Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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X/ x r y * . . v • x T"' --Vi ■"'rr' '• » THE PRESS AND STANDARD / PAGE TWENT ■ . «\ K iju- ■* ' v -*-» / *5 * J * I •• 4 fntt net if mmxy drawn through • m MMM •/ mupoakahU pain” • t _ -y. X X ,rX ./ . v / » /X ■ How Was The Last War Fond Spent? . 's'. \ IT is a fair question—and it is fairly answered in the detailed and itemized reports that have been published in the newspapers of every town and city of the land. ; . .> • . X. > You never saw it? Then ask at the nearest Red Cross Chap ter, or write, for the Red Cross wants you to know where you money went. X •- V They say that Red Cross supplies have a way of coming- through on time. - X' x ' * - Xi ■ - W|» ' * L* / * * X, ' Italy surely has found us not wanting in promptness when her great trial came. * <■ / . • — . ^ r * t Apd Roumania—they said no allied nation could get through lelp her dire need. .X* ' X 1 ^ * ' -- • ' 0 it the Red Cross found a v ay. x X \ v X / X It’s pot always a cheap way—“Needs must’’ cost money. But* did you give that money to be saved—of to save lives? Are you not willing t>\ pay five dollars or fifty to bring something of com fort to a war lacked, tortured mortal” who but for you would die? . And of one thing you may be sure. Not one penny of that Hundred Million has gone for anything but War Relief. In the Red Cross there is ru high salaried bureaucracy m* extravagant administration expense. All of the higher officials <*nd pine-tenths of the workers aie unpaid volunteers. The cost of raising and collecting the last War Fur.:* was about one-half of one percent, Vore than covered by the bank ing interest on the money. Your Red Cross needs another hundred million to lighten just i\ little of the awful loai of misery “oveKthere.” Your share is all that you can give—and then a little m< Will you hold up your end? -/ \ x ' x / ^ xX , /\ x •x Every cent of every dollar received for the Red Crow War Fund kocs for War Relief. . X X xX ' , . ■ K X ‘ . y W' / X X \/ x, Tho AmerK-an lied Croea is the largest aou most effleient or«;aui zatlon for the relief >f Euffeiin^ that^the World has ever seen. It is made up almost entirely of volunteer workers, the higher executives being without ejception men aecttHtomed to large affairs, who are in almost aU Kiviug their serMce'T Without pay. It is supported entirely by its meraberrhit fees and by voluntary contributions. tt s today hrinsinK relief to suffering hit- mauity, both military and eivil, in every War torn all!'*! country. it jikns tomorrow to help in the work r>: reetotatian throushmit the world. " • nv ’ ' This fa go Paid for and Confnbutcd to the Ked OotJa by the Following Patriotic Jiusioe^* / v. Men of Waltirboro. WALTERBORO DRUG COMPANY. FISHBURNE’S DRUG STOK KLEIN'S DRUG STORE. It feeds and clothes entire |>opulatlons in times of great calamity. It is then* to help your soltft^r boy Id hi time of need. With its thousands of workers itigtiemeni 'mis ntoroR and smooth running transportation facilities, it is serving as America’s aH^anci suard—and thus helping to win the war. ' Coup res. < anthorizes it. President Wilson heads It. The W’ar Iiepartment audits its accounts Your Army, your Navy and your Allies en UiUGhjitically endorse It Twenty-two million Amerieana hate iom- ■<1 Itx / XX X / X . / / - / X 'X .