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Daily Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1918-191?, 1918-05-05
The Long Arm of Mercy
BY DR.. FRANK CRANE

The Red Gross is the Long Arm of Mercy.
1t is the Kindness of Mankind-organzed
In Man is an Angel and a Devil DIR. Jekyll and Mr.
Hyde The Red Cross the Good. aroused energized
thwsA the Bad.
1t is the best antdote we know to the bane of war
There other Charities less helpful The
Red Cross the mghtes of all Charities the Love and Pity
OF all men made supremey efficient.
II, as Emerson said, sensible and conscientious
men all the world of religion. this is the
preston of that religion
The Red Gross is Humanity united in Service.
Ii asks no mans opinion; only his need.
Black White. Friend or Foe to the Red Cross there
Is no difference; it only asks: "Who is Suferingi" And
to him il goes
The Red Cross Efficient that Governments recog
nze it, so Pure in its purpose that whoever wishes well his
fellow desires help it, Clean its
that the most suspicious find no fault in it.
The Red Cross no. only seeks TO alleviate the cruees
OF War; the expression of those human sentiments that
some day will put end to War
1t the impulse of Love. striving overcome the i'm
pulse of Hate.
1t Mercys cooperation struggling against Wars RI
vares.
1t is the one Society in which every Man. Woman and
Child should be enroled it knows no secs no preju
dices protesting opnion the human being does live
that does not feel that the starving should be fed the sick
tended and the wounded healed.
Majestic and divine is this Long Arm of Mercy; il finds
the fallen the battlefield il brings the and the
physician to the viz I'm in the hospal it leads the weeping
orphan to home II feeds the starving for the pest
smitten whom all others abandon and pour the oil of Help
1nd Pity into the bitter wounds of the World.
Where a volcano has wrought desolaton in Japan or
Flood in China, Hurricane in Cuba Famine in
India, Plague in Italy ravasing Armies in Poland
Sevia Belgium, there flies the Red Cross, the Angel of
God whom the fury OF cannot Danish from the Earth;
and to the Ends of the Earth Ill the OF the Seven
Seas wherever Human Misery there extended, bless
and to heal, its Long Arm of Mercy.
Daily Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1918-191?, 1918-05-05
The Spending Of Your
Hundred Million Dollars
Busiest Budget in All the World Is a Red
Cross War Fund-Every Dollar Spent
Alleviates Misery.

Last summer the public subscribed
n hundred million dollars 10 the Red
Cross Al the latest statement over
eighty.f,ye millions OF n had been ap-
propriated
49,. h.s 4, .oo., vo, nab ro-
anS non,hs ,h. vor,d has he.n
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Daily Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1918-191?, 1918-05-05
The TRAIN THAT SAVED
A NATION
How the Red Cross Helped
Roumania.

Have you heard of what happened
In Roumania when that stricken nation
stood In rags and starving before the
shocked eyes Of the worldi We had
thought ourselves grown used to traE-
edies litil this greater horror struck
a blow that reused still untouched
sympathies.
And yet we felt so helpless, you and
l. SO terribly weak In our ability to of.
fer aid. But were wei After all.
were we not the very ones who car.
ried new life and hope to the heart Of
Roumaniai You shall be your own
Judge.
Fighting with the desperation Of ds.
spair. the shattered Roumanian army
still struggled to beat on the Kalser's
bloody Huns, who were mercilessly
trampling the life out of the little
kingdom. And the Kaiser smiled bru.
tally as he saw his wolves AT work
and knew that from behind the llnes
attacking the fighting men OF Rouma.
MIA from the rear, entering the homes
where mothers chung to the frail. dis.
torted forms Of their babies-was star.
walton.
No country around Roumanla could
help her-and America was too far
away. Thousands would die before
supplies held In our own country could
be sent her.
Hope was gone. Death by hunger
and by the dripping sword Of the Kai-
ser was closing In. A brave little ma
ton was being torn 10 pieces.
Then came the miracle. One morn
Ing the streets OF Jassy. the war capt.
tai OF Roumanla. swelled with sounds
OF rejoicing. A city where the day be-
fore there was heard nothing but the
walls OF the starving and the lamenta-
tons Of those mourning their dead
now was awakened by shouts Of Joy.
You. my friend; you who have help
ed In the heroic work OF the American
Red Cross. had gone 10 the rescue Of
Roumania. A train OF 81 big freight
cars packed 20 their utmost capacity
with food. clothing and medicine, tons
upon tons OF Il, had arrived In Jassy
after making a record breaking trip
from the great store houses OF the
American Red Cross In Russia Other
trains followed Il; thousands were fed
and clothed and nursed back 10 health.
For weeks and even TO this day the
brave people OF Roumania sTe being
cared for In countless numbers BY our
own Red Cross.
SO was Roufnania helped, and when
history records how this last hagment
u a sturdy nation was kept out OF the
hands OF the terrible Huns Il will give
the victory 10 your American Red
CrosA
Daily Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1918-191?, 1918-05-05
...tdments Cannot
yGve This Woman Back
She Thinks Coffee for soldlers
More Important Than safety.

The following extracts ARE taken
from q lstter written by Red Cross
Canteen worker. Helen McElhone. an
American woman and college graduate
now located In a district almost con
stantly under bombardment:
"Foyer DIES Allies.
"liarle-Duc.
-Thlngs look very black to me. I
am discouraged at the big outlook Of
affairs and also at my small doings.
hut Il may be the blackness that comes
before dawn. Let US hope SO. Our
men certainly need help now as much
AS ~ pollus. am beginning TO
see those who have been NJ "a
front In fact. l am beginning TO sec
some OF the results Of this life. They
are sick and homesick. aud worse
things have happened TO them. Sew
.sraI have said; AN we ask Is to get to
The front and DO what we have to do.
ANYTHING Il better than this life. ;
s,his morning we had more Americans
,nan have seen before at ons time,
one eams up to me here Us ! was
Daily Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1918-191?, 1918-05-05

drawing coffee from big marmite as
fast US could MI cups and. pointing
To his pipe, said. '1obac. tobac.'
said. DO you want some tobaccor lie
seemed stunned for moment aud
then said: do you know Il nearly
gave me nt TO hear you speak Eng.
llsh. | haven't heard a woman speak
English In I've months He said he
had been walking about In the cold
slnce four O'clock last night. lie
couldn't lind a hotel or a bright light
because. OF course, everything is closed
aud darkencd on account OF the BON.
bardmcnis The Americans are
very fond Of ham sandwiches. They
eat much more ihnn the French sol
dlers. and when they first came In aud
ordered six eggs apiece IL caused con.
sternation throughout the land. The
funniest thing of all Il 10 hear the
Sammios grandly urring these wealthy
English girls 10 keep the change Oh,
keep the change" We start III
day al i've and work continuously un-
al nine, when three fresh cnntin.errs
relieve rs. Al five we go on for the
evening shift from i've 10 cight. and
Il Is the mos; exciting and sxhaus;in:
OF the shifts. There Ia certain time
when they come down on rs Ike "A
food. eight or ten deep around the
counter and three or four hundred al.
together In this little room. as eager
and tired as schoolboyS"
The foregoing letter indicates that
our soldiers look % the Red Cross
Canteen as an onsls g., a dessert. They
w"ell nnl have a 1: II we're lot Tor
your Red Gross
Daily Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1918-191?, 1918-05-05
Compare Your Baby's
First Four Years
With This

In 1913 little Marie was born In q w
lage not far from Mezieres. in the
Artennes.
In 1914 Msrie's father. called to the
colors. fell at the Marne. And Mario
and her mother stayed In the village
which vas now In the Germans banda
In 1915 a poster was pasted up %
the door OF the village church, and
that night Marie's mother vanished.
along with a score or more Of other
women.
In 1910 Marie was still living In that
yillage-existing through the charity
Of the few elderly folk the Germans
permitted to stay.
In 1917 Marie. with all the chlldreu
under fourteen years and all the old
people left alive In the village. was
bundled into q crowded car and
shipped into Germany. round through
Switzerland and thence into France.
hrfiNluk NJ ENthu. cue was unutrtcus
Of course. emaciated. sickly. dirty. too
lightly dressed for the time of year.
And she came into Evian with not .
relative, not q friend left In all France
to take care OF her.
Who took heri Your Red Crossi
Over there In Evian your Red Cross
took charge Of hsr. cared for her In
the Red Cron Children's Hospital,
clothed her, fed her. built up her
strength. taught her to play-snd then
helped the French authorities find her
a HOME
Multiply Marie BY 500 and you win
have some idea Of just one days work
your Red Cross does 1t Evian. II &,
only one Of the Red Cross activities "a,
France. TO be sure-but for Just that
one alone can you help being proud Of
III Can you help being glad you ar,
member Of II, supporting Its gree
work Of humanity Can you help wan
ing Il to go on helping the Maries AMI
the "grand-daddies" that come In n:
Evianl
Daily Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1918-191?, 1918-05-05

tricts. including care Of ave thousand
families and SUFFICIENT reconstruction
TO make houses habitable. required
over two millions.
Misery on an Unparalleled Scale.
These are all large items: but the
Red Cross Is graphing with human
misery on an unparalleled scale-a
world Of H. The item for relief OF the
blind amounts to four hundred thou
sand dollars. The dlspenssry service
sends supplies to more than thirty-f -four
hundred hospitals. The Red Cross re.
celyes aud distributes more than two
hundred tons OF supplies daily at Paris.
For this distribution and It's other
work Il requires a big transportation
service Of motors and trucks This
transportation service has cost q mil.
lion and half. and Its operating ex-
penses run 10 a million dollars
Every dollar Il spends means misery
alleyiated. Its work IL building abroad
for the United States the best good win
In this world. II Is building the best
good will among ourselves. Whatever
else the war may produce. we shall be
proud OF our Red Gross.
Daily Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1918-191?, 1918-05-05
THE SCARLET CROSS
BY
Margaret Widdemer
OF the vigilantea

What IL you do today lift the Crossf
For the q down and In loss,
cahng sword and hears sound plain
What can you do wi but heal light agalnf
We guard the women alone,
he all Fear has He'd
We shot and shell.
again hopeless from learning Hell
Oh they who sign plain
We that War had nearly SLANT
Daily Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1918-191?, 1918-05-05

I tcaHi 10 sap 10 vos thai
no other organisafiOn saaoe
the r0rld began has ever
done ssch great coastpcitVs
cork ,eiiA the efficiency. DIS
patch aud uadevsfaadiao.
often sRder advvse ctrSs-
sfaAces. that has been done
bp the Amsrsoan Red Cross
IN FraHce.
-Geaerai PersAing.
The Washington herald., 1918-09-30
LINEN SHOWER FOR
RED CROSS ABROAD
Many Articles Needed for U. S.
Hospitals Overseas.

A linen shower for the benent OF
overseas will be held during this
week. Miss Mabel T. Boardman of
the executive committee of Ameri-
can Red Cross has announced.
All articles should be substantial
ly new. of strong rather than of fine
texture and should be laundered be-
fore they are sent to the various
depots.
The articles needed are: $500 bath
towels, approximate size Isx36
inches: 5000 hand towels, ap-
proximate size 1Sx30 inches: 5000
mems handkerchiefs. approximate te
sixe 1SxlS inches; $50 napkins, ap-
proximate size 14x14. and 400 sheets
approximate size 6ix102 inches.
Sheets less than 62xlo0 inches not
accepted.
The collection depots are located
as follows: 1901 r street northwest
Rhode Island Avenue Auxiliary, 81
Rhode Island avenue: the Town and
Country Club, 1903 Adams Mil
road; Fort Saratoga Auxiliary. 1916
Rhode Island avenue northeast;
Navy Department Auxiliary. 17ls H
street; Eastern Presbyterian Church
Sixth and Maryland avenue north
east; Church of Our Father. Thir-
teenth and l. streets, and Jefferson
School. Sixth and D streets south
west.
If unable TO deliver to any depot
notify by postal card Miss Mabel T.
Boardman. 1901 P street, where
articles can be called for.
The Washington herald., 1918-09-30
ITALIANS HERE AID
WOUNDED BROTHERS
Red Cross Report Shows Many
Donations Received.

Italians in this country have been
active in relief work for their brothers
in the italian and United States army
hospitals and for such Of them as
have been taken prisoner by the
Germans. The Red Cross has helped
greatly in this. Through its bureau
of allied prisoners, the Red Cross
is every day receiving money con-
tributions for the boys. Only money
can be received, because it is no
longer permissible to send packages
of food and clothing across the water.
The money received is forwarded TO
the Italian Red Cross, with direc-
tions concerning the individual for
whose use It is intended. Every
thing is carefully accounted for.
Some OF the letters appealing for
help are very pathetic, and the grate-
ful ACCOMPLISHMENTS of help receiv-
ed are gratifying to the Red Cross
workers. One boy wrote them re-
Gently I rersived your letters and
package and your words were tn me
IKE a voice from another world"
In New York and some of the larger
cities bands Of Italians girls meet to-
gether in the evenings TO sew and
make surgical dressings for the Red
Cross. Most OF the girls In these
societies work in factories in the
daytime. and give up most of their
recreation in order to do tha work.
One club OF this sort. which meets
in a room on Madison avenue. in
New York. turns out 2.0oo surgical
dressings a week.
The Washington herald., 1918-09-30
CHILD LABOR
RULES UPHELD
Pleas to Drop Restrictions
for War Needs Opposed
By Policies Board.

Attempts to break down or evade
the child labor laws are now being
made along the line that the govern
ment needs and must make use of
every ounce of energy at its COM
rand to produce food and equipment
and munitions for our armies in the
field.
How far they have gone and the
sort Of answer that has been made TO
their plea OF urgency. may be mag
med from a statement made yester-
day on the subject by Felix Frank
furter. chairman OF the War Labor
Policies Board. in which he explains
the governments policy in a way i'm
possible of misinterpretadon.
The imperative need for a maxi
mum production Of the materials of
war" says Mr.. Frankfurter. requires
that all available reservoirs of labor
be drawn upon The exigencies OF the
national situation are such that re-
current suggestions that child labor
be utilized have been heard. In view
OF this fact, and in view Of the prob
able increasing demands that children
be included in the industrial mobiliza-
tion for war, the policy Of the war
should be clearly kept in mind.
Policies Defined
The War Labor Policies Board
which Is the voice OF all the in
dustrial agencies OF the government,
has in part defined this policy by
anti-child-labor regulations con-
tanned in the contracts made By the
war Administration
These regulations are thus enum-
Grated by Mr.. Frankfurter:
J. That no child under II years Of
age shall be employed on war work.
2. That no child between II and
15 years Of age shall be employed
more than eight hours a day. nor
before a. m. nor after p. m. nor
more than six days a week on war
materials.
Mr.. Frankrurter goes on to eI-
plain that the prohibition Of the
employment Of children above those
ages is favored. and continues:
TO recruit children OF II or 16
years Of age for industry Is ignor-
ing their future value as trained
workers. Neither the patriotic de-
sire to serve Immediately nor the
attraction OF high wages should
draw children from school TO work.
Sacrifice Not Necessary.
Children above the minimum age
OF permitted employment must still
Dc considered as potential citizens and
not merely as present producers. The
efcrfhce involved in the premature
lsbor of children is not yet necessary.
Tbe curtailment OF nonessential in
dltstry and the employment Of men
and women not now productivity en-
sRged undoubtedly will prove suffi-
r'~nt to care for the requirements Of
re nduct Of the war.
tTE order TO satisfy the claims of
fae ruture the maintenance of present
e2sc tionaI and child-labor standards
80 ispensable. The formative years
I'd nth should be safeguarded by
sefuI training for developed use
rs in the nation. The time is
r.- ct in sight when the defense of
alton must be assumed by chill
The men and women Of Amer
o. - competent to the task"
The Washington herald., 1918-09-30
KALLIPOLIS GROTTO
TO HONOR VICTORY
Tribute to Forty-three Men in
Service Tonight.

The victory ceremonial Kali
Ifpolis Grotto, No. Is. will be cele-
brated tonight at the Washington
Hotel. in honor of the forty three
members of tbs organization ssry-
ing their counuy at home and
abroad.
Prophets of the fraternity will
bold hign Tevelry under their chief
justice, Charles ShSckElford, who
has promised some wonderful
stunts dierct Iom the Great Hip
podrome TO- the members % the
groito and their guests.
Neophytes, candidates for mem
bership, will be put to the final test
to prove their right TO membership.
The dance of the novices" included
on the program gives an inkling OF
the test to which they are TO be
put.
Music will be furnished by the
orchestra" under the direction Of
Charles Albert Stevens, master OF
ceremonies.
The Washington herald., 1918-09-30
U. S. JACKIES
WANT ACTION
Yankee Tars Hope the Ger,
man Fleet Will Come
Out.
By HAROLD E. BECHToL.

London-The fighting men in the
allied Grand Fleet are aching for a
scrap!
The Americans and Britishers in
this greatest array OF fighting ships
ever assembled. live from day to day
on the hope that the German feet
will emerge.
I'VE dare you to come OUT is the
spirit OF the Grand Fleet.
! get this information from a high
naval officer on Admiral Sims stafr,
who has Just returned from the feet.
Challenge of the Fleet.
Lloyd George summed up the
deets challenge in a recent speech
to body OF miners:
The German" said the premier,
has a good opinion of himself: ana
he had an idea that although he had
fewer ships than we had, he was
the better man and would show it
when the time came. Well, l wish
he would begin. Our sailors
nave been waiting, and waiting and
waiting"
In this speech the prime minister
voiced the spirit of the sailors so ac-
curately. he might have been speak
ing for them" said the American
naval officer.
The officers and men in the fleet
now think the possibility Of the Ger
man fleet taking a gamble is "on
the cards" Here's how they figure
II:
Expect Sea Battle.
l. The Germans are getting pelted
and worsted right and left on land.
And as the morale of the German
people goes down. the Kaiser may
take a chance" on a fleet action, to
revive their sinking spirits.
:. The German papers have recently
been talking about the possibility Of
sea offensive" Some are demand
ing that the fleet do something"
3. Neutral and German papers both
comment on the full representation
the German navy had in the recent
war council OF the central powers,
and there has been much speculation
on the theory that the council decid-
ed on a sea bottle.
No naval authority will talk about
the chance OF the German fleet COM
ing out. but they're theorizing. One
group holds that before they are
whipped the Germans must make the
venture. The other group insists that
the Germans know that although they
might sink a number Of allied ships,
they would be certain OF defeat, and
that the Kaiser will hang on to the
feet to the last, and try to save 1t
by negotiation.
The Washington herald., 1918-09-30
MANY MINERS KILLED.
Bodies of Twenty Men Found il
Illinois Mine.

Herrin, Ill, Sept 2s.-The bodies
OF twenty miners. trapped and
burned to death early today in the
North Mine OF the Franklin Coal
and Coke Company at Royalton,
eight miles west of here have al
ready been found and brought TO
the surface. The dead include
Supt. A. Z. Copstick and Mine Man
ager Theodore Helm.
The miners descended into the
mine early this morning when
flames were discovered. Two hours
later when the fire seemed under
control a terrific explosion occurred.
Some fifty men were below at the
time and about thirty, some of
them injured. reached safety. The
rest were entombed
Just three years and eleven
months ago today ffty-two meu
were killed in the same mine fol-
lowing an explosion. The mine en-
poyes some 500 men.
The Washington herald., 1918-09-30

in the Georgetown Law School Build
ing. sos E street northwest. Rev.
John B. Creeden. S. j., recently ap-
pointed president of Georgetown. will
make the opening address: Dean
George z. Hamilton, LID. will pre-
side. An address will also be deliv-
cred by Chief Justice Constantine J.
Smyth. of the District OF Columbia
Court of Appeals. Associate Justice
Ashley NJ. Gould, Hon. Henry S.
Boutell. former Minister to Switzer-
land; Lieut.. Col. J. S. Easby-Smith.
Capt. Charles E. Roach. Maj. A. A.
Hoehilng. jr., D. W. Baker. Esq, and
other prominent members of the
faculty will deliver talks. The reg
istration at the school of law is pro-
crossing very favorably and COM
pares well with the registration at
the corresponding date last year.
The Washington herald., 1918-09-30
COLORED BURGLARS
ASSAULT CHINAMEN
Victims of Robbers Will Recover
From Injuries.

Two unidentified coiored men slip
ped into the rear entrance Of .
Chinese laundry yesterday at N
Third street northwest They were
looking for money. but failed to gain
this object Lee Yuen and his part
ner. Law Ioung. who furnish the mo-
tive power for the laundry. heard the
men snooping around in the place and
went back to inquire the reason.
Hands up" shouted the would-be
robbers.
Both OF Lees hands went up, bur
not until he had been struck on the
head with a lump of coal. and then he
had to rub his head
Law Toung didn't understand Eng
Iish and he failed to raise his hands.
Consequently the burglars laid him
out cold on the floor with lead pipe.
Lee Yuen and Law Toung both had
their wounds dressed at the Casualty
Hospital and then went back to the
laundry.
The Washington herald., 1918-09-30
STRONG ANTI-GERMAN
FEELING IN BULGARIA
Armistice Offer Followed Confer
ence of Leaders Week Ago.

London. Sept. 2e.-The official
character of the Bulgarian request
for an armistice and the spread of
anti-German feeling throughout the
nation is shown by advices reaching
here from the Bulgar capital.
The armistice proposition seems
to have had its origin in a confer
ence between the council of minis
ters and several political leaders
nearly a week ago. Among those
at the conference was NJ Radosla-
vof, the former premier. whose
strong pro-German sentiments are
well-known.
1t has also become known that
there were antI-German and pacifist
demonstrations in Sofia last Sunday,
one OF the demonstrations taking
place in front OF the royal palace.