Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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x X X i . . ■ * / / / n ' - r What Has Your Red Cross Money Done? IN the first place, it has enabled the American people, through the Red Cross, to help care for its army and navy. Secondly, it has enabled Amand other comforts for the men ing forces and to keep up, among the civilian populations, the • » ty • * spirit to win the war. That, alone, has made the American Red Cross one of the largest factors since our entrv into the war. X ’. \ r * x * / * . . 'x n Canteens which provided food and hot drinks—more than a million meals to soldiers in December; warehouses, crammed with materials, situated all along the Fi ench line, all along the Italian lines, at seaports and at places where our soldiers are going to fight; institutions for the care of consumptives, institutions for the re-education of maimed men—these are a few of the concrete accomplishments abroad. , X At home—the millions of woolen sweaters, mufflers, socks, • r v ’ X^ and other comforts for the m en in camps; the work of sanitation around cantonments and the help and. advice given dependents of soldiers and sailors—these are things which will “make you, your children and your children’s children, in whatever part of the w r orld they may be, proud of being Americans.”' . X ' ‘ • / . / . .« ><' Will you do your share to keep this Hand of Mercy at its work? — _____—, ___________ »■ 1 ■■ Ever>’ cent of every dollar received for the Red Cross War Fund goes for War Relief. X The \merioan Uod Cross is the largest and nopt eflrirnt or^ani ration for the relief of that the World has ever seen. »* is made up alnKist entirelv of volunteer r-o.j , . s> (he higher executives being without * • c«-tiou. men accustomed to. large affairs, who arc in almost all cases ghing their services v,-if''nut pay. It Is supported entirely by its membershi.) fees and by voluntary contributions. v v It iff today bringing relief to suffering hu manity. both military and ciVil. in every Wsr torn allied country. It plans tomorrow to help in the work 04 ffitoration throngbout the world. ■ It feeds and clothes entire populations in time* of great calamity. It is there to help your soldier hoy in his time of nee<W . _ With its thousands of workers its tremend ous stores and smooth e<mning tiaiiKportation larttities, it is serving' as AmericaY yrdvanno guard—and thus helping to win the war. Congress authorizes it. \ President Wilson heads it. The War Department audits ^ accounts. Your Army, your Na\y an«I your Allies en 'husiastically endorse it. Twenty-two million Americans have join- d it. X Y This Pi'go Paid for and Contributed to the Red Cross by the Following Patriotic Business Men of Ruffin. \ /■ BANK OF RUFFIN, Ruffin. J. W. CROSBY, Ruffin. H:. D. PADGETT, Jr. f Ruffin. _ W. H. BRELAND, Ruffin. J. W. MILKY. Ruffin. / - X . A- <♦' X V- <• MS v * / • / /■ a* xn 1 / X X . M y