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The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1918-11-15
ALFONSO CONCENTRATES

PARIS. Wednesday. Nov. liking
Alfonso, OF Spain. has teln:raph"d Pres
ident Po:ncare his congratulations on
. tho signing of the arIalssice.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1918-11-15
RED CROSS EFFICIENT.

TRIEST. Wednesday. Nov. -. (Ey
Tho Associated prcSsl-Orly 4 week
has gone by since this city was occu-
pied by the Italians. yet tho American
Red Cross. working with the italian
authorities under the direction of Majors
Hereford and Crockett. has succeeded IN
gathering here sufficient food for 1000"
Of the Italian prisoners now pouring in
hero on their way home from Austria
Anons the released prisoners are Am
erican British and Frcrch soldiers,
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1918-11-15
FOOD PROBLEMS
Continued Prom Page one.)

inuntS WITH thu various ncUtraIS. l!oi-
land and Switzerland are SAID to ne
sill badly in need Of supplies, while
tho economic agreements with sweden,
Norway, Sm,Iu and Denmark sun are III
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1918-11-15

Fly WAR SAVINGS STAMPS
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-BUY WAR SAVINGS STAMPS
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1918-05-10
Cooperation
with the Army and Navy

The Red Cross is in close cooperation with the
military authorities of the country.
Officers of the Army, the Navy and the United
States Public Health Service are assigned to Ma
tiona Headquarters of the Red Cross to ensure
a thorough understanding at all times of the ways
in which Red Cross service can be most helpful.
By order of the Secretary of War; Red Cross
representative and appropriate number of as
sstants are accredited to each camp and canton
ment to each division of the army in the field and
to all army base hospitals. These Red Cross men,
and others attached to naval training stations
and hospitals and working in cooperation with the
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1918-05-10
The work of women

In all the volunteer service of Red Cross
is notable for devotion, notable for
extent as that which the loyal women of America
are giving in their chapter work. 1t is estimated
that there are two million of these women many
giving most of their time to this work, all giving
unstintingy. 1t is they who do the handiwork
of Red Cross; it's surgical dressings, hospital gar
ments, knitted garments. To meet the demand
for these articles, appropriations of $11,0OO,OO0
for raw materials have been necessary so far.
During the month of April, 1918, the women of
the country produced approximately
100000 surgical dressings
100000 hospital garments,
100000 knitted garments,
100000 pieces of clothing for refugees,
and many other important and useful articles.
The chapters performing other great tasks.
They are helping dependent families of soldiers
and sailors. 1t is estimated that 100000 such
families are receiving help from the Red Cross at
the present day.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1918-05-10
Service
at National Headquarters

Washington Headquarters is type and sample
of the sort of service that Red Cross commands
all over the country, high talent without remu-
neraton. The staff is drawn from all parts of the
country, made up of men and women experienced
in large affairs, with various talents, each fitted
into the department where his or her her parti-
cular talent serves best.
The treasurer of the Red Cross is the Comp
troller of the Currency of the United States.
The comptroller of the Red Cross is the comp
troller of great national corporation.
Civilian relief work is directed by one of Amer
ica's ablest experts in social service work. Men
of wide experience in purchasing, warehousng,
and shipping conduct these several activities of
Red Cross.
Noted physicians and surgeons constitute the
Advisory Medical Board, and of the most
distinguished nurses of the country, the CORE
spending Committee Nursing Service.
Red Cross technical activities are in the hands
of technical experts.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1918-05-10
How Red Cross is organized

The great secret of Red Cross effectiveness is
organization Millions of people working to-
gether through the medium of an organized mach
inery which co-ordinates the work of each with the
work of all, and transmits the vast quantity of
finished products to the people who need them.
aid
The organization corelates and directs the work
of the chapters co-operates with the Army and
Navy in relief measures supports relief work
abroad, recruits the personnel for service
and forwards to it's agents in foreign lands the
relief supplies produced by the chapter workers
purchased in the market.
Red Cross administration in the United States
is decentralized Red Cross is too vast to be COM
pletly administered from one spot. 1t would dis
integrate under its weight
So the country is partitoned into thirteen Divis-
ions, and there is a fourteenth Division for the
territorial, insular and foreign chapters with Ma
tional Headquarters the co-ordinating force. In
each Division there is manager and his staff to
whom the chapter officials are responsible and
the chapter workers deal directly with the Chapter
Officers The organization is military in its well
ordered effort, but quit non-military in it's demo-
cratic equaties, for the chapter worker is quite
as important as the National Headquarters official
The Red Cross is organized for efficiency not for
display of authority.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1918-05-10
Red Cross commissions abroad

Red Cross Commissions operate in France, Bel
GUM, Italy, Greece, Serbia Russia Roumania Pal
estine and Great Britain. The Commissions and
their staffs in the theatres of war; cO-operat-
ing with the Army and Navy forces and with the
military and civil authorities Of the Allied Count
ries; cooperating also with other relief agencies,
avoiding duplication of effort and confusion of pur-
pose, assisting other agencies and assisted by
them.
AS in Headquarters at home so the Com
missions, are men and women of great ability
using their talents and their experience where
they are most needed.
These Commissions estimate the budgets for for
eign relief, and the appropriations made by the
War Council after carefully scrutinzing and some
times amending the budgets.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1918-05-10

The generosity of the American people keeps
pace with the fast-growing scope of Red Cross
activities. The growth of Red Cross has been so
amazing, the multiplication of its activities so
rapid that few be expected to know all that
Red Cross means to the world in this hour of the
worlds need. Many who are active in one Red
Cross endeavor are unfamiliar with scores of other
Red Cross pursuits.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1918-05-10

'The best way in which to impart the
greatest efficiency end energy to the re-
lief work which this war will entail will
be to concentrate it in the hands of a
single experienced organization which
ternatiOnal convention as the public in
strumentality for such purposes Indeed,
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1918-05-10
Every dollar of the war fund
goes to war relief

Red Cross affairs are economically administered.
Every penny has been spent under appropria-
ton by the War Council after careful study. Mem
bership dues pay the entire cost of operation, with
a large balance for the handling of disaster relief
and other work.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1918-05-10
Volunteer service

All of the Division Managers, and many of those
their staffs, are volunteers. Unpaid service is
the general rule in chapters divisions, and at Ma
tional Headquarters. Most of the department
heads in Washington are volunteers
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1918-05-10

such a concentration of administrative
action in this matter seems to me abso-
lutely necessary, and | hereby earnestly
call upon those who can contribute either
great sums or small to the alienation
of the suffering and distress which
must inevitably arise out of this fight
for humanity and democracy, to contri-
butte to the Red Cross"
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1918-05-10
What the Red Cross does

The story of Red Cross accomplishment and its
plans for the future will be told in more detail
in other statements Here are some of its prin-
scope of its work:
Organization of base-hospitals and ambulance
companies,
recruiting and training of nurses personnel
for service in the army and navy medical
corps,
production of surgical dressings, hospital gar
ments refugee clothing, knitted goods,
emergency supply service for our Army and
Navy at home and abroad, sanitary service
around cOntonments,
care of dependent families of soldiers and
Sailors .
study of the problem of crippled soldiers and
sailors,
canteen service for troops en- route
feeding of American prisoners in the enemy
countries,
casualty information,
service to convaescents,
disaster relief,
and relief for Allies, including canteen
work. tubercular work, hospital supply ser
vice, ambulance and hospital service, dis
pensaries, recreation centers, reconstruction
of homes and villages, maternity work,
repatriation of refugees, rehabilitation of
mutiated men and many other forms of
service
The Red Cross supplements the work of the
Army and Navy The Red Cross War Council
is endeavoring in every way to increase the eff
fectveness of the whole program of relief by the
utmost cooperation with the Commission on Train
ing Camp Activities the Y NJ. c. A, Knights
of Columbus, Y w. C. A, Y NJ H. A. and other
great patriotic agencies.
Red Cross Chapters have statements showing
in detail how the War Fund is being expended
Ask your Chapter for these statements.
This is the first of a series of five announce
ments covering the work of the Red Cross.
Succeeding statements will deal with activtie!
of the Red Cross in detail
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1918-05-10
What Our Red Cross Is

The American National is by Act of Congress- the
official medium of communication between the people of the
United States and their Army and Navy
The President of the United President the Red
Cross.
The War Department audits it's accounts.
The work of the Red Cross period directed by
War Council created by President May TO- 1917
In statement announcing the appointment the
Gil, the President said:
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1918-05-10

military authorities, provide emergency hospital
and other supplies where needful, keep the men in
the hospital in touch with their families, and in
many other ways add to the comfort and morale
of our men.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1918-05-10

Announcement Number !
May, 1918
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1918-05-10
r The American Red Cross
m

space this has been contributed by
the O. Seiffert Co aid the work of the Cross
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1918-05-10
The Red Cross organization
- x,1o~.I~I x.,.Jo
is worldwide

The American Red Cross today is world wide 1t
reaches into every American village, and over
reaches all national boundaries There are chap
tiers in our insular territories and in practically
every Allied and Neutral country in the world: in
Hawaii the Philippines and Porto Rico, in Cuba
and Guatemala in London and Paris and the
Eastern countries
year ago there were 562 chapters in the United
States and 486,194 members Today there
1851 chapters II 900 branches, $4,000 auxaries,
22,OO0OOO adult members, and Junior Member
ship comprising large proportion of the school
children of the land.
American citizenship and Red Cross member
ship are coming to be coincident terms.
Red Cross ideals
The strength of the Red Cross is in it's ideals.
The War Council expresses these ideals in three
great aims
To be ready to care for soldiers and
sailors on duty wherever and whenever that
care may be needed.
2 To shorten the War-by strengthening the
morale of the allied peoples and their armies,
by alternating their sufferngs in the period
which must elapse until the American army
can become fully effective abroad.
3 To lay foundations for enduring peace
by extending message of practical relief
and sympathy to the civilian population
among our Allies, carrying to them
preston of the finest side of the American
character.
The American people are translating these ideals
into facts-into money and personal service. Last
June the War Council asked for $100,000,000, and
the people pledged $11O,OOO000, of which $685.
100000 has thus far been colected-collected at
probably the lowest cost of collection in the history
of such undertakings.
The Red Cross active workers estimated at
millions, and they doing almost everything
known to commerce and science from bookkeep-
ing to surgery, from knitting socks to feeding
American prisoners in Germany.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1918-12-06
Had First Call on Dance,

Down at Quantico one night recent.
~ there was q dance for the men
Of certain company, who were to
leave for France the next morning.
Of course, other marines than those
about to go were on the floor. There
was one man who was a mighty good
dancer, and all the girls liked to dance
with him.
There was q very popular girl there,
too. She had her dance program full.
There wasn't a dance left.
A marine came up.
MAY dance with your" he asked.
The young woman said she was sor-
~, but her program was full.
II am so sorry" she said.
II am sorry, too" replied the young
man. II just came into the hall, and
I did want one dance before I leave
for France"
He started to turn away.
The soldier who had the dance grab
bed him by the shoulder.
you take my Dance" he said.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1918-12-06
CHAPTER XVII.
The Economic Situation in German,

The Economic Situation in Germany.
BY the spring of 1916, butter and
meat had become extremely scarce in
Berlin. My wife had remained in
America, where she had accompanied
me- in the summer of 1915, and during
her absence I dined at hotels and res
taurants where the food was still
rather good. In June, 1916, I left for
America again and just as I was leay-
ing meat cards were issued for the
first time.
returned TO Berlin with my family
in October, 1916. Conditions had
changed considerably for the worse
during the summer. found that
every one who had the money had
bought up every available pound of
food and soap which had not already
been Communicated by the govern
ment. Butter, potatoes, eggs, milk,
flour, sugar, soap, bread and meat and
dry groceries were all rationed and 1t
was now no longer necessary for wom-
en- to stand in line in front Of the
shops, sometimes all night, to await
the morning opening.
Shopping by the card system was
very complicated and the quantities
permitted by the ration cards so small
that a well-balanced meal was an i'm
possibility. To dine in restaurant 1t
was necessary to take whole pocket
full of cards and make careful analy-
sis of them before ordering the mea-
ger meal which the law allowed.
Empty boxes were used to decorate
the depleted show windows of the
shops. The fact that they were empty
was not known to the public and very
often the windows would be broken by
hungry mobs who couldn't resist the
sight of what appeared to be so much
food. This led the government to or
der the shopkeepers to label the boxes:
empty Boxes" in order to avert such
disturbances and riots. -
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1918-12-06
ENGLISH oNE.MAN CoLLIERY
Unique Industry is Matched by Rail-
road That Is Operated In the
United States.

One-man businesses are many In
these days of depleted stats, but q
working coal mine, controlled, super
vised, and stated entirely by single
Individual Is something of novelty,
says London Answers.
This one-man colliery Is found at
Hether Heage, Ambergate. The own
er works the mine every day and all
day to secure an output Of 1000 tons
of coal a year. The mine is small, and
the produce near the surface, while
the coal is smut-used hitherto in the
manufacture Of backing, but thought
Of greater value in war time.
The other side Of the Atlantic can,
however, match us in one-man indus
tries. There, OF the Idaho Southern
system, is found a road run solely by
one man.
The track was once a portion Of an
irrigation system, long since abandon
ed; and a high-powered motor car with
Hanged wheels has been built to run
along the rails. 1t carries Is passen-
gers. and in the two light trailers go
the freight and luggage. This quaint
railroad has neither guard nor porter,
yet it has a printed time table of its
own, and runs it's trains strictly Oh
time.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1918-12-06
STRANGE LAWS IN TURKEY
Penalty for Threatening Heavier Than
If You Had Struck-LaWyer
Defends Idea.

In Turkey, If you stole q horse ii
entailed from one to three years i'm
prisonment; if you stole a sheep you
were liable to from three to seven
years. While you are figuring at this
l will give you another instance of
subtle jurisprudence, John Van Ess
writes in Asia. If I drew a dagger
on you and stabbed you seriously, but
you recovered, I was liable to prison
from one to three years. If, on the
other hand, I drew a dagger on you
but did not touch you I might be i'm
prisoned anywhere from three to seven
years.
Yusuf Effendi, leading lawyer, was
much disguised with my obtuseness
when I questioned the equitableness of
these penalties. -.
"Why," said he, at is as plain as
day. If you go to steal a horse the
supposition is you purpose to escape
on the horses back, but if you go to
steal sheep, inasmuch as you in the
nature of the case cannot ride away
on the sleeps back, it is fair to sup
pose that you come armed and ready
to resist. Therefore, if you steal a
sheep you are the more guilty, in in
tent at least, and deserve the greater
penalty. And again, if draw a dag
ger on you and though I wound you
seriously, yet you do not die, the result
is known-namely, bodily injury. But
if I draw a dagger on you, even though
I do not touch you, yet I might have
killed you, and therefore I also in that
case deserve the greater penalty"
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1918-12-06
Census of a Vacant Lot.

In little town in Illinois George N.
Wolcott conducted an investigation to
find out how many animals-or, rather
forms Of animal 1ife-inhabited an
acre of city land, says Popular Science
Monthly. The count in city lot, OBJ
tanned by multiplying the contents of
a bucketful by the figures required for
an acre, disclosed the~fact that there
were between 100000 and 100000 of
grasshoppers, locusts, crickets, cock
reaches, earwigs, lantern flies, plant
lice, aphids and other "bugs" in one
acre of land.
There will be, of course, a large va
ration in the count according to the
season in which it is made. For ex-
ample, there is a one-third increase in
the population in the spring over that
In the autumn owing to the rapid null
tiplication Of earthworms.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1918-12-06
Evidently Had Wronq Girl.

Bouncer was distinctly irritated
when he bumped into somebody along
the street, until he found that it was
an old acquaintance Of his.
"Ha! Just the fellow I want to
see," he remarked. II wanted to ask
you whether you ever hear anything
of Borem nowadays. Did he marry
that girl he was so keen on?"
mo, I don't think so. In fact, I've
heard that he's rather fond Of going to
her house and putting the gramophone
OH most Of the evening, and every time
his back is turned to put fresh rec
ord on, Miss Gladeye moves the hands
Of the clock on anywhere from ten
minutes to a quarter Of an hour"
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1918-12-06
To AV1ii and Relieve Influenza
BY DR.. FRANKLIN DUANE.

Many people have been frightened by
what they have read or heard OF influenza.
The more you fear the disease, the Surer
you are to get it. Go right about your
business and forget it. As the disease IS
spread principally by contact thru sneez-
ing, coughing or splitting, many health au-
thOritieS have advised that everyone wear
gauze, which is daily washed and Satur-
ated with a one to five hundred solution
of zinc sulphate in water, and then dried
before wearing over the nose and mouth.
You should avoid crowds, common drink
ing cups and public towels. Keep your
strength up by taking lots OF exercise in
the open air and plenty Of nOuriShing food.
If you have any of such symptoms as
chillinesS, nasal distractions flushed face,
headache, feVeriShncSS, reStlCsSneSs, weak
ness, or irritating cough, give up WORK at
once and 90 to bed. This will save your
strength to help overcome the disease. Put
your feet in hot water for fifteen minutes.
Thoroughly loosen the bowels with some
such mild and Irritating physic as DR..
PieTce'S Pleasant Pellets. Drink princi-
pally Of hot lemonade and then cover up
with plenty of clothes in bed so as to get
a good sweat. When sweating is free and
the fever reduced take a dose of two An
uric Tablets every four hours, followed by
drinking at least. a glass or two of hot
W dUSI. AuuIIC 0DlCbS tIGiD IliIhlJ W
relieve the soreness Of the muscles and
bones from which most patients complain
and help the kidneys flush out the.poiSons.
TO relieve nasal distractions and
excessive discharge from the nose, prob
ably nothing is better than such a mild,
soothing, aDtiseptc wash as DR.. Sage's
Catarrh Remedy. 1t will give great
relief Employed as a gargle, in same
strength as made up for use in the nose,
and as hot as can be borne, it quickly ar
rests soreness and dryneSs in the throat.
Influenza weakens the patients resist
ance to disease, so that there is danger Of
bronchitis and pneumonia developing. To
combat this tendency and fortify the pa
tients's strength insist that he keep in 55ei
at least two days. Probably nothing will
at this stage hasten the recovery and
strengthen the patient more than an iron.
tonic tablet called Irontic" or that well
known herbal tonic, Dr. Pierce's Golden
Medical Discovery, which has been used
by thousands in the past two generations.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1918-12-06
Sun Lifts Much Water From Lake.

Evaporation Of water from Gatun
lake, canal zone, reached new high
record during the month Of March,
this year, says Popular Mechanics
Magazine. Calculations show that the
sun Withdrew 3,24S,O00,o00 cubic feel
Of water from the body, the equivalent
Of 1918 cubic feet second for the
period of 81 days. This was one cubic
foot a second in excess of the volume
of water passing through the pen
stocks Of the Gatun hydroelectric sta
ton, which, during the same month.
produced 4,6S1 900 kilowatt hours of en-
ergy. This In turn shows the loss of
potential current due to the suns eff.
feet.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1918-12-06
ADVICE TO FLU"
CONVALESCENTS
SPAIN AND ENGLAND REPORT
INCREASE IN TUBERCULOSIS
AFTER INFLUENZA !:
EPIDEMIC. i
U. S. Public Health Service Warns
Public Against tuberculosis.
One Million Cases Tubercu-
Iosis in United States-Each a
Source of Danger. j!

Influenza ConvaIescents Should Have
Lungs Examined-colds Which Hang
On Often Beginning of tuberculosis.
No Cause for Alarm if tuberculosis
Is Recognized Early-Patent Medt-
cines Not to Be Trusted.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1918-12-06

Sick headache is caused by disordereo
stomach. Take Chamberlsin's Tablet
and correct that and the headaches win
disappear. For sale by all dealers.