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“GfiEATESl MOTHER IN THE WORLD”
IN FOURTH RED CROSS ROLL CALL
PUBLIC MEN AND WOMEN BY THOUSANDS LAY PLANS
TO BREAK ALL MEMBERSHIP RECORDS
60UTHERN DIVISION
WORKERS ARE ACTIVE
Terse Review of What Red Cross Has
Done and Now Is DoinQ on
Peace Working Basis
Atlanta. C.a M Oct. 00.—Public spirit
ed men and women by thousands in the
five states of the Southern Division
of the American Red Cross, are lay
ing their plans to break all member
ship records for the Red Cross When
the Fourth Annual Roll Call is held
from November 11 to November 25.
From every part of Georgia. Florida.
North Carolina. South Carolina and
Tennessee comes the report that com
munity after community is organized
for the Roll Call, and that many are
only awaiting the word "Go!” to get
their quota of members on the very
first day.
The Roll Call is expected to be start
ed by the renewal of memberships by
every chapter worker in the division,
There are 128 chapters organized for
the Roll Call, and many more that are
expected to complete their organiza
tlon before Armistice Day, when the
Boll Call opens.
The Roll Call Opens
Memberships in the Red Cross are
of five different classes, the annual
$1; the contributing. $5; the sustain
ing. $10; the life, $50; and the pa
Iron, $100. Any one can Join under
any one of these different classes in
the Fourth Roll Call.
Basis of Quotas
Quotas for the Fourth Roll Call
have been based not on population, but
on the plans of the different chapters
for the coming year and their actual
financial needs. The money, too, will
be spent largely right where it is sub
scribed.
Of the annual memberships of $1.
fifty cents is kept by the chapter; of
the contributing membership of $b,
|4 is kept by the chapter; of the sus
taining membership of $10, $8 is kept
by the chapter; of the life member
ship of $50. and the patron member
ship of $100, the chapter sends the
entire returns to Washington, where
RED CROSS MEANS
MUCH IN GEORGIA,
DECLARE LEADERS
the military. To other citizens the
afflicted, the diseased, the disaster-
stricken—Red Cross has been the
friend, the shield, the helper.
Red Cross health work has been
one of the prime factors in its peace
program, and will continue to be push
ed on an even greater and more uni
versally beneficial scale. One has but
to mention the 15.000 Red Cross nurses
who were on duty during the influen
za epidemic last year, to inspire the
■people to rejoin the Red Cross, if
only to carry on such splendid work
us this.
15,000 Health Centers
Then there are the health centers
the Red Cross has inaugurated in
about 15.000 communities, through
which health education has been
spread, disease checked and many of
the 750.000 annual deaths in the
United Mutes from remedial causes
prevented. More than one thousaud
Red Cross nurses are working in the
rural communities of America, where
their services are most in demand.
More of this work than ever will bo
done by the Red Cross next year,
and it is hoped to put a public health
nurse in every county where the need
Is great and the people sufficiently
interested.
Much other splendid work has been
douo and will continue to be done by
the Red Cross in teaching people how
to get well and keep well. There are
First Aid classes of the Red Ctobb,
which taught more than a million
Americans last year what to do be
fore the doctor comes. The toll of
deaths in Americu from accidents
each year Is more than 100,000, of
whom 7,000 are drowned. The Red
Cross has been particularly active in
the South In organizing Life Saving
corps to stop such lamentable and
preventable loss of life as this. Many
Southern papers in the past year have
carried accounts of rescues at beaches
and lakos where life wus saved by Red
Cross first aiders. Other classes of
this character that have accomplished
splendid work are the claaues In home
hygiene and care of the sick, and
.. .classes in home dietetics, in which
the interest Is used to carry on the L more lhan J|() u00 womcn and
national work of the Red Cross , Q[ Amerlca learm . d | low to care
To those who are not as familiarly. ^ slck , B lholr homeB
as others with the work of the Rod and w , mt , )eat for the fam „ y to e at
Cross since the war. a brief review | jn order , ot . thc meinber , t0 Woe „
will give an idea of what the Red | n a|jd B(rong
Cross has done in the past two years ''
and what It expects to accomplish! Right On The Job
lor America In the next few years'* Disaster relief has been the Job of
I Red Cross for many years past.
I During the Wall street explosion not
long ago, Red Cross was on the
job with, doctors and nurses almost
Fourth Roll Call Expected to In*
crease Membership 100 Per Cent.
Atlanta, Ga., OcU 00.—If the peo
ple of Georgia will stop to realize what
the Red Cross has meant to their
state in the last two years following
the signing of the armistice, they will
unite in joining the Red Cross one
hundred per cent during the Fourth
Rod Cross Roll Call, November 11-25,
declare leading citizens in a number of
Georgia communities in letters to the j
Southern Division headquarters of the j ^
Red Cross, describing preparations 11 1 *,
Cor the Roll Call.
"I have been telling our people
something about the health work of
Red Cross in Georgia,” writes one
man. “Here and there are families
where some member has been saved i
from disease and possible death by the I
public health nursing of Red Cross.
Here and there are others who re-
•all what Red Cross nurses did for
them during the influenza epidemic.
They are anxious to renew iheir
membership without any urging what-
for they know that, without Red
CroBB Georgians would be without one
of their greatest assets.
"I find, too, that when 1 give others
somo few facts about Red Crofis work
in Georgia, they are equally eager to
join. Some of them have an idea that
the Red Cross has been doing most
of its work in Europe, even since the
war. But when I tell them about the
nursing service of the Red Cross in
Georgia, about the seven public health
nurses placed in the lust year in ad
dition to others, about the sixty-seven
classes in home hygiene, and care of |
the sick organized, about the 588 i
Georgia women and girls taught these
principals in the classes, about the '
805 women and girls trained in home !
hygiene in Georgia by the Red Cross '
In the past year, about the big part ;
the Red Cross has played in checking :
malaria in South Georgia, then they |
toll me that, if they had known bofore *
what the Red Cross was doing, they ! lug that gro
would not only have joined, but given | your mind olT
big subscriptions, too.”
"People like to know that Red Cross
has been ‘seeing the soldiers
through,’ ” writes unother correspond
ent to Division headquarters,
like to know that ut. Lawspn
Hospital at Fort McPherson. Camp j
Jesup, Camp Oglethorpe. Camp Gor- |
don. Camp Henning, Fort Sere
. THE AMERICAN RED CROSS..
IN PEACE TIME J
ilfsr-'
Disease Prevention
Znrellu llow, and she
was neither young nor pretty. Her
dishevelled hair and ink-stained ling
ers were not at tractive. Over her desk
hung a motto, “Nothing worth win
ning except by bard work.”
The fruits of this woman's work sur
rounded her. A bust of Clytie. earned
by I he sale of "The Sailor's Revenge.”
stood near the set of Dickens, result
ing from the “Midnight Mystery.”
Once her energy slackened, then site
let her eyes refresh themselves with
the sight of her real antique prayer
g. bought by the sale of “Another’s
the piano hung a \wtl-
I earned water color, one made possible
I for her by selling “The Double Mur-
. dor.” Upon the mahogany tubie were
line bits of pottery. The very robe
Znreltu worked in was a Japanese
kimono, delicately embroidered in ar-
I tlstle fashion. That resulted fjrom "A
•mperance Tale.”
With splendid health and a small
income from Investments, she lived in
I a top room of a house that sheltered
' many other business women, llereour-
! itge was supreme; no amount of re-
I Jccted manuscripts restrained Iter as
siduity.
As early dawn glimmered, the*worn- |
an Hung Iter hist production aside, put
out the light, and slept till noon. Kv- i
ery afternoon site sent the work off
to the editors of a limerick contest
which had been running some weeks. |
She aspired to build a small home like |
one illustrated In “Sterling Homes.” |
A faint odor of heliotrope pervaded
nil Iter belongings. In Iter plan of a
house a bed of heliotrope plants Just
outside her workroom was Indicated.
Heliotrope was her mother’s best-loved
flower. Zurellu always bought helio
trope perfume instead of tin* more
common violet.
She remembered iter mother, work
ing at the common tasks In the old
homestead, and a saying of lujr moth
er’s brought Hit* most vivid anti tender
memories to Iter.
p something sweet smell*
,vs about you, to take
your drudgery.”
She would have a Dutch colonial
home, box trees (like prim old maids)
on each side of the brick wall. She
would have plenty of heliotrope plants
hey ! In her home. She would have u brass
nerul 1 knocker on her front door. 11 lilitebush,
a shelf for pitchers, and a cupboard
like one deserihed in u New filmland
story of long into. There must be a
—zrr-zzr
Through Its Health Service the American Red Cross has begun a natil
wide concentrated effort In co-operation with established organizational
reduce greatly the amount of preventable disease and physical defects fptJ
imong the country’s 10fi,000,000 population. Education is Its most power*
tool. Special attention Is devoted to children, and this picture shows a typll
Red Cross welfare clinic where little ones are treated"und mothers instruct
in the proper care of them.
other places. Red Cross has maintain- J high shelf with I
a banjo
duck p
as soon as the police and as a re
sult a number of lives were saved out
right und many wounded people kept
from • being invalids and cripples for
life. People.in the South wdl recall
the numbers of times when Red Cross
has been the only relief and helper in
to come.
The Man in Uniform.
It has held, course, us its first
and inoet sacred duty its obligation
to the man in uniform and to the men
who fought and served for Amerira
In the world war. Red Cross has con
tinued to serve the American Expedi
tionary Forces in Germany. Red Cross
has continued to keep up Its service
to the 25,000 men at American mili
tary posts, at all of which it main-1 time of flood and fir
tains a personnel to help out the boys inunities. In the 39
in difficulties of bonus and back pay | Isteuce Red C
and transportation and the like, to
help in family problems, to assist
them in recreation and entertainment,
to be, in short, the same "great moth
er" to th^m thut the Red Cross was
to the man overseas in 1917 and 1918.
Besides such service, Red Cross has
given its care and attention to 53,-
000 former service men taking treat
ment in United" States public health
hospitals, it has Git practically every
ma : blinded in the world war into the
Red Cross Institute for the blind at
Baltimore, it has kept in touch with
SO.000 returned soldiers and their fami
lies to give them help when it was
most needed. For the fiscal year end
ing last June 30, It spent $8,600,000 in
military relief In the United States, ex
clusive of money spent by chapters in
iiinilar service.
That much for Red Cross work
in
oral coin
ears of its ox-
i has given relief in
250 floods, fires, tornadoes and other
disasters and lust year alone it gave
aid to more than 30,000 unfortunates
in 150 different communities.
While so much haH boon done by
Red Cross in America in the last two
years, it. lias not stopped administer
ing wise, economical but. unstinted aid
to starving peoples in other lands. By
fighting typhus, cholera, tuberculosis
and other horrible diseases in fever-
ridden European countries. Red Cross
has saved thousands of lives, partic
ularly those of women and children
who had no one else to turn to save
the “greatest mother in the world."
This is the sort of work the Red
Cross has been doing. This Ih the
sort of work It will continue to do,
if the people of America will join "one
hundred per cent” in the forthcoming
Roil Call.
od its service for the man in uniform.”
Finishing War Job
“Finishing the war job has not been
ntirely the work of the military re
lief department of the Red Cross,”
states Division headquarters, "for
Red (.’ross field directors have
been looking after the men in camps
and hospitals, the chapters have been
ng the ex-service men and their
families, handling the perplexing prob
lems of allotment aiid insurance, of
national training, of adjustment to
llie conditions of civil life, and other
troubles too numerous to mention.”
Twenty chapters in Georgia, It ii?
stated, have extended their activities
so as to give the same sort of social
service to civilian families in the com- Zurellu How,
munily that the Red Cross gives to same happy
soldiers’ families. Thirteen chapters j girl, when slu
have trained workers for this activity, ling home,
and twelve chapters have untrained j Tin: captain
workers. The other chapters have , of catnip ami
volunteers doing the work.
“The kinds of service have been al
most innumerable,” slate Red Cross
executives, “runging from such a
seemingly insignificant thing as writ
ing a letter for an illiterate mother to' by a
her son in the hospital, to furnishing \ of the
expensive medical and surgical treat
ment for a crippled child.”
Reviewing disaster relief of the Red
Cross in Georgia since the war, re
ports mention the West Point floods,
the LuGrange storm, and the Gaines
ville tornado, on '«• 1»ic:li occasions thc
Red Cross scut tu* >-
candlesticks, and
• lock. Outside, she desired a
id ami a few weeping willows
y rulleolcd in Iho small sheet
of water. Kin* knew she could gather
fresh material for more stories in'such
surroundings. She pictured herself ly
ing in the hammock, looking at Ihe
fleecy shapes above her, Inhaling per
fume from her flowec beds.
She would paint her house white,
with green blinds. She loved glisten
ing white paint.
She remembered when her mother
hud taken her to visit a sea captain’s
wife in Newbury port.
The sea diptain had an absolute
passion fnl* white paint. How kind
■ hiid been tbei
nigh! |»
emeries
really r
rliaps she,
along those 1
to some little
vned her inter
laid given her a bunch
of catnip and a shell at parting. The
shell still did duty.as a paper weight.
The catnip had long ago been, con
sumed by eats long since deceased.
We Have Them
WINTER EGGS
Ranges and Stoves
If you expect to buy a
range this fall be sure to
come in and see the Famous
Majestic before you buy.
The best value in Doug-
lasville. We also carry a
full line of smaller Ranges
and Cook Stove.
Norman Buggies
W e have on hand severa
Norman Buggies that we
will make you a specia
price on if interested.
We also have some extra
good grade Buggy Harness
at a good price.
Almand & McKoy,
HARDWARE,
“The first winter I used Dr. LeClear's
Poultry Prescription, it made me a lot of
money. I have til liens and sold in Janu.
ary $44.00 worth of eggs, beside what we
used ourselves-’’—(’. I). McCormick.
Irimo. Idaho.
A hen can’t moult and lay at the same
time. Poultry Raisers who get an ^abund
ance of eggs, use Dr. LeGear’s Poultry
Prescription, which pulls henj through
the moult'* in short order, tones up the sys
tem and stimulates the egg-producing or
gans wihout injury. If you want eggs
this winter when eggs mean money, get
Dr. LeGear’s Poultry Prescription from
your dealer right to-day. Dr. I.eGear is
America's foremost Expert Poultry Breed
er and Veterinarian. For any ailment
whatsoever among your poultry or stock
get his remedies from your dealer. They
must satisfy you, or your dealer will re
fund your money. Adv.
BRANCHES IN ALL THE PRINCIPAL C.TIES
Zti roll it's musing* were Interrupted
oek, followed by Ihe entrance
p floor matron:
“Good evening, Miss How. A spcshull
d’llverv for yer, just come; boy’s wait
in’.”
Za ret la broke the seal, read the con
tents of the letter, exclaiming in a de
lighted cry to the astonished listener:
“Mary, hear this; no, first tell the
boy, here's the receipt for the letter.”
“N'o Imd news, miss.”
“Good—good—nothing like It ever
came tny way; hurry, then come back,
but. don’t tell anyone.”
Mary made baste and was soon seat
ed admiringly feasting her eyes on the
beauty of the kimono.
“Listen, Mary:”
“ ‘Madam—Enclosed find our check
for five thousand dollars.
“ 'You are winner, not for the clever
ness of your last lines, but for the sus
tained interest shown. Out of 20,000
answers yours are noted for general
merit, but principally for being the
only, contestant sending an answer ev
ery day since the contest began.
" 'I. KaufT, Editor, The Searchlight.’ ”
“Glory be to God, miss, Is It writing
brought yer that?"
“Yes, Mary, and I’m going lo get me
a white Sterling Home with green
blinds with the money.”
Farmers Live Longer.
This, on the authority of ihe bureau
of labor, which has been compiling sta
tistics on tin* subject. Undoubtedly
they do. An open-air life, coupled with
fairly regular hours, .sufficient food
and sleep, and lack of opportunities
for some of the more wasteful forms
of diversion, must needs conduce to
longevity. The farmer reaps the re
ward of this virtue, even If the virtue
he only that of necessity. Counterbal
ancing factors will be found In faulty
food combinations, frequent exposure
to cold and wet, and long spells of
strenuous physical exertion. Rheuma
tism is distinctly a farmers’ aliment.
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(iainesboro Telephone k Telgraph Co.
Douglasville, Ga.
To the Voters of Douglas Co.:
I take this method of calling
your attention to my race for the
office of County Commissioner
at the regular election Nov. 2nd.
It will be impossible for me to
see all the voters in person and I
solicit your vote on the platform
of economy in the handling of
the county funds. If elected I
will devote my time to the du
ties of the office and will en
deavor to make you a capable
and economical commissioner. I
thank you in advance for your
support and trust you will inves
tigate my record for efficiency
and economy and give me your
vote Nov. 2. Faithfully yours,
T. L. VARNER