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W. C. T. U. Dollars Heiping Win War for World Dem ocracy. Margaret C. Munns, National Treas urer. That the members and friends of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union have not been weary in well doing is evidenced by the continued generous gifts to the war service funds of the organization. To the two ambulances provided last year by gifts from state W. C..j T. U.'s and individuals, three more have been added this year-two from southern California and one from the Massachusetts W. C. T. U.. The total cost of these ambulances is $10,7S7. A Nebraska boy recently wrote from France to his mother: "I saw one of our ambulances the other N day, sent by the National W. C. T. U., and I tell you it made me feel good to think what you are doing for us boys." Reward enough, is it not, for all the effort made to raise the mon ey? W. C. T. U. Stereomotorgraphs in Twenty-five Camps. When our National President agreed that the National W. C. T. U. would undertake the purchase of six teen stereomotorgraphs for the can tonments as its share in the program untlined by the United Committee on War Temperance Avtivities in the Army and Navy, it seemed quite an undertaking, for it meant the raising of $8,000. Not only did the states respond to the call but additional machines have been added until twenty-three are now in commission at a cost of $11,500 and two more are ordered, making twenty-five in all with others in prospect. Invaluable educational work is being done by these pictures and facts thrown upon the screen, for thousands of men who could not be reached by any other means are attracted by this silent appeal. While several canton ments have two machines, the addi tional gifts have made possible the supplying of two great naval stations and several smaller camps. Of all our war service work this is the one that ?gives direct temperance teach ing and is manifestly our special pro vince. Many more machines could be advantageously placed. The field kitchen fund has proved a very popular one. The present price of a field kitchen is $785, and in ad dition to the five decided upon at the last National convention, twenty one more have been placed, making twenty-six in all, at a total cost of about $20,500. These, as well as the ambulances, have been purchased through the Red Cross, making the contribution of the National W. C. T. U. to the Red Cross over $36,000. It is thus manifest that in continuing our work under our own banner, we can also be of service to this great government agency. There is need for a greater number of field kitch ens to be used at the front line of battle to furnish the food and drink so essential to the war-weary men. Early last summer an appeal was sent out by our organization for funds with which to purchase elec tric fans for the base hospitals. The appeal met with instant response and $3,012 wassexpended for fans. How ever, the War Department of the government decided it could furnish the necessary fans and this decision released the money on hand for other comforts for the men in service. A sufficient part of this fund was used to purchase two stereomotorgraphs for the naval stations. The New Hospital Table. Mrs. George H .Hull of New York has invented a little folding table for use on a hospital bed and very generously gave to the National W. C .T. U. the right to manuufacture without royalty.. Five hundred of these tables will be ready to send out November 1. To the cost, $2.00 each, must be added the transporta tion charges. Part of the expense of this hospital comfort will be met by the fan fund; the remainder will come in gifts from our generous con stituency. It is hoped several thous and of these tables may be ordered. Wanted, Gra^honoias for the Can tonments ! The Y. M. C. A. is calling for graphonolas. A special price of $30 each, plus transportation has been made by the company manufacturing this machine, which is recommended by the Y. M. C. A. War Board, and ordinarily retails for $60. At least six records should accompany each machine. Probably $36 will cover the cost and transportation. Nine of these machines have been sent to cantonments as a beginning of what promises to ba one of the pleasing features of our war service work. The Latest is "Cheer-up Books." The "Cheer Up Books" for the blind soldiers and sailors will be pre pared by the Braille printing or writ ing system just as rapidly as funds for the purpose are received. The adoption of French orphans has naturally been one of the most attractive phases of "allied relief" outlined in our war serivce program. To date 818 orphans have been adop ted at an expenditure of $2S,20C small proportion of the donors h paid for only one or two quart care, the remainder to be paid In Our goal for the year is 1,000 we will almost if not quite reach The money received includes s< re-adoptions, that is, payment fo second year's care.- It requires $3( a year to "adopt" one of these li ones. Besides the funds for the Frc orphans, over $580 has been con buted for Belgian, Armenian, Syri and Jewish relief. The financial "drives" inaugura by many states have been responsi for much of the success of the ab achievements. In addition to the mittances made through the . tr? urer of the National W. C. T. U. large sum of money, estimated over $200,000, has been expen< for comfort bags and "housewive White Ribbon Homes Dot the M Many states have establisl White Ribbon homes for which th sands of dollars have been rais Massachusetts has purchased s furnished such a home at Ayer; si thorn California has a similar wt at San Diego; Michigan at Cai Custer; Kansas at Camp Funsh Washington, D. C-, maintains rec ation rooms, while Iowa has "ado ed" the general hospital at Fort I Moines. Col. Cooper, commander charge, declares the women furn everything he asks for "from a c pickle to a pipe organ." The hoi mother, whose salary is paid by t Iowa W. C. T. U., is peculiarly adj ted to the work, and the white r boners of Iowa are enthusiastica supporting this philanthropy. It is hoped a large reconstructi hospital may be taken over by t National W. C. T. U. so that eve state may have the opportunity assist in so worthy and fascinati an enterprise. Michigan is attempting to raise endowment for the state organizati in bonds of the Fourth Liberty Lo, and everywhere our women are ? sisting the government either by bu ing bonds for themselves or givii money to assist the local, state national organization to purcha bonds. Thrift stamps and war savin stamps are being purchased general and generously. Assistance is proi ised by our organization in the fort coming financial drive for the Y. ] C. A., Y. W. CA., and allied orgai zations. A more loyal, devoted, patriot organization than the Woman's Chr; tian Temperance Union does not e ist. " .-flit^M^ Commercialized Advice. With almost desperat? eagerne physicians have been seeking preve: tive and curative remedies for tl dread malady that in the past fe weeks has taken such a terrible tc of human life. From one source-1 quor dealers-have they received great superabundance of unsolicite advice, which has been urgently gr en at the very time these men wei bitterly opposing saloon-closing an anti-alcohol edicts of health depari raents and, indeed, openly defying b law violations the over-burdene guardians of public welfare. One notorious agent of the drin' trade, Tom Gilmore by name, in ; letter to the Surgeon General of th United States Army ,urged that "qui nine and whisky be used in the arm; camps and that it be recommende< for trial by the civilian population especially in those sections whereir prohibition propaganda has made i a fad in med.-cal circles to decry th( use of liquor aa a medicinal agent despite the fact that its value has been well demonstrated repeatedly throughout the entire history of out civilization." Mr. Gilmore shows not only dense ignorance of the effect of alcohol on the human system but equal lack of Knowledge as to the attitude of in telligent physicians generally toward liquor as a medical remedy. Of course in common with all well-informed people, he knows that a large propor tion of doctors in both license and prohibition territory have discarded alcohol as a panacea for physical ills. Dr. Charles Mayo, president of the American Medical Association, a res ident of Minnesota, which is not a prohibition state, was strong in his denunciation of its use as was his successor, Dr. Arthur Dean Bevan, a physician of prominence and stand ing in license Chicago. Dr. Haven Emerson, ex-health commissioner of pro-liquor New York, has been equal ly outspoken in regard to the matter. When Dr. William C. Woodward, health commissioner of Boston, was waited upon by the officers of the lo cal liquor dealers' association with an offer of free alcoholic liquors for use in influenza cases, he is reported to have told these men that in his judgment the use of alcohol for that purpose was distinctly contrary to the best medical opinion of the day and he could not accept their propo sition. Dr. A. A. Cairns, chief medi cal inspector of wet Philadelphia's bureau of healthy said only the other day, in expressing his personal an tipathy to alcohol. "I do not regard booze as necessary in fighting influ enza. Whisky is an old-time remedy that has gone out of fashion as far as the medical profession is concern ed." Indeed, the reputable physicians of Philadelphia and Pennsylvania have given support to the orders of Dr. Royer, state health commissioner, in prohibiting, during the epidemic, the sale, of alcoholic beverages through retail or wholesale trade. But why waste energy in refuting Mr. Gilmore's statements? Their in fluence should be nil if for no other reason than that they so plainly bear the stamp of commercialism and are dictated, not by a desire to aid the physicians and health officers in checking the dread pestilence, but on ly to make this nation-wide calamity an occasion for the boosting of the liquor business. Homesteads for Returning Sol diers. Columbia, S. C., Oct. 23.-For the ultimate purpose of supplying home steads to returning soldiers, Governor Manning has had listed through the department of agriculture 1,900,000 acres of land in the eastern section of South Carolina. The maximum acreage available, according to the governor, probably will reach 2,500 000 acres. The land thus far listed is situated in Hampton, Colleton, Charleston, Berkeley, Georgetown, Williamsburg, Clarendon, Chester field, Marion and Horry counties. This survey was done at the behest of the federal government, which has tentative plans for supplying home steads to soldiers who are now fight ing overseas. The concrete plans of the government, if they have been perfected, are not known to Govern or Manning. He expects to have a conference with Franklin K. Lane, secretary of the interior in Washing ton, soon, when the matter will be gone into thoroughly. At that time he will furnish the government a list of the lands available in South Car olina, r The governor presumes that the government will purchase the lands and sell them direct to soldiers de siring to make agriculture their life work. It is thought that the land will be divided into small tracts and sold to the soldiers on easy and long payments, which probably will be handled by the federal farm loan banks. Governor Manning says that some of the land listed will have to be drained but he believes this can be done at small cost. Lieut.-Col. J. Mon roe* Johnson, of the South Carolina Engineers, now serving in France, before tb<> war w^* ?nuking-on~~a scheme for the 'draining of South Carolina coast lands. He thought at that time they could be drained for from $1.50 to $2.50 per acre. The tracts listed, the governor says are superb for agricultural purposes. Much of the soil is virgin and will make great trucking land in which the coastal plains abound. Proper drainage, he says, will greatly en hance the value of the land. Governor Manning declares that the settling of these great areas will be a decided boon to South Carolina. It will strengthen the morale of the people of the state, improve educa tional facilities and increase the land owning population of the state, all of which will work for the betterment of South Carolina. The governor says that he will at tempt to have native South Carolin ians given the first choice when the soldiers return, the remaining lands to go to fighting men of other states. According to information received by the governor, the federal govern ment has selected certain states, where there are large uncultivated tracts of tillable soil, among them South Carolina, for the colonization scheme. Notice of Final Discharge, j To All Whom These Presents May Concern: WHEREAS, E. M. Whatley has made application unto this Court for Final Discharge as Guardian in re the Estate of Mary Watson a minor, on this the 29th day of October 1918. THESE ARE THEREFORE, to1 cite any and all kindred, creditors, or parties interested, to show cause be fore me at my office at Edgefield Court House, South Carolina, on the 30th day of November 1918 at ll o'clock a. m., why said order of Dis charge should not be granted. W. T. KINNAIRD, J. P. C., E. C., S. C. 3 October 29th 1918. Published each intervening Wed-l nesday up to November 30th, 1918 in "The Edgefield Advertiser." 1 A. H. Corley, Surgeon Dentist Appointments at Trenton On Wednesdays. 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