The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, March 01, 1918, Image 7
FORTY-FOUR survivors.
Crohn liner Foundered mi Rocks
North of Capo Race.
St, Johns, N. F? Feb. 25.? lioat crews
r<>ni the Newfoundland steamer l'pott
>ro, hraving the breaker* which are
ittorlng to |tlwfs the wreck of tin*
imI Cross liner Florlael on the ledges
iorth of Cape ltaco today, took off 14
irvlvorn, all that wore left alive of
10 ship's company ?*f 1JW. The death
1st tonight Ht<HHl at 1)2. Of the resoi
hmI, 17 are passengers. Only two of
no 12 women on board ami none ofj
he four children were saved,
('apt. William J. Martin, of the Flor-j
iel, ami Maj. Mlehael Sullivan, of
the Newfoundland forest y batallton, on
lis way to rejoin hi# command In
?otland, were among those rescued,
talph Burnham, one of the six cadets
>f the Kyyal Flying corps on the lost
Reamer, wiiH Included among the sur
jlyors.
Tho rescue was informed with great
rallantry. The Florizol was impaled
>n a rook, surrounded tiy half aubmerg
(I lodges and lay 900 foot from shore,
between her half-submerged hulk and
[he cliffs which jut from the water's
^dtfo to u height' of ;MH> or 400 foot,
dtli no iH'ueh to s]teuk of at high tide,
;he water was white wl1h an almost un
jrokon swirl of breakers, making it Im
possible to solid out a lifeboat. A do
4irli!iient of naval gnners managed to
jlioof a line aboard the steamer last
(li^'lit. but those on board were power
oss it? make it fasti as the fore part of
the steamer was continually buffeted
i?y hutfc seas, tin' aftermath of yester
[lay's blizzard.
in l lu1 forecast lo, into which the
breakers smashed their' way. and in
(he fore rigging tho -11 survivors hud
jllnl helplessly. Outside the ring of
*n rf l;^v a fleet of rescue steamers, in
?ludiag "fho I'rospero, which liad beeji
pent by the government to the scene
llvitli special .life-saving apparatus.
Hy virtue of this equipment, the
I'rospero's crow claimed the honor' of
ling, the breakers and picking off
the helpless survivors.
John Shannon Munn. managing di
rect nr of liowrlng Brothers. Ltd.. own
>rs of (be sbtp.wllh Ills I h roe-year-old
ilauirhtor Betty, and the child's nurse
Were among tho passengers who rush
led up from Indow as the Florlzel struck
In the rocks with a terrific crash early
,'ostorday morning in the. blinding hii/.
fctard. Munn was on his way to Now
Vprk to join Ills wife for a vacation
hip to Florida.
Most of those lost were swept, over
board wltliin a few minutes after the
esse! struck.
Appointed Township Assessor.
]>. M. Kirkloy has boon numVl by
Governor Manning as township asses
IKor for Buffalo in^ the place of A. J.
(Jretroiy resigned.
Lugolf Newu.
Lugotf, S. 0,, Foil. The enter
tainment given by <be Junior Society
hero last Friday night proved quit?
| a Huecess. Quit a uliv 111 I U? auiuj
of money was made.
Lieut. It. -W. (Jetty* is home ou fur
lough from Chlcamauga Park. Ills
uihav friend* hero arc glad to *ee
liiui,
Mr. tieorge Tumor of ltoyklu was
the week-end guest last week of Mr.
Alva llusb.
Mr, (irahaiu Hammond of ltocky
Mount, N. t\, spent Sunday hero.
Mr. an<l Mrs. W. 1*. Thomas of Caiu
ilon wore here on Sunday
Mr. I.. L. Whltoker leaves for ramp
Jackson ?mi Wednesday.
Messrs. Willie and John ltoseboro,
of Camden, sjm'jM Sunday lw?ro.
Miss Kathorlno Thomas, of Columbia,
Is tho KUOHt of Miss Tlnnlo Tram this
week,
1 Mr. J. Team (lettyn of Colombia
spent tin' week end here lust week
with his parents.
Messrs, James Uosi>oro and s, L.
Clyhurn motored to lllsbopvllle last
Sunday*
Mr. Sam Clarkson and daughter
Miss Amelia of lOastovor, spent Tuos
I day hero at tho homo of Mr. H. R.
Clarkson.
Messrs, Sauford Join's ami Swlutou
I Ward, left on Monday t'? ? r Philadelphia,
lVnn.
Mr. It, It. Thurmuud was in Cam
den <m Tuesday.
Misses Viola Shuinperi and l.ila
Met 'tie spent last Saturday in Colum
hia.
Mr. .lames Team was in Camden
on Monday,
Mr. Charlie ltro\ton ? ? f Columbia
spent Friday here.
The man\ f r i* *i i ? i - of Mrs. \V. *A.
Itnsh will lie irlad to Know ?he is
improving. j
1 Mr. Thomas .1 White. Sr. was In J
Charlotte last week.
Iti'itish Casualties Lowest in Weeks. I
London, Celt. St. ? Kritish 'easualt ies i
reported in the week ended today were
?1.5 1, the lowest of any week for sev
eral months. They wore divided as
follows :
r ? Killed or died- rrf wmnirtsy OTttrrrs.
21 : men, 7.'lt?.
Wounded or mi sslnjjj; OUlcers. 77 I
men. 2,7.'M.
Make Negr? Knlist.
iVill Klder. a negro living near
Kichhurg, was taken in charge by
citizens of that community last week
on the serious charge of writing an
obscene letter to a white woman and
was told that the charge against him
would not be pressed on condition tljat
he enlist in the army and upm the
expiration of his enlistment not return
to this part of the country. The ne
gro enlisted immediately. ? Lancaster
News.
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on our entire line of winter-weight suits, that, from
the way they are going, one might think we were
selling out.
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your chance to get a perfectly up-to-date suit at a
price actually below wholesale cost.
\
Better come now, as they can't last long at these
prices.
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CAMDEN, SOUTH CAROLINA
AMERICAN RED GROSS TO
ENROLL 24,000,000 SCHOOL
CHILDREN IN JUNIOR AUXILIARIES
To the School Children of the United States;
A Proclamation
The JYesident of the United StateH is also President of
the American Red Cross. It is from these offices joined
in one that I write you a word of meeting at this time when
so many of you are beginning the school year.
Tne American Red Cross has just prepared a Junior
Membership with School Activities in which every pupil in
the United States can find a chance to serve our country.
The school is the natural center of your life. Through it
you can beat work in the great cause of freedom to which
we have all pledged ourselves.
Our Junior Red Cross will bring to you opportunities
of service to your community and to other communities all
over the world and guide your service with high and religious
ideals. It will teach you how to save in order that suffer
ing children elsewhere may have the chance to live. It will
teach you how to prepare some of the supplies which wound
ed soldiers and homeless families lack. It will send to you
through the Red Cross Bulletins the thrilling stories of re
lief and rescue. And best of all, more perfectly than
through any of your other school lessons, you will learn by
doing those kind things under your teacher's direction to be
the future good citizens of this great country which we all
love.
And I commend to all school teachers in the country the
simple plan which the American Rod Cross has worked ovit
to provide for your co-operation, knowing as I do that school
children will give their best service under the direct guidance
and instruction of their teachers; Is not this perhaps the
chance for which you have been looking to give your time
and efforts in some measure to meet our national needs?
(Signed) WOODROW WILSON. President
September 15, 1917.
Of the Junior Membership of the. Red Cross, Mr. Henry
P. Davison, Chairman of the War Council of the American
Red Cross, said :
"I believe a program has been made out here which is the
most important single movement that was ever started in
America for ttle protection of the American public and the
future of the people.
"When I was talking with the President about the pro
gram I then said that I believed that nothing in the Red
Cross was as important as the Junior Membership work,
and that alone from the standpoint of our own people."
Under the slogan "Every School a
Rod Cross Auxiliary and Center for
National Service," the Junior Red
Cross has perfected plans for the en
rollment of every school child In the
United States as a member of a Red
Cross Auxiliary, the date of the cam
paign being from Lincoln's birthday,
February 12, to Washington's birth
day, February 22.
The Junior Red Cross is a branch
of the American Red Cross through
?which every school in America is giv.
en the opportunity to carry on author
ized Red Cross work by forming a
School Auxiliary, upon the payment
of twenty-five cents membership fee
for each pupil enrolled in the school
or by a pledge of satisfactory service
in Red Cross work. It is the only
agency which is approved by school
authorities to enlist the children in
patriotic work during the war. All
other organizations must work through
the medium of the Junior Red Cross,
whose services have already been re
quested by the United States Food
Administration and by the War Sav
ings Stamp Committee, of which
Frank A. Vanderlip is chairman.
The schools, however, are not the
only units in which School Auxiliaries
may be formed. The other educational
units which have been recognized as
suitable centers in which to organize
Junior Red Cross work are Agricul
tural Clubs, Boy Scouts, Camp Fire
Oirls, Night Schools, Sunday School
classes and such authorised educa
tional center* as may be properly or
ganised under the supervision of the
local representatives of the Red Cross
Chapter.
The United States Department of
Agriculture has already offered to use
the Agricultural Clubs for Junior Red
Cross work. Every child who is en
rolled in a School Auxiliary Is entitled
to wear a Red Cross pin, although not
considered a regular member of the
Red Cross,
Conference at Washington.
A Conference of prominent educa
tors and persons interested in the
work of the Junior Red Cross met
In Washington, D. C., January 7th
and 8th, at the call of Dr. Henry N.
MacCracken, National Director of the
Bureau of Junior Membership. The
presiding officer was Dr. John H.
Finley, Commissioner of Education
for the State of New York, and
prominent among those in attend
ance were Dr. Philander P. Claxton,
United States Commissioner ot Edu
cation, the Red Cross Committee ap
pointed by the National Education
Association, consisting of Dr. Finley
as Chairman, Mrs. Mary C. Bradford,
President of the N. E. A. and State
Superintendent for Colorado, Pro
fessor Marion L. Brittain. State Su
perintendent of Georgia, Dr. Francis
O. Blsir, State Superintendent of
Illinois, and Dr. Margaret McNaught,
Assistant Commissioner- of Elemen
tary Education of California, and the
War Savings Education Committee
appointed from the N. E. A., consist )
ing of Dr. Finley as Chairman, Mrs.
Bradford, Professor F. B. Pearson,
State Superintendent of Ohio, and
Professor John D. Shoop, Super
tendent of Schools of Chicago.
The keynote of the Conference was
an effort to define the function of
the Junior Red Cross, which was
stated by I)r. MacCracken to be,
First, Educational, Second, Productive,
and Third. Financial, in the order of
importance named.
The following are the members of
the Honorary Advisory Committee :
Bernard M. Baruch, Council of Nation
al Defence; Mary C. C. Bradford, Pres
ident National Education Association;
Carrie Chapman Catt, Resident of the
National Suffrage Association and
Woman's Committee Council of Na
tional Defence; P. P. Claxton, Unit
ed States Commissioner of Education;
His Eminence James Cardinsl Gib
bons, Archbishop of Maryland; Wal
ter I'. GifTord, Director of the Council
of National Defence; Samuel Gom<
pers, President American Federation
of Labor; Henry John Heintz, Chain
man; Executive Committee World's
Sunday School Association; Herbert
C. Hoover, United States Food Admin
istrator; Julia Lathrop, Chief Chil
dren's Bureau, United States Depart
ment of Labor; Eva Perry Moore,
President National Council of Wom
en; Herbert Putnam, Librarian of Con
gress; Frank E. Vanderlip, Chairman
of War Savings Committee, United
States Treasury; Frederick Walcott,
Food Administration; Mrs. Josiah Ev
ans Cowles, National President of the
Federation of Woman's Clubs.
Dr. Philander P. Claxjton, United
States Commissioner of Education,
stated that he had carefully invest!
-gated the program of the Junior Red
Cross and had decided that it was the
organisation most practically fitted to
enlist the interest and activity of the
school children of America Into a sys
tematised program of practical patriot
ism.
Slats Advisory Committees.
State Advisory Committees to the
Junior Red Cross composed of men
and women prominent In educational
work have already been appointed in
the five states of the Southern Divi
sion as follows:
Tennessee: S. W. Sherrlll, State Su
perintendent of Education, chairman;
A. ?. Kincannon, School Superintend
ent of Memphis; W. EL Miller, School
Superintendent of Knoxvllle; C. H.
Winder, School Superintendent of
Chattanooga.
Georgia: M. L. Brittain, State Su
perintendent of Education, chairman;
C. H. Bruce, School Superintendent of
Macon; C. B. Gibson, School Super-,
intendent of Savannah; Chancellor
David C. Barrow of the University of
Georgia; Mrs. John W. Rowlett, State
President of the Parent- Teacher Asso
ciation.
Florida: W. N. Sheets, State Super
intendent of Education, chairman; J.
E. Knight, School Superintendent of
Tampa; F. A. Hathaway, School Su
perintendent of Jacksonville; Dr. A.
A. Murphree, President of the Uni
versity of Florida.
North Carolina: J. Y. Joyner, State
Superintendent of Education, chair
man; C. P. Harding, School Superin
tendent of Charlotte: John J. Blair,
School Superintendent of Wilmington;
Dr. Edwin K. Graham, President of
the University of North Carolina;
Mrs. Thomas W. Lingle, Dean of
Women of the University of North
Carolina.
South Carolina: J K. Swearingen,
State Superintendent of Education,
chairman; A. R. Rhett. School Super
intendent of Charleston; Frank Evans,
School Superintendent of Spartan
burg; Dr. W. S. Cnrrell, President of
the University of South Carolina.
Hermlta** Cotton Will Nowh.
The rooking elans composed of the
young girls of tho villus* meets ovcry
Tuesday night. They are Into
and aro making a <hh?K book of eoo*
nomical recipe*. Tito serving of fotnl
and tin* kind of food needed to keep
ones liody in good condition is dem
onstrated and talked of They are
a pleasure to touch.
Saturday nigld a largo crowd of
|hm>|>Io witnessed a lovely little o|?or
otta ohIN "Hetsy J toss" or tho "Mak
ing of Our Flag." It was given hy
the school children. Tin* audience
was delighted and tor hum I it tho Itest
ovor given hy tho school, ICsisvlttlly
sweet wns tin* minuet danced by the
smallest hoys and girls. Tho girls
wore pink and blue drosses, whleb Jn>?l
080a | km! the tloor and the boys droned
like tloorge Washington, white wig
and all. Little Miss May tJardner,
made a demure "llotsy Ross" and
pleaded all with her quaint little ways,
It was a very crvdltuhlo little enter
tainment considering tho length of t lino
I hat w as in ken to get it up.
Mrs. 11, \V. Storey, of Kershaw,
brought her little daughter Ailleen to
the Caunlvn hospUal Sunday, where
-he has undergone a flight operation.
They s|ient Sunday afternoon with
friend- in I he village.
W'e are glad to say thai Mr. T. H.
II l/.el. our spinning ihdiii overseer, has
brought hi- faniil.N to live in the vil
lage, We feel that lhe.\ will be a
great help io all
I' .1 Sherwood, ehairman at tiie
I ><'I?um ra I if Parly In llor.ry County,
?oiggesis (hat I lorry have n "eanr
palgnles-," campaign this summer in
oidi'.r to prevent the factional disturb
alters and the loss of time and money
that follow in the wake of count \
campaigns
DR. R. E. STEVENSON
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Camden, S. C.
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