, .
So- give them a chance to play!
By Denis A. McCarthy.
EVSE HAPPEN
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Y 6ET ME THAT .
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ARE WE DOWNHEARTED?
In one of the advertising posters
put out by American Red Cross for
the fourth membership roll call, there
is shown the picture of a smiling but
eye-bandaged soldier, seated in a
wheel chair, and opposite, an eager
Red Cross nurse, who softly compas
sionate face tells of the grief that
is her's. Underneath appears this
phasing:
Let a blind soldier speak to you
Close your eyes for a moment.
Then imagine that, for you, the
rest of your life was to be one of
perpetual night; no flowers, no
colors-7-just sounds and . smells
and feeling things with your fin
gers. That's blindness. .
But are we blinkies downhearted ?
"No! Not' as long as Red Cross .
; sticks around and sees . a fellow
through!
If there can be anything more ap
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pealing than this, so full of heart
breaking pathos, so pregnant with the
hope that springs eternal - in the hu
man breast,' and yet so eloquently in
dorsing the humane work of Red
Cross, it has not been pictured or
printed;
And, as this striking poster puts
it, wyouri Red Cross does just that
sticks, round and sees a fellow
through."
Further, Red Cross' is helping every
man blinded or partially blinded in
the great war, training them for use
ful occupations of a self-supporting
kind.
It is your Red Cross membership
and the other fellow's Red Cross mem
bership which carries on this and
every other great work being per
formed by American Red Cross. (
Thia paper believes in American
Red Cross endeavor, both war and
peace time, and it recognizes in it an
institution that has made itself in
dispensable to American life.
y Renew that membership of yours
today, or if you have never taken part
in the great work, do so as a matter
of national pride, if the personal equa
tion of duty does not find lodgment in
you.
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How To Beautify
School Ground
Chapel Hill, N. C In order to pro
mote the beautification of school
grounds in North Carolina, the Bureau
of Extension has established a new
division called the Division of Design
and Improvement of School Grounds
under the immediate direction of Dr.
W. C. Coker, Kenan Professor of Bot
any and Director of the University
Arboretum, and Miss Eleanor Hoff
man, who will serve as secretary of
ithe division and field worker.
Bulletin Containing Designs
TJo facilitate its work and to pre
sent the program of ground improve
ments which it contemplates, the di
vision is now preparing an extensive
bulletin which will contain twenty
or more designs for actual and hypo
thetical school grounds, together with
photographs of illustrative plantings
from various sources such as the Uni
versity Arboretum prive grounds,
mills, community houses, together
with a few typical constructive de
signs of arbors, walks, etc., each gen
eneral design to be accompanied by a
planting plan showing the plants to
be used.
The text of the Bulletin will consist
of general advice as to principles of
planting so as to secure desirable ef
fects, together with descriptions of
irees, shrubs, and flowers recommend
ed for use in the three main sections
of the State east, middle, and west.
Service Throughout the State
A second purpose of the Division is
the giving of direct assistance through
personal visits by Miss Hoffman to
any school that indicates a desire for
help. Miss Hoffman will also visit
other organizations s opportunity al
lows, in order to arouse interest in the
general subject of the beautification
of grounds.
' . Methods of Procedure
In offering this service, The Bureau
will follow the usual practice which ob
tains in all its service no charge will
be' -made for personal visits except
that it is expected that the travelling
expense of the field worker will be
borne by the school or organization
visited. Similarly no charge will be
made for information . which can be
furnished through correspondence, and
copies of the Bulletin will be sent
free to any resident of North Caro
lina upon application. For further
information address Division of De
sign and Improvement of Schoo?
Grounds, Bureau of Extension, Chapel
Hill, N. C.
RED CROSS AND THE MAN
Primarily, Red Cross was meant for
every man, woman and child in Amer
ica and in the world. It is a humane
agent created by your dollar, your
neighbor's dollars for the sole and sin
gle benefit of humanity.
If you are the sort of a felIowwho
delights in the knowledge that "man's
inhumanity to man make countless
mourn," then you want to get as far
away from Red Cross as you possibly
can
If you belong to any cect or organi
zation which opposes aid to your fel
lows, the Red Cross is not for you.
If you believe that health is a mat-
j ter of no importance, that cities should
have jails, policemen, theatres, church
es and schools, but no nurses, doctors,
hospitals, sanitation, relief of suffer
ing or take precautionary measures
against disease, then Red Cross is not
for you.
If you think than when a community
is swept by fire or tornado or flood,
or by any other calamity that strips
people of their all, leaves' them maimed
and wounded if you think that these
starving women and children, that the
sore and helpless victims of disaster
should be left to themselves, should be
denied an organization that would give
such a people physical comfort,, bind
up their wound, and afford them that
greatest of all panaceas, mental ease,
then Red Cross is not for you.
If you are deaf to pain, blind to mis
ery, hardened ,to pity, dead to feeling
for your fellowman, then Red Cross is
not for you.
But if you believe in doing the most
possible for humanity, then Red Cross
is for you and all like you
The fourth Red Cross roll call of
members is on. It is your Red Cross
because it acts as your personal repre
sentative, in humane work. Renew that
membership today.
Hope Faith and Charity; but the
) greatest of these is Charity.
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COTTON ASSOCIATION
MAKES A WIDE APPEAL
All Classes of Men Asked to As
sist in Fight Cotton Associa
tion is Making for a Fair Price
for Cotton.
The South has in the American Cot
ton Association the most powerful, In
fluential, and far-reaching organiza
tion ever attempted in America. The
aims, objects, and purposes of the As
sociation will be of inestimable value
tot he people of the entire South if
they can be accomplished.
The Association cannot function un
less those it is intended to benefit will
back it up. Who will benefit if it
ceeds? Every one affected by the
price of cotton.
Mr. Cotton Grower! What have
you done, and what are you doinj
now to aid the organization in secur
ing a strong and healthy membership
in your county ? If it fails, upovwhcra
will you place the fault? If it suc
ceeds, how much credit can you claim?
Mr. Merchant! What have you done
'n trying to aid the work in your
:own ? How many hours have you
.riven tot he cause? What credit can
ou claim if it fills your money draw
ers with jingling coins of gold and re
tires you at an early period with
enough to make your last days full of
comfort, peace, and prosperity? Will
history record you as one who had a
part in the economic change?
Mr. Banker! What part are you
taking in this economic program in
ihe life of the South. Will you allow
your vaults to become inadequate to
hold the increase of deposits of your
customers and not have a part in this
Sreat economic reform?
Mr. Professional Man! You, who
have lo, these many years been under
paid for the valuable service you have
rendered, what are you doing in this
hour of opportunity to bring about a
condition Jhat will enable you to be
adequately compensate for your
work? Will you be satisfied to wit
ness the breaking of the new day and
not be numbered among those who
had a part in helping to bring it to
pass ?
Men of the South! The battle for
independence is on. Will we win ?
Not unless every man will do his part
in the fight. The leaders in this
struggle " for freedom cannot win
alone. Joiq the ranks immediately!
Put on your fighting clothes and stay
in the battle until victory is won.
Let us all exclaim, ."They shall not
have this crop of?cjotton until thay
pay us cost of production, plus a
profit!" A. W. &wain, Secretary
Treasurer N. C. Division American
Cotton Association.;; j
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Party Id Honor Of
Miss Nan E. Rodwel
Mrs. Wm. D. Rodgers, Jr., was hos
tess on Tuesday afternoon at a lovely
party announcing the marriage of her
sister Miss Nan Elizabeth ' BodweJl
to Mr. Robert Eugene Johns, of Ral
eigh, N. C, which event takes place
on Wednesday next.
In an exciting game of hearts Miss
Alyce Rooker proved: a true "winner
of hearts," making the highest score,
for which she was awarded a box of
Brazil nuts. The guest of honor was
presented with a pair of silk hose.
The guests were then invited to the
dining room, where the color motif of
pink was carried out. Suspended f ron
the chandelier was a. dainty pink bas
ket from which ribbons extended to
the little heart shaped place cards ca
the guests found their places they
drew from the basket little cards bear
ing the announcement "N. E. R. R.
E. J., Nov. 24."
Miss Katie Riggan than gave in
verse the message -from Cupid with
a promise of interest to each one pres
ent. , Chicken salad, olives, pickles, beat
en biscuit, hot rolls and coffee wcro
served. '
Boy Scout (to old lady)- "May I
accompany you across the street,
madame?"
Old Lady -"Certainly, sonny. Hott
'ong you been waitin' here for coma
body to take you across?." Judje.