r ri. < , t , ' \ ; V ,..f .» *• SIXTY SEVENTH YEAR • ■ // ESTABLISHED 1552 l r % t: SIXTY 7 SEVENTH VERB -j- v-y. ■ / i VOL. LXYTT. v'T* &A*N-WBLt, Sv^rrT-HUUSrUY, DKCKMBiJi 12, 101* r ?F= AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS WASHINGTON, D. C. Statement Outlining the Future Pol icy of the American Red Cross. Jjeiry \\ ])nvis(\:4 ^hiiirman of Wat* Council of tlie A-inoi- ■can lUvl Cross, today iS"iif(l.„t(> to TjY l chapters and the 22,- iTtiiiiwiwi Secretary to tin* (loveriioi*. GREAT BRITAIN DAY . )0. Friday and Saturday of last week were set apart to be ob served all over our country as a public recognition of the part taken in this, war bv the-empire of Great Britain. Cue reason why Americans should do this is because in the opening years of the war German propaganda was directed mainly to belittle British efforts. So often we heard that England was willing for the last Colonial and French Soldiers to . be killed. The bit- * y his wife nfid four sons, 1;'. W. Wilson *of <) 1 ar, Lieut. .1. T. Whit the Children nl (be Ulmer St bool -ton* irlkuied io he l nhid War Work . i- CampilKi RED CROSS CHRISTMAS ROIL CALL. Mrs. G. M„ Greene, County ifhtfiFmatt State Branch National 'luhefculosis Association. is 1 lie children of the. '* n< j nwjiWeTto the importance of her I O l 1 I (\li\ < <|lVt\ tv? i I .. r* -L « R — time, covered ,the table in the' auditorium,witii p( nnies for the benefit of tlie C. W, W. Cam paign and realized a neat-sum of $21'.do. This was not a long, tong. Trial Rut was given cheer* fully bv the school ehihlren. not with staUjfling she 1ms bren.afrji i«= still conlined to her room, earned by illness, we re- [eeivedthe following from her for publication : ■ ■ ••Wrth the cooperation of the county and local organizations, tlie . State Branch National ■riHi following arc the name, of, Tul>( . rc „, osi9 A . 90ciatiou Wilson of Caiiip Jackson, Yalmo Wil-on ami jerry Wilson, and - - ■ i * four daughters, Mrs. G.. A. Sandgrs of "Fairfax, M rs. Robert CrawRfrd of Bohneau and Mi'-ses Robbie and Fannie Wilson of Fairfax; also two brothers, P. D. Wilson of Fairfax and O. 1’.^ Wilson of Savannab, ;ind three sisters Mrsu J. W. Wil liams of -Fairfax, Mrs. J. C. Mayer of Ulmer and Mrs. J. J. Knopf of Fairfax. The inter ment took place in the city cemetery tlie following day. give rise to epidemics and emer gencies which in all parts of tin ted .'Suites aui: heads of opr departments at Na tional headquarters. 1 am, there fore, alilfc now to speak with knowledge and assurance in ing th tin* American Red Cro*" is to go a Kivat [tl.t.senti«ll»W»ot ImmanTymp!,- alunc. a, l.erelol u r«, Jot pur-| thy wllich g0vcnlmeMt TWO AUTOS COLLIDE. A collision that might have proved disastrous ami even fa- after war started she placed | tai occurred on Main str< et last 160,000 troops in France. A j Thursday eveningxhen Mrs. T. year later she had 2,000,000 U). Attaway, who was driring up men in the field-. In May, 1916, | Main, street with a party of -K>- AYv- lv tU-v-i voluntary enlistment in the army and navy had reached 5,- 041,000. In August of this year the penny givers : Ben Wilkinson Gladys Wilkin-mi Mildred Blount Koslyn Blount Rivers Blount Virginia Blount Harold McKaskey Mae Williams Carl Brat\C . Myrtle Bost..... .. Lonery Be st Lyntnond My rick Edwin My tick Ansel Williams Jannie-Myrick Maggie Griffin Sue Clark Erline Lyles .... Beaufort Lyles i i unercuiosis A-sociation —is ry " „ l.hard at work to gain, f,or South ‘^'Carolina, its largest Christmas $21/45 » dgi and a^nranci. in ,i\ world will call for unlimited \«L 1 he again announced a grand to at t he beneticuiiu w«^i k of j untar .y ^tl'oi*tg the euttLng of. red j tal of <8,500,000 serving in thi tape and the manifestation of i «f relief of war, U a,. , calil|ot (Iis|>lllv ao,.„cy Ol ,„a« ami prrma.miU Herc wi „ ^ tile oppol . tu „ itv human service. Z r 1 i t .Since Anierica's entrance into fti* the American Red Cross. But even our Red (’moss cannot the war, the purpose of out Ryd j.-most efiectirelv alone ; we must laber in compel a lion with tlie Nationaf Red t’ross and re lief societies of other natians, to tlie end that not alone the heart of America hut tha heart of all Jr., who was comingdown Main street. They met in front.of the residence of Dr. \V. C. Milhous and both made an- .attempt to turn to evade each other and un- the fortunately turned in the same army and navy CrT Great Brit- direction causing a collision, am.-Gorman propaganda was I Both cars woresiightly damaged quick to try tQ_make it appear hue the occupants of both ina- that England-was setting back chines were uninjured, and letting her overseas troops fr - , . "? |do the fighting. The colonials oh.,Kaiifax, S.C. furnished 16 per cent, of the British forces and sustained 8 BICYCLE DAYS IN WILLIS- TON DURING ’96 AND ’97. (Hy-l4trHrrisrF~— *"*“ It was Christmas day of the year 1896 and a race had been arranged to be run on bicycles between John Morris and Al bert Owens. The course was to be from the top of the hill there Roll Call. The State workers are eager to receive “'their full share of the annual Christmas. Tuberculosis. futub-formerly obtained through the sale of Red Cross Seals--in order thkt they may continue their untir ing efforts in wiping out the tubercular germ in this Stat$. Arrangemeius have been made by the National Associa tion and American Red Cross* whereby a cooperative plan will do away with the sale of the }K)pular Red Cross Seal, this year. As a war rmasupe. it was deemed advisable by the Red Cross War Council, to make iin appropriation to the Tuberculosis Association of $2^ 500.000 in lieu of the usual Seal Campaign. f^The various Aa^ca*u4o*w W!-W - recf*rv« thnr r«FfR>ciive quotas tlirougli ib«* National Association iu quarterly allotments. The object of the State workers to enlarge the Christ-, mas Roll Call, lies in the fact that to some extent* the allot ment to be paid into the fund The Navy. The work of the British navy has been thus summarized as The German navy per cent, of the total casualties, while Great Britain furnished 84 jfer cent, of her armies and follows : 1 sustained fi2 perxent, of the to- costing her tal casualties. i • shut up in German ports. 2. During the four years of the 6,500,000 tohs of German and war England has waged seven Austrian shipping was either” campaigns, on 18 centres of the captured or driven off the seas, globe. In Flanders, France, 3. The overseas trade of Ger- Ked Crosses' netcithek^s plan- India, Kiaochau, Siberia, North- sea empire was torn from them. Zillion ill tliiscourilrv ui»n !? a " X< “, w f ,ultn *- Samoa, 5. Two million enemy subjects > npwn J ^ out ^ an > East Africa, West 0 f military age abroiwl were out*_>»oldiers and| n j tJP r t o develop its permanent o rga n i z a scale never before conte’mplaH ed in time of peace. , . The commissions which arc armies have been victorious. now conducting tlie activities of; The above facts answers Mer- X’ross has been* primarily,'to aid our army and navy in.the care of our own men under arms, and, secondly, to extend relief to tlie soldiers, sai ors and civil ians of uio.-e nations which wete j m . lU kmd mav be- mobilized on fighting our battles along.with i M q M ]f 0 f suffering Immunity. then own. With tlye tunds While, tlierefdre, the plans of which have heeu so genciou^lv Alneri'nil Re«l Cros«* in this contribute^ by the Ameiican ( f|pcYtion cannot be formulated people this \yut work ot in« Red S s pccilicall'y in advance of the Gross NMliccnitmue unit ^C'>hi- gone raj relief program of the al- Italy, the Balkans, Egvp^ Aden, man y or Austria was strangled p.rtcd \wm d e i 1 < * r lfetl ^-rnments, the American |Mesopotamia, Persia, Palestine, f 0 death. 4. The German over- W lie lever sailors may he the Red Gross) will stay with" them until they are deinobifizdd. Nothing which we may do will .be left undone either for the men ia the war y.one, for those returning, let’ j the American Red (’Vos- -tfmsn in the crriTFpv and- WpH,.tgir ~rmnlries: ..tais or -tVr their familit" at heiic* To At* he in nv ill continmYto he de voted ttie !iiini>tiVittions of tin* Red Gross Udine Service, hr Mils latter eih.rt 51)0,0(10 trained Red Gro>-> worker.- are now en gaged ill 2...0U liillerent plaees throughout the laud. ,The problems ot recoii'tnu-*- Vtkni, involving feeding and ear ing for the UistrgsseiL-eiviliun qxipuRdaonsuf Europe*^re of ."tn-b iLiagiiitud|T that in rejj^'ilyij.q. 'Tie '’Tnel very hu gely in front of where Mrs. Hamilton ran the hotel down to the front j rl thi* State, depends upon how I -11 i.1. 1 - LT a , > . ^ • of the old dispensary in the Weathersbee building. Excitement ran high. The fellows over there Ipy the de pot stopped shooting anvils to come over and look at the rac ing machines and estimate the speed power of the respective by counting the teeth in the. sprockets and making a mathematical calculation John Morris was to ride a “Crawford” and Albert’s mount was an “Ideal.” At the crack of a pistol they were off and were running neck and neck until well tliis State participates m the Aiiti-Tu be rc u lbs i s mo ve men t. Its active participation is judged by its membership. The Seals will not entirely vanish, inas much as the State Chairman will have a certain number to is*ue the newly acquired mem bers. against Enlist in the war tuberculosis now, and let South Carolina mails carry the Seals, thereby showing its # part in the battle, and especially to make it possible to continue with renewed energy, the good work that has heeu accomplished in the past. they reached the front of Melli- j children, men and boys -strung champs’ store where John Mor ris’ foot slipped off one pedal out in lir.e and away they went out that street by Mike Willis’ shop and by old man Attica, and -Southwest Alrica prevented from joining the ene- he tan up thi* i abroad hank mv armed forces. 4h Ocean j ^ eav * n ^ Albert to flash first ( Lees’ shop then on to the spe- cojum unicat ion . with markets mer * be mark-. , ciaily cop^yucted bike highway fii for- i mailt ^ propagandists A as to organiz of the world were denied to Get’- i many.and opened to the al lies. We in America know what Altdf these conditions the Brit- gricl lias come To us- from a j s j v flogt secured within tvventy- I p 'o’ ''T icasualty list ot 2.36,000 with 5.3,- jf oul . hours after the war opened i / I’io-i of the nf’cil deaths. . l he price paid by| an( | continued unchanged till its [Great Britain was 1,000,000 ! onf p -Gn-.y. jiiut-i ' tie; met very * “f . • • * - • — ; —> w bv Die govern lilt nts ol otil'Jilit*", w .i.i *\\"iio‘.n »>ui .guverumentTvin ■i .i.: i i'.l lr . - i lie g.l’iait t;i of lighting tu- b.Vculo"is, prolixrting child wel fare and caring lor refugees,.^ witii Avhich the American Red <'ross Ini" concerned itself sp ef fectively in France, Italy and Beigiuni,, will at ail' sarlv elate Ufe assumed by the governments, tire ReiTCros» organizations and ihe.re 1 ief »§cieties of thuse coun- tries wliicli, now that they are released trom th* terrific burden of waging war, naturally desire to take care, as far as they can, of tlieir own people. The war program of the Amer ican Red Ceos* will thus steadily and rapidly merg* itself into a peace prdgFa$n. The wake of the war will f however, reveal the prevalent*- of disease and as theWhere are the British?” temporary war organization in this country, will a* a niajtjtpivol course ultimately merge their en ergies dth th pent 1 Wiili till. *..,T J.as ,l,.ir,.1o,„,l i ,ii Y rv< l.nt have realized such a Indeed days of end. In Augus-t, 1914, the British . . ,000 wqre taken-bv the British tneir. ) eountrv, . . .. nn ., , . . / ! armies out ot a total ot 400,000.. ave realized such a salts- . ... . . ’ l i. ttoit IO tli^iii^lv^’iH tlie op-. 1)ur;ll tf these months the allies jioritinitv to M‘ryi. iiim/kiiui;fliil.t. tap,i.,.00 cannon, the nia- tiiev now jh to become,^ [>art j jority ot which were taken l>y of tlie permanent'peace orgaT.i- | the British in France'