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BP V Si ^ An allegorical Concept of the ] ployed by the American Red Cross Annual Red Cross Roll Call. Spreac outline of the United States with a around its borders are sketched sen Red Cross today?service to disable relief and promotion of the publii Lawrence Wilbur, a New York artis country durine the enrollment of 1h RED CROSS PUTS I ID CO 700 070 Ul <93)1 U vJjU I L Year's Budget Stresses Reiief and Services at Home and Overseas. MILLIONS FOR VETERAN AID Over S3.000.000 Allotted to the Disabled?Foreign Work Lessens. Washington.?Expenditures totaling $9,739,S72.47 for carrying through its program of services and reiief during the fiscal year In the United States and overseas are authorized in tiie budget of the American lied Cross, ?f fectlve July 1, 15)22. This total is $2,135,975 less titan the expenditures for the last fiscal year, when disbursements reached $12,475,847.69, it is announced at National Headquarters In statement emphasizing the necessity f continued support of the organization Kv ...w.a I........ ,1.??.~ .........i Roll Call, November ll-Noveinl>er 30 Inclusive. This total for the budget Is extTisive of the large financial operations of the .1.300 active Ketl Cross Chapters, which. It Is estimated, will Biore than double the total. War Veterans Have First Call First call on Ked Cross funds is for he disabled ex-service men, of whom 27,487 were receiving treatment from the Government on June 1 last. This work for veterans and their families In a wide variety of service that tlie Government Is not authorized to render and for which it has neither funds nor facilities has the call on $3,030,002.90 during the current year, r about $300,000 more than was expended last y?ar for soldier service. Adding the funds disbursed in this humanitarian work of physical recount it fit ion following the World War "by be Chapters throughout the country will approximate a total for tlie current year approaching $10,000,000. This work, in the opinion of the Surgeon General's oflice, will not reach its peak before 1920. .through its Chaptera the American Bed Cross is equipped to tlnd ttie in dividual ex-service man, help him in his problems and difiieuliies, provide Immediately for his necessities, and open the way for him to ttie Government compensation and aid to which he is entitled. The extension of this work to the futilities of such men proves to them that tlie Red Cross has lost none of Its sympathy nor will to service manifested in wartime. Similarly the service goes out to the men till in the Army and Navy, 11,087 of whom were under treatment in Government hospitals on June 1, 1022. Qreatar Domestic Program This year?after five years of coo tructlve effort during the war and after the armistice?brings with it a greater responsibility for domestic ervlce to the American Ited Cross. The budget for foreign operations, however, totals $.8,404,000, but of this amount $1,824,000 is for medical relief and hospital supplies for Russia, which is a i?rt of the gift made by the American ited Cross in 1021 to the Russian famine relief work of the Amerlcun Relief Administration progiam. The child health service In Kitrope continues, moreover, and $G54,000 is appropriated for this work undertaken tu 1920. Other items in the trlngently diminished foreign pro gram include $200,000 to support the league of Rad Cross Societies, $22,000 for nurses' training schools instl tuted by the Red Cross abroad, and L. (000,000 for liquidation of the general fcjlyd Cfotp foreign relief prorata. Y 1 -.-'V mmkts Her Children. ^1 lied Cross as a peace-time ideal is em i in a new and striking poster for iti 1 out before the heroic size figure is tin Red Cross superimposed upon it whili l nes depicting the chief activities of th< ' id veterans of the World War, disastc: c health. The poster ip. the work n: it and will be displayed throughout tit* ie Red Cross membership for 1?23. Prepared for Emergencies For disaster relief the Red Crosa has set aside $750,tHX), and for emergencies in Chapter work $500,000 to be available for domestic, Insular and foreign demands. This Is more than $305,000 above last year's expenditures. For service and assistance to tho 3,300 Chapters and their branches $1,293,000 is provided by the National organization. | Other budget items of importance j In the domestic program include $200,000 for assistance to other organizations and education Institutions for training lted Cross nurses aut workers; $190,000 for Roll Call assistance furnished to Chapters; $100,000 for unforeseen contingencies. I Of the total budget less than $500,000 is allotted for management in tlie 1 National organization. No cash estl! mate, <>f course, is possible to weigh he value of the service by volunteers iu the Chapters. THE RED CROSS SUPPLEMENTS . GOVERNMENT SERVICE BY MEETING THE PARTICULAR NEEDS OF THE INDIVIDUAL EX-SERVICE MAN. THIS WORK CANNOT GO ON UNLESS YOU SUPPORT IT WITH YG R MEMBERSHIP DOLLAR PAY UP TODAY $1,441,486 A YEAR'S DISASTER RELIEF COST Red Cross Aided 145,000 Victims in United States?Losses Total $30,000,000. Seventy-two disasters, with hundreds reported killed and injured, and more than 145.000 either homeless or requiring assistance, culled for emergency relief measures and the expenditure of $1,441,486.30 by the American Red Cross during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1022, according to a statement based on the forthcoming annual report of the Red Cross. The greatest toll of life was taken by hurricane and tornado, while the overflowing of rivertl, the breaking of dams and torrential rains drove the greatest number of people from their homes. The property loss was estimated at more than $30,fMtO.OOO. The year's disasters reported Included twenty-six floods, nineteen tornadoes, fifteen fires, four epidemics, two theatre collapses, two shipwrecks (one an airship), and a bridge collapse, mine explosion, railway collision. and a drought. Of the floods In I lie United States that at San Antonio, Texas, caused the greatest property loss, $6,000,000 and the high I mark of fatalities, 100, while the flood In the vicinity of Vlcksburg and Natchez, Miss., forced 31,000 persons from their homes. A National Calamity Tn the Red Cross disaster relief records there will probably remain for many years one calamity which touched nearly every state with a sense of horror and of loss. This was the distressing collapse of the roof - * ?l- - Thonf In In I ill* |\IIM nn IM?* nn x ia?ni v ... Washington, I>. C\. resulting In ninety six deaths and* 12."i persona Injured. Ritunfed In the renter of the beautiful Northwest residential section, this motion picture theatre was patronized h.v many persons of prominence both In the official nnd civil life of the National Capital, whose family and personal connections radiated out over the entire country. The horror was Intensified by a terrific snowstorm which, though It retarded, did not block Wed Cross relief. Airship Crash Finds Aid at Hand The crash and destruction of the U. 8. Army's large airship Roma ! !* Iliciuucisuip IVI ??? WCJU1 v* Armistice Day, November 11, anc ! close on Thanksgiving Day, Novembel 80. The ground work for this eta dl pendous twsk of re-enrolling the mem H bershlp throughout the world has bees la laid In a plan for the first complete ln and comprehensive system of registration of the Red Cross membership i| J< all Its 3,300 active Chapters at home Jc and abroad. vi An important feature of the round- G the-world Roll Call campaign will b< fr a universal effort to re-enllst the serv- tl Ice of war-tline Red Cross workers Is the peace program by their partlcl- pi patlon In the Roll Call. In this way as the vast army of volunteers will onc? c< more affiliate with the work of ths tl Red Cross ln Its manifold phases. Co- r< operation alao has been assured by k: Government and private maritime In- u] terests in a deep-sea Roll Call that ft Is designed to reach every membei bi or potential member ln every part ol di the world who may be en voyage ei ai temporarily In any port. Thousands of Chapters will adopt the home canvaaa plan of e^rollmenl which originated In Pittsburgh, when lost year It resulted in a membershlj p Increase of 50 per cent. All recordi tl ln this year's campaign will be kepi cn standard size cards to be filed bj n each Chapter for future nee. f< ^* STORIES OF QREAT INDIANS * By Elmo Scott Walton P Copyright, 1922, Weetern Newspaper Union CHIEF LOGAN, THE CAYUGAi : HIS IMMORTAL SPEECH (4T APPEAL t?> any white man to say if ever he enteretl Logon's cabin hungry nnd he gave him not meat ; If ever he came cold and naked and be clothed him not? During the course of the last long and bloody war. Logan remained idle in hia camp, an advocate for peace. Such was my love for the whites that my countrymen pointed as I passed and said. 'Logan 1* the friend of the white man.' I had even thought to have lived with you win iwr tin* injuries or one man. "Colonel Cresap, the lust spring, In colli blood and unprovoked, murdered all the relations of Logan, not even sparing my women and children. There runs not a drop of my blood In the veins of any living creature. This called on me for revenge. I have sought It. I have killed many. I have fully glutted my vengeance. For my country I rejoice at the beams of peace; but do not harbor a thought that mine is the Joy of fear. Logan never felt fear. He will not turn on his heel to save his life. Who is there to mourn for Logan? Not one!" What American has not at some time In his school cureer recited from his reader thut speech, not realizing the historical inaccuracy of some of the statements nor the fact that the chief was doing a great Injustice to Col. Michael Cresnp, a during borderer and a brave officer of the Virginia riflemen during the Revolution? For the man who was guilty of the murder was Daniel Orenthouse, a dissolute trader. Rut even such errors in fact cannot detract from the greatness of the speech and of the man. nor from the tragedy of his life. For Logan (Tahgah-jute?literally: "His Eyelashes Stick Out"; figuratively: "Spying") was unwavering in his friendship to Ihe whites until the massacre of his people in 1770 sent him on the warpath. raging like a wild animal. He was the leading figure In Lord Dunmore's war. one of the bloodiest in frontier history. Occasionally his better instincts prevailed during that war. Once he saved the life of Simon Kenton, ihe famous scout, when Kenton's old friend, Simon dirty, the 'Srhlto renegade," had failed. Ho 1.11 #1 hoon nil liitmimoriito .IHnUor before tlit? Oreatliouse murder. After that he became an utter not, which only added to his cruelty. In 1780 his nephew killed him during a drunken brawl. His wife survived him, but there were no children. Ho his mournful statement, "there runs not a drop of my blood In the veins of any living creature," was true to the Inst. When you feel blue turn to the obituary column and feel glad you're alive. Nothing groat was ever accon* pllshed without enthusiasm.?Emerson. ggg?i I' I 11 II - i-i. oTficerg'fcd men and 11 Injured whs the first*disaster of its kind to call for Red Cross rollef la this country. The luddennMjp of the accident teated tho preparedaMS of the organization and of the Chapter at Hampton, Va., but the response waa Immediate and relief furnished* th* survivors, alao fund* for the expenses of relatlTea of the dead, who came from long dlataacea to claim their own. In the -year's oversea record for aid a rendered by the Red Croaa are two 1 fires In the Philippines, one la Manila, n which destroyed 1,000 homes, with a n loss of ^1,000.000 and 0,000 persons f, made homeless, the other at Tonio, w which drove 3,000 from their dwellings. ? In medical relief that was quick and tj effective the smallpox epidemic in San k Domingo, which h^d a total of 22,000 ai cases with 225 deaths In a single d<y, p tested the readiness of the Red Cross w for action, and the same can be aald of the San Domingo hurricane, which T{ killed 12 persons and reduced the n homes cf 182 persons to wreckage. ^ flood In San Salvador, with a death . toll of 50 and 2,000 refugees, was also effectually handled by the local Chapter of the American Red Cross. : J1 Relief Maehinery Perfected The year has seen the further perfee*loo of disaster relief admlnietratire measures In every flOkl of American Red Cross activity, and that the ?! v ork may be carried on to ottll greater accomplishments the American Red Cross Is appealing for widespread re- *| newal of membership dnrlng the annunl Roll Call, to be conducted this year from Armistice Day (November " 11) to, and including, Thanksgiving ai Day (November 80). d' st Red Cross Roll Call JJ Heard World Around J The Annual Roll Cell of the Amerl- al can Red Cross for registration of the 1 CV>U _I11 Ct II STORIES or QREAT INDIANS i By Bbno Soatt Laf?on i '^y rig hi, 1111, Wtflero Newtpaptr Union KING HENDR1CK TRADES AN EMPIRE FOR A COAT wTO OTHER white man Id htatory ^ ever had more Influence over the sd man than Sir William Johnson,, nlonlat superintendent, of Indian aflira. At his baronial mansions In estern New York, "the Hall" and rhe Castle," he receive! members of le Iroquois confederacy as equals and was his Influence which made them llles of the English Instead of the reach during the Krc ich aud Indian ar. One of the chiefs who frequently Islted Johnson Hall was a Mohawk umed King Hendrick. One day Sir William received from Mnglund some chly-emhroldered <' hlng. King endrlck was present \\ hen It was unncked and the gaudy attire caught le fancy of the red lnriii. The next lornlng he approached Sir William. Brother. I had a dream." he anminced. "Indeed," replied Johnson, vhat did my red brother dream?" [ dreamed that you ga?e me one of lose fine coats," snhl the Mohawk, id Sir WUIiani, great I.\ amused, gave ju the garment. Some time later Jolmson visited endrlck's camp. They smoked while In silence. "lii'i ther, I hatl a ream lust night," Anally stilted John>n. "What did my pale-faced brother ream?" asked the chief. "1 dreamed lat this tract of lam', was mine"? i id Sir William described a square I f the richest land In ihe Mohuwk . llley, containing nearly 100,000 acres. ' Hendrick was completely taken . jack by the enormity of the request, I nt he could not be outdone In gen- 1 oslty. After a moment he said: Brother, the land Is yours." "But," s Haded earnestly, "you must not . ream again!" By playing Indian on i endrlck, Sir William had acquired ,nd which made him one of the , rgest landholders In the colonies. j During the French ano Indian war ihnson persuaded King Hendrick to iln him in marching against an loading force of 2,000 French under : eneral Dioskau, who was coming ' om Canada. On September 8. 1755, ley met the French at Lake George. When Johnson decided to detach a ?rt of his force for a tlank attack he iked King Hendrick If he thnmrht a ?rtaln number would be enough. "If ley nre to fight, they are too few," I 'piled the chief. "If they are to be llled, they are too many." Acting pon this advice. Sir William kept his roe together and attacked. A great j little followed In which King Henrlck was killed while lighting bravely t the head of his warriors. Pointed. "Senator Penrose," said a Phlladeb hlan, "liaff a nent way of putting dngs. "At the Philadelphia club one eve> Ing a Philadelphia reformer cartte la >r a good deal of criticism, on th? 'hole, for the fellow was a meddling, rrogant, offensive chap. "'Well, anyhow,' said a banke* heritably, 'he's got his good points.' " 'Yes,' said Penrose, 'so's s porcw ine.'" BacI DEPENBAB DEj THRILL OF FLYIHg BY NIOH1 Aviator* Ooolaro There la a Nculla Attraction in Picking Up Lights WhHo Landing. Flying in the dark, guided by tin lights which have been set ap at i number of points In Franco and Bng land, airplanes are now plying night ly between London and Paris. Before the machines from Park cross the French coast line the light at Lympne, near Folkstone, can tx seen. While they are over Tonbrldgi tho pilots recognise the alr-stptloc lights In London, 29 miles away. When the machines are ready U land strong searchlights beneath tlx hulls are switched on- These llluml nate the ground so clearly that th< pilot can pick out his landing plact and Judge how far be Is from it. The sensation of picking up th? lights, as seamen call it, is wonderful ly attractive. There are always twc to be kept In line In sight, and thej are perfect guides. REAUZED HIS BAD REPUTE Untrustworthy Man Had Qood Rsasoa for Wanting His Wife to CMve Alarm far Fir*. William Skaggs was known as th? most untrustworthy man in KlinkervlUe. He had never been caught In a malicious lie or In circulating even an unkind fact, only it seemed an impo? slbtllty for him to distinguish between fact and fiction, once bis tongue wa? loosed. He was humbly aware of thli shortcoming. Once a small outbuilding caught fire. He hurried for tho water bucket, and called to his wife, "Bun out to the road and holler flret" "Holler yourself I" she shouted back, while she ran with another pall. "Mel" he returned. "Who'd come 11 I hollered fire, I'd like to know? II they did, they'd bring matches and kindling 1"?Philadelphia Ledger. COWGIRL SEEKS ADVENTURE Manohe geveryns sf Nebraska Going te Tear lurope Alone, Maybe ae a Bey. Lincoln, Neb.?Miss Blanche Set* eryas of Round Valley, cowgirl and ranch owner's daughter. Is going to tour Europe alone. She says she la going for the sole purpose of finding out If adventure Is dead. "I am going to find as many adventuree as possible," says she. "If ] cannot get the experiences and the Information as a girl I Intend to gel them as a boy." So she la taking with her a wig and a boy's suit, and by this means she la afl^t to transform an eighteen-year-old girl Into a sixteen-year-old boy. 8ha thinks the experiences a boy will secure will be much different, and If she doesn't find enough of them In Belglum she is going to knock about New Tork city a "bit. She has relatives In Belgium and she will spend a little time with them, but It Is adventure that Is beckoning her. PUfarrod to th# Anatomist*. New York Church Bulletin?The La dies* Aid society has been the proverb lal backbone of the church and as sucl la more and more coming to the frool ?Boston Transcript. t to 11 Delco-L * You. elects Model 8< $1 I 'JSimila other sty At the install D time wit! V can buy See th the new I :rH Light ph |J3r DELCOSub Fonder LE v -r-'NM - COPPER ALWAYS ttf^AND r Durability af ths MaUl Has Msds It | Almaat Indispensable far Variety 9t Purposes. i The many uses of eopper may ba { Imagined from tha slaa of tba output. . It la said that if tha Ualtad Stataa wera to cease producing. either all tha trol, lay cara or all tha armies of the world would ceaaa operating, far outatda of Michigan and Montana there la not enough copper la existence to supply both. In the building trad# copper Is In i great demand an account of Its durability. At first glance the amount of copper seems to be negligible la comparison with Iron and steel. It la used for such things as roofing, flashings, cornices, gutters, drain pipes, leaders and ventilators. These are nearly all copper In the large office buildings. In the Woolwortb building, In New York, wblch Is today tha world's tallest skyscraper, there is approximately a mil- ' lion pounds of copper used for roofings, elevators and Interior decoration. HYMN COVERED HIS RETREAT I ? Probably Young Qlorgyman Foarod Ho Would Get Into Yot Doopor Water If Ho Kopt On. 0 In Georgia thoy toll of a young i clergyman, newly settled over a large i pariah, who had occasional fits of em. barrassment when standing before his i congregation. i One Sunday, after reading a notice of I a woman's missionary meeting to be held In the chapel a few days later, t he endeavored to add a special appeal , of his own for a large attendance. > After stating that It was to be a meeting of great Interest and Import, ance, he said: "We, the women of this congregation? ; With a flushed countenance he ! stopped and retraced his steps. | "We, who are the women of this congregation," he began. This was no better, and he beat a , blushing retreat by 'saying: "Let us sing the four hundred and first hymn." ?Philadelphia Ledger. I By Qum, She's Inspired! A woman called at the postofflce In a Maine town, the other day, and suri prised the postmaster with this anI nouncement: "I am going away, and > don't know how long I shall be gone. > If any mall comes for me, you will ' please tear It up." We have never before heard of any body with as much common sense, grit ' and decision as that. If we had left ' such orders every summer, all of our ! vacations would have been perfect. I Hereafter? I High Aspirations. 1 Nine-year-old Joseph McKee amazed even his own mother, the other evening. They were discussing automobile accidents, and expressed the hope ' that they would have none, when he said: I "Mother, I know of a way I'd rather die than In an automobile accident. Td rather die In an electric chair. It would be the quickest way of all. Wouldn't It?" i | vniimi ?t ?illwo. , I "fltrtntha, what* the drone the op11 ehestry's playln* nowT" asked the old \ I farmer, who wai attending a concert tot the first time In his Uf*\ }U Pr ,ight Price R< Now in Effet can now buy the mc ric plant ever built,! 66, for ^ t less than IJ two year, r reductions have be< ies and sizes of Dele se low 1917 prices, yo elco-Light for less tl tun the past five yean it on easy payments ie local Delco-Light price and terms on 1 . * mi dcsi nttea to you Made and Quaranteed LIGHT COMPANY, Da tidiary of Qeneral Motor* Corp bark Electric Sc PAGBLAND, S. C LI ?V. 1 8aranthaT his wife,~Ioeked long tall arnestln at bar program. 1 - "Ififcr ? fallow callsd Ohsptm," sbs* "Well, maybs," wu the reply. "Bet J it aoon da i deal more like sawtnV^? | London Answers. thee en the Other feet. j The Chinese hare '4, proverb: "? la j | not the wine that makes a men drunk j * J ?It is the man himself." This reminds os of the story of the eld fallow who 1 came to Sam Jones after a hard set-to with John Barleycorn and said penl- J tently, "Brother Jones, I*re been overtaken in a fault 'again." v "you're an old Hart" cried Sam. "Ton overtook the fault?a Jug has no ?3 leys. "?Boston Evening Transcript. . Naturally fart of Him. mMrs. Carrol and her two-year-old - J son, Jtmmle, were calling on lira. St. Claire. Mrs. St. Claire caressingly took Jlrnmle on her lap, and looking fondly Into his eyes, asked: "Where did yon get those big brown eyes?" | "Aw," responded Jlmipls, "they come with my face." I The Seat Ivor. She was a Uttla girl, and as thsy made their way In and out among the other couples she allowed her cheek to rest against his manly chest ; "Oh, Bill I" called out an Irreverent youth as he sailed by. "What?" "That's a nice face you havs on . your watch."?Judge. Gratitude. The Guest?I suppose your husband la very fond of yachting? The Owner's Wlfa?Well, no; ha ain't really. Sometimes It makes him awful alck, but he made hla money i outn canned salmon durln' th' war an' ! he feels he kinds owes It to tha sea.? Life. A Weary Landawner. "Some day your boy Josh will own * the old place." "Yes," repHed Farmer Corntossel; "but I dunno whether ltll make him I nappy. 11 inmi to me ne'a otvf mow I time for rest an' comfort if ha could Jee qualify a* a farmhand, an* draw regular wagw without no argument" NOTICE OF OPENING OF TOWN TAX BOOKS Notice is hereby given that the tax books of Chesterfield will be opened October 15th, 1922 for the payment of 1922 taxes. Said books will be closed November 30th, 1922, and on Dec. 1, 1922 a penalty of 10 par cent will be addled to all unpaid taxes on that date. Regular levy is fifteen mills, waterworks lavy twenty mills. Total thirty fiva mills. ? J. Andy Teal, Town Treasurer. By order of Town Council. ; CORRESPONDENTS The Advertiser would like td have a correspondent in every section of the county, who will report the NEWS of his or her locality. Practi? cal jokes on local people, hdwever, are not wanted. Each letter must be signed by the name of the writer. The signature will not be published. ices 'Auctions zt j *t popular >elcoLight i j i s ago. * * en made in o-Light. 11 can now 4 lan at any 1 i. And you if desired. dealer for the Delcor needs. ^ton, Ohio ' ) oration irvice Co., | i * * r J