The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1918-02-27

| to promote the cause, so if there are
any othrs who feel that they can hip
| they would greatly facilitate the work,
| by making it known to the chairman,
Prof. E. j. Browne.
Mrs. S. o. Plowden.
A nation wide movement to organ
: lZe every school as an auxiliary in
Red Cross activities is now being car
ricd out An initial movement to-
wards organizing the schools of Clar-
endon county was begun last Satur-
day at a meeting held for that pur-
! pose.
| During the next few days each
, school in the county will be visited by
some one competent to explain the i'm
! portance OF the movement and the
manner or organization.
Briefly stated, each school when or
ganized, is Z member of the Junior
! Red Cross, and each boy and girl in
that school becomes member of the
American Red Cross.
TO organize, each school must raise
an amount equal to twenty-five cents
for each pupil in the school. This
amount can be raised in any manner
or way the school may choose.
Any school may become a member
If it shall pledge an amount equal to
the twenty-five cents per pupil by
given time during this term
| A school can also become member
by making various supplies for Red
Cross activities equaling in amount
the twenty-five cents for each pupil.
Another way yet is open for mem
bcrship, and that is for the pledging
! Of service. This covers quite varied
field of activities, and the printed
matter must be consulted for this
feature
! Sufficient Red Cross buttons will
be sent to each school as soon as the
proper details of membership shall
have been complied with.
! This movement should be encourage
ed, and to this end, all teachers,
boards of trustees, patrons and pupils
are hereby appealed to, to meet at
their respective school houses at the
earliest date possible and to take
steps to organize, and thus aid our
country in its effort to meet war con-
ditions.
f. J. Browne,
Chairman Chapter School Committee.
! Following the request Of Secretary
, of War Baker that the American Red
Cross should extend it's communica-
ton service, which is already opcrat-
ing in France, to the army camps Of
America, plans are being perfected
for the building Of a Red Cross House
in each camp, which will be not ONLY
a new headquarters for all the Red
! Cross activities in the camp and an
administration center for the field di-
rector, but also a place of rest for
convalcscent soldiers and an cmcrgen-
cy lodging for summoned relatives of
Il.
and for Red Cross nurses and staff.
The Red Cross communication ser
vice will be developed to it's highest
efficiency through these houses in the
camps, and the families and friends
of soldiers will be aolc to obtain
prompt, accurate and detailed infor-
nation as to their welfare. One of
the first of these houses will be open
ed at Camp Meade, and construction
work in all the environments will be
rushed.
Each house will be 100 feet square.
On the first floor will be billiard
room, kitchen, reading, reception and
committee rooms, large assembly
hall with a stage for "movics" anu
other entertainments, and a sun par
lor for convalcsccnts. The second
floor will be given over entirely to bed
| rooms.
Don't waste time and energy saving
Cancelled postage stamps for the Red
Cross. Somebody, somewhere, has
started one of those pleasant, but like
ly to be annoying fictons concerning
the value of postage stamps which
have served their original purpose
This time the idea spread abroad is
that the America Red Cross h?5 de-
viscd a method of extracting the dyes
! from the cancelled stamps and using
the dyes. The Post Office Depart
ment reports that several bags Of old
stamps have accumulated through the
good will of persons who thought
they were doing something to help
win the war. Within tn last two
weeks, also, scores of letters have
been received at Red Cross hcadquar~
ters asking information regarding
the matter. The stamps are of no
use to the Red Cross.
Four large rest houses, accommo-
dating 200 to 800 soldiers daily, have
been officially turned over to the
American Red Cross in Milan, Italy,
according to adviccs received at Ma
tional Headquarters of the Red Cross.
Milan is an English and French as
well as an Italian base, hundreds of
soldiers of the Allied armies chang
ing trains there daily. These rest
stations, which provide sleeping ac-
commodations as well as recreation
rooms for soldiers, are the first to be
established at this point. The Red
Cross will be aided in its management
by committee of prominent Italian
women, with the Countess Piccini at
their head.
In presenting the rest houses to
Col. Robert Perkins. American Red