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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-01-10
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marked at about one-half Regular
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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-01-10
Sheets

Sheets, 8lx90. good quality
cotton, Worth today SOC.
Sale Price .. S 90
Sheets, 8lx90, extra heavy
cotton. Sl50 value. Sale
Price Observation-Disclosures. Sl.2o
25c Pillow Cases. 42x36.
45N56 Sale Price. . S 20
25c Wolfe Remnants, very
fine quality. 36-inch Scrim
or Wolfe. Sale Price. .... S IS
56-inch Bleached Gauze. val
ne today &c. Sale Price. TIC
36-inch Cameo Cotton, value
} today 25c. Sale Price. ... S 20
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-01-10

If a man is devoted to his wife the
neighbors say he is soft, and if he
ism I they say he is a brute.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-01-10
Flannelette Underwear

Long Flannelette Skirts. in
light and dark colors. Value
9Sc Sale Price .......... 6oc
Good quality Flannclette
Gowns Sale Price. 79c
SIPS Gowns. in white and
COLOR. Sale Price. ....... o8c
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-01-10

Sneakino of nuisances, the man with
a perpetual 'tpro bono publico' howl
can worry us a lot.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-01-10
Curtain Scrims

Odd pieces Of White Scrim and
Colored Scrims are all reduced
ranging in price from 1Oc to l5c
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-01-10

Mrs. Harold Reed is substitute teach
W in the Murder Hollow school during
the absence Of Miss Bertha Hazelton,
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-01-10
Handkerchiefs

All the broken lots Of Handker-
chiefs are III one group marked at
one-fourth to one-half less than the
Regular Prices
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-01-10
Remnant Ribbons

All Remnant Ribbons assembled on the ribbon
counters all widths and qualities All marked at
great reduction from the regular prices
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-01-10
Many Bargains Here
House Dresses

Percale and Bingham Dresses in all sizes light Or
dark colors. Former prices SIPS TO $500
At CSC to ST .48
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-01-10
Sweet Grass Baskets

Sweet Grass Baskets
Sewing Baskets. Work Baskets.
Glove and Handkerchief Baskets.
Also bag bottoms and small bas-
kets. All one-fourth less than Reg.
ular Prices.
Toilet Cases
New attractive cases, rubber lined
for wash cloth, brushes. etc. All
one-fourth less than Regular Price.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-05-15
The Long Arm of Mercy
By DIR. FRANK CRANE

The Red Cross Is the Long Arm OF Mercy
1t is the Kindness of Manknd-organized.
In Man is an Angel and Devil, Dr. Jekyll and Mr.
HYDE The Red Cross is the Good aroused energzed to
thwart the Bad.
1t is the best antidote we know to the bane of
There are other Charities, less helpful The
Red Cross the mghtest Of all Charities the Love and Pity
of all men made supremely efficient
IT, as Emerson said sensible and conscientious
men all the world of religion, this the
preston Of that religion.
The Red Cross is Humanity united in Service.
1t asks mans opinion; only his need
Black White Friend or Foe, to the Red Cross there
is no difference; it only asks: "Who is Sufering And
to him it goes
The Red Cross so Efficient that Governments recog-
nize Pure in its purpose that whoever wishes we'll his
fellow desires to help it, Clean its administration
that the most suspicious can find no fault IN It,
The Red Cross not only seeks to alleviate the cruees
of War; it the OF those human sentiments that
some day viii put end to War
1t is the impulse of Love, striving to overcome the inn
pulse of Hate.
1t Mercys cooperation struggling against Wars RI
valres
1t is the Society in which every Man, Woman and
Child should be enrolled for it knows sects preju
dice protesting opinion; the human being does not live
that does feel that the starving should be fed the sick
tended and the wounded healed.
Majestic and divine is this Long Arm of Mercy; it finds
the fallen the battlefield. it brings the nurse and the
physician the victim in the hospital; it leads the weeping
orphan home feeds the starving cares for the pest
smtten whom all others abandon and the oil Of Help
and Pity into the bitter wounds of the World.
Where a volcano has wrought desolaton in Japan
Flood in China, a Hurricane in Cuba Famine in
India. Plague in Italy ravaging Armies in Poland
Serva Belgium there flies the Red Cross the Angel of
God whom the fury of cannot Danish from the Earth;
and the Ends the Earth all the ways of the Seven
Seas wherever Human Misery there extended to bless
and to heal. its Long Arm of Mercy.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-05-15
By WILL PAYNE

thing?" The government replied: "We
must get condensed milk for the little
children here" The commission got
the milk. At one spot in France farm
work was stopped by lack of horses.
That meant more hunger. The Red
Cross got In a big tractor and set it
to blowing for the community.
There are million needs. Cold,
wet and the deadly physical strain Of
the trenches undermine mems consti-
tutions. A frightful scourge Of tuber-
culosis has developed In France. The
Red Cross has built sanntoria. pro-
vided over thousand beds and nurses.
Thirty Millions for France.
l have here a big sheaf of sheets
filled with figures. One item Is thirteen
million and odd Gollars-the amount
which, up to that ssme, had gone to the
local chapters of the Red Cross In the
United States for local relief Twenty
five per cent Of the money subscribed
through the chapters eventually goes
that way.
over thirty millions have been ap-
propriated for work In France Here
Is a million and a quarter-in round
numoers-for military hospitals and
dispensaries; over a million and a half
for canteen service, where French and
American soldiers, relieved from the
trenches. can get good food. cot,
Dath' ana have their clothes disinfected
AND SO go on for their brief holiday
clean, rested, nourished. There are
over three millions for hospital supply
service; half a million for rest sta
lions for American troops.
AID OF refusees-eleven thousand
famiIies-sccounts for nearly three
million dollars; care and prevention Of
tuberculosis takes over two millions :;
care OF helpless children over mil
non: relief work in six devastated dis
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-05-15
The Spending Of Your
Hundred Million Dollars
Busiest Budget in All the World Is Red
Cross War Fund-Every Dollar Spent
Aleviates Misery.

Last summer the public subscribed
q hundred million dollars to the Red
Cross. At the latest statement over
eighty-ave millions Of 1t had been ap-
propriated.
Where has 1t gomez you ask. For
many months the world has been
spending over a hundred million dol,
lars 4 day for the destruction Of life,
limb and means Of subsistence. Call
up what you have read about the wars
devastation. The American Red Cross
enormous Job Is to do whatever 1t can
to alleviate that-not after the war,
not after governments have deliber-
ated and resolved; but right now, at
the minute. on the spot It's amazing
that It has done so much with so little
money.
Last autumn the Italian army fell
back precipitately. On your war map
that meant rubbing. out one line and
drawing another half an inch further
south. Over there in Italy it meant
thousands Of poor families fleeing from
their homes Major Murphy, Red
Cross Commissioner In Europe. rushed
to the scene and wired "Indescribably
pathetic conditions exist, involving
separation of mothers and children
cold, hunger. disease, death" In No
vember and December the American
Red Cross appropriated three million
dollars for relief there-a large sum
vet small in comparison with the need
Condensed MIX for Children.
Soldiers are only part of the Red
Cross work-probably the smaller
part Every instant. somewhere In the
vast food Of destruction, a hano
reaches up in appeal. 1t Is pretty ap
to be Z child's hand or a woman 5
When the Red Cross commlssioi
reached Petrograd 1t asked the gov,
eminent, What Is the most ufSeA'
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-05-15

trictS. including care of Eve thousand
families and sufficient reconstruction
to make houses habitable, required
over two millions.
Misery on an Unparalleled Scale.
These are all large items; but the
Red Cross is graphing with human
misery on an unparalleled scale-a
world Of It, The item for relief of the
blind amounts to four hundred thou
sand dollars. The dispensary service
sends supplies to more than thirty-four
hundred hospitals. The Red Cross re-
ceives and distributes more than two
hundred tons Of supplies daily at Paris.
For this distribution and it's other
work 1t requires big transportation
service Of motors and trucks. This
transportation service has cost a mil
Hon and half, and its operating ex-
penses run to million dollars.
Every dollar 1t spends means misery
alleviated. Its work is building abroad
for the United States the best good will
In this world. 1t Is building the best
good will among ourselves. Whatever
else the war may produce, we shall be
proud Of our Red Cross.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-05-15
Bombardments Cannot
Drive This Woman Back
She Thinks Coffee for Soldiers
More important Than Safety.

The following extracts are taken
from 4 letter written by a Red Cross
Canteen worker. Helen McElhone, an
American woman and college graduate
now located in district almost con.
Stantly under bombardment:
"Foyer des Allies
Barbecue.
"Things look very black to me. !
an discouraged at the big outlook Of
affairs and also At my small doings,
but II may be the blackness that comes
before dawn. Let us hope so. Our
men certainly need help now as much
- the poilus. am beginning to
sec those who have been at the
front In fact, I am beginning to see
some OF the results Of this life. They
are sick and homesick, and worse
things have happened 10 them. Sew
eral have said: All we ask 10 TO get to
the front and do what we have to do.
Anything 10 better than this life. :
This morning we had more Americans
than I have seen before at one time.
One came MP TO me here 40 was
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-05-15
THE TRAIN THAT SAVED
A NATION
How the Red Cross Helped
Roumania.

Have you heard of what happened
IN Roumania when that stricken nation
stood in rags and starving before the
shocked eyes Of the world? We had
thought ourselves grown used to trag.
edes until this greater horror struck
blow that reused still untouched
sympathes.
And yet we felt so helpless, you and
I. SO terribly weak in our ability to of.
fer aid. But were we? After all
were we not the very ones who car
ried new life and hope to the heart Of
Roumania? You shall be your own
Judge.
Fighting with the desperation of de.
spair, the shattered Roumanian army
still struggled TO beat off the Kaiser's
bloody Huns. who were mercilessly
trampling the life out of the little
kingdom. And the Kaiser smiled bru.
tally as he saw his wolves at work
and knew that from behind the lines.
attacking the Fighting men of Rouma.
mia from the rear. entering the homes
where mothers chung to the frall. dis
torted forms Of their babies-was star.
walton.
No country around Roumania could
help her-and America was too far
away. Thousands would die before
supplies held In our own country could
be sent her.
Hope was gone. Death by hunger
and by the dripping sword Of the Kai.
ser was closing In. A brave little ma.
ton was being torn to pieces.
Then came the miracle. One morn.
ing the streets Of Jassy, the war capl.
tai OF Roumania, swelled with sounds
OF rejoicing. A city where the day be-
fore there was heard nothing but the
walls Of the starving and the lamenta-
tons OF those mourning their dead
now was awakened by shouts Of Joy.
You, my friend; you who have help
ed IN the heroic work Of the American
Red Cross, had gone to the rescue OF
Roumania. A train Of 81 big freight
cars packed to their utmost capacity
with food. clothing and medicine, tons
upon tons Of 1t, had arrived In Jassy
after making record breaking trip
from the great store houses OF the
American Red Cross in Russia Other
trains followed 1t; thousands were fed
and clothed and nursed back to health.
For weeks and even to this day the
brave people OF Roumania are being
cared for in countless numbers by our
own Red Cross
So was Roumania helped. and when
history records how this last fragment
OF sturdy nation was kept out Of the
hands Of the terrible HUI It will give
the victory to your American Red
Cross
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-05-15
Compare Your Baby's
First Four Years
. With This

In 1913 little Marie was born in a VII.
lage not far from Mezieres, If the
Ardennes.
In 1914 Marie's father, called to the
colors, fell at the Marne. And Marie
and her mother stayed in the village,
which was now In the Germans hands.
In 1915 poster was pasted up on
the door Of the village church, and
that night Marie's mother vanished,
along with a score or more Of other
women.
In 1919 Marie was still living In that
village-existing through the charity
Of the few elderly folk the Germans
permitted to stay.
In 1917 Marie. with all the children
under fourteen years and all the old
people left alive In the village, was
bundled into crowded car and
shipped into Germany. round through
Switzerland and thence into France.
arriving at Evian. She was underfed,
Of course. emaciated. sickly. dirty, too
lightly dressed for the time Of year.
And she came into Evian with not q
relative not friend left in all France
to take care OF her.
Who took her? Your Red Cross!
Over there In Evian your Red Cross
took charge Of her, cared for her In
the Red Cross Children's Hospital,
clothed her, fed her, built up her
strength. taught her TO play-and then
helped the French authorities find her
a HOME.
Multiply Marie by 500 and you will
have some idea OF just one days work
your Red Cross does at Evian. 1t is
only one OF the Red Cross activities In
France, to be sure-but for Just that
one alone can you help being proud OF
1t? Can you help being glad you are
member OF 1t, supporting its great
wSrk of humanity? Can you help want.
ing 1t TO go on helping the Maries and
the grand daddies" that come IN at
EVAN?
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-05-15
BY
Margaret Widdemer
OF the Vioilantes.

drawing coffee from a big marmite as
fast as could oil cups and, pointing
to his pipe, said. 'Tobac, tobac.' l
said, DO you want some tobaccoT He
seemed stunned for a moment and
then said: DO you know it nearly
gave me a at to hear you speak Eng
fish. ! haven't heard a woman speak
English in Ave months He said he
had been walking about in the cold
since four o'clock last night. He
couldn't md a hotel or q bright light
because, Of course, everything Is closed
and darkened on account Of the bonn
bardments. The Americans are
very fond Of ham sandwiches. They
eat much more than the French sol.
diers. and when they first came in and
ordered six eggs apiece 1t caused con-
sternation throughout the land. The
funniest thing Of all Is to hear tho
Sammies grandly urging these wealthy
English girls to keep the change-oh,
keep the change! We start the
day at five and work continuously un.
til nine, when three fresh cantinieres
relieve US. At Ave We 60 on for the
evening shift from Ave to eight, and
1t 10 the most exciting and exhaustina
Of the shifts. There 10 q certain time
when they come down on Us like Q
flood. eight or ten deep around the
counter and three or four hundred NJ.
together In this little room, as eager
and tired as schoolboys"
The foregoing letter indicates that
our soldiers look to the Red Cross
Canteen a. an oasis in q desert. They
would not have 1t II it were not for
your Red Cross
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-05-15
REDCRoss
MASS>
MEETING
CITY HALL
Sunday Night
May 10, at 8 P. M.

n S a preliminary to
"A the Second Red
Cross War Fund Drive,
a mass meeting will be
held at City Hall Sun
day evening, at the con-
clusion Of the Red Cross
parade.
At this m ee tin g,
speakers will tell in an
interesting way, how
the hundred million
dollars raised last June
was spent.
Chairman Blaine S.
Viles of the Augusta
Chapter will preside
and will tell what is be-
ing done in Augusta by
the Red Cross.
The principal speak
er of the evening, how
ever, will be William E.
Kenney. Mr.. Kenney
went to France in June,
1917, and served a six
m o n t h S enlistment
with the A m e rican
Field Service. He was
attached to the 10th
Division of the Second
French Army, one of
the grea t fighting
forces of France; and
he served in and around
Verdun. He was on
duty at the taking Of
Hill 304 and M ort
Homme. He won the
Divisional Croix de
Guerre for exceptional
bravery-With one eX-
ception tn e highest
form Of medal given by
the French Govern
ment.
Mr.. Kenney will tell
of his experiences as an
ambulance driver and
of what he saw. His
talk will be illustrated
W It'll $50 authentic
slides, m any taken
quite recently, which
were lent to him by the
F re n c h Government.
Rev. Henry E. Dun
mack, Campaign Man
ager, will make the
closin g address, in
which he will tell the
people of Augusta what
the Red Cross expects
of them-and why.
The combined Angus
ia and Togus bands will
furnish music for the
meeting.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-05-15

! tcdnt to say to you that
no other organisation since
the toorld began has erer
done such great constructive
frork ,cith the efficiency, dis
patch aud understanding.
often under adverse circum-
stances, that has been done
by the American Red Gross
IN France.
General Pershino.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1918-12-13
AMERICAS WOMEN JOINED
IN ANTHEM OF SERVICE
of Little Things at Home Which Enable
Our Boys to Do Great Things in France.

Under the banner of the Red Cross
American women are working III
homes, churches, clubs. schools, shops.
theaters, factories. hospitals and IN
thousands of Red Cross work-rooms.
The hum of sewing machines, the
whizz Of muslin torn 10 accurate strips,
the rat-tat-tat of volunteer typewrit-
era, the purr OF boiling kettles In can
teens, the rumbling Of automobiles of
the Motor Corps. the soft click Of knit
ting needles In lonely cabins and farm
houses. all blend'into a great anthem
Of service.
About 100000 women working
through Red Cross Chapters and
branches are making with their hands
relief supplies-surgical dressings,
knitted articles. hospital an6 refugee
garments-or working az volunteers,
subject tc any cal. day or night, at 800
railroad stations throughout the coun-
try and at the ports Of embarkation. or
serving In volunteer Motor Corps.
Truly here is an army with banners
banners OF q red cross on white Held.
For the period up to the first OF July.
1918, American Red Cross Chapters.
through their work-rooms had produc-
ed 1872 74S.107 surgical dressings, To-
134, knitted articles. 1O.7S6.4S9 hos
pital garments and other hospital sup
plies and refugee garments, making
total OF 221 PSI, S3s articles OF an esti-
- lnn 81 a
O0o.000
Last spring during the Red Cross
war fund drive, When thousands OF wo-
men workers In cities In every state
formed their great symbolic process
sions. those who Looked on saw them
as the representatives Of all our Amer
lean women working In this war. and
heard In The Battle Hymn Of the Re-
public" to which they marched, the
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1918-12-13

What could possibly be more glad
dsnirg than the sight of real Ameri-
can doughnuts. hunks Of luscious pie
real hunksf Nothing-unless 1t might
be the sight Of IN honest-to- goodness
American girl And the combination
Of the three, and maybe couple Of
mugs OF good hot coffee thrown In for
good measure-nobody but really
tired, hardworked Yank can really ap-
preciate this food for the gods aud
comfort for the heart of man.
'It ain't the coffee nor the pie nor
the doughnuts, not even the pretty
girls" said one young soldier; ut 10
the sight OF woman who looks like
your mother-with her little cap a
u1fe nskew sometimes, and maybe u
lock OF hair Strengthened out Of curl.
Just like mother used 10 have hers
cor,e when she wns hurrying too hard
that's the thing that makes n fellow
glad he happened To be with this par
ticular bunch And when that woman
says, Here, son. have another piece OF
pie I II goes right through your heart
and makes you feel that II you ever
do get back 60 the old u. s. A. again
you'll not forget mothers birthday und
you'll remember to say the kind things
every single day of your life."
The Red Cross serves the lnds OF Nil
the nations, of course, but II liz par-
ticularly partial To the khaki clad
youths with bit of slang and the call
for the matches and the cigarettes.
They are the ones who appreciate the
American crackers and jam.
There are the cantecns close TO the
trenches, OF course, and the huts where
the men may 20 and battle and have
their clothes freshened up. and the
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1918-12-13
COMFORTS, SMILES AND CAKE
LIKE MOTHER USED TO MAKE
Thus Every Red Cross Canteen Becomes Bit Of HONS
for Our Soldiers In France.

railroad station canteen servicA aea
the big canteens with the writing
rooms and showers and ubrarteA and
lounges where Q fellow can rest Z
while. but the boys who have bssn
there insist that they love the little
rolling canteens that just naturally.
spring up where you least expect them
most OF all.
Many well known names are on the
lists Of canteen workers. for Amer1-
can women were quick to seize the sp-
portunity for service. The poorest
soldier on his leave may be served By
IN American woman whose Hospitality
was formerly dealt out by her maids
and butlers-and whose guest lists In
Guided only the most fashionable
names In the social register. Now IL
Is she who hands over the pie with
her own hands and then gathers up
the dishes-yes, and oftentimes washes
them when help Is scarce, for they
have 10 be washed and made ready
for the next lot OF soldiers-and one
cannot disappoint the boys who are
never too tired to respond to the call
OF duty.
Another part OF the canteen service
Is the store" where the soldiers are
supplied with their needs, where
things they have lost In the heat or
battle are replaced, tooth paste hand
ed out, razor blades, towels, tooth
brushes, all sorts OF things, not forget
ting the post cards TO send home and
the ever wanted packages Of cigar
cites
Taking II all In all. the canteen does
FAR more than fill the stomachs OF the
men-it puts something worth while
into their hearts.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1918-12-13

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