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MILLEDGEVILLE, ga.
RED CROSS PUTS
: IIP $9,739,872
Year's Budget Stresses Relief
and Services at Home
and Overseas.
MILLIONS FOR VETERAN AID
Over $3,000,000 Allotted to the
Disabled—Foreign Work
Lessens.
Washington.—Expenditure totaling
$11,739,872.47 for carrying thrtAgh Ita
program of services and relief during
the fiscal year In the United States
and overseas are authorized In the
budget of the American Red Cross, ef
fective July 1, 1922. This total Is $2,-
785,975 less than the expenditures for
the last tlscal year, when disburse
ments reached $12,475,847.09, it is an
nounced, at National Headquarters In
h statement emphasizing the necessity
of continued support of the organiza
tion by enrollment daring the annual
Roll Call, November 11-November 30
Inclusive. This total for the budget
is exclusive of the large financial op
erations of the 3,800 active Red Cross
Chapters, which, it is estimated, will
more than double the total.
War Vatsrans Have First Call
First call on Red Cross funds Is for
♦he disabled ex-service men, of whom
27,-187 were receiving treatment from
the Government on June 1 lust. This
work for veterans and their families
in u wide variety of service that the
Government Is not authorized to ren
tier and for which it has neither
funds nor facilities lias ihe call ou
$8,030,(192.90 during the current year,
<ir about $30(5,(kill more t linn was ex
pended last year for soldier service
Adding the funds disbursed in this
liuniaii’iariiin work of physical recon-
(dilution following the World War by
the .Chapters throughout tlie country
will approximate a total for the cur-
r ".it j cuj approaching $10,000,000
This work, in the opinion of the Sur
gc ,;i General's ufllce, will not reach
lls peak before 1920.
Through Its Chapters the American
Ji,-d Cross is equipped to lind the in
dividual ex-service man, help him in
Jos problems and difficulties, provide
Immediately for his necessities, and
open tlie way for him to the Govern
ment compensation and aid to which
he Is entitled. The extension of this
work to the families of such men
proves to them that tlie Red Cross
has lost none ,,f its sympathy nor will
to serviie iiniilifesteil in wartime. Situ
llarLy the service goes out to the men
still in the Army and Navy, 11,087 of
whom were under treatment in Gov
ernment hosp'Mls on June I, 1922.
Gteatsr Domestic Program
This year afier live years of con
•tractive effort during the war and
after the armistice brings with It • ’
greater responsibility for domestic
service to* the American Red Cross.
Tlie budget for foreign operations,
however, totals $8,404,000, but of this
uuiount $1,834,000 for medical re
lief and hospital supplies for Russia
which Is a part o. the gift mads by
the American Red Croats In 1921 to
the Russian famine relief work of the
American Relief Administration pro-
giam. The child health service in Eu
rope continues, moreover, and $854.
000 Is appropriated for this work un
dertaken in 1920. other i;eme4u the
stringently diminished foreign pro
gram Include $200,odd to support the
League of Red Cross Societies, $22,-
000 for nurses' training schools insti
tuted by the Red Cross abroad, and-
$000,000 for liquidation of the general
Red ('ross foreign relief program.
Pre^Trsd fer Emergsnciss
For disaster relief the Red Cross
has set aside $750,000, anil for emer
gencies In Chapter work $500,000
to be available for domestic, Insular
lind foreign demands. This is more
than $395,000 above last year's expen
ditures. For service and assistance
to the 3,300 Chapters and their
branches $1,293,000 is provided by the
Nutlotial organization.
Other budget Items of importance
In the domestic program include $200,
000 for assistance to other organiza
tions anil education institutions for
training Red.Cross nurses and work
ers; $190,000 for Roll Cull assistance
furnished to Chapters; $100,000 for
unforeseen coni ingencles.
(if the total budget less than $300,-
IKMI Is allotted for management in the
National organization. No cash esti
mate, of course, is possible to weigh
♦lie vyilue of tlie service by volunteers
in tlie Chapter*.
AFGHAN BORDER
SCENE OF RAIDS
Anachronistic Struggle Between
Bandit Hillmen and Peace
ful Plainsmen Persists.
TRIBES ARE WILDEST OF WILD
THE RED CROSS
SUPPLEMENTS .
C.OVERNMENT SERVICE
BY MEETING THE
PARTICULAR NEEDS
OF THE INDIVIDUAL
EX-SERVICE MAN.
THIS WORK CANNOT
GO ON UNLESS YOU
SUPPORT IT WITH
YOUR MEMBERSHIP
DOLLAR
PAY UP TODAY
|»1ia’s Northwest Borderland Is a
facial Crazy Quilt—Mountaineers
Never Completely Subdued by
Afghan or Briton.
'Washington, D. (y — liiapatebes
toon India, detailing tlie havoc
wrought by raids along the Afghan
harder, may indicate to tlioae who
have I raveled In the Hast merely that
India's “annual frontier war”'Is on.
Hut. as pointed out in a bulletin from
the Washington (D. C.) headquarters
of Ihe National Geographic society
dealing with the northwest Indian
frontier, troubles in the Fast might
easily mean u great deal more this
year.
“With the Near East, central Asia
and India seethiftg with unrest.” says
I lie bulletin, "any mud-walled Afghan
village, wlttV its buttleinented towers
Wight become another Serajevo.
Hillman vs. Plainsman.
“From Armenia to Wazirlsthn,
where ever-wtld mountains, destitute
of crops, frown down' on rich valleys
and wide, fertile plains, there persists
the anachronistic struggle between
tlie freedom-loving bandolero of the
■maintain fastnesses and tlie peace-
loving plainsman. Steadfast stand
the frontiers which separate the re
gions where law and order are a help
from those where they are a hin
drance.
"The tribes which Inhabit the
jumble of laud between the Indus and
the Afghan boundary are a wild lot
Malaria Inis left its mark on many,
but the fittest have survived. Climate
and famine, knife and (jezail have dis
posed of the weaklings. Neither Af
ghan nor Briton lias ever been able
completely to subdue the freedom-
loving mountaineers who inhnblt this
rabbit-hutch of warlike clans which
have been used pro and eon according
to where the best fighting u'as prom
ised and tlie best pay offered
"These are the Independent tribes,
each with lls own William Tell. And
If their independence is noticeable
from beyond tlie breastworks of their
beloved bills, their local independence
is just as marked. For every man
wlm lias fallen before the' Invader
many another tins fallen In the inter
minable Inter-tribal hlood-feUds.
“one might call tlie region the hind
,,f I’ushto and posiin. for Puslito Is
ihe language which binds most of the
tribes together even more closely than
their Mohammedan religion.
“The I’ntliuns claim descent from
the losi tribes of Israel, who were‘car
ried captive into Media by Nebuchad
nezzar. That makes them close rela
tives of the Duranl Afghans, whose dy
nasty still rules Afghanistan. But
there are Pathaits and Pathnns, and
locally at least they are called by
other names.
Ghlliai Makes Pins Figure.
“The man who wins deepest admi
ration Is the Ghilznl, upon whose car
avans the frontier trade depends.
Once their dynasty ruled Persia. Now
they weave the shuttle of trade hack
and forth between central Asia and
the Indian plains, bringing the rich
rugs of Bokhara and Persian pussy-
ents pn»t.thd,ijtern walls of Fort Jant-
rud to the Kabuli bazaar In Peshawar.
Tricky its a gipsy In horse-trading, full
of contempt for the Hindu and of fel
low feeling for the Sikh, warriors by
courage, robbers by nature, traders by
profession, the Ghllzuls are a manly
lot whose early forbears of Turkish
origin lived in the central Asian
lands whence they bring down the
dried fruits of Murgliab and the
Zerafshan. Tramping along wdth his
heavy-necked camels. Ills powerful
chest bared to sun and wind, the Ghil-
zul Is a fine figure of a man, one who.
dropped among Ihe flat-faced peoples
of the South, could well be thought
a god.
"Call an Afghan ‘Wazlr’ and he will
show gratitude. Cull him 'Wuzlri'
and lie pay kill without warning, lot
tlie twirls, the largest of Panthnn
tribes, are considered as dregs of the
earth by their fellow Afghans. Their
women are free and often unfaithful,
their men hot-bended and vain. Their
environment lias given them fine
bodies, hut their souls are unredeemed.
Nowhere is there a better example
of a region where every prospect
pleases, and only man is vile.
"Manhood is the first requisite of
him who hopes tn join an Afghan
tribe, lie must win his spurs before
lie is given a wife and his share in
tlie tribal lands.
“Behind the coat of dirt which is
tlie right of every tribesman except or
durbar days both men and .women my
more titan ordinarily i good looking.
In most tribes the women are jealous
ly guarded and the reward for adult
ery is death to the woman and the
loss of his right foot to her para
mour.
"Warrior, freebooter. marauder
thief, tlie true Afghan will not keep a
simp or learn n trade. The hills are
his brothers, his knife his bosom
friend, his matchlock Ins protecto 1 '.
He may lend IJmself to this faction or
that, tn empire or democracy, to prog,
less or destruction. But above every,
other hit crest is ills desire tor inde
pendence.
TAKE TURNS KEEPING HOUSE
New York Man and Hie Wife Have
Arrangement They Say Is “All
to the Good.”
.Tones and Ids wife are a modern
collide. Each goes to business and
each helps with the housework. It so
lm| pens that each works In mi office
where on alternate weeks their pres-
• life Is required at an early hour and
their quitting time is fixed correspond
ingly early, says the New York Sun.
“We’ve doped II out this wn.v.” ex
plained Jones. "The week the wife7ms
'o get to the office early I gel up and
'et.breakfast and after breakfast wasl
t’ e dishes and tr"ke the bed. Aftei
flint 1 just have time to make tbk of
.ice. When the wife gets home id
night she gets the dinner, so that l>>
'he time I arrive .everything Is on the
able steaming \dit~ The next week
when I have to get In early mornings,
we Just shift schedules. She gets the
breakfast and I the dinner.
“Of course I had to have a little
coaching ijn the cooking ut first, but
I’ve got so now I can shake ns mean
an elliow around the kitchen ns any
one, whether it’s boiling an egg for
breakfast or preparing a five-course
dinner.
“Some who have heard of the ar
rangement think we’re crazy. But
we’re happy; so what’s the differ
ence ?"
“COMMONS” ONLY IN NAME
Delegates to Early English National
AGsembfy Biletiged Without Ex
ception to Proprietary Class.
As early ns 1254 In England,
knights were called from tlie shires to
tlie national assembly to testli.v to the
taxable capacity of their districts. Two
from each shire wore chosen by the
gentry and landowners.
At first the custom bad no purpose
except the desire of the taxing body
to keep in close ilnancinl touch with
the towns and districts. But soon
Simon de Montfort. In rebellion against
Henry III, turned it into a gathering
to express and discuss grievances
against the king. In this way there
grew up a representative assembly
called tlie "Commons,” which sat and
debated apart from the gathering of
great nobles and bishops, called the
“House of I.ords.”
The difference, however, was no
more than relative. For in this early
house of commons there were no com
mon men in the modern conception of
the .term. They were all men of prop
erty, many as wealthy and Influential
ns the great peers, and, Indeed, fre
quently they were the sons and young
er brothers of these peers. The really
common man in those days liad not
even a vote, to say nothing of u seat
in parliament.
Why They Got Nowhere.
A story that harks bm-k to the Civil
war concerns a troop of Cmiiederate
mountain volunteers and their colonel.
They had been sent for- by a-certain
Confederate tty n, but before they
could arrive the federal forces were
in command of the city. The auxll ,
iuries arrived in the night and found |
tlie town deserted. Not caring to mix I
unnecessarily with the Union troops,
ihey turned around and rode out of
the town by the first gait- and road
they found. Before them stretched u
fine smooth highway and they look to
it for nil they were worth. They rode
all night without passing any villages
or signs of civilization. The country
side seemed not only deserted, hut de
molished as well. When the sun peeped
over the Blue Ridge iiiuuntnius the col
onel drew tip suddenly. "What’s the
matter, sub7” asked the lletitenam.
“DiHtnnit, Soh," t+iftiVrt' tbe-vetone!,
“we’ve been galloping around a race
track all night.”—Stilt Francisco Ar-
gonant.
Lunenburg Gloucester of Nov» Scotia.
In Lunenburg, (lie Gloucester of
Nova Scotia, the smell of fish is in all
and over all. Churches, fish Hakes,
curing plants, steep hills, bold head
lands, shipyards, skilled flshennen and
n sightly fleet of fishing vessels, oxen
and German-looking faces, figm-es and
names, are the characteristics. The
place was settled by Hessians hack in
George IV’s time, and marked traces
of the eurly settlers remain. The
housewives are so tent that they even
put Ince curtains at the cellar aud
woodshed windows. • A prodigious
clanging of church bells goes on in
Lunenburg every Sunday, for the place
has many places of worship.
Front Lunenburg come some of the
hardiest and most skillful mariners
and fishermen in the world, while the
fishing fleet and the vessels built here,
have a wide reputation.
What the Mouth Denotes.
Suspicion and secretiveness are de
noted by a mouth which slants to
either side nnd lots lips tightly drawn,
while, intolerance, arrogance, and
other traits sindhr lit character have,
as a result of long study, come to be
associated with n mouth where the
lower lip protrudes. A mouth may not
he tin infallible guide to character, but
that its shape, form, and,expression
Is influenced by thoughts, emotions,
nnd actions is readily acknowledged
hy those who have made a study of
this most sensitive feature.
Transparent.
Mrs. Uorden-Lodge—You’re prepar
ing to leave without paying your bill.
Don’t try to fool me. 1 can see right,
through yon. I
Mr. Ilungerford—During the yet, I
I’ve lived here you’ve kept me so thin
anyone can see through me.
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