THE GAZETTE-TIMES, HEPPXER, OREGON, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 11.
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The War Council sends greetings
to the Chapters of the American Red
Cross on the occasion of their annual
meetings for 1918.
With these greetings go congra
tulations on the great work of the
chapters during the past year and,
above all things, on the wonderful
spirit of sacrifice and' patriotism
which has pervaded that work.
The strength of the Red Cross
rests upon its chapters. They are
its bone and sinew. They supply its
funds, they supply its men and
women, they supply its enthusiasm.
Let us, then, review together the Red
Cross story of the past year.
Some idea of the size to which
your Red Cross family has grown
may be gathered from the following
facts:
On May 1, 1917, Just before the
appointment of the War Council, the
American Red Cross had 486,194
members working through 662 chap
ters. ,
On July 31, 1918, the organization
.numbered 20,648,103 annual mem
bers, besides 8,000,000 members of
the Junior Red Cross a total enroll
ment of over one-fourth the popula
' tion of the United States.
These members now carry on their
Red Cross work through 3,854 chap
ters, which .divide themselves into
some 30,000 branches and auxil
iaries. Since the beginning of the war,
you of the chapters have co-operated
with the War Council in conducting
two war fund drives and one niem
bershjp drive, in addition to the
camprign on behalf of the Junior
Red. Cross.
The total actual collections to date
from the first war fund have amount
ed to more than $115, 000,000. The
:subscriptions to the second war fund
amounted to upwards of $176,000,.
' Iff.
Prom rneniWrsMp Uues the Collec
tions have amounted to approximate
Iy $24,500,000.
To the foregoing must be added
that very large contribution of ma
terials and time given by the millions
of women throughout the country in
, surgical dressings, in knitted articles,
in hospital and refugee garments, in
canteen work, and the other activities
the chapters have been called upon
ltd perform.
it is estimated that approximately
:8,00U00 women are engaged In
canteen work and the production of
jellet supplies through the chapters.
For the jeriof up to July 1,
1918, .American Red Cross chapters,
through .their workroqms had pro
duced: 490,120 refugee garments.
7,123,621 hospital supplies. ,
10,786,489 hospital garments,
, 10,134,501 knitted articles. I
192,748,107 surgical dressings.,
A total of 221,2j2,838 articles of (
an estimated aggrogote value of at
least $44,000,000.
The articles were .largely the pro-'
duct of women's hands, and, by the
same token, infinitely more precious
than could have been the output of
factories or machines. These articles
going to the operating rooms of the
hospitals, to the homeless or needy
refugees, and carrying comfort to
our own boys In the field, convey a
message of love from the women of
this country entirely distinct from
the great money value attaching to
-heir handiwork.
By the terms under which the first
Red Cross war fund was raised, the
chapters were entitled t,o retain 25
per cent of the amount collected, in
order to defray local expenses, to
carry on their home service work, to
purchase materials to bo utilized in
chapter production and otherwise to
meet the numerous calls made upon
them. The chapters were thus en
titled to retain nearly $29,000,000.
As a matter of fact, their actual re
tentions amounted to only about
$22,00b,000.
Out of collections from annual
memberships, the chapters have re
gained about $11,000,000.
From this total sum, therefore, of
$33,000,000 retained by the chapters,
they have met all the oftentimes very
heavy local demands upon them, and
in addition have provided for use
by National Headquarters products
valued, as stated above, at upwards
of $44,000,000.
The chapters have in effect re
turned to the War Council, not alone
the $33,000,000 retained out of the
war fund and membership dues, but,
in value of actual product, an
additional contribution of at least
$11,000,000.
It will thus be seen that during
the eighteen months which have
elapsed since the United States en
tered the war, the American people
will have either paid In or pledged to
the American Red Cross for its work
of relief throughout the world, in
money or In material values, a nei
I total of at least $325,000,000.
I This outpouring of generosity in
I material things has been accora
; panied by a spontaneity in the giving,
by n enthusiasm and 8 devotion in
the dolug, which, after all, are
greater and bigger than could be any
thing measured in terms of time or
, dollars.
. jt has been because of this spirit
which has pervaded sU American
Red Cross effort in this war that the
! aged governor of one of the stricken
1 and battered provinces of France
'stated, not long Blnce, that, though
France had long known. of America's
greatness, strength and enterprise,
it remained for the American Red
I rnua In thin war tn reveal America's
heart.
I In this country, at this moment,
the workers of the " Red Cross
through its chapters, are helping to
add to the comfort and health of the
millions of our soldiers In 102 camps
and cantonments, as well as of those
traveling on railroad trains or em
barking on ships for duty overseas.
.The Home Service of the Red
Cross, with its now more than 40,000
workers, is extending its ministra
tions of sympathy and council each
month to upwards of 100,000 families
left behind by soldiers at the front
a number ever growing with the in
crease of our men under arms.
But, of course, the heart of the
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Red Cross and its money and atten
tion always move toward and focus
themselves in Europe where the
American Red Cross, as truly "the
greatest mother in the world," is
seeking to draw "a vast net of
mercy through an ocean of unspeak
able pain."
Nothing is withheld that can be
given over there to supplement the
efforts of our Army and Navy in car
ing for our own boys. The Red
Cross does not pretend to do the
work of the Medical Corps of the
i Army or the Navy; its purpose i3 to
; help and to supplement.
i Nor does the Red Cross seek to
! glorify what it does or those who do
it; our satisfaction is in the result,
which, we are assured by Secretary
Baker, General Pershing, General
Ireland and all our leaders, is of in
estimable value and of indispensable
; importance.
By the first of January, your Red
Cross will have working in France
upwards of 5,000 Americans a vivid
contrast to the little group of
eighteen men and women which, a3
the first Red Cross Commission to
France, sailed about June 1, 1917, to
initiate our efforts in Europe.
Under your Commission to France
the work has been carefully organ
ized, facilities have been provided,
and effective efforts made to so co
operate with the Army as to carry
out the determination of the Amer
ican people, and especially of the
members of the Red Cross, that our
boys "over there" shall lack for
nothing which may add to their
safety, comfort and happiness.
Your Red Cross now has active,
perating commissions in France, in
England, in Italy, in Belgium, in
Switzerland, in Palestine and' in
Greece. You have sent a shipload of
relief supplies and a group of de
voted workers to northern Iflissia;
you have despatched a commission to
work behind our armies in eastern
Siberia; you have sent specUU rep
resentatives to DenmarR, te, Serbia,
and to the Island ot Mfldeira.
Your Red Crosg thus extending
relief to 'he armte and navies of our
Allies; and you are carrying a prac
tical message of hope and .relief to
the friendly peoples of afflicted Eu
rope and Asia.
Indeed, we are told by thosu beat
Icforraed in the countries of cur
Mile that tho efforts ot your Red
Cross to fild tlil soldiers and to
sustain the morale of the civilian
populations left at home, especially In
France and Italy, have constituted a
very real factor in winning the war.
The veil has already begun to lift.
The defection of Bulgaria, which
by the time this message can be
read,, may have been followed by
events sMM more portentous, may
point the way to yet greater Red
Cross opportunity and obligation.
"The cry from Macedonia" to come
and help will probably prove one of
the most appealing message to
which the world has ever listened.
What the Red Cross may be called
upon to do in the further course of
the war, or with the coming of
victory, peace and reconstruction, it
would be idle to attempt to prophesy.
But your great organization, in
very truth "the mobilized heart and
spirit of the whole American people,"
has shown itself equal to any call,
ready to respond to any emergency.
The American Red Cross has be
come not so much an organization as
a preat movement, seeking to embody
in organized form the spirit of ser
vice, the spirit of sacrifice in short,
all that is best and highest in the
ideals and aspirations of our country.
Indeed we cannot but believe that
this wonderful spirit which service
In and for the Red Cross has evoked
in this war, is destined to become in
our sational lift an element of per
manent value.
At Christmas time we shall ask the
whole American people to answer the
Red Cross Christmas roll call. It
will constitute an unique appeal to
every man, woman and child In this
great land of ours to become enrolled
in our army of mercy.
It is the hope of the War Council
that this Christmas membership roll
call shall constitute a reconsecration
cf the whole American people, an
Inspiring reassertion to mankind that
in this hour of world tragedy, not to
conquer but to serve is America's
tuprcme aim.
THE WAR COUNCIL OF THE
AMERICAN RED CROSS.
Henry P. Davison, Chairman.
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Little Killer Left Thick Trail ef Dead
Which He Had Destroyed for the
Pure Joy of Slaying, and
Went Home.
His mother was a ferret, lean, ycV
low and pink eyed and a she devil
to boot, says a writer in London An
swers. '
His father was worse, a wild pole
cat of the mountains, and a worse
devil than ever.
But he, the cherub, was so soft and
furry and fat and creamy, and, though
he had got pink eyes, there seemed
to be nothing else of his mother and
father about him. He never bit. be
never spat, and he never used bau lan
guage, and he lived upon bread and
milk, like a gentleman.
So he was till the spring broke.
It was thair own fault, the ferret
ers. They took him out rabbiting, as
usual. They put a collar with a bell
on round his neck, as usual, and a
long, long 'String on the collar, as
usual, and they turned him into a
rabbit warren, as usual. And he
sneezed three times, as usual, and hsi
walked docilely down the first rabbit
tu'le he enrne to, as usnxl, to rnra vat
thft rabbits from their burrows, as
llSunl, tflftt the sportsmen. ooWde
hltgbt ehoot them as they bolted.
So far, unfit he got Into the middle
of the mazes of runnels, the inky dark
nesses, and the stuffy heat, full of
the smell of castor oil don't know
why, by the way and he could hear
the drumming of rabbits' feet fleeing
before his ghostly, terrible self, every,
tt&ig happened as usual. Then nothing
dt.f,
Jtle wal pulled up with Jeft
nearly choked him. He trtedff"8 to
ward, but It wss all no mod. fle
had only yard of play either way.
Els' line was entangled In a root
The hours passed, end the ferreters,
after trying every device known K
man to get him out, gave it up and
went home. The cherub did not git
It up. He worried slowly, and he
chafed, he pulled, and tugged, he
backed, and he sweated, and be
sneezed, and finally bis collar came
undone or broke.
The cherub sneezed three times, tttd
walked three yards. Then he realized
he was free. It was the first time in
all his life he had been free, and It
acted upon him. In that second his
mother, plus his father, got to wot
in his own body, and he began.
It was really very clenn killing. Fif
teen rabbits done to death, esch with s
single, clean fang stroke behind the
ears was not so bad for one small
ferret. But he Improved, for be slew
20 In the next hour leaving every
carcass untouched where it htv ami,
getting thirsty, came above ground for
water. The vater he did not find, but
discovered fowls in a fowlhwise in
stead, and, as I said, being thirsty,
drank blood. There were no live
fowls in that hen roost when he left
He visited the hutches of the Belgian
hares, which he slew, and the pigeon
cote, where he got more blond.
After that he returned a mile across
country, killing three partridges on
the way; drank at the doe's crouch
biting the dog badly in the process
wanted into his own hutch and was
found curled np, calmly asleep, among
uie nay next morning.
Jack Frost
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some of the comforts for
colder weather.
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Rabbit Meat for Wartime rw
Wartime conservation nf hrf ami
pork has enabled a Kansan to develop
a ratner extraordinary business in the
marketing of wild rabbits, both jacks
ana cottontails. A rabbit-packing plant
has been established and i now ohm-
ping frozen bunnies by the tens f
mousanus.
A recent contract called for 480(101
pounds of jnckrabblt meat The jacks
average four pounds each when
dressed. This means that approximate
ly 120,000 rabbits were reaufred to fill
the order.
The fur is disposed of at a handsome
profit. It is used in the manufariurv
of high-grade felt, such ns enters into
the milking of men's hats.
All waste products are converted
Into fertilizer. The Industry also rids
the country of a crop-destroying pest
Popular Mechanics Magazine.
Teaching the Boys to Sing.
A distinguished young musician re
cently joined the English army for the
purpose of teaching the boys to sing.
Attached to the royal air force, he has
been commissioned to train the men at
the various centers in choral singing,
thus dispensing with the necessity for
bands. The effect upon the spirits, the
morale and the discipline ot the men
has been excellent They have devel
oped a keen interest in singing, and
many of them have been found, to
their own surprise, to possess excel
lent voices. In view of the success of
the movement, it will probably be ex
tended to other branches of the array,
especially where the formation of a
band Is out of the question.
A house for rent. W. P. HILL.
MAKE A GENEROUS
CONTRIBUTION
lo the Unittjd War Work Campaign this week.
Through the Y. M. C. A.. Knights of Columbus,
Community War Service, and kindred organisa
tions, something of the dreariness . is being re-'
moved from the lives of our Boys in the Service.
Remember, by a little more additions to your ac
count at the Farmers & Stockgrowers National ;
Bank, you can soon make up what you give.
The Bank for Little and
Big whose accounts are 1
Little or Big"
Four Per Cent on Time Deposits
FARMERS & STOCKGROWERS
NATIONAL BANK
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owers qi i
To All Wheat Gr
Morrow County
I will be-in the market for all classes
of wheat at all times during the coming
season, prices based on government
inspection slips. Bags and harvesting
supplies at market prices.
PHILL COHN
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