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VoLUME XXXIII. LAURENS, SOUTH CAROLINA, WEDNESDAY, MAY 15, 1918. NUMBER 43 RED CROSS TO . NATION-WIDE Al Raising of Another $100. 000,000 to be Undei taken During Week of May 20-27-Work Al ready Done.3 .From May 210 to 27 wili be the sev ,ond nation-wide war fund campaign week of the American National Rcd Cl oss, and in that time $100,000,000 is to be raised for carrying on the cver-increasing task of ministry and IlicCy ientailed by the war-, ho-re and abroaO. Taast summer I tie Red (ross war council asked for $100,000,000 and the people of the country. pledged $110, 000.000, of whieb $108,000,000 has thilus far been vollected --collected -proba by at the lowest cost in the history of stuch undettakings. Hence there arises the qittestion, "What has been done with the first $100,000,000 or more " Also "Why ,the need of another $100,000,000?" To answer the qnestion fully would fill a book with stories of merieful deeds, of aid extended to our allies, of succor to families of men in the ser vice of home and abroad, and etilcient, I fe-saving, huimanie, constructive work. Hut In the following sketch written by Will Payne, Is -given an outline of the ways in which this hun dre:l million-your hundred million Was spent: "rast summe1110r he piiIc silbscribed a ulindried million dollars to the fRed Cross. At. the laest stateiient over l~hity-five millions of it had been ap. propriated. I "Wher tias it gone? yoil ask. For many months tie woild has been spending over a hundred million (ol iars a (lay for t lie destriciion of life, liib and moans of su bsistence. Call up what you have read about the war's devastation. The Amerlcan Rod Cross' Vnormot'n1101s Job is to do whi atever it. can to alleviate that-not after fihe war, not afte- overtn ents have deliber atd an(] resolved; hi right now, at the niniie, onl tlh, spot. It's amazing that it has done so much101 with so ilt tle moneY. LaIst aotinn the Italian army fell back pleecipit at ely. On your, war map that meant r'bbing out one line and dirawing aniother half an inch fartler south. Over there inl Italy it me:iint t housands of poor families fleeing fromt their lotues. Major Mur1i-phy, led Cross corn Imm ission er in lIn 1'rope, rui shied to the senme alnd wired: "'ndosesribably pathetio conditions exist, involving separation of molier s alnld chib1rein, eold, hon goer, disease, deatl." Tin No vemibr'r and I )eeember the Ameriean Red Cro'ss appropriated three 111n11011 dollars for relief there-a large si. yet small in comparison with tie ieed. Tolier-.- are only a part of the led part i'i.very inlst ant, somewvh ere in thle vast flood of destruct ion, a hand1( reachteS 111 in aporal. It Is pr'ettIy apt to be a child's hiatnd 01r a woman's. Whein thle lied ,'iross commission reachecd P etoorrad ii t askedl thle gov ernnttt, "What is the mo1(sttur'gent thing?'' The uovoernmenot relild: "'We .nni1st "'t ('ondrensed milk for the little cliir en Itere.'' Thle 'ommlliisstion got the milk. At one spot ini France farmil work was sI tnlnd by lack of hiorsos. That meant mote hlingeri. Th'le led 'tross got in a hi g I raet or and setI it to plowing for' the community. The re arie a miilliotn tneeds. C'ol , wvet anid the deadly phlysical stra in of lie Iteches undiieri'n e men01's conlst I tuitl(ons. A frightful scourge of tuiber' enlosis has developed in Fr'ance. The Ried ('ross has built sanatoria, pro vidled over' a thlonsjind bedls antd nourses. ."I have here a big sheaf of sheliets fillied with fgu res. One lI em is thilr teen mnilliotn and odd dollars --the amtiountii wlehb, up to thait t ime, had gone ito tile local ('haiptolrs of the Ied Crioss in the United States for' local relief. Tlwenty-five per' cent of the moniiey subescriibed thrioughi thle chap ~ tit's eventually goos that wany. "'Over tir1ty milIlions havye been op pr'opi'ritedl f'r wdr'k In Fra~ncee lere lai a tmillion anid a <iutrter'--n round nuipi~ibes'- for ih~tar'y hositals and dispensuiar'les;: ovei' a imilllion and a half for' canteen sei'vice, wvhere Frtench and .Amrean soldier's, rolleved from the trtenchos, can get good food, a cot, a bath and hayve their clothes disInfect ed-.and s6 ~o on for their brief hoif KE ITS SECOND 'PEAL FOR FUNDS dlay clean, rested, nourished. Theue aro wer three mililions for hospital sup ply service; half a million for rest sta tions for American troops. ."Aid for refugees-eleven thousand families-zaccounts for nearly three million dollars; care and prevention of tuberculosis takes over two millions-: care o' helpless chlldren over a mil lion; relief work in six devasted dis Iricts, Including care of five thousand families and suflicient reconstruction to make houses labitable, required over Iwo millions. "These are all large items but the Red Cross is grappling with human misery oti an unpaimralleled seale-a world of it. The item lor relief of the hilind ailounts to four hundred thou sand dollars. The dispensary service sends supplies to more than thirty fouri htindred hospitals. The Red Cross re(eives and distributes more than two hundred tons of supplies daily at Paris. For this distribution and its other work it requires a big transpor tation service of motors and trucks. This transportation service has cost a million and a half, and its operating expenses run to a million dollars. "E0very (ollar it spends means mis ery alleviated. Its work is building abi'oad for tie United States the best good will in this world. It is building tle best good will among ourselves. Whatever else the war may produce we shall 1he proud of our Red Cross." 0 e0 e 0 * .... . * 00... V 0 I wan1it to say13 to you 1lint no other ortnniizalion sice the world * hi'uan has ever donie sueh gretit * enn1structive nork, nillh eflielentey, * isllmti an14d undtilerstatdinug, oftei * * 1 mler aid erse ciren in stainees. is *it has een don1e byi 11he .imer-lenna* *lt'ld Cross in Franee.-G(eni. Persh. * Intg. * 5** * *** * ** *** S *5*5* 1; vankes best L'aunidry. Soap( til woek r for 2..( at ied f ron lacke , I'alirl-ls. Sir .John l'riaser. "rt~i: liiitain will probably reach the elid of her mal-power this sulm mlier." saYS Sit .Iohn foster Fraser, who will lectuire oil "T.h('e ('ecker board of l'rp at Ohe votming led path ('lhatilatitiui here, "but '. the sa me liime she will hIae reached the highest eflheiency in her war machine, composed nlow of 7.-..00,000 tmen.'" "Tlhe fact that britain will reach the cld of hier mal-h ower by this summnier does not mean," Says Sitr .iohin, "that 11lhe Un ited Slate" 11111st assuime the hrden of sipplying the mai-power from Ilen ioi. Aiierica's g'rea.t p rob hem is not men but the m1ea1ns of get ting over her excellen t supply to the fron t. Ships are the thinogs needed. vspecially wi hell youi consider that. if yol call ship .500 5oldiers a day, it wold take a yeair to send 500,000t men to leranoce at thle pr'esenlt ia te of I ranlspor'ts. It now takes eightI weeks for transports to make the roulnd Iripi iincluding te tlimc' taken to load andi iiIlunloa ih e and 11( in lernnce.'' S ir .1(ohn1 is En gla~nd's most5 noted special newspaper corr'espiondenl. lie is known as having done thle miost va ried iravelinug of any man alive. F'or secial~ war services lie' was knighted lby Kinug Geborge' it lleekinoghani Pal are in Junec, I117. '"Quick '.\eal'' Oil Stoves are best 411 sizes ini stock today. ........\i. & 1'. 11. Wirhl';S & CO. Eillis Twiio ('onvlcts. Tw 'o nlegro coinvicts, iroadus WVork miani and George Andl~erson, were kill 'd 1by l ighitning Wednesday niighit in onea of the chiaiigang Camps11 of the eountIy I ocanted n ear' Gray ('oirt. Oth er' mhembler' of thle camp,1) inc iling twot of the guanrds, were severely shocked by Itie biol t, whulehi struick a I ree near lhe tenIt inl which(1 thle COnIe (ts sle pt, tihd un!Cl tider thle Ienit and1( uprooted a stiumi biesides killinog twvo oIf the teln mien. Thle tentl o(eniedi(( by the guards, J. h,. .\ lowell1, W. L. Tiertry and W. 11. iirvson, was about 30 feet fromS tile coni et I ('lt, and I wo (of these meni wereC s*tunnedl by thle bolt. Work mnI and Ande~irsonl were0 sent up last fall fot' manslaughter, the former for a term of 20 year's, the latter for twvo year's. Go to 1Red Irotn Tiacket cut price cash stores for your goods. You will save money and .believe me theylhave got tho goods. on see tor vonranlf. nargery Maxwell. This year the Reldpath Seven Day Chautau(qua will present a grand opera artist in Aliss Margery Maxwell, brilliant soprano of the Chicago Grand Opera Company. Durlng the past season Miss Max well sang with the Chicago Grand Opera '"Company as a principal with Cali Curl in 'Dlnorah". She also sang in a number of other operas, taking as many as twelvo roles In four weeks, and so great was her suc cess that she was chosen to accom 1)any the Chit-ago Company on its You you ar ability. You reputal Appl The1y you pay gate the terminin You tion and about th favorabi Pain Phone 2 tour to New York and Boston. 31iss )laxwell possesses a sopr-anio voice of brilliai)t quality and timbre and unusual range and she is en dowed with a marked dramatic tem perament. Galli Curl has spoken in most enthusiastic terms of "The 'Americane 'Mces' Maxwell's superb voice". 31iss -Maxwell will appear on the third night of the Chautauqua accom panied by two assisting arlists, a vio linist and an accompanist. The plant is "Aliss Florence Schubert Whose debut last May evoked a most cordial re .1.1= CHEVI 6 - - . --buy a c would hir4 don't hire a man fox a thoroughly satisfie< investigate his recor tion for reliability. ly the same test to ti irice you pay for it is as the man. You expect a car as you would the me g factor. tre urged to investigate t' the performance of the e Chevrolet is to be conv y on the good judgment c 5 Carloads ; ietto Auto D)IST RIE DO sponlse frot tle press of Chicago. The violinist, is Isador llrger who ha. won signal honors. Gornian Todd Paroled. Coli"Inbia, May 10.-Governori Man ning this afternoon paroled during good behavior. Gornan Todd, conviel ed in Laurens County in March, 1916, of forgery. and senitenced to thrlee years. While contined as a, prisoner serving sentence this negro was badly hburned, through acecident. The count y Ihysician, the shertiff, cleric of court, a 1nd supervisor of Laurens County - NOR t0LET ar as you 6 a man - a responsible positi i as to his charact d of past performan ie car you buy. nuch an investment of ti good return from both. Ln. Reputationi in bothi de'z economy records, the Chevrolet because to L inced that it's purchase >f its thousands oTBwiier Fnst Arrived & Accessory iUTORS Laur. . I... . Nash. on of tie lvading ar 4ters of it. (;r! nl Pond section , was a visitor inl the cily IPriday. .r. Nash stated that tihe lea v rain of Wedtnesday nihiii itt. onef tilt heaviest in li.< exe;rience., didl a great deal of daIm rage t the land an. crops in his ivility. I1' largest ti-rraces not be ing able $to wilistand the heavy flow ot water. Neither the rainti nor the iail. however. did much damage to the gra's in Erops. which lte reported as unl i;na lly tine in li vicinity )n until er and ces; his e salary Investi s the dje now all reflects s. Co. mns. S. C.