The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, November 04, 1920, Page 8, Image 8
AMERUN REG GROSS i
TO GIVE RURAL HttP
Program for Public Health and
Community Welfare Is Now
Well Under Way.
Rural communities and towns of less
than 8,000 population benefit In a very
large part by the public health and
cemmunlty welfare work of the American
Red Cross. Almost all of the
S,600 Red Cross chapters have some
rural sections in their territory. Therefore
the Red Cross Rural Service.
Briefly, the purpose of Rural Service
if to atfUt people to get out of life
more health, wealth and happiness. In
this pcrpoee public health instruction
and general educational progress of
both children and adults play a big
part.
Recreation Is found to be one of the
biggest needs In rural life. There Is
lack of sufficient play-life for the children
and fecial life for the adults.
* Picnics, pageants, debating clubs,
baseball leagues, community singing
and other social events which bring
the people of surrounding communities
together hare been organized and carried
on under the guidance of Red
Cross rural workers to great advantage.
In many instances solving recreational
problems and getting people
together proves to be the awakening
?f the community to other conditions
which may be improved by united
action.
4 As a rasuK of community organization,
townships in which there had
been loithefc plans nor interest in
community progress have been organised
to work together with the unified
purpose of bringing their community
up to the most enlightened standards.
Lecture and musical entertainment
courses have been started as a result
of community meetings, as well as circulating
libraries, Red Cross schools of
Instruction in Home Nursing, Care of
the Sick and First Aid. In the larger
towns the need for restrooms and public
comfort stations is being met Playgrounds
for the children have been
established and recreational activities
worked out for the year.
In order that there may be concerted
enort in carrying on ine programs 01
the various welfare agencies in the
rural districts. Red Cross Rural Service
helps the organizations already on
the ground. The main object of the
service it ts lend a hand everywhere
and take the lead only where necessary.
JUNIOR RED CROSS
ACTIVE IN EUROPE
Garden seeds for Polish orphans,
milk for anaemic Greek babies, carpenters'
tools for Czecho-felovakian
cripplet?these are only a few of the
gifts that young Americans are sending
to the war-crushed children of the
Old World.
- Through the Junior Red Cross the
bo?s and girls of the United States !
are giving a fresh start in life to little
war orphana scattered all over Europe.
They have set. up orphans' homes In
France, school colonies in Belgium and
Montenegro, and day schools Id Albania.
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They are sending dozens of young (
Syrians, Montenegrins, and Albanians ]
to American colleges in Constantinople <
aj^d Beirut, and maintaining more than a
a'hundred orphans of French soldiers (
' at colleges and trade schools. In or- t
phanages and farm schools up and
down the peninsula of Italy there are 1
nearly 500 wards of American Juniors. *
^Last winter a thousand French chil- dfen
from the inadequate shelters of I
the devasted regions were sent by the j
Junior Red Cross to spend the cold i
months in warmer parts of France. J
At the same time five thousand little
Belgians were having a hot lunch every
1 day at Junior Red Cross school canteens.
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American school children have al- f
^eady raised something like a million s
dollars for jthese enterprises, and they j
are still hard at work. 2
In China, through campaigns of ed- ^
ucation. the Junior Red Cross is help- "
Ing to con^at widely prevalent blind- c
ness and cholera. i
RED CROSS RELIEF |
IN CENTRAL EURdPE
But for timely assistance of the I
America? Red Cross during the last J
year, a larf^ proportion of the 20.000,- I
000 pej 'ilatiMi of the Balkan States I
N mlrht t;e starved or perished from
disease s* exposure. S5x million dollar*
werth ?f food, clothing and medical
suppiiea have been sent to the Balkan??Rrnmenia.
Bulgaria, Albania,
Jiestentsro, ..erbia, Bosnia and Greece
?aivee t> t beginning of Red Cro3s re_
- lief oper* ions ia Central Europe,
\ while million* of dollars worth of food
alone hzi been sent to the needy in
these stav?*.
The money expended by the Red
Cross in thl* stricken portion of Europe
has been used to set up hospitals,
orphanages, dispensaries, mobile medical
units and to help in the general reeor.f;trncuoR
of devastated areas. American
tractors snd other farming implement*
have been sent to the agricultural
region* where aid has been gives
in plowing the land.
By the last of this year probably
all American Red Cross agencies ad?fesi.?ter!ftg
relief in Central Europe
will have withdrawn. By that time, It
is believed, the people will have approached
a normal state of living and
will be sole through their own agencies
which the Red Cross has helped set
op to provide for then?selves. .
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SHKjLLIXG OF PARIS.
Fort Mill Man Retails Dark Days in
French Capital.
Noticing in the Times of last week
the statement that the super-cannon
with which the Germans shelled Paris
during the world war was made of
pieces of worn out guns, James T.
Young, of Fort Mill, who was stationed
in the French capital for five
months during the war as a member
of a Washington city company of
the 51st engineers, said that he did
not know how the Germans managed
to put the big gun together, but that
he did know of his own personal
knowledge that shells from it reached
Paris. "One day while I was
stationed in Paris," said Mr. Young
a day or two ago, "I heard one of
the super cannon shells coming;
there was no mistaking their peculifr
-n*hinincr nnfco nncp nne had heard
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it. I was crossing the Seine at the
time on one of the many bridges that
span the river in Paris. Looking
down stream I saw the shell fall on
a houseboat and cut it %s fairly in
two as carpenters could nave done.
Ordinarily the shells from this big
gun did no great amount of damage,
but in my opinion nothing that occurred
during the wTar shook the morale
of the French people as it did.
The destructiveness of the bombs
from the German Zeppelins that were
dropped on Paris was much greater
than that of the super-cannon shells.
I saw in that city all that was left
of a five-story building after a. Zeppelin
bomb had exploded in it. Anticipating
Zeppelin raids, the roof of
the building had been plastered with
several feet of concrete, but when the
bomb fell on the roof it went through
the concrete as easily as one can
puncture a piece of tissue paper and
n/-? + of-rvn until it TPaehpd the
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floor of the third story. There it exploded.
The three upper stories of
the building were literally carried
away. The most destructive explosion
that occurred in Paris during the
world war. however, wiped out the
big hand grenade factory there and
besides claiming hundreds of lives
wrecked a big section of the city. In j
every direction from the factory
building for several blocks were completely
ruined by the explosion, which
occurred only a few days before the
Germans began their last big drive
on the western front. Many believed
that the explosion was caused by
German spies, but no one connected
with the factory lived to explain anything
about the cause of it."?Fort
Mill Times.
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Lovely Shower for Miss White.
One of the most charming affairs
of the season was the miscellaneous
shower given Wednesday afternoon I
by Mrs. J. F, Folk at her home on
Midway avenue, in honor of Miss
Edith white, a popular bride-elect.
Tho narlnrc wprp hpailtifll 11V rieCO
rated, yellow and pink being the colors
used. Handsome ferns, pink
Dlooming begonias and marigold add*d
an artistic effect to the scene,
vhich was mellowed by the soft glow
)f lights with yellow shades. In all
;he rooms mottoes on the walls cauioning
silence greeted the eyes of 1
he guests as they were received by
desdames Frank Folk and Miles
Hack. The guests were ushered to the
>unch bowl, presided over by Misses
dyrtle Black and Adelaide Chandler,
n silence, everything that was said
jeing in whispers.
When the bride-elect entered there
vere some "ahs" and "ohs" aloud;
or all those who made these expresions
fines were imposed to be paid
n wishes for the bride. Mrs. H. N.
^olk sang "Because I Love You*," and
drs. Laurie Smoak sang "In the Garlen
With Mary," substituting "Edth"
for "Mary." After these lovely
songs the bride-elect was seated in ^
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front of a bank of ferns. Here little
Misses Elma Black and Elizabeth
Herndon, in effective white dresses
with yellow sashes and hair ribbons,
came in with a huge basket covered
in yellow, filled with beautiful gifts.
eBofre the gifts were opened, the
hostess presented the guest of honor
with a "lovely" rolling pin, tied with
a huge bow of yellow. In presenting
this she gav^some sound advice and
good wishes, expressing the hope that
the pin would have to be used only
in the making of pastries. Tiny roiling
pins tied with yellow bows were
also given the guests as souvenirs, j
Miss White was blindfolded and asked
to guess the contents of each package.
Pink and white block cream with
! oncrol wac eprvpd Thic pnn p]n rf
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| ed the beautifully arrranged party j
and all enjoyed the gracious hospitality
that was dispensed at this home.
The Voice AVith a Smile.
"Pardon me," broke in Central,
"but 1 happened to overhear and understood
your girl turned you down."
"Yes," answered the youth who
had just invested a nickel to get the
bad news.
"If you'll excuse me, I think I caq
give you a number where you'll have
better luck."
IXMEMORIAM^
Airs'. Annie C. Hiers (Nee Folk), Born
September 29, 1860; Died October
17, 19i0.
She was the youngest daughter of
Francis and Mehala Folk, of the
Brunson Bridge section of old time
honored Colleton district, and was
one of the most modest and amiable
of girls and was loved and admired
by everybody. After the death of her
father, about the time of the great
war period, her mother was left with
four sons, viz.:Jacob, Howard, George
W., and Brookie; also three daughters,
viz.: Cormelia, Sue and Annie.
Brookie died when quite a youth, and
Jacob has also passed away, leaving
an excellent family. Howard and
George survive, and both have most
noble, families. Cormelia also surI
vives with her prosperous and de
voted husband, Mr. John varn. adoui
the year 1872, Annie and Sue, and
their loving mother, who had married
the second time to Mr. Wil!
liam Carter, all united with the St.
(John's Baptist church, and were baptized
by Rev. W. H. Dowling, who
; was then the pastor, and all were
faithful and foremost members until
their death. About the year 1881,
Annie was happily married to Mr.
Frank Hiers, a model young man,
ideal farmer and Christian gentleman
of the St. John's and Rivers Bridge
community, and by this union there
are six children, three sons, viz.: Ernest,
Percy and Bradley, and three
daughters, viz.: Louise, Edith and
Salome, the eldest of whom is the
excellent wife of Mr. Merrick Kinard,
and all of these, with their
loving father, mourn the earthly loss
of their devoted mother. Her funeral
services were conducted by both i
the Lutheran pastor of her husband
and her own Baptist pastor, and her
interment was at the Lutheran!
church, near Ehrhardt, in the presence
of a large concourse of kindred
and friends. I
She had lived an exemplary and I
beautiful life and her departure was!
like a golden sunset, beyond which
every -Christian knows that there is I
a brighter world and happier days
that never shall end.
And, oh, how consoling and cheering
to have the "blessed hope" that
so many that once sat together
around the family board of the old I
parental home are i
Together now around the throne,
Beyond the deep, cold river,
In sweeter joys than earth has known,
Are praising the Blessed Saviour. I
"Life's work well done,
Life's race well run,
Life's crown well won, I
Now comes rest."
The sleep of death brought sad "good/
night,"
And hid her from our mortal sight, I
But night will pass and morning
come,
And "we'll meet again in the Heav- !
ly home. ;
By her former pastor, old school I
teacher and lifetime friend and bro- II
ther in Christ,. W. H. DOWLING. I
Hampton, S. C., Oct. 23, 1920. I
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