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' •* v» • • ■'■ .• ■■-- v*. » ' > L N X * v- > :lj- ♦ ' f X FACE 1 r-.r— .' >*s^ Ttac I AMD STAMDABD A Wednesday, May 15, 19ig. -I'V ’ %. Sr • « £ tsr > i X' X' / X X x y' X a x. 1/ ./ % x \ X X i X:. "A grmt Mf Mmy •' V V x ■ • • * Fads About J X x i American Red Cross 1 DID YOU KNOW THAT- 9 X X #X X, • / It has established and is operating twenty dispensaries in the American Army Zone in France to care for the needy families there are to improve health conditions in that section ready for ' ^ : • X- V v . X^- our troops? A. ' \ ’ ' • . . ' % It is housing and feeding thousands of children in the War • • . ^ \ • x. X Zone to keep them away from the-danger of gas and shell fire? •rX >•;. ' . It has divided the entire War Zone into six main districts, '^1 x* • \ \ with Red Cross workers at each point to distribute cooking uten- ' i'X - • % x * sile, agricultural implements, beds, bedding, food and clothing? . x It provides builders and ready-to-put-up buildings to house the homeless in the devastated regions, often before the walls of the destroyed homes have cooled? X- It is bringing over two hundred tons of supplies every day in- to Paris, from which one hundred and twenty-five tons are reship ped to branch warehouses over France? It is providing an artificial limb factory outside of Paris, in addition to special plants for the making of splints? What will you give to keep this Hand of Mercy at its work? Every cent of every dollar received for the Red Cross War Fond goes for War Relief. The American Ked Cross ia the lariat and moat efficient organ! nation for the relief o.' suffering that the World haa ever seen. It ia made up alihoat entirely of volunteer worker*, the high-r executives being withou* exreptfbn nun accustomed to large affair*, who are in almo*t aM case* giving their service* without pay. It ia supported entirely by it* membership fee* and by voluntary contribution*. . It i* today bringing relief to suffering hu manity. both military and civil. In every \Va: torn allied country. It plans tornorrnur to help in the work o' restoration throughout the world. f' V x X Co | ■ '/ ’ '*> \ X \ X x / / / It feeds and clothes entire populations in *imea of great calamity. It is there to help your soldier bo* in his * time of. need. With its thousands of workers its tremend- lis stoics and smooth run i.ng transpoitation facilities, it is Fer>iog as America’s advance guard—and thus helping to win the wa- Congress authorizes it. President Wilson heads it. The War Department audit* it* account*. Your Army, your Navy and your Allies eb- thusiastically endorse it. Twenty-two million Americans have join- * ed it. X t This Paffe Paid for and Contributed tc. the Red Cross by the Following Patriotic Business * • ■ , t •* v 'x Xv - x^ . , ■ / Men of Smoaks. x y \ • Xs YARN BROS. COMPANY, Smoaks. R. W. PADGETT, Smoaks. CARTER’S PHARMACY, Smoaks. I M. MAXEY & CO., Smoaks. P. M. BERRY, Sound::. BANK OF SMOAKS. Xxks. SMOAKS BANKING CO.. Smcaks. / v - X N' X *» 1 X v ■ X.