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El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-11-09
Lifting The Lid

lifting the influenza quarantine in FL Paso brings to
l. an time of suffering and many deaths due to a
disease which the quarantine imposed to stop spread
ing The restrictions enforced by the authorities with
the cheerful cooperation of the public and to the measures
which taken thousands Of FL Paso people owe thanks
for their escape from hard hitting disease and possibly
from death.
The cooperation given by the public has been the more
noteworthy in view Of the fact that the quarantine meant
business personal prvaon in many cases But not once
was the fact forgotten that life more than money
The siege here, elsewhere, marked by the ut
devotion of doctors and nurses scores Of the latter
being FL Paso women volunteers what some OF IneM
may have lacked in knowledge of nursing was more than
compensated by their disregard Of personal danger and
their willingness work to the utmost in ministerng to
their patients' comfort This unseish and humane
tartan spirit was manifested also by those who provided
soup kitchens for the benefit of influenza victims
The lifting of the quarantine was delayed, from week
TO week in the Judgment Of the board OF health
premature action might result in giving the disease new
spread This sensible course IN which the whole
community concurred It may be there IS still some N
fluenza the city Care against crowdlng any place may
prevent some conan It is best for the people not TO
throw aside all caution when the restrictions have been
taken off, until the disease is known to have been
stamped not only here but everywhere around here
CAPTIVE Greece conquered Rome and it now looks as
though Russian bolshevsm is turning Germany upside
down.
The bows will need the comforts the war relief
organizations give long they are IN the service ana
viii need them when the excitement Of war ends
than they do now
Nothing's going to be really worth an eight column
headline when this world holocaust ends.
Maybe we shall have to save from on TO help feed
the Germans but do, it will be from sense OF duty
not desire.
Though seeking an a1mistice the Germans came with
demand and a bluff true Huns to the last
It will soon be up to all nations to see that Germany
makes no trade conquest of the world, for the German
travelling statesmen already packing his sample case
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-11-09

The kaiser will be lucky II he sue
ceeds in becoming hereditary dog
catcher.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-11-09

Nothing so lnfuriates q politician as
when a rival politician plays politics.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-11-09

sv have so conducted themselves that for thousand
years none viii dare look at German otherwise thaH
Is1censraphrssng the kssers speech on the eve OF
The 5spsrure of his troops China during the Boxer up
rising
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-11-09
Some Advice To Woman Who Is
Anxious To Vote Right-Next Time

column
voted for the contradictory matter published
hand knowledge Of her
how could woman integenty? enhtea for
nv 10--
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-11-09

OUR idee o. Simon pure pateritism is
" eatin' prunes jest Z give tn seeds
T. tn government. Don't be fooled, it's
tn public that -eally pays all political
debts.
Cupyrigh. National Newspaper Service
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-11-09

Captive Greece conquered Rome and it now looks as
though Russian bosheviism is turning Germany UPSIDE
down
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-11-09

Though seeking an armistice the Germans came with
demand and bluff true Huns to the last.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-11-09

Maybe we shall have to save from now on TO help fee
the Germans but do it viii be from sense OF duty
not desire
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-11-09

Nothing's going to be really worth an eight column
neadIine when this world holocaust ends.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-11-09

The bows will need the comforts the seven war relic
examinations give as long they are in the service an
Vii need them more when the excitement of war end
han they do now.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-11-09

II will soon be up TO all nations to see that Germany
males no trade conquest of the world for the German
+Tsveng statesmen is already packing his sample case.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-11-09

Who can remember phen # y0u
had said over there" somebody
pould have asked: Over There" ,
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1918-12-18
The Red Cross Ready for Peace

THE following message has been teegraphed by the
War Council of the American Red Cross to each one
ION February 10th last year, nearly six weeks be-
fore the United States declared war; National
Headq9arters advised its chapters to prepare for war;
mat which has followed in the record of the Red Cross
in helping to win this and to relieve the suffering
growing out of it, constitutes something Of which every
American citizen has right to be proud Every Ameri-
can Red Cross worker must feel of gratitude
having had a share in it all.
"The moment is now to prepare for peace
Until is really here and soldiers home there
can be relaxation in Red Cross effort incident
active hostlities
work of the Red Cross is finished Millions of American
boys still under Thousands of them are sick
take to bring boys home from France
But whatever the time protecting be about
them and their families over the whole period which
sumed p~~0 ~'A 10 '''
0ur soldiers and sailors enlisted until the Com
them to do in the Let every Red Cross member and
Worker-and this means both men and women-show
our returning soldiers and sailors that to their
heat Wel1are and happiness enlisted for no less
period than they
"The cessation of will reveal picture of misery
such as the world has BEFORE especially in
the many countries which cannot help themselves The
American people will expect the Red Cross to continue
to act as their agent in repairing broken spirits and
broken bodies. Peace terms and peace conditions will
determine how best minister the vast stricken
areas which have been narrowed by war; and for this
great act of mercy the heart and spirit of the American
people must continue to be modified through the Amer
lean Red Cross.
"On behalf of the War Council, we ACCORDINGLY ask
each member of splendid body of workers through
out the land to bear in mind the solemn obligation which
rests upon each to carry on We cannot abate one
instant in efforts in spirits There will be
abundance of work to do, and specific advces will he
given but at the moment of no Red Cross
"Our spirits must now call US to show that not tho
OF cannon the blood Of alone directs orr
activities but that great people will continue to respond
greatly and freely to it's obligations and opportunity to
serve"
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1918-12-18

American Red Cross has erected a.
barracks at Dion, France, to serve az
a day nursery for the children of the.
French women who work il the United
States Army camo outage factory. s
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1918-12-18
TRIBUTES FROM
SECRETARY BAKER

Following tour of South England,
Secretary Of War Baker made this
comment on the work done by the
American Red Cross for our boys:
"These are the things which count
The American Red Cross is to be con-
graduated on the way in which it is
looking after our boys. It is doing
fine work.
Following his return from France,
Secretary Baker wrote this note to
the American Red Cross in London:
Il left London so shortly after my
drive to Winchester that l had no
early opportunity to thank you for
the courtesy of the touring car which
you placed at my disposal for the trip.
On this trip to Europe have received
fresh and noteworthy evidence of the
astonishing efficiency Of the American
Red Cross operations in France and
England. have been delighted to see
how much the American Red Cross
has done to weld hearts Of the allied
people together" = e.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1918-12-18
BOYS AWAIT bulletin !.
FOR NEWS FROM HOME

American soldiers in camps and hos.
pitfalls IN Great Britain are now able to
keep in touch with affairs at home
through the medium of daily bulletin
service which has been established bv
the American Red Cross. / .s,,,..
Army officers say the service fills q
long-felt want, providing the men with
sporting and home news they cannot .a1111
ind nd in the English newspapers. 5:s ss 81. !
{ s The arrival Of the bulletin is now
one 2 OF the big daily events. In this
connection rp a Red Cross worker ia
England sends the following message
to National Headquarters in Wash.
.ington: o.$ s , IN Ia "a. t.2 h Nj al
After talking with the boys about
the daily Jews service u have been
told told to notify you that if the bulletin
is 1 discont inued you will be aourt-mar-s
tailed and shot =
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1918-12-18
AMERICANS FIGHT
GERMS IN ITALY
tuberculosis Experts Sent BY
Red Cross Will Use Lat
est Methods.

Included in the unit of me >lical and
lay workers which the American Red
cross has sent to Italy are number
of the leading anti-tuberculosis work
ers of the country, sponsored by the
National tuberculosis Association,
DR.. William Charles White, who heads
the unit, is medical director of the
Tuberculosis League of PITTSBURGH,
and DR.. Robert H. Bishop, the assist
ant director, is secretary of the Anti
tuberculosis League of Cleveland as
we'll as health commissioner of that
city. DR.. John II. LOwman of Cleye-
land, former president of the Ma
tlonal Association, is another prOmi-
nent member of the unit. Others are
Dr. Robert G. Patterson, secretary of
the Ohio tuberculosis Association
Seymour H. Stone, until recently Sec
rotary Of the Massachusetts Anti-Tu-
berculosis League; DR.. Gertrude Stur-
gis, secretary Of the New York City
Association of tuberculosis Clinics,
and N. A. Nelson, superintendent Of the
Cincinnati Anti-Tuberculosis League.
These men and women, at the re-
quest Of the Italian government, will
cooperate with that country in apply
ing the latest approved American
methods for combating the spread of
tuberculosis. Some of them will be
charged with the establishment of
clinics where people of all ages may
be examined and treated; others will
devote their attention particularly to
preventing tuberculosis among chill
dren, and a third group will develop
health publicity and education.
1t is to the credit of the anti-tuber-
culosis campaign in America that it
has produced specialists of such inter-
national standing that Italy wishes to
call them into her service temporarily.
But the campaign will be continued
unremittingly here at home. Its sup
port during the ensuing year will be
derived not as heretofore from the
sale of Red Cross Christmas Seals, but
by special appropriation made by the
Red Cross to the National Tuberculo-
sis Association. Tuberculosis workers
on their side will line up with the Red
Cross in it's Christmas Roll Call for
universal membership: -.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1918-12-18
CARGO 4 [ I Q / ! ! J |
GOES ! 70 ARCHA NIGEL.
Red Is g d Cross C Sends Relief Ships fol;
n Alice soldiers and Civilians
/. . +. !: Starving Russia. b

a; ANr eli ship was recently sent from
th MS. country to Archangel by the
American Red Cross with 2, 900 tons
Of drugs, food, soap and other sup
plies for the use Of the Allied soldiers
and needy civilians IN that part Of
Russia! n The vessels cargo was val
ued at 81, Oil, 233 II. 5 81 s5 # 81. 9a
Later, another ship was dispatched
carrying: 200 tons of similar supplies
furnished by the American Red Cross,
the total expenditure for the two ship
ments amounting to over 100000. y
Major G. e. Williams Of Baltimore
was in charge Of the party of thirteen
which accompanied the shipment from
this country. He was formerly mem
Der of the Red Gross Commission for
Roumania. Major Kirkpatrick, at one
time member Of the latter commits
sion, but recently attached to the
Army Medical Corps, heads the meGli-
cal end of the Archangel expendition.
Drugs and general hospital supplies
constituted the greater part of the
cargo sent from America .'-~
While the chief concern Of the ex-
petition was providing comforts for
American and Allied fighting men in
| that part of the world, all efforts were
| bent to get relief to the Russian SOL
diers who were returned, from Ger
man prison camps at the rate Of about
$4,000 a week. The condition of these
men. was pitiable. 1t has been esti-
mated that 80 per cent. of them were
Ltubercular.
In addition to drugs and food, al
most every imaginable article on the
list of supplies sent over was for the
comfort, convenience and pleasure of
the Allied soldiers Just a few of
these articles We're playing cards,
razor blades, jewsharps, mandolins,
accordeons, ukaleles, monographs,
cameras, skates, wigs, whiskers,
grease paints, footballs, snowshoes,
slippers, hockey outfits, indoor base
balls, moving picture outfits, Bibles,
prayer books, boxing gloves, games,
music, books, cigarettes, candy and
dried fruits
The need of prompt relief for the.
inhabitants of towns along the coast
of the White Sea and on the Kola
peninsula, many of whom were facing
starvation, was found to be impera-
tive. Scurvy had broken out among
the people at these places, adding to
the general distress.
| The towns to which the relief ex-
pendition was sent are virtually iso-
lated from the outside world because
Of the treacherous coast line, shifting
sand bars and uncharted waters. An
exceptionally early frost, even for that
part of the world. ruined the harvests,
which were expected to improve con-
ditions. Statements, printed in Rus
sian, explaining the work of the Red
Cross, were distributed among the in
habitants.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1918-12-18

- ~ - h.
i !, i Through three. takings OF Belgrade:
first when the city was taken by the
'Austrians, again when It was retaken
by the Serbians, and still again when
It was taken back by the Germans and
Austrians together, an American Red:
Gross nurse, Mary Gladwin, worked
III the operating room. In that first.
capture, when nine thousand wounded
crowded the wards and halls and yard
OF the thousand-bed-hospi and doctor
and nurse worked together for day
and night without stopping, giving to
each operation an average of six min
utes, and employing emergencies in
spired by the desperate need of the
moment, they did not know that the
city had been taken until all the
stretchers brought Austrian wounded,
and Austrian doctors came to their
relief.
Several hundred women are work
Ing over there in the American Red
Cross canteens. There are about two
hundred of these canteens along the,
French and American lines of COM
municati0n, and the women are work
ing under great pressure, feeding
thousands of soldiers. The Red Cross
is also establishing canteens by mill
tary request at a number of Aviation
camps. American women conduct
these stations, comprising canteen and
club and reading room. Everyone of
these canteens has something of the
genius OF home about it; and it is
because of this, no less than the IA
cilities for cleanliness and rest and
retreshment, that the French govern
ment has given the responsibility for
maintaining canteens for both armies
to the hands of the American Red Cross.
In large numbers women are going
abroad as hospital hut workers, also,
and as social workers for trained
service among the refugees and the
repatriated. At each base hospital the
Red Cross is equipping, as fast as they
can be built, recreation huts for con-
valescent soldiers
Clerical workers have steadily in
creased in number for the admins
tr;ltive Offices. From that original
group of eighteen, which as the first
American Red Cross Commission to
France sailed about June LIST, 1917,
the organization has grown to a work
ing force Of more than 5000 men and
women.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1918-12-18
WHAT WOMEN IRE DOING
FOR SOLDIERS IN FRANCE
Fight in the Ranks Of the Red Cross Against
S Pain, Disease and Death.

..-ti- tt...
MS They have known very we'll the risks
they were taking-the two thousand
and more women who have gone to
France for varied services under the
American Red Cross, and the more
than nine thousand nurses whom the
American, Red Cross has assigned to
foreign duty under the United States
Army and Navy Nurse Corps. st..
They went under orders, as soldiers
do; 8prepared for any emegencies, as
soldiers do; they assumed many
strange and unforeseen tasks, as sol.
diers do. Literally, they went as
fighters, against pain, disease and
death. -.
: A mobile surgical unit of nurses
those words don't mean very much,
\ perhaps, the first time we hear them.
But see such an unit follow an army
up to an advanced post; see how the
nurses work with steady hands beside
the surgeons as the stretchers with the
newly wounded are brought in See
thousands Of them in evacuation hos
pitfalls, base hospitals, convalescent
hospitals, tuberculosis hospitals; some
OF them in French military hospitals
where sometimes our men are sent !;
see them with their specialized skill
In head surgery, or fracture work, or
psychiatry all these women who
keep head and hand cool and steady.
when the ambuiances unload great
harvests of wounded. Then we say
the words "Our Nurses" as we say
'Our Soldiers" "Our Sailors" "Our
Marines"
On the night of March 25th, when
the Germans were fast advancing, and
already within six kilOlneters of
Annel, an outpost of Compiegne, two
American doctors remained, who I'M
der order of the French government,
mad sent the patients and personnel
Of their hospital farther back the
night before. The artillery was deaf
enfng, but the American Ambulance
sections kept bringing their wounded
to Annel. These doctors said that as
long as the American boys brought
them wounded they would operate.
Two nurses volunteered from Com
piegne, and so in the deserted chateau
the two surgeons, the two nurses and
the ten drivers worked calmly on.
while the buzz of aeroplanes shook
the air, and the blasting guns shook
the earth.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1918-12-18
FOR ITALY'S BABIES.

Motherhood in Italy just now is not
the JOY that it might be, for the poor
women are at their wits ends to clothe
the children already in the family, not
to mention the preparation for the lit
tie newcomers. Perhaps the most ap-
preciated gifts of the American Red
Cross at this time are the layettes
which are being given to the mothers
OF Italy. Each layette consists of
twenty-four pieces and includes four
bright colored swathing bands, so dear
to the heart of the Italian woman.
Twenty layettes week are needed at
Chioggia alone. ~ e. :"
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1918-12-18
EASING THE CARES
OF SOLDIERS FAMILIES

The ten thousand Home Service Sec.
lions Of the American Red Cross, ir
their work of looking after the fami.
lies of the enlisted men, are doing won.
ders for the morale of the army. Our
fighters are not men who are going to
worry about themselves, but if they do
not get cheerful letters from home, or
If anything goes wrong there, they are
going to worry, and that delicate thing
the army men call morale is going to
be disturbed. 1t is to safeguard
against this and also to prevent need
less suffering and to promote that spir-
1t of neighborliness and kindly aid that
binds each community into an organic
whole that the Home Service was or
ganized.
Over $4,000 workers are serving on
these ten thousand committees, which
reach into every corner of the country,
however remote. Not town or vii
lage or crossroads that is not within
reach of the Red Cross; not a wife OF
child or mother of man in service
who cannot claim the ready aid of the
Red Cross workers.
More than 100000 families of Amerl-
can soldiers and sailors have been re-
lieved of money troubles, legal difficult
ties and worries of all sorts by the
protecting arm of the Red Cross. If
the allowances of allotments under the
War Risk Insurance law do not come
!. the matter is at once referred to Red
Cross Headquarters, taken up with the
proper government bureau and prompt
ly Strengthened out. If, through the
delay, the family finds itself in need
OF money sums are advanced to tide it
over until the allotment arrives. Dur
Ing July over sixty thousand inquiries
of this kind we're received, and more
than third of these were taken clear
through to headquarters before they
could be Strengthened out.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1918-12-18
CONTEST FOR THE JUNIORS.

A, special feature during the Red
Cross Christmas Roll Call will be a
Junior Red Cross -Four Minute Men
Contest on "Why You Should Join the
Red Cross" The contest will be sim
liar to those previously conducted by
the Division Of -Four. Minute Men of
the Committee on Public Information.
It will be held on Friday, December
Doth, In all of the School Auxiliaries,
and friends and parents Of the pupils
I Will be urged to attend. n s,s$
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1918-12-18
CANTEEENS SERVING
U. S. TROOPS IN ITALY

: The American Red Cross canteens,
which serve at railroad stations, i'm
portant points on highroads, and in
towns and villages throughout the
Italian zone of war, are now serving
American troops. These canteens
have been operating during the past
six months for the benefit of the Ital-
ian army and it's allies, greeting the
soldiers in their passage from one
point to another with coffee and
American crackers and jam But it:
is only recently that the khaki-clad
fighters from across the sea have been
added to the number Of those served.
at the Red Cross rest stations. 4sS
seg Numerous bowling green's have been:
;e 's lished by the American Red Cross
ssl1 = tubereulo sis barracks Of Paris.