The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1918-03-09
BAY RED CROSS HAS
ACTIVE AND GOOD
SHOWING TO CREDIT
Four Boxes Containing Completed
Supplies Shipped To Supply
Headquarters This Week.
SCRAPS OF YARN WANTED.
An Important Tip to Men Who Will
Stay at Home-A Hint to the
Two-by-Fours-Ne Notes.

In spite of the upset at the court
house, the Red Cross women still
find some place to work; they know
how to overcome limitations. The
bandage classes are busy at the w.
O. W. Hall, when their room at the
court house is occupied.
Shipped to the Supply Department.
Four boxes, containing the fol-
lowing were shipped to the Supply
Department this week: Bed shirts,
1874; pajama suits, 33; sweaters, 80;
muf1ers, 8; wash rags, As; wrist
lets, pairs; abdominal bandages,
22O; triangular bandages, 275.
The Colored Auxiliary still con-
tinues to do good work; they turned
into headquarters last week 35 bed
shirts, IL pajama suits, 2 sweaters,
2 wash rags.
Keep the Home Fires Burning.
Wanted, at headquarters, scraps
of yarn, regardless of color, to knit
squares" for quilts for the refu-
gees; also, men wanted, under an
other notice in this paper. Be sure to
read the "Wanted" ad carefully, be-
cause the stalwart men, handy men,
above and below the draft age, are
to keep the home fires burning dur
ing the supreme ordeal now at hand.
They are to raise the crops, speed
the factories, collect the taxes, or
ganize the home guards, conserve the
wheat and meat and sugar, back up
the Red Cross, peddle the Liberty
Bonds, write the letters, pack the
comfort kits and stand by for orders
at all times.
If a busy worker feels some one
tugging at his coat tail, the thing to
do is to kick right back and kick hard
but do not waste time in looking
around
An Important Tip for You.
By the way, here is an important
tip fol every man past thirty. Do
not tell around that you would be
keen to enlist if you were just a lit
tie younger. Some of the men under
thirty will have their doubts, ar d,
even those who believe you, will not
find entertainment in your conversa-
ton.
Now, if you will take the trouble
to check up in your immediate
neighborhood the people who, from
the beginning of the war, have been
full of doubts and questions and
false alarms, you will find that there
are few in number and of precious
little Importance, except as atmos-
pheric disturbances.
Also, did it ever occur to you?-
That the man who had bought
most literally of Government bonds
never questioned the safety of his
security?
That the woman who was knitting
the most socks and sweaters never be-
lieved the silly stories about the Red
Cross being a crooked institution?
No, indeed!
All the walls and misgivings and
fish stories are put into circulation
by a few picayune outsiders who
were just built to be obstructionist
and somehow can't help it. They are
the small bores; the two-by-fours,
the gnats, the sand flies, the ticks
put on earth to teach the good quail
ity of patience.
The time has come to ignore them.
Work Completed and Returned to
Headquarters.
Returned, completed at headquar-
tiers during the past week-40 bed
shirts, pajama suits, 126 compress
Sc. The sisters of st. Joseph's con-
vent and academy are always ready
and willing to do their part, so the
following is summary of what has
been accomplished:
Sweaters knitted by sisters, "a;
by pupils, 25; nearly finished, %;
mufers, 2; wash rags, 64; bed shirts,
II; qajama suits, II; socks, z pairs,
and pairs nearly finished.
w. o. w. To Give Benefit Ball.
W. o. W. Circle will give a dance
on Easter Monday night at Woodmen
Hall. for the benefit of the Red Cross
MRS. T. B. CLIFFORD, Reporter