The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1918-10-16

Mr.. William V. Creighton, OF Bal
timore, i spending several days in
Cambridge.
Mr.. Thomas Geoghegan, of New
York, is spending several days in
Cambridge visiting relatives.
Miss Olive Ruark left on the b.
c. q a. steamer Sunday night for
Baltimore, to resume her work at the
State Normal School.
Our Red Cross workers made a
number of gauZe masks yesterday for
the protection of doctors. nurses or
anyone coming in contact with infiu-
enza. These may be obtained with
out charge, at the office of DR.. E. E.
Wolff, City Health Officer.
Mrs. Robert A. Travers, who has
been spending sometime with her
son-in-law and daughter, Mr.. and
Mrs. Arthur Anderson. at their home
at Warrenton, Va, has returned to
| her home in this city She was ac-
companied by Mr.. and Mrs. Ander-
son, who will spend sometime visiting
relatives and friends here. The trip
from Warrenton was made in Mr..
Anderson's touring car.
A number of persons have very
kindly volunteered their services to
help out at the Cambria e-Maryland
Hospital during the epidemic of
Spanish Influenza A number of the
nurses have been i'll with the disease
and it Loo 1T one time as if the
Institution would have to be closed,
| but the situation is improving now.
Persons who have taken the First
Aid course will find at the Hospital
an opportunity Of doing real charit-
able work, as the institution is still
in the need of help.
We call attention to the annual
report of Mayor Orem, of the City of
Cambridge, which appears on the
last page of this issue. In connec-
ton with the Mayors report is the
annual report of the Clerk, Treasurer
and Collector, and the report of the
City Auditor. AS will be seen by the
report, the city's bills were not only
paid during the past year, but the
sum of $6,45S5S was carried to the
sinking fund. The report states that
there is $13,214.09 to the credit of
the various sinking funds in the
banks, and inasmuch as many of the
cities of the country, as well as
States, are investing a portion Of
their sinking funds in Liberty Loan
| Bonds, it would seem advisable for
the City of Cambridge to do likewise,
An incident that appealed to the
chivalry of the great crowd that
| packed one of the largest theatres
in Washington occurred last week,
when a French soldier, who has won
Gross of Honor" stated that as
dearly as he loved this medal, he
would give to to anyone who would
~
Bonds; westerner who happened to
be in the audience subscribed for the
bonds, thereby winning the coveted
medal, but amidst a hush that seem
ed as still as death, the westerner
arose and said, Il would not will
ingly deprive this brave soldier of
the medal which shows that he has,
at the risk of his life, performed an
act of unusual bravery, and if this
audience will subscribe for $4,000
more or Liberty Bonds. l will return
subscribed, the medal returned and
that building rang with applause for
these two gallant acts. There are
but few persons who fail to appreci-
ate the spirit which animated these;
such persons have no public spirit,
no love for anything but money;
greed is their only creed; friends,
family, country, all of these are moth
ing to them; their only cry is give
me money, more money" they would
sacrifice anything on earth for mo-
ney; they are unwilling to do their
part, they are unwilling to carry a
mans burden in the community in
which they live. Like the Benedict
Arnolds, there are but few of them
in every community, and they stand
out as living examples of how greed
and avarice will so warp human ma
ture as to take from it all of those
things which go toward making real
men and women. men and women
in the iage of their Creator.
Typewriters are not classed as lux
uries. In the advance of this COM
mercial and practical age, they are
now necessities.