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NOVEMBER 4, 1920.
WHAT WOULD YOU
DO If DISASTER
HIT YOUR TOWN?
30,000 ... Victims of Sudden Disasters
Helped Last Year by
Red Cross
Atlanta, Ga., Nov.—What would
your town do tomorrow, were it sud
denly stricken by disaster?
The question is not as foolish as
it may sound to people who are living
today in safety and happiness and
who no more 'anticipate disaster to
row than they do the end of the
■rid.
f For no one knows when or where
disaster will strike.
There was no warning ot the San
Francisco earthquake and fire. Oue
moment the people of that mighty city
were bustling about their business,
utterly devoid ot fear or premonition;
Lhe next their entire world was turn
ding about their ears.
One morning two miles of the city
of Atlanta, Ga., were swept by fire
in less than four hours.
Wall street never expected a bomb
explosion until it came and killed
more than thirty people and maimed
scores of others in less time than it
rakes to read this paragraph.
Even gathering storms and rising
.’ioods, such as the south has known
on its coasts and at river cities like
West Point, Ga.. give scant warning
before homes are inundated and people
forced to flee for their lives.
To any one at any time, tornado,
fire and storm may bring peril and suf
fering. So the question is asked
•gain:
"What would your town do tomor¬
row if disaster struck?"
It Is to provide an answer to that
question that the American Red Cross
tias been in existence for years and
> ears. It is the recognized official
agency tor disaster relief, and it has
lived up to its responsibilities in a
wonderful way.
Th8t is one reason way the Red
Cross deserves tffe support of every¬
one oi. its Fourth Roll Ca.i—to liiain
ain it so that, when disaster strikes,
;he stricken will always have a help¬
ing hand to turn to, the American Red
Cross.
The disaster relief part of the Red
- ross organization has been so thor¬
oughly perfected that it can answer
alls tor help in the briefest possible
time.
People of the south well remember
how promptly the Red Cross respond¬
ed to the need during the West Point
flood last year, the Corpus Chrlsti
storm and several other southern dis
asters, while fresh in the memory ot
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ft £
£ £
£ £ £ Small Farm For Sale!
£ £
£ £ «•
£ £ Will be sold to the highest bidder between the hours of 10 o’clock a.m.
£ £ and 4 p m. on the premises, on the 9th day of November, 1920, farm of 42
£ s acres, more or less, lying one mile East of Fort Valley on the Houser’s
£ £ Mill Road, same being the place purchased by the undersigned from C. E.
£ £ Martin and on which the undersigned has resided for the past year.
!i £ Will also sell all farm equipment, machinery, plows, tools, feed supplies,
£ £ two head mules, and other personal property.
£
ft £ On this farm is a good 4 room residence, barn and packing shed, 300
£ £ paper shell pecan trees, 7 years old; 2500 peach trees, 7 years old; 10
£ £ acres in asparagus; 7 years old.
£ £ Property to be sold for cash terms, if desired by purchaser.
£ or on easy
£ £ It will pay any one interested in securing one of the best developed and
£ £ best located small farms in the Fort Valley section to be on hand at this sale.
£ £ Reason for selling is that ill health compels change of residence.
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ii October 30th, 1920.
ii Mrs. Lois Trippe
! ii C. L. Shepard,
i £ Fort Valley, Ga.
£ £ Attorney,
Si £
I
j the Red entire Cross cou-.y doctors is the fact that
I and nurses were
first on the scene" at the Wall street
xplosion.
In addition to furnishing such
j prompt relier as this, practically ev
! ery Red Cross chapter has a
! manent disaster relief committee,
j which . . , , has made , a survey of „ resources
! ! 111 prepared thelr respective promptly communities and
is to act with the
means at hand when disaster occurs.
illustrative of the genuine need for
just such preparedness as this in the
United States is the fact that, last
year alone, the Red Cross aided 30,
000 persons in 164 communities, all
victims of 73 separate and distinct dis
i asters,
i in the accomplishment of this re¬
ief work 140 Red Cross chapters were
I 'ailed upon to assist, the sum of $900.
000 in cash and supplies was expend
e< *- Thirty temporary hospitals were
called into existence, twenty-odd mo¬
tor corps were organized, seven spe
ial relief trains were sent out and
110 special representatives and nurses
were, furnished in addition to the aid
given by the local Red Cross workers
in the community visited by disaster.
In these 73 disasters, including 19
.ornadoes and cyclones, 2 hurricanes,
1 cloud bursts, 1 hail storm, 2 -earth
makes, 1 landslide, 15 fires, 1 explo
non, 9 floods, 10 shipwrecks, 1 train
wreck, 4 riots 1 motor accident and
! droughts—850 persons were killed
1,500 wore injured, 13,000 (approxi
imately) were rendered homeless
while property valued at $5,000,000 was
iestroyed.
The largest and most destructive
asasier ot the year was at Corpus
hristi, Texas, in September, 1919
Approximately iOO were killed and 4.
>00 made homeless. The Red Cross
livision director with a staff of 3,"
issistants administered a fund of $400,
>00, giving aid to 3,600 families and
our towns and rural districts and suf
icient supplies to each family to en
ible it to stand on its feet.
Because of tornadoes, the Gulf and
ake Divisions were called upon to
,end emergency relief with trained
workers to nearly 80 communities. The
wo droughts in Montana and North
Dakota gave abundant opportunity foi
i rained workers from the Northern Di
vision to help the Red Cross chapters
demonstrate their usefulness, while a
number of shipwrecks proved the read
iness of the Atlantic Division and the
New York Metropolitan Area Commit
tee to assist in that line of work.
The record of lust year emphasizes
the need of abundant preparedness
along the line of disaster relief, and
lias resulted In the organization ot
Disaster Preparedness Committees b;
about 400 chapters and the setting
aside of a special emergency fund t»
the National organization of $5,000,
000 in addition to the regular annua
appropriation for this purpose mad.
ta its budget.
THE LEADER-TRIBUNE, FORT V ALLEY, GEORGIA
i Ku Klux Will War On Night Riders
j Atlanta.—Aroused by stories circu
lated widely in the North and East
that the night riders who are terror
izing cotton growers in Southern
i states ure connected with the incorpo
rated Order of the Knights of Ku Klux
Klan, the imperial wizard of the or
ganization. Col, William J.
; Jssued H publlc s , a t em ent in which he
pointed out that the order has no
connection whatever with the present
Bight riders; that the rules of the
fier require members to uphold the
law, and that it behooves every mem
ber to do all in his power to disprove
(lie “outrageous slander” of the klan.
The statement adds that every mem
ber of the klan is commanded to use
all the influence within his power to
jsuppress the operations of the so-call
ed night riders and to assist officers
Of the law in the apprehension of the
terrorists
$150-000 Damage Suit On Trial
Atlanta.—Young and attractive, but
with sightless eyes and a partially par¬
alyzed body, Mrs. Catherine Bristol,
will sit in the superior court room
to tell Judge Ellis and twelve jurors
why she now lives in a world of dark¬
ness as site prosecutes her suit foi
$150,000 damages against John Kel¬
ley, whom, she charges, gave her the
\v 005 l_. alcohol last November which
brouhgt about her present condition.
The poison case lias as its history
the death of Miss Lucile Sharp in Bal¬
timore, and it was after slie was sum¬
moned to this city by Kelley on ac¬
count of the decease of her friend
that a drink of the brandy containing
a high percentage of wood alcohol, it
is alleged, was also given Mrs. Bris
tol.
Thieves Pay Visit To Cartersville
Cartersville.—A series of petty rob¬
beries. effected here the past few
days, has completely baffled the lo¬
cal officers, in their effort at a solu¬
tion. A large plate glass in the store
Of a leading hardware merchant was
broken and merchandise stolen; an¬
other business house entered and a
jmggy stolen, while three residences
have been visited by the robbers, wjio
pre still uncaught. The officers are of
the opinion the robberies are being
committed by drifting characters and
as a result have their eyes peeled for
all suspicious characters.
Plans Of Georgia Methodists
Unadilia.-With the approach of the
ides of November, intense interest
among the Methodists of*Georgia is
centered on two important ecclesias
tical events the seession of the North
Georgia conference to be held at Abe
iWesley Memorial church in Atlanta
November 9 to 15, and the assembling j
bf the Soutli Georgia conference in
Moultrie, November 16 to 22. These be-f j
religious gatherings are notable
cause they ma he record in church
l
endeavor of a membership of upward
of 235,000 adherents, the stationing
tor the ensuing year of 22 presiding
elders and 502 pastors to 1.637
phurches, besides the appointment of
a large number of ministers to edito
yial, evangelistic and educational
work, Bishop Warren A. Candler of
j Atlanta will preside again this
at both sessions of the Georgh
Terences,
. Declares Cotton Fire Was Incendiary
■ Americas. State Fire Marshal W.
P- Joyner of Atlanta, returned to his
headquarters after having Investigated
several recent fires in this comrnun
ity- He gave especial attention to an
investigation of (he cotton fire which
destroyed the warehouse ot Eastoilin
Brothers at Andersonville. three
hundred and eighty bales of Dixie
Pitt long staple cotton were btjrned.
together with the warehouse, and the
fire marshal declared, after a careful
investigation, the fire was of incendi¬
ary origin.
Will Urge Mayor To Sign Contract
Atlanta.—With a temporary agree¬
ment between the Georgia Railway
and Power company and city officials
representing Mayor Key under which
the Company again turned on the
steam in the city buildings pending
action by council on the contracts
which the mayor lias refused to sign,
all eyes are now centered on council
to see what it will do in the matter.
In accordance with the terms of the
agreement, in, the event council does
not approve the contracts, then the
company shall be permitted to turn
off the heat again. Recommendations
will be made to council that it urge
the mayor to sign the contracts in a
report which will be submitted at the
session by a special investigating com
mittee.
Knights Of Pythias To Get Honors
Atjauta.—Veterans’ jewels, emblems
of years of service to the order,
wili he presented to W. T. Henry, VV.
C. Lawrence and C. H. Ledford, at a
meeting of Atlanta lodge No. 20, of
the Knights of Pythias. The presen
tation will be made by James W. Aus
tin, past grand chancellor of the do
main of Georgia.
Destroyer Tattnall Visits Savannaji
Savannah.— Bright and attractive in
new paint and furnishings, the trig de
stroyer Tattnall, named for Admiral
Josiah Tattnall, illustrious Georgian,
who lived in Savannah, is in port here
for a tew days on a “visit.” Her of
ficers and men—140 of them—are be
ing entertained generally and citizens
by (he hundreds have viisted the ves
sel. She is on her way to Havana im
mediately after election day—remain
ing here. Site will visit Central Amer
ican ports and reach San Diego.
| {JO CHAPTERS
ARE READY FOR
4TH ROLE
Rivalry Keen Among Southern Towns
To Get Quota Of Red Cross
Members First.
_
Atlanta, Ga. Nov.-More than four
hundred chapters of the American Red
Cross and about three hundred chap¬
ter branches are organized in the
southern division tor the Fourth Red
Cross Roll Call, November 11-25.
“By organization is meant that these
chapters and branches have chairmen,
committees and the .enthusiasm t0
make the Fourth Roll Call a sure sue
cess in their communities,” said J.
L. MeMillin, southern division man¬
ager of the Red Cross, today.
“We have reports from every one
of them that they are only awaiting
the date to begin the campaign. First
the workers themselves will renew
their memberships in the Red Cross.
Then every old member will be called
upon to re-enlist under the Red Cross
banner. After that, every effort will
he made to get in the territory of each
chapter as nearly a one hundred per
cent membership in the Red Cross as
It is possible to get.”
The southern division includes the
five states of Georgia, North Carolina,
South Carolina, Tennessee and Flor¬
ida. Last year the division, for its
population, made as fine a record as
any part of the country in enrolliing
Red Cross members. This year it is
the eager purpose of every chapter
(o put the southern division on top
a g a in.
A friendly but keen rivalry exists
among the various chapters to be the
first to report that their quotas are
secured. A different system has been
used this year in assigning quotas to
the various chapters. Instead of de
termining the quota for the division
first and then dividing this out among
the various chapters, each chapter
carefully estimated the amount of
money needed to finance its needs and
its plans during the coming year. The
chapter’s quota was then based on this
amount, and the quota for the entire
made up from the various
(.jjapter quotas,
-p] uis the Roll Call this year is more
(ban e v ei . a i oca j proposition hi each
community. When local people sub
sci -ibe to the Red Cross, they are sub
scribing to meet local needs, and for
every dollar paid for membership in
the Red Cross, fifty cents will be kept
by the local chapter to finance its
plans for next year. The other fifty
cents goes to ”'tional headquarters,
PAGE SEVEN
to maintain tic ..atioual w <rk of the
Red Cross.
“We challenge every other chapter
in tlie southern division to beat our'
Roll Call record,” wrote one Roll Call
chairman in North Carolina. "We in-j
tend to be the first ‘over the top',
for we are laying our plans to get our
full quota of members early in the
| morning of November 11.”
i This spirit, is typical of the way
th() va(jt majority of chapters are
awaiting the Fourth Roll Call. It is
I a rare exception where chapters are
1 not thoroughly organized and plans
worked out to secure the quota of
j member8 ea8iIy a nd quickly.
| Hundreds of newspapers throughout
the southern division will co-operate
with the local Red Cross chapters to
make the Roll Call a success. Speak¬
ing of the view with which most Amer¬
icans regard the Fourth Roll Call, one
Atlanta paper already has called upon
Atlantans to join the Red Cross in
the following editorial language:
I „ The Red Cros8 Roll Calls are not
- 1 ‘drives’, not attempts to raise large
sums of money tor untried causes, but
they are institutions in the nation’s
life, the one iltne of the year whem
the American people, old and young.
are asked to renew tbeir memberships
In the organization that is so expres¬
sive of the national spirit and so great
a benefit to the nation as a whole.
I “The American Red Cross is differ¬
ent in this respect from the Red Cross
pt other nations, in most of which it
Is maintained by large contributions
front the wealthy. The American Red
Cross is essentially democratic. It
. was founded by the American people.
They maintained it for nearly forty
years. In the war, thousands of them
found in it the opportunity to serve
they so ardently sought.
“So, today, the Red Cross belongs
1° the American people. It gives them
H** chance they ai) want in their
, do good in the world.
hearts to some
: Singly, their dollars tor memberships
I might amount to little, hut matched
1 by millions of of the other country, tjollars they from become ev¬
ery part
a mighty factor in caring for our sol¬
diers and sailors; looking after the
interests of the wounded aqd maimed
of the war; safeguarding the discharg¬
ed service man and his family; doing
the same thing for thousands of un¬
| fortunate civilians; bringing health public
health nursing and good to hun
dreds of communities; training our
boy 6 and girls in the way things Jhey that should j
go; doing many other en-j
ter into the peace-time program of the
Red Cross which, in the two years
since the signing of the armistice, has|
been demonstrated to all as one of
the finest agencies for public welfarej
in the life of the country.
“That is what Red Cross member¬
ship dollars can do. It would seetn
that no American citizen, with the
good of his country and his own corn
■unity at heart, would refuse to join.”