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THE SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C, NOVEMBER 6, 1942 International Red Cross Aids, Helps to Locate War Prisoners Instrumental in Obtaining Fair Treatment of All Internees. Perhaps you know a soldier or sailor who is a prisoner of war? Or perhaps you have been noti fied that he is missing in action but have no official word that he is a prisoner? In any case you want more in formation. You want to know about getting more news of him. You want to know if you can send a letter, or a parcel with warm clothes and some of those cookies he is so fond of. The best place to get that infor mation is through the Red Cross. Your nearest local Red Cross chap ter can tell you what you want to know. If possible go to the chapter yourself, rather than write. If you don’t know where it is, or can’t find it in the telephone directory, call the city hall, or any govern ment or municipal agency, and they will tell you. The Red Cross chapter will tell you exactly how to address a letter to the prisoner, or will help you fill in a message on a special form if he is only listed as missing in ac tion. They will tell you, too, about parcels. And they will explain what is being done by the Red Cross and other agencies to make life as bear able as possible for him while he is in enemy hands. The situation changes frequently, but you can always be sure that if you go to the Red Cross chapter you will get the latest information on what you can do. International Committee. There is of course no direct con tact between nations at war, but the American Red Cross can work through the International Red Cross committee in Geneva, Switzerland, which is recognized by everybody as strictly neutral, and has acted as go-between in wartime ever since it was founded for that purpose nearly 80 years ago. Under agreements made at Ge neva before the war—in 1929 to be exact—the nations promised to give humane treatment to prisoners, and drew up a set of rules for use in time of war. Long before the pres ent war Germany and Italy were among those who agreed to abide by those rules, and in February, 1942, Japan announced that she would observe them. Each nation agreed to set up a central bureau for prisoners of war information. The United States has set up a Prisoners of War Informa tion bureau in the office of the pro vost marshal general—in the war department. The Japanese govern ment established its Central Prison ers bureau in Tokyo in December, 1941. Cabled to Geneva. Names of prisoners and civilian internees are assembled by these bureaus, cabled to the International Red Cross committee’s agency in Geneva, listed and filed for refer ence in the committee’s Central Agency for Prisoners of War, and This strange device is a circular filing machine. Installation of ma chines of this type was made neces sary by the large number of mes sages passing through the Red Cross inquiry service at Washington, D. C. transmitted at once to the central information bureau of the country interested. The provost marshal general of the United States keeps a perma nent official list of all names re ceived from the International Red Cross committee, and arranges for notification to the next of kin. Names of some prisoners captured by the Japanese have been received, but there has been long delay on the part of the Japanese government in Long before this nation entered the conflict Red Cross mercy ships were sailing from the United States laden with provisions for the peo- Parcels Delivered. Civilians as well as prisoners of war benefit from the cargo of a Red Cross mercy ship. Evidence of distribution, through Red Cross channels, of cracked wheat is seen in the garments worn by these Chi nese children. parcels to supplement the diet of prisoners in Germany, Italy and oc cupied France. These supplies are distributed through the Internation al Red Cross committee at Geneva. Delegates of the committee are al lowed to inspect the prison camps to check on whether the prisoners are being treated in accordance with the international agreements, and to see that the parcels reach them safely. Contents of the parcels vary from time to time, but at present each package, weighing approximately 11 pounds, contains milk powder, 1 lb.; cheese, 8 oz.; liver paste, 6 oz.; corned beef, 12 oz.; pork meat, 12 oz.; raisins, 16 oz.; sugar, 8 oz.; lemon powder, 12 oz.; cocoa, 8 oz.; coffee, 8 oz.; chocolate, 4 oz.; can dy, 6 oz.; cigarettes, 40; tobacco, 2^4 oz.; lunch biscuit (type C), 7 oz.; matches, 2 boxes. The sending of packages to Japan is a more difficult matter, due to the refusal of the Japanese government to allow neutral vessels in the west ern Pacific areas. It is hoped that eventually arrangements may be made for the shipment by the Red Cross of a regular supply of stand ard food parcels, cigarettes, clothing and medical necessities. In the meantime, the American Red Cross has been able to send food parcels for trans-shipment to the Far East on the neutral Swedish vessel, the Gripsholm, sailing to Portuguese East Africa, where American and Japanese diplomats and other noncombatants are ex changed. On her first sailing the Gripsholm carried 20,000 parcels, $50,000 worth of drugs and medical supplies, 1,000,000 cigarettes, 10,000 tins of smoking tobacco, and large quanti ties of clothing and toilet articles supplied by the army and navy de partments for their respective de partments. On her second voyage, the Grips holm carried 60,000 of the 11-pound food parcels, 20,000,000 cigarettes, over $33,000 worth of drugs and medical supplies, $95,000 worth of For War Prisoner forwarding lists of those captured in the Philippines. If after a reasonable time you have received no word of a man be lieved captured, you can ask your Red Cross chapter to help you fill out an inquiry form and the Red Cross will make every effort to ob tain a report. Each nation also agreed to pro vide suitable prison quarters, with adequate heat and cooking facilities, and food similar to that given to its own soldiers in barracks, and to al low the prisoners to write home and receive mail and parcels. War pris oners are confined in camps, or compounds, usually surrounded by barbed wire and armed guards, in which they may move about com paratively freely, but they may not be shut up, as in a jail. Prisoners are allowed to send a limited number of letters or post cards, depending not only on the country but the camp in which they are situated. Prisoners of war and civilian internees held by the United States, for example—German, Ital ian, and Japanese—may send two letters and one postcard per week, and may receive an unlimited amount of incoming mail. Letters from German prison camps are sometimes received within two or three months, but ob viously mail from prisoners in the Far East must be expected to take much longer. A Red Cross worker is shown as sembling a “prisoner of war pack age” of food and cigarettes. Fro- paring these packages is only one of the many services performed by volunteer Red Cross canteen work ers. blankets and toilet articles, and large quantities of underwear, shoes and other articles amounting to more than half a million items. It has also been possible to deliver weekly standard Red Cross food Distribution of supplies to prison ers in the Far East is being carried out by International Red Cross com mittee delegates in Tokyo, Shang hai, and Hong Kong, who will make every effort to see that part of this aid goes to the prisoners captured in the Philippines, even though the Japanese government has not yet allowed the appointment of a dele gate of the International Red Cross committee in the Philippines. There is naturally anxious specu lation on the treatment of prisoners, especially in view of reports of bru tality brought back to the United States by some internees, particu larly newspaper correspondents re turning on the exchange ship, the Gripsholm. Political Suspects. These latter were detained by the Japanese equivalent of the Gestapo, and were in most cases thrown into jail on the pretext that they were political suspects. The Japanese did not recognize that they came under the protection of the Geneva Pris oners of War convention. The In ternational Red Cross committee delegates are strictly limited by the Japanese government to efforts to protect the interests of the men of the armed forces held as prisoners of war and of civilians interned in recognized camps. These are held in prison camps or compounds. International Red Cross committee delegates permit ted to inspect these camps in Japan and occupied China, and to speak to the prisoners, have reported that conditions are satisfactory and that they have received no serious com plaints. Any report of ill treatment of men in the armed forces who have been captured usually applies to the pe riod when the prisoner is still on or near the field of battle, when the animosities engendered by hostili ties are still strong. As soon as the prisoner has been placed in an or ganized prison camp governed by the agreements made at Geneva, his situation is usually much im- proved. International Red Cross Grew Out of Eye Witness Story of Italian Battle In 1862 Henri Dunant, a Swiss who had been an eye witness, wrote a graphic account of the Battle of Solferino. He told of the suffering of the wounded soldiers and dis cussed the possibility of organizing, in aU civilized countries, “perma nent societies of volunteers” to care for the wounded of all nationalities in time of war. A lawyer from Geneva named Gustave Moynier read Dunant’s book. As president of a local philan thropic society Moynier appointed a committee of five members of the society to consider the possibility of putting Dunant’s plan into action. The “Committee of Five” then is sued an invitation to all European governments and military, medical and philanthropic societies to send delegates to a conference to be held at Geneva on October 26, 1863. The 36 delegates who attended the now famous Geneva convention rec ommended that relief societies be formed in each nation, authorized by the government of that nation and co-operating with its army. The original “Committee of Five” became the International Red Cross committee. In 1919 the League of Red Cross Societies was founded, thus uniting all the separate na tional Red Cross societies. And in 1928 was instituted the International Red Cross conference, governing body of the International Red Cross. pies of war-torn Europe. Here the McKeesport is shown passing the p Statue of Liberty as she heads for the open sea. IMPROVED UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL UNDAYI chool I-ess on By HAROLD L. LUNDQUIST, D. D Ot The " * ' * Moody Bible Institute of Chicago. (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) Lesson for November 8 Lesson subjects and Scripture texts s. lected and copyrighted by International Council of Religious Education; used by permission. CHRISTIAN NURTURE IN THE FAMILY LESSON TEXT—Deuteronomy «:«-9, 20- 25; II Timothy 3:14, 15. GOLDEN TEXT—Train up a child in the way he should go; and when he is old. he will not depart from it.—Proverb* 22:6. The religious life of the home is a determining factor in the life of the child, for it is in the home that the child’s whole existence centers and from which he receives the repeated impressions, day by day, which de termine character and destiny. Then too, it is in the home that the par ent has the opportunity to demon strate the reality of the faith pro fessed in the church and to show the child that Christianity really counts in the ordinary experiences of life. I. By Recognizing God’s Word (Deut. 6:4-9). Twice a day the orthodox Jew re peated the words of verses 4 and 5, "the Shema,” in his time of prayer, morning and night. It was the foundation of his faith, declaring the oneness of God in a world of many heathen gods, and calling for com plete and absolute devotion to Him. But 'it was not enough that these words should be repeated in the service, they were to be taught with all diligence to the children and to be a normal and natural part of their daily conversation. Here is a matter of great signifi cance to us. The faith which we profess in the church must be effec tively brought into the home. It is not enough to carry a Bible on Sun day, it should be in use in the home throughout the week; not only in fajnily worship, but in the inci dentals of daily life. The family altar has gradually disappeared, and it is regrettable that it has, for the testimony of gen erations indicates that *in family worship some of the most useful men and women of all ages have re ceived the direction of life which made them great for God. Let us not readily assume that it is not possible for us to have a fam ily altar simply because of the dif ficulties of time, place, etc. But if we cannot have such worship regu larly, let us show our children that we have a real interest by reading our Bibles, by sharing some bless ing found therein with them, and by making prayer the natural thing in the home at all times, not just in hours of trial or adversity. Let us recognize God’s Word in our family life. II. By Remembering God’s Bless ing (Deut. 6:20-25). The nation that forgets its past will have no future worth remem bering. The Israelites were to re call that the glorious history of God’s loving kindness toward them bore testimony to the truth of His Word and to the faithfulness with which He had kept them. Their young people would thus be encour aged to trust God for the future. “Hitherto the Lord hath helped,” means that henceforth we may count on Him. In every nation there are those occasions of history where only God could deliver—and He did. The rec ollection of such events in a way which will give the glory to God rather than to man will strengthen faith and cause men to look to God in the hour of need, and to thank Him in the day of victory. In the family too, we should culti vate the sacred memories of God’s deliverance, of His blessing, of the joy of His fellowship in bright as well as threatening moments. Chil dren who hear such matters grate fully rehearsed in the home have an effective anchor in a time of storm. III. By Continuing in God’s Grace (II Tim. 3:14, 15). That which we learn of Christ and of God’s Word is to be translated into living for Christ. The experi ences of grace and the remem brance of God’s blessing of child hood are not for that period of life alone but for a continuing in God’s grace. This carries our thought a bit beyond the responsibility of the parent to provide the proper sur roundings and training, and stresses the duty of the child to apply, per fect, and continue that experience of Christian truth and testimony. Too many careless individuals, who_ because of the desires of their own' wicked hearts have abandoned the church and the Book, blame it on the parents. “They were too strict. We had to go to church too much. They made me go to Sunday school”—such are their excuses. Of course, we know that they are only excuses, not reasons. They are the refuge of the hypocrite who is not willing to face his own terrible re sponsibility. The obligation is on each one of us to continue in the things we have learned, and if we do not, the judg ment must come upon us. If we do, salvation and blessing will come to us, and we in turn will pass it on to others. May this lesson turn many an American home back to God’~ way. Velvet Is a Fabric Favorite For Lovely ‘Dress Up’ Things By CHERIE NICHOLAS V^ELVET has ever been a magic ' word in the fabric realm and this season its flattery is being played up more glamorously than ever. It is in lavish mood that de signers are stressing velvet throughout fall and winter collec tions, bringing out most exciting “date dresses” and evening modes styled for “date” wear, for after noon and after twilight formals, in charming off-duty contrast to sturdy uniforms and functional workaday outfits. There are many outstanding slants to the velvet vogue that make for big news just now. One is that of the simply tailored afternoon vel vet suit that is conceded to be one of the smartest items on fashion’s program this season. It adds to its lure that it is so dramatically adaptable to the accompaniment of show-piece furs, lovely, lacy blouses, glittering jeweled buttons and, what is most important, high color touches in gloves, bags and beguiling hats. Then, too, stunning separate coats made of ink-black velvet luxurious ly collared in ink-black fur carry a message of ace-high chic for win ter. Which all goes to show that no matter how formal or casual your sociable moments are, there will be lovely, appropriate costumes for the occasion done in regal velvet which will make you as feminine and ele gant as your best beau's heart could desire. Suitable for any “date,” from aft ernoon to midnight, is the charming priority-correct furlough frock shown to the right in the above illustra tion. It is fashioned of handsome, wine-colored, crush-resistant trans parent rayon velvet. The grand thing about crush-resistant rayon velvet is that it is all that its name indicates—crush-resistant! You can wear it with confidence, knowing that it will keep its freshness. Note especially that gleaming metallic embroidery defines the simulated two-piece effect. Many of the new velvet fashions are gleaming with bead and sequin touches. The slim- ly fitted bodice has a deep V-neck. Worn over a properly fitted founda tion garment (the new slenderizing fashions call for just that) the youth ful, slim-waisted lines of this lovely dress are unusually graceful. The vogue for contrast has in spired the charming “after five” bo lero costume to the left, which is done in rich crush-resistant rayon velvet in deep midnight blue. The long slim lines of the colorful rayon- and-metal bodice are accented by the patriotic fabric-conserving brev ity of the bolero jacket, making a well-corseted figure a necessity for effective wearing. The flattery of handsome velvet in deep, rich black is combined with the enchantment of exquisite lace in the charming dinner dress illus trated in the center above, which is designed especially for the woman whose program includes club activi ties. The graceful, long lines of this dress are accented by effective, vel vet-banded puffed sleeves of thin-to- transparency black lace. A cluster of flowers adds coloring to the softly draped neckline. Enthusiasm for velvet is also find ing a new outlet this season in that most important vogue which calls for accessory accents, especially velvet gloves matched to hats, the ensemble carried out in daring col ors, notably fuchsia shades, kelly green, turquoise, and flaming red. Released by Western Newspaper Union. Shawl to Match As Scotch as heather is this plaid outfit made of spun rayon yarn fab ric dyed for true color combina tions. The material has a warm, woolly finish. The navy sweater is piped in the plaid of the skirt. The outfit includes slacks, a mannish lined vest, a calot and, most im portant of all, a three-cornered fringed shawl made of the identical plaid used for the dress. The idea of a cunning shawl “to match” is taking the young campus crowd by storm. These are often embroidered in peasant style and colorfully fin ished off with hand-tied yarn fringe or with a self-fabric, frayed-fringe edgt. Small or Large— Hats Are Feathered Gorgeously colorful, feather hats are out in full force. They range from the pheasant-pad calots (so tiny you have to look twice before you can identify them as hats) to pillboxes and dashing types that flaunt towering crowns with impos ing feather motif trims. A charming feather fantasy that does the “pretty-pretty” gesture is the halo of pastel feather flowers that pose back of your forehead curl. The single ostrich plume swirls from the front over the top of the hat to the back where it falls low to the nape of the neck. Ruffles Galore Are Seen On Coats, Skirts, Suits Be on the lookout for ruffles ga lore, for many of the newest fash ions are being smartly styled with ruffles. Even cloth coats are taking on ruffle effects, such as cascades of self fabric running down side clos ings from neckline to hemline. Tai lored suits, too, are softened with jabots of self fabric on the jacket fronts. Afternoon dresses have cas cades of ruffles on both skirts and bodice tops. Tiny flutings and ruche effects finish off the hemlines of narrow skirts. Cozy ‘Nighties’ The flannelette nightgowns that we’ll be wearing this winter will be old-fashioned, long sleeved ones. Women who never wore these quaint types will be wearing them this year. Some of them are really very pretty, made as they are of flower prims in delectable colors.- ft. (t. (t. O'* r A* (V. (V. (V. {V. <v. <*. <w l ASK ME n l l ANOTHER t \ j A General Quiz (w (v. {V. c*. C v * O- o- The Questions 1. A harp usually has how many strings? 2. Regular army khaki is made of what? 3. The combining form “xylo,” as in xylophone, means what? 4. How old was Ludwig van Beethoven when he started to lose his hearing? 5. What are the most widely used given names in the world? 6. In which ocean is the inter- rtetional date line established? 7. Why is a recruit soldier called a private? 8. What is a kumquat? The Anewere 1. Forty-six. 2. Cotton. 3. Wood. 4. Twenty-eight. 5. Mohammed and Mary. 6. Pacific. 7. Because he holds no rank or distinction. 8. A citrus fruit. MOROUN PETROLEUM JELLYg Ode to Woman A woman is the most inconsist ent compound of obstinacy and self-sacrifice thr* I am acquainted with.—Richter. * > Cbaohiag COLDS Relieve Distress Time-Tested Way ^HAYCATONCt. PENETRATES f to upper bronchial / tubes with soothing J medicinal vapors. * STIMULATES t chest and back sur- \ faces like a warm- Ing poultice. so* hou*» MILLIONS OF mothers relieve dis tress of colds this double-action way because It’s so effective-so easy! Just rub throat, chest, and back with good old Vicks VapoRub at bedtime. Instantly VapoRub goes to work —2 ways at one*, as Illustrated above—to relieve coughing spasms, help clear congestion in upper bronchial tubes, and Invite comforting sleep. Often by morn ing most of the misery of the cold Is gone. When a cold strikes, try time-tested Vicks VapoRub. '.'V. rSHAVEwih SHELBY, doubl* rndge • •dfl* singl* « 4 for 10C Manufactured and guarantaad by FmdmraJ Razor Co.* N. Y. il SNAPPY FACTS ABOUT RUBBER for yaars tho U. 8. has consumod ovor half tha world's supply of rubbor. Closo to 70% of tho rub ber imported by the 11# S. was used in the manufacture of tiros and tubas and tlra accessories* Last year a 6.00 by 16 4-ply bladfc *’ ‘ ' “1.54 pounds. ■idewalltire weighed 21.( of which 11.2 pounds was crude rubber. The balance of the weight was in rubber* fabric* wire and chemicals. Several years ago a man from Seattle traded a small house for one of the earliest types of auto- * tie tiros# of which ha was a The most welcome gift for a Ugan- die bride of Africa is an old auto mobile tire* which she wears as m necklace on special occasions. The tires on tha "Spirit of St. Louis" In the Smithoonlan Insti tution are fifteen ye still | / J%umoi peace BEGoodrich | first in rubber nM 4J, 1 #