Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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x x > ■.T 5 ' , « -TWO UP'j'y * r # | _ r A. • . WS ‘ «/ THl PSESS AMD 8TANDAUI i >• >. • ■4 - % # • *. . • 15, 19i^ y'.'&r ■ N 1 X H V. x / r *, ^ > "A grmt net if mercy Your Red • X -• s / Your Army and Navy fi*rhts to make the “World safe for De- »»*'"■ ^ .* '' x \ mocracy. ^ f /■ ♦ , * . * * , * ^'x’ Your Red Cross fights to make it fit for Demcoacry. / . o • • • , '/ " • * n g. . ‘ ' * / “ Fights for your soldiers—yours and your allies—in trench, canteen and hospital. ^ Fights for the little children, to save them for the nation s up- buiidings of tomorrow. Fights for the swarms of homeless, dazed refugees and “rep- \ V atriates” thrown out from the war’s black whirlpool. / / V ' • Fights the white plague, tuberculosis, that takes a greater jf # * ■ ■ ' X toll than lead and steel. X / r / \ X •z- '• Figrhts in every war stricken country to uphold a wrecked and suffering humanity in its struggle for a free existence. . * One hundred million dollars to “carry on.” X / * u ' * . . T No power of taxation, no interest rate to urge those dollars. / .■ *. ■/ ' • v ' y /. * Each one a volunteer, sent willinglv and by the heart alone. ’ X • • \X> The noblest fund of all the billions of this war’s vast budgets * ’ ■ X ' ■ ■ * •" ■ x* ■ ’ X X ' • " t —because the freest given. What share is yours? What sacrifice to mobilize those Fight ing Red Cross Dollars? X x r- y X X / / / xX Every cent of every dollar received for the Red Cross War Fund goes for War Relief. x. • ■ ^ ■ X Th»» Americaa Ued Cross is the largest anu "' most ettjelent or^ani zation for the relief ol’ y 7 o \ x x » for sufferim; that the World has ever seen,' It is made up almost entirely of volunteer workers, the- hivher exoeuttves beinir without ezcepiion men accustomed to larae affairs, who .re in almost all rases givlnK their services without pay. , y It is supported entirely by its membership fee* and by voluntary contributions. It is todav bringing relief to sufferim; hu manity. txtth military and civil, in every Wa.- torn allfed country. It plans tomorrow to help in the work of restoration throughout the world. It feeds and clothes entire populations in times of great calamity. It is there to help your soldier boy in his time of need. With its thousands of workers its tremen4- ^ous stores and smooth running transportetior facilities, it is serving as America’s advance „uard—and thus helping to win the war. Congress authorises it. President Wilson heads i(. The War Department audits its accounts. Your Army, your Navy and your Allies en thusiastically endorse lt v Twenty-two million Americans have Join ed It. ‘ X . A • v IX This Page Paid for and Contributed to the Red Cross by the Following Patriotic Business Men of Walterboro. X X FARMERS MERC. & WAREHOUSE CO. X \ \ \ THE COLLETON GARAGE. D. C. L. HIERS, Contractor and Builder. -*• \ X” .x \ \ z -*