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McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, SOUTH CAROLINA Thursday, November 13, 1941
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Red Cross
Defense Program
CALLS FOR GREATEST ROLL
CALL RESPONSE, LOCAL
OFFICIAL DECLARES.
America’s national defense ef
forts require a great expansion of
all American Red Cross activities,
W. H. Ferguson, chairman of the
McCormick County Red Cross
Chapter, declared today in urging
“all-out” support of the greatest
membership Roll Call in Red Cross
history, to be held from November
11 to 30.
Mr. Ferguson said the McCor
mick County chapter had set a
quota of 300 members for its share
in the national appeal. “We must
go over the top in this Roll Call,”
he added, “because the contin-
* uance of the national Red Cross
program depends upon the success
of the local chapters in appealing
for members.”
Funds realized during the Roll
Call period, he pointed out, will be
used to enable the American Red
CTross and its chapters to carry on
its expanded services to the Army
and Navy and to widen its nation
al defense program for the civilian
population.
The Red Cross has more than
doubled the number of field di
rectors and medical workers in its
employ stationed at Army and
Navy posts and hospitals. Red
Cross staffs are at 185 stations
aiid hospitals covering 900 points
of military and naval service. Ap
proximately 200 field directors and
assistants are dealing with the
able-bodied personnel of the Army
and Navy, while another 140 work
ers, assigned to Army and Navy
hospitals, render medical social
service and communication service
for convalescent patients as well
as plan medically approved recrea-
j facilitate these within-camo
activities, Mr. Ferguson, said, the
Red Cross has under way a $1,-
250,000 construction program to
erect Red Cross administration
buildings at each of 62 Army
camps. These buildings contain
offices, consultation rooms, living
quarters for the Red Cross staff,
and a reception room and lecture
room for classes in Red Cross
first aid and home nursing
courses.
He added that the Red Cross
also is completely furnishing and
operating hospital recreation
buildings cortetructed by the War
department at 65 Army stations
^,xid general hospitals. The build
ings will provide recreational serv
ices for convalescent patients, in
cluding current popular motion
pictures, stage presentations and
i.^r entertainment. The pro
gram in these quarters will be con
ducted by a trained Red Cross
staff aided by Volunteer Gray
Ladies, the Motor Corps and other
volunteer units of nearby Red
Cross chapters.
“It is essential for the complete
functioning of this vital program
that local chapters strengthen
service departments,”
Mr. Ferguson said. “These depart
ments, with the field directors at
the camps and hospitals, form the
liaison between the military and
civilian populations which is the
duty of the American Red Cross
to provide. Our own chapter must
be prepared to bear its share of
the load, but it can only do so
with the wholehearted support of
the entire community during Roll
Call.”
Ferguson said that the Red
^ .ss on a nationwide basis is
ptifonhing a number of other
services for the armed forces, in
cluding the enrollment of nurses
and medical technologists, pro
duction of 40,000 ,C00 surgical
dressings by women volunteers
furnishing of $1,003,000 worth of
athletic and recreational equip
ment to Army and Navy posts, in-
struction of firet aid. swimming
rnd life saving at Army camps
and supplying ox extra-comfort
articles to convalescent military
and naval patients.
‘ Meanwhile, the Ttrd Cross must
r~ rrmicas in otl::r vray
to help In the preparation of
civilian defenses,” Mr. Ferguson
pointed out.
Plans are being laid in every
section of the country to prepare
for Red Cross disaster relief serv
ice under any eventuality. Last
year the Red Cross aided approxi-
mately 220,000 persons who were
victims of 149 disasters.
Growing to new heights, the
Red Cross First Aid, Water Safety
and Accident Prevention Service
last year instructed 577,000 per
sons in first aid and another 81,-
000 in water safety techniques.
The same service now has in op
eration along the nation’s high
ways 6,844 first aid stations and
mobile units on the nation’s
highways.
In addition to obtaining almost
5 ; 000 nurses for the Army and
Navy, the Red Cross Nursing Serv
ice last year cared for 317,759
cases through its public health
nurses. Conducting 5,700 classes
in Red Cross Home Nursing, the
service taught 81,000 women and
girls in 1,000 communities the
value of healthful homes and the
fundamentals of home nursing
care of the sick.
, “This year, for the first time,”
Mr. Ferguson reported, “enroll
ment in the American Junior Red
Cross is being conducted simul
taneously with the Roll Call for
senior members. Children are not
asked to join individually, but en
roll as a classroom with a nominal
fee for the entire group. Almost
10,000,000 boys and girls in the
schools of America already par
ticipate in all the varied Red Cross
programs through the Junior Red
Cross. This year that figure
should be more than doubled, be
cause the need is great.”
Mr. Ferguson calls upon every
resident in McCormick County to
enroll as a Red Cross member
through the local chapter in order
that “our community may con
tribute its full share to this im
portant humanitarian program
which means so much to our
homes, our family, our town and
our nation.”
In offices, factories, shipyards and workshops, the pause that
refreshes with ice-cold Coca-Cola is a pleasant moment on
the sunny side of things. This welcome drink is the easy way
to turn to refreshment without turning from work. When you
work refreshed, you do more work and better work.
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Garden Work
For November
Since "'vember is a month
during which relatively little gar
den work is usually done, at this
time we should not under-estimate
the value of a good all-year gar
den. From the standpoint of
'^lla^ and cents the garden area,
acre for acre, is unquestionably
the most valuable spot on, the
farm.
It has been only a relatively
short time since Science dis
covered the exact constituents or
elements of vegetables that have
the power of promoting growth
and health. These important ele
ments found in vegetables, and
osoecially in leafy vegetables, are
vitamins and mineral salts, and
experiments in human and animal
nutrition have proved their im
portance for good growth and
health, especially in the case of
children. Likewise, the food
specialists tell us that the diet
should contain a certain amount
of bulky food. Vegetables meet
these requirements in the form of
fibre or cellulose. Hence, authori
ties in food and health recom
mend the use of a supply of vege
tables in the diet each day. While
no discussion is here given it is
well known that fruits of the
many kinds have similar virtues.
The growing of good gardens
throughout the year is largely^ a
habit. Many who have recently
developed this habit have found
the home garden not only profit
able, but a source of pleasure and
happiness.
Now is a good time to begin
thinking and making plans for
the 1942 Spring Garden. The
garden, of course, should be lo
cated in close proximity of the
residence on account of con
venience. But on the farm where
plenty of land is available,
change the location of the next
garden if possible. This is highly
desirable in order to avoid or les
sen the damages of insects and
diseases of the vegetables. Some
vegetables should not be grown
in the same soil two years in suc
cession if best results are to be
obtained.
If possible to change your gar
den location, it would be desirable
to immediately apply broadcast
over the new soil stable manure
(and maybe complete commercial
fertilizer) and turn or break the
land deeply before the winter
rains set in.
If the soil is strongly acid, an
application of dolomitic limestone
or basic slag should be given, es
pecially to that portion of the
garden soil where such crops as
cabbage, peas, spinach, and beets,
etc., are to be planted, as these
vegetables will not tolerate an ex
cess of soil acidity as will other
vegetables like the Irish potato,
for instance.
Properly care for all the winter
vegetables that you now have in
your garden. Such crops as car
rots, beets, parsnips, and salsify
can be left where grown and dug
as wanted. Fall beets and car
rots later in the season should
have a light furrow (or covering
of soil) thrown over the beds, be
cause these crops are somewhat
susceptible to severe colds.
If your sweet potatoes have not
been harvested, they should be
taken out of the ground im
mediately, and properly stored.
Cultivate your late planted tur
nips, spinach, and mustard, etc.
Matured green tomatoes that
have not been injured by frost, if
packed and properly stored will
furnish for a considerable time a
supply of this vegetable for the
table.
Make arrangements for the
planting of a few rows of straw
berries in your garden. • It is a
favorite fruit, and the first fruit
of the season.
Matilda Bell,
Co. Home Defn. Agent.
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Miss Matilda Bell
Re-appointed Better
Home Chairman
For This County
Miss Matilda Bell of McCormick
has been re-appointed Better
Home Chairman for McCormick
County for 1941-42, according to
an announcement just made by
the national office of Better
Homes in America, located on the
campus of Purdue University.
As chairman for this county,
Miss Bell will direct the county
activities of the national organi
zation which was launched in
1922 by Mrs. William Brown Mel-
oney of New York City and or
ganized on a national basis in
1923 with the Honorable Herbert
Hoover, then. Secretary of Com
merce, as president, and head
quarters in Washington, D. C. Dr.
Ray Lyman Wilbur became presi
dent in 1929, and in 1932 the na
tional office was moved to New
York City. Largely due to the
pioneering efforts of Purdue Uni
versity in housing research, head
quarters were transferred to the
Purdue campus in 1935, at which
time Dr. Edward C. Elliott of Pur
due was named president. Miss
Bessie Harper of Aiken is State
Chairman for South Carolina.
The objectives of the organiza
tion are to emphasize the impor
tance of the home in natural and
community life, to encourage
thrift for home ownership, and to
provide helpful suggestions re
garding the selection and building
of the home, along with its equip
ment and management. Through
the medium of exhibits, lectures, j
demonstrations, and contests,
planned by local, county, and
state chairman,, an effort is made
to develop an appreciation of the
kind of living possible in the av- ’
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place in the hands of the average
citizen practical applications of
the best available knowledge for
making the home a better place in
which to live.
The national office provides an
agency for the coordination of
the activities of the chairmen and
for the distribution of informa
tion. In general, the specific pro
gram for each individual commu
nity is planned and directed by a
chairman chosen from the com
munity, who works with the co
operation and advice of county,
state, and national officers.
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good land in town of McCormick,
good state of cultivation, with
running water, fine for pasture,
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