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I McCORMICK MESSENGER; McCORMICK. S. C.. THCTRSDAY, AUGUST 17, 1939 Cutwork That Turns Linens to Treasures Pattern 6331 Here’s your chance to own beau tiful linens without any trouble at all! Cutwork’s easy to do, you know—it’s just buttonhole stitch (there’s just a touch of other stitchery). Such a variety of floral motifs too. Get busy on a tea cloth, scarf or towel. These de signs are stunning on natural linen or soft pastel shades with stitch ery in white or the matching color. Pattern 6331 contains a transfer pattern of 16 motifs ranging from 3% by 3% inches to 4% by 15 inches; materials needed; color schemes. To obtain this pattern, send 15 cents in coins to The Sewing Cir cle, Household Arts Dept., 259 W. 14th St., New York, N. Y. Please write your name, ad dress and pattern number plainly. FOR CHILLS AND FEVER And Other Malaria Misery! Suffer! with ing with fever the next. Malaria is relieved by Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic. Yes, this medicine really works. 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They bring you today’* NEWS about the food you eat and the clothes you wear, the stores you visit and the home you live in. Factories everywhere are turning out new and interesting products. • And the place to find out about these new things is right here in this newspaper. Its columns are filled with important messages which you should read. The Red Cross Looks Back Over Three-Quarters Of a Century of Service to Suffering Mankind, Regardless of His Race, Nationality or Creed A major obligation of the Red Cross is in work for veterans and service men. This picture shows a Gray Lady, one of the thousands who aid sick and disabled in our hospitals. By Edward Kenneth Stabler .(Released by Western Newspaper Union.) I TS after compartment flooded by the inrushing sea, the submarine Squalus plunged to the bottom off Portsmouth, N. H., on May 23. The United States navy, assuming charge of rescue operations, waged a success ful two-day battle against time and the elements in bringing to the surface alive the 33 men who survived the sinking. But the tragedy of the Squalus was not confined to the sea. The many relatives and friends of the entombed men, who came hurriedly to the New England town, were equally victims of catastro phe. They required housing, attendance, information and, in some instances, medical care, during the long hours of waiting. Three weeks later a tornado writhed its way across a rural section of Minnesota, visiting its wrath upon the town of Anoka and villages nearby. In its wake 10 persons lay dead and 90 in jured. The toll of property dam age included 35 homes destroyed, 110 damaged, and 200 bams com pletely or partially wrecked. There was instant and wide spread need of food and shelter for the victims, of medical and nursing care, and, in the long days ahead, rehabilitation of families and homes. By press and radio the story of such disasters spreads. We feel a sharp, quick sympathy for those fellow humans and we have an instant impulse to aid. * ’The Red Cross Is There.' The feeling of sympathy re mains but the human impulse passes almost as quickly as it came. It fades in the face of our realization of detachment and of our individual inability to help. In another moment we are caught up again in the current of events that eddy round us. That we do not then carry with us an in escapable sense of futility is due to our confidence that the dis aster victims are receiving suc cor as prompt and competent and complete as man has yet been able to devise. Which is to say that we know the Red Cross is there, doing all that can be done. It may never have occurred to some that this assurance, which holds good at all times the world over, is a comparatively recent and a somewhat miraculous thing; that the organization which we join as a member each year is the largest and most far- reaching in existence, annihilat ing distance and the man-made barriers of nationalism and prej udice and creed; that in its di verse and largely voluntary func tioning, in war and peace, when ever and wherever there is hu man suffering, it is one of the most effective and remarkable agencies of mankind. This year marks the seventy- fifth anniversary of the founding of the International Red Cross at Geneva, Switzerland, August 22, 1864, when the representatives of 12 nations signed the Geneva con vention, or Red Cross treaty, set ting forth the humanitarian prin ciples of the organization. During these 75 years the In ternational Red Cross has ex panded until today there are Red Cross societies in 62 nations which have a world-wide enroll ment of more than 34,000,000 adult and junior members. Although the United States was represented at Geneva and co operated in framing of the con vention, the traditional reluc tance of this government and its people to participate in interna tional agreements involving trea ties with European powers, pre vented ratification by the United States and establishment of its own national Red Cross until March 1, 1882. The secret of the constant, far- flung preparedness of the Ameri can Red Cross of today is the secret of training and organiza tion. Its secretary. Miss Mabel T. Boardman, once asked by an admiring but mystified question er, “How does the Red Cross get to the scene of disaster so promptly?’’, replied: “The Red Cross does not have to get there; it is there.” It is there in the personnel of its 3,716 chapters and 8,200 branches, each with its commit tee on disaster prevention and disaster relief. It is there in the machinery of co-ordination, es tablished through regional and na tional headquarters, under the di rect supervision of its national chairman, Norman H. Davis. It is ready with disaster relief work ers, by means of immediate ap propriations from its national budget, and with the carefully prepared co-operation of govern mental and other agencies whose facilities are at hand, if needed, to supplement those of the Red Cross. In 58 years the American Red Cross has assisted the victims of more than 2,200 disasters and has expended approximately $140,- 000,000 in disaster relief, most of it since the World war. Dur ing the past 15 years it has . served in an average of 92 do mestic disasters annually, and during the year ending June 30 last, it rescued, clothed, housed, fed and gave medical, nursing and rehabilitation aid to 100,000 persons, victims of 148 disasters in the United States. Record of a Year. Some conception of the magni tude of this continuing peacetime task can be had from the sum mary of reports covering the 12 months ending June 30 of this year. During that time the American Red Cross has: Through its civilian home serv ice, assisted 116,000 families af fected by economic and other forms of distress; Provided service for 165,000 war veterans or their families through its chapter home serv ice sections and national liaison representatives; Through chapters, field direc tors and hospital social workers, extended help and medical social service to 40,000 men of the Henri Dunant, Swiss founder of the Red Cross in 1864. This pic ture was made at the time he was the first recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. army, navy, marine corps and coast guard; Continued the campaign against injury and death in the water, on the highways, in factories, by training 100,000 new life-savers and 313,000 new first-aiders, bringing the total of Highway First Aid stations to 2,720 and of mobile first aid units to 2,424; Through 2,126 of its chapters, continued activities in home and farm accident prevention to less en the annual loss of life and number of injuries; In co-operation with physicians made 1,000,000 public health nursing visits to or in behalf of the sick, examined thousands of school children for physical de fects, and trained 50,000 women and girls in the home care of the sick; 9,000,000 in Junior Red Cross. Through the Junior Red Cross, stimulated the interest of more than 9,000,000 school children in health education, character build ing, international correspondence and better understanding and peace among nations; Through the work of volun teers, produced 330,000 garments for disaster victims and others in need, 4,600,000 surgical dressings for local hospitals, and 720,000 pages of reading matter in Braille for the blind. This extensive and diversified peacetime activity of the Red Cross, which grows steadily and benefits greater numbers year by year, has gained impetus in all lands since the establishment in May, 1919, of the League of Red Cross societies, with headquar ters in Paris. Founded through the vision and initiative of Henry P. Davison, wartime chairman of the Ameri can Red Cross, with the support of the Red Cross societies of the United States, Great Britain, France, Italy and Japan, the league has grown steadily in im portance and strength until it now includes all of the national Red Cross societies. Its chairman is Mr. Davis, chairman of the American Red Cross. The league, however, is but one of the two agencies of the world family of Red Cross societies. The other and older is the Inter national Red Cross committee, with headquarters in Geneva, where it was established in 1864 under provisions of the Geneva convention. Each of these bodies preserves its individuality and its own field of activity, corresponding rough ly to supervision of wartime ac tivity by the international com mittee and of peacetime activity by the league. They co-operate on a basis of constant, mutual consultation, which is furthered by an exchange of delegates. The services of these bodies, to gether with the International Red Cross conferences, held every four years, provide the channels through which the 62 national Red Cross societies function as one gigantic and unified organi zation, the International Red Cross. Tribute to Pioneers. Observance of the seventy-fifth anniversary of this organization in every civilized land is a fitting tribute to the heroic endeavors of the men and women of every member nation, who labored long and successfully in the establish ment and the promotion of the national Red Cross societies and the International Red Cross. The names of some of these individu als are famous, others are un known; but the names of all of them are legion. One among them all, however, has prior claim to praise and rec ognition in this anniversary year. For the International Red Cross is his living memorial—a perpet ual tribute to his humanitarian- ism, his vision and his industry. His name, too little known since his death in 1910, is Henri Du nant, and his story is the story of the origin of the Red Cross. It is one of remarkable individual effectiveness in the field of hu manitarian endeavor. It begins in his native city of Geneva, where he was a success ful young banker; takes him to the Plains of Lombardy in north ern Italy, where he was an eye witness of the Battle of Solferino, one of the bloodiest engagements of the Nineteenth century; car ries him into the nearby village of Castiligione, where he labored heroically for days at the head of a small band of volunteers in do ing whatever could be done for the unattended thousands of wounded and dying; finds him in temporary seclusion, while he writes letters to influential friends and a small volume vividly de picting the horrors he had wit nessed, setting forth proposals for a permanent, neutral, volunteer organization in all countries, which could be counted upon to care for the sick and wounded of war and the victims of catastro phe in time of peace; and it fol lows him through the capitals of Europe where he pleaded and fought for his plan, back to the council tables of Geneva, where, at long last, he saw his brain child born, a healthy infant, des tined to grow and prosper in the service of humanitv. Heroine of the American Red Cross .Ask Me .Another ^ A General Quiz By ELMO SCOTT WATSON Just as the name of one man, Henri Dunant, is inseparably linked with the early history of the International Red Cross, so is the name of one woman the syno nym for the foundation of the American Red Cross. She is known to fame as Clara Barton although that is not the name which Capt. Stephen Barton and his wife gave to the “Christmas gift” which Santa Claus left in their farm home near North Ox ford, Mass., on December 25, 1821. It was Clarissa Harlowe, after the heroine of Samuel Rich ardson’s Eighteenth century ro mance. When Clarissa Harlowe Barton grew up, being a practical-mind ed young woman, she dropped that romantic name and became known simply as Clara Barton. If she had been a boy, perhaps she might have followed in the foot steps of her father, who had served in the Revolution under “Mad Anthony” Wayne, and joined the army. As it turned out, she was destined to go to war but she went to alleviate pain and suffering, not to cause it. Clara Barton was a sickly child but by engaging in vigorous out door exercise she changed her self into a robust young woman, a fact which was important to her later career. In 1854 she es tablished at Bordentown, one of the first free public schools in New Jersey. Service in the Civil War. After a very successful career as a teacher Miss Barton went to Washington and served as a clerk in the patent office where she was working when the Civil war broke out. Then she determined to devote herself to the care of wounded soldiers on the battle- Clara Barton was first president of the American branch of the Red Cross when it was organized in 1882. field and she was instrumental in organizing the Sanitary Commis sion which took charge of nurs ing sick and wounded soldiers in the field and in hospitals. She served with the army of the Potomac and in 1864 was ap pointed “lady in charge” of the hospitals of the Army of the James. In 1865 she went to Anderson- ville, Ga., to identify and mark the graves of Union prisoners buried there and in the same year President Lincoln placed her in charge of the search for missing men of the Union ar mies. During the years 1866-67 she lectured on her war experiences and afterward went to Switzer land for her health which had been seriously affected by her strenuous labors during the war. She was at Geneva when the Franco-Prussian war broke out and she assisted the grand duch ess of Baden in the preparation of military hospitals. Also she became acquainted with the work of the Red Cross and she gave unstinted aid to that society. At the joint request of the Ger man authorities and the Stras- burg “Comite de Secours,” she superintended the supplying of work to the poor of that city in 1871 and in 1872 had charge of the public distribution of supplies to the destitute people of Paris who had undergone the horrors of siege and the reign of the Com mune. At the close of the war she was decorated with the golden cross of Baden and the iron cross of Germany. Founding of the Red Cross. Upon her return to this coun try in 1873 Miss Barton inaugu rated a movement to secure rec ognition of the Red Cross society by the American government and finally, during the administration of President Arthur, saw her la bors rewarded. Naturally she be came the first president of the American Red Cross when it was organized in 1882. Miss Barton’s humanitarian la bors did not end with the wars. During the eighties she was busy superintending the work of suc coring the afflicted in the great fires which swept Michigan, in the floods on the Ohio and Missis sippi rivers and at the great Johnstown flood in Pennsylvania. She served as president of the American Red Cross for 22 years and to the end of her days, which came in 1912, she was the living exponent of the spirit which has made the Red Cross “the great est mother in the world.” 1. What is polyandry? 2. How does a whale feed it! young? 3. What shapes the destinies oi a people? 4. How does a patriotic Ameri can woman salute the flag? 5. What political figure wai known as the “Plumed Knight”? 6. What is the most abundant metal contained in the earth? 7. "What is meant by referring to a diamond as being so many carats? 8. Which is the country of origin of the word (A) candy, (B) mus lin, (C) millinery? The Answers 1. The possession by a woman of more than one husband at a time. 2. The whale, a viviparous mam mal, suckles its young. 3. Their modes of thought. 4. By placing her right hand over her heart. 5. James G. Blaine was known as the “Plumed Knight.” 6. Aluminum. 7. When we refer to a diamond as being so many carats, we refer to its weight. 8. (A) Candia, old name for Crete, (B) Mosul (Iraq), (C) Mi lan ; milliners being originally sell ers of Milan goods. By burning 25% slower than tha average of the 15 other of the largest-seOIng bramls tested—slower than any of them-CAMELS glvo smokers the equivalent of EXTRA SMOKES PER PACK C OOLER, milder smoking la longer-burning Camels. Extra smoking, too, as shown by die fol lowing results of a recent impartial laboratory comparison of 16 of tha largest-selling brands: 1 CAMELS were found to contain MORE TOBACCO BY WEIGHT than the average for the 15 other of the largest-selling brands. 2 CAMELS BURNED SLOWER THAN ANY OTHER BRAND TESTED-25% SLOWER THAN THE AVERAGE TIME OF THE 15 OTHER OF THE LARGEST-SELL ING BRANDS! 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