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The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-05-17

home They went back to the lines through the
same channels.
The Red Cross has changed this. In conjunc-
ing 3 not giving drinks and sandwiches - but
giving hot meals to million French soldiers
every month. There great recreation halls
where they sit and dine and make merry. There
are big barracks with hunks along the walls, there
are shower baths and disinfecting machinery. so
that the mems clothes, while they are bathing.
are run through and the vermin killed.
At first these French soldiers were so glad
that they did not use the hunks but sat and talked
doing for them. A prominent French general
officer recently wrote to Major Murphy:
1.-THE only thing that matters in this war is to
beat the Boche, and to accomplish this the all
important factor is the morale of the men. This
you have done much to uphold, and the atmos-
phere you create is more valuable than even you
can realize.
"Your work is that of maintaining the morale
of the Americans and the French and the Allies,
and wish to thank you in our name and that of
General Petain. Your canteens have been we'll
run and kept up to high standard. Let the men
know that they are being cared for not as men
only, but as friends; that makes them prefer your
canteens to the wine shops. The morale has
never been better than now. I need not tell you
feel strongly on this subject, and am talking
to you as man to man. I am speaking not only
for myself but for General Petain. He feels
as do toward you and your work, and he en-
dorses every word have said"
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-05-17
Checking tuberculosis

The Red Cross is conducting work against
tuberculosis in France which is unparalleled in
the history of the world. France has suffered ter
ribly from tuberculosis, brought on by so many
of her people living in dugouts and other UNI
wholesome conditions. tuberculosis has devel-
oped in the trenches, too, and the troops sent
back carrying the germs of this dread disease.
In cooperation with the Rockefeller Founda-
ton, the Red Cross is conducting campaign of
education on the care and prevention of this
disease. Facilities have been provided to care
for bad cases in sanatoriums and plan set up
which will lead to the establishment of a great
system of 800 dispensaries throughout France,
with visiting nurses attached.
-Four hospitals for tubercular French soldiers
are maintained entirely by the Red Cross. At
Malabray there is 185-acre farm in tempo
rary custody of the American Red Cross, where
model village with accommodations for 400
families is being constructed.
The Red Cross is assisting the French medical
authorities in rebuilding and recognizing other
hospitals, and is aiding 96 French hospitals de-
voted to tuberculosis with supplies and funds
Ambrose Rendi, Vice-President of the Paris
Municipal Council, says of this work:
THE Americans have fought the good fight
against tuberculosis because they have pursued
strategic campaign against an enemy they know
and rightly fear. They have taken the neces-
sary measures. You know them we'll for prac-
teal people; they will not reproach us if we say
this of them in. the temple of their charity.
Il have seen the program of the social
tivities the Americans would undertake in our
country in the name of the Red Cross. They
have drawn up marvellous program that
takes the child from his birth and even before
his birth, since the mother also is cared for, and
continues the effort all along the line of years.
Such is the plan and nothing finer has ever been
conceived"
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-05-17
The Canteen System

An extraordinary canteen service is being car
ried on with the French, with the Belgians, with
the Italians, and with the British, by the Red
Cross abroad. There are rolling canteens which
are operating right up in the trenches, where the
soldiers get hot drinks they go in and when
they come out. These canteens are frequently
operated under shell fire and gas, the Red Cross
workers often working in gas masks.
Before the days of Red Cross help, French
soldier would come back from the trenches on
his sevcn days leave covered with vermin -
officers and all - and go to junction point for
cars to take them home. Those junction points
are equipped for IS people, yet at times there
were 1000 people waiting, sometimes twenty
four sometimes forty-eight hours They slept
on the ground and they got what food they could.
They brought home vermn which spread dis
ease among the civil population behind the lines,
and discouraging atmosphere born of the con-
ditions through which they passed on their way
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-05-17

The plainest dictates of humanity, we'll as
obligations of honor to brave allies, demanded
that the American Red Cross, financed by the
liberality and spirit of the American people,
should do all in its power to alleviate the suffer-
ings and support the morale of the soldiers and
people who had been suffering SO long in strug-
gle for that liberty which is the foundation stone
Of our American Republic.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-05-17
Other Forms of Relief

It is difficult to give any adequate picture of the
whole Red Cross program in France
There is the whole vast program of relief for
the refugees and repatries, for those driven be-
fore the invader, uprooted from their homes, and
for those returned to France and Belgium broken
and bent after being subject to the sway of the
German for the last few years.
There is the medical and surgical supply SER
vice which the Red Cross is giving to over three
thousand French military hospitals, the supplies
for the most part produced by American women
: There is the Red Cross children's program of
caring for needy and destitute children, the
reduction of infant mortality. There is the Red
Cross factory for the manufacture of artificial
limbs There is the big program of re-education
for the mutilated soldier to teach him a means
of self-support with its accompanying benefit to
France.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-05-17
Work in other Countries

What the Red Cross is doing for France she is
doing, too, for the part of Belgium not held by
the Germans, and to very large degree for Italy.
The story of how the American Red Cross rushed
to the relief of Italy has already been told. At
the time of the italian disaster last fall propa-
ganda was under way in Italy to the effect that
America was not really in the war, as we had
not yet then declared war on Austria; that we
were not well disposed toward Italy; that Amer
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-05-17
Our Red Cross and Our Allies

On recent trip to America Major Murphy, formerly
Red Cross Commissioner for Europe, said:
''This is war Of nations, not of armies There is
not man. woman or child in Great Britain in Belgium,
in France in Italy that is not factor in this
tell you that if you should 60, have gone about
those ruined districts in France and had seen little
children four and five years DID, driving in the herds
at night; had little boys coming down the road
little bits of tots-wh their arms full of fagots that
they were accommodating against the winter had seen
old men and old women working in the fields until it
was so dark that you looked you could just make
out those vague forms gathering in the crops France
you would realize what this u.s. what this means
lit is not the armies of France that the essential
thing to France in this war; nor the armies of England
nor of the other countries. Those armies will do their
part and do it to nsh if they are supported by the
people behind them
1.-The great crying need in Europe to-day is to build
up the spirit and keep up the spirit Of the people
behind the ines and it is that great work which the
Red Cross has performed and which has been up to
the recent entrance Of our Army large scale, the
greatest single factor of help in France since
entry into the war;
The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1918-10-24
Ray.

The community in which he wa.
raised was thoroughly shocked when
the news was received announcing
the death of Hamilton Ray, last Fri.
day morning, his death occurring at
Hamilton, Ohio, where he had been
at work for the past six months or
more. lie was just seventeen years
old and was the idol Of his devoted
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Sim Ray. He
was taken with influenza, which de
velored into pneumonia, which caus-
ed his death
His body reached Lancaster last
Saturday and was laid to rest in the
Buckeye cemetery Sunday afternoon.
Beside his parents he is survived by
three sisters, Mrs. Claude Bolton.
Mrs John Wesley Daley and Miss
Gladys Ray, and four brothers. Virgil
who lives in Illinois, Ira Ray Of Dan
vile, and Aaron and Harrison Ray of
tins county.
The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1918-10-24

rard county He was the son Of
Mrs William Bradshaw, who by for
mer marriage was the wife of Gen
eral Ray, Of this county and daugh-
ter of Mrs. J. A. Jones of this city
Earnest was a splendid young man
being twenty-seven years old at the
time Of his death His body arrived
In Lancaster last Monday morning
and was taken Immediately to the
cemetery vault. from which place in
terment took place Tuesday morning
at ten O'Clock. He was a devoted
member Of the Odd Fellows Lodge
and the services were conducted by
this order. The sympathy Of the
community goes out TO the Borrowing
mother and relatives in the loss of
their loved one.
The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1918-10-24
Wheeldon.

Yesterday morning at ten O'Clock
after AN illness Of only twelve days
of pneumonia, Mr.. C. A. Whseldon,
passed to his reward at his home on
Grab Orchard street A week ago
last Friday he was taken suddenly i'll
with influenza, in the barber shop of
j, +. Scale, where he had worked for
the past two and a half years.
Since coming to Lancaster he has
made many friends and was consid-
cred on Of the best BARRIERS in the
city. He is survived by a wife and
two small children, who have the
deepest sympathy of friends and
neighbors in the loss of devoted
husband and affectionate father.
His remains were taken to Brod.
head last night where the interment
will take place today.
The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1918-10-24

The following interesting letters
from Corp. II. L. Lackey, has been re-
ceived by his mother and sisters, and
will be read with interest by his many
friends and relatives throughout the
county where he is so well known.
"On active Service with the Ameri-
can Expeditionary Forces"
Dear Mother and ALI
Received your letter Of July 18th,
yesterday, and also one a few days
ago. Am feeling fine and getting
along all right.
Well mother, we have the Germans
on the move now. We have driven
them back about 20 miles in the last
two weeks. IL looks a little more like
war here where we are now When
we first came here there were dead
Germans and horses laying all over
the ground. Also some Americans
and French. There were some terri
Bile battles in this part Of the country.
A few nights ago an airplane drop
ped bomb on one Of our trucks,
killing four men. We all feel mighty
bad over it. The wagon Co. had a
man killed in mess line night before
last. The men that were killed were
not in our Company but were in Co.
C. OR train"
"Dear Brother and Sister,
Received your dear letter few
days ago, as ! am now sitting in my
little tent and it is raining will try
and write you few lines. have
just finished writing mother. / see
The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1918-10-24

The effort of the republican
senatorial nominee and his
newspaper supporters to dis
credit Gov. Stanley for vetoing
the bill prohibiting the teach
ing Of German in the tax sup
ported schools, seems to have
died a'borning, since it was
shown that the government
schools all teach it and the
War Department has announc-
ed its necessity. Other of the
things relied on to beat Stan
ley are showing their futility
and before the election the
doctor won't have Il leg to
stand on.
The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1918-10-24

made his speech urging the
election of Congress to sus-
tain the President in 1898, the
fighting with Spain had ter
minated, and all that remain
ed was to sign peace treaty,
the terms of which this coun-
try was strong enough to die
tate. In 1918 the war is not
yet won, there is a great deal
of hard fighting before us, Ger
many is still formidable
enemy, and the only thing that
could give Germany hope
would be reports from America
that the American people had
repudiated the party of the
President.
Moreover, this country has
something more to do after
beating Germany. We must
frame a peace treaty that will
bring enduring peace. We are
much mistaken if the people of
this country are not interested
in this second proposition only
less than the first. Nor can
any one doubt that the hands
of the President will be freer,
that his influence at the peace
table will be greater, if he has
back of him a Democratic Con-
gress that could be the case if
the opposition party controlled
either branch of Congress.
The information and belief
of the Evening Post is that the
House of Representatives is
safe for the Democratic party,
but the Senate, due to a pecu-
liar combination of circum-
stances, is in doubt. The cleo
ton of a Republican Senator
in Kentucky might give the
party opposing the President |
control. We feel reasonably |
certain that Mr.. Stanley will |
receive the support of members
Of his own party, but he should |
receive the support
Of those Independents and In
dependent Republicans, who
appreciate the force of the
arguments addressed by Mr..
Roosevelt to Independent Dem
'crats in 1898.
The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1918-10-24

SOME WHERE IN FRANCE"
BY billy" Miller

We be short practice.
With the Of children
We've been barracks and we've IN our
And OF M and dusty tramps
Nou look faces o. r eyes ago
We TT ~ soul and spirit and ready IA 90
Not for have been shining Of
Youth has seldom seemed splendid
We lack in martial training what on Iressp
But by drill and
It's the that's Is
And souls the workv have TO do
We wheel precisely like a wal machine,
to
y GU can read ! n oure
a subtle hint of spenlor deep within each soldier
Just to assuring, and to rest
We spiritually perfect We ready for the test
food Old Glory don't II II floats the breeze.
You may safely honor to
Are fearful Oh My Country!
Andyou viii the
We training for the battle; We viii show he how;
We fight for
The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1918-10-24
Lancaster. Ky. October "a, 1918
Vote For Stanley.

There has been no response
from either nominee for Sena,
tor, or any of his hackers to the
publication of the Evening
Post, quoting Mr.. Theodore
Roosevelt at the time of the
war with Spain that it was the
duty of the American people
to support the party of the
President in order to present a
united front to a common
enemy, says the Louisville
Post.
This excerpt from the cam
paign speeches of Mr.. Roose-
yelt in 1898 is important
enough to be repeated. II
must be remembered that in
some particulars the cases were
precisely similar. Mr.. McKin-
ley was President and the war
with Spain was drawing to an
end. Mr.. Mckinley was GER
tain to be President for two
more years, and the question
was up on electing a Congress
of the Presidents own party.
On that occasion Mr.. Roosevelt
spoke as follows:
Remember this, whether
you will or not, your vote this
year will be viewed by the ma
lions of Europe from one
standpoint. They will draw
no fine distinction. A refusal
20 sustain the President this
year will, in their eyes, be read
as a refusal to sustain the war
and TO sustain the efforts of
our peace commission to secure
the fruits of the war"
We have said that the two
cases have many points of re-
semblance, but the truth is
that the argument for the
election of a Democratic Con-
gress is much stronger this year
than for a Republican Congress
in 1898. When Mr.. Roosevelt
The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1918-10-24
Creech.

Private Charles CTcech who was
indicted into military service July
18th, 1918. died of influenza a, Camp
Meade. Maryland, at $40 A NJ
October q, 1918, at the age Of 81
years one month and days His
home was on the White Lick Greek.
He was the son Of MIR. and Mrs John
/ Il. Creech and was known and loved
by many News Of his death was a
shock to his family lie had been IN
but short time when death came.
His loved ones find great consolation
IN letter written to his father by
his Chaplain. which follows:
18th Infantry, Camp Meade. Md
October nth. 1918.
My Dear Mr.. Creech. -
1t is with the deepest sympathy
that ] write to you because Of the
death Of your son, Private Charles
Crsech, who was member Of thi.
Regiment, and also to assure you as
his Chaplain that at the time of mis-
death, he received spiritual consola-
ton and passed away in peace and
happiness.
II also wish to assure you that this
great sacrifice, 50 hard for YOU to
bear, will not be in vain. but the
memory Of such gallant men who
died in defense of our Nation, will
place them among the heroes of
America, heroes who made the SUI
preme sacrifice as much as if ON
battlefield, that men might live in
peace and that God and Right might
be the heritage of our children.
Again with deepest sympathy,
! remain,
William Reese Scott,
Chaplain and Captain, 18th. Inf"
HIS remains were laid to rest in
the Manse cemetery near his home.
Besides his father and mother, he is
survived by three sisters. Lizzie and
Florence Creech, Of White Lick, and
Mrs. Ella Matlock of Nina, and six
brothers, Patrick and Robert Creech.
OF White Lick, William Creech of
Zero Montana, Lawrence Creech.
who is in military service at Fort
Sam Houston, Texas, and Felix and
Jonathaa Creeeh, who are with the
American Expeditionary Forces,
Somewhere in France. Besides these
he left many relatives and friends to
mourn his loss. But we believe that
our loss is his eternal gain.
The bereaved family extend their
thanks and appreciation to friends
and neighbors for their help and
sympathy in the darkest hours Of
sorrow.
The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1918-10-24
Ray.

Another former Lancaster boy has
made the supreme sacrifice, this time
in the person of Earnest c. Ray, who
died at Camp Sheridan, on October
10th. after an illness Of only few
days from pneumonia, superindueed
by AN attack Of influenza. Earnest
enlisted from Decatur Illinois, where
he had lived for the past five years,
although raised to manhood in Gar
The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1918-10-24
NOTICE.

As executor of Mrs. Susan Fisher,
deceased, ] hereby call for all claims
against said estate, to be in my hands
for settlement, by October 80, 1918.
Any one knowing themselves indebt-
ed to her estate will please see me at
once. Fisher Herring, Executor.
The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1918-10-24

T, by this date that you will have a birth
day in a couple Of days. Hope will
be home by the next
Well. Kay, the Germans have been
laying all around here dead and hor-
ses are laying all over the country.
/ There has been some awful fighting
going on in this part Of the country.
I The Americans are advancing SO fas.
! the Germans have no time to bury
their dead, and they are laying in
piles
/ You should see some Of these
towns. There is nothing left but
part of the old rock walls standing,
and we never see a civilian,
They bring prisoners by here every
day in lunches Co. c. haa truck
blown up the other night, an airplane
dropped a bomb on 1t killing four
men. ! knew one Of the boys well,
used to swim with him. His name
was Hughie Swearinger, and he was
all to pieces. The Wagon Co. also
had man killed few nights ago in
Mess Line. He was killed by high
explosive shell which dropped near
them. Those shells sure sound wick
ed when they begin to drop all around
us. The L. S. boys are suffering
heavy losses but are sure doing the
work.
We all feel awful bad over the
death Of our boys was taking
little swim the other day in a little
hole of water and thought it was
deeper than it was. | cut myself
real bad but had il sewed up and il is
o. X now The nights are pretty
quite here now. we only have to put
our gas masks on two or three times
a night, about the time we get to
sleep we get gas alarm, then we go
for a gas mask.
think ! will write The boys at the
office few lines now.
Answer soon, with lots OF love.
II l.. Lackey,"
III Ammunition Train,
Truck Co. A, A. f. F.
Miss Bayne West, of Lexington.
received the sad news, few days
ago. that her nephew, Ralph West, !
was killed Sept. 18th, in France
No particulars were given. Young
West volunteered last November with !
the marines He was the youngest |
son of Robert r. West, deceased, |
formerly of this county
Herbert Salter, colored. one Of the 1
best work hands that has left the
county, writes to his aunt from
France and says he is in the best of |
health, He writes;
American Expeditionary Forces,
Sept. 9TH, 1918.
My Dear AuntNlaggie -
Thought would write you few
lines to let you know that ! am al
right and hope you are the same,
You will have to eXcLse me for not
writing oftener. but ] haven't for
gotten you but kept putting il off
from day to day All the boys from
home are well James Miller and
went down town last Sunday and saw
the big church. They have been
building on it for over four hundred
years and haven't finished it yet.
expect to have some pictures made
real soon and when ! do will send
YOU one. Haven't much to write just
now so will close.
Nnnr nnnhnm unrLnrt Saltnrn
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-10-23
FOR~F|FTH
j. s. LIBERTY LOAN
PROBABLY WILL BE FIXED
FOR NEXT MARCH
OR APRIL.

Washington, Oct. 22.-Long be-
fore the Fourth Liberty Loan fig
ures have been counted up, or the
honor flags have been entirely dis
tributed, or the money paid IN, pre-
parations have been started at the
treasury FOR the Fifth Liberty Loan.
The date has not been determined,
nor the amount, nor any other teat-
ures. The only certain knowledge
is that there will be another that
probably will come in the spring OF
l9l9-in March or April. Whether
present German maneuVers tor
peace are successful or not, the gov
ernment by that time will need more
billions to pay the war costs which
can decrease only gradually, even II
cessation of military effort should
come.
SO with this situation in mind, the
loan organization of the treasury
today had turned its attention to
campaign plans for the next loan. q.
1t has been suggested that the
honor flag, instead OF bearing five
bars. might carry the Roman nu-
neral "" standing not only TOR
five" but also for victory.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-10-23
SOUTH PREPARES
FOR BUSINESS RUSH
WHEN WAR is ENDED

Atlanta. Ga, Oct. 22.-Trade eN-
mansion for the sonth in the days
OF world wish for commercial Su-
premacv to follow the war was dis
cussed here today by financial lead
ers and business men OF thc south
at a meeting called by the Southern
Commercial Congress. Recommen-
dations OF means by which the
south may share in the nations tor-
eign trade after the war will be
presented to the Southern CONNER
cial Congress at its meeting in De-
cember at Baltimore.
The scope of the conference,
said DR.. Clarence Owens, secre-
tary of the congress who presided,
will embrace the sevenfold pro-
gram of railways, inland waterways,
highways. merchant marine, bank
ing facilities for foreign trades pro-
ducts, imports and exports, and the
geographical advantage of the south
in relation to foreign trade