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The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1918-05-16
The Spending Of Your
Hundred Million Dollars
Busiest Budget in All the World Is Red
Cross War Fund-Every Dollar Spent
Alleviates Misery.

Last summer the public subscribed
a hundred million dollars to the Red
Cross. At the latest statement over
eighty-five millions Of 1t had been APP
proprlated.
Where has 1t gomez you ask. For
many months the world has been
spending over a hundred million dol
lars day for the destruction OF life,
limb and means of subsistence. Call
up what you have read about the wars
devastation. The American Red Cross
enormous Job is to do whatever 1t can
60 alleviate that--not after the war,
not after governments have deliber-
ated and resolved; but right COW, at
the minute, on the spot. tie amazing
that II has done so much with so little
money.
Last autumn the Italian army fell
back precipitately. On your war map
that meant rabhine out one line and
drawing another half an inch further
south. Over there in Italy 1t meant
thousands of poor families fleeing from
their homes. Major Murphy, Red
Cross Commissioner In Europe. rushed
to the scene and wired: "Indescribably
pathetic conditions exist, involving
separation of mothers and children,
cold. hunger, disease, death" In No
vember and December the American
Red Cross appropriated three million
dollars for relief there-a large sum,
set small in comparison with the need.
condsnsed MIX fer Children.
Soldiers are only part Of the Red
Cross work-probably the smaller
nart Every Instant, somewhere IN the
vast food Of destruction, hard
reaches up b appeal It is pretty apt
q s. a chlld's hand or woman's
when the Red Cross commission
reached Petrograd Il asked the gov
ernmant asFhss IL the most urgent
The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1918-05-16
By WILL PAYNE

thing?" The government replied: "We
must get condensed milk for the little
children here" The commission got
the milk. At one spot in France farm
work was stopped by lack of horses.
That meant more hunger. The Red
Cross got in big tractor and set 1t
to blowing for the community.
There are q million needs. Cold,
wet and the deadly physical strain Of
the trenches undermine mems consti-
tutions. A frightful scourge of tuber-
culosis has developed In France. The
Red Cross has built sanatoria, pro-
yided over thousand beds and nurses.
Thirty Millions for France.
have here a big sheaf of sheets
filled with figures. One item is thirteen
million and odd dollars-the amount
which, up to that time, had gone to the
local chapters of the Red Cross In the
United States for local relief. Twenty
five per cent of the money subscribed
through the chapters eventually goes
that way.
Over thirty millions have been APP
prOpriated for work in France. Here
is a million and a quarter-in round
numbers-for military hospitals and
dlspensaries over million and half
for canteen service, where French and
American soldiers, relieved from the
trenches can get good food, cot, a
bath, and have their clothes disinfected
and so 20 on fer their brief holiday
clean, rested. nourished. There are
over three millions for hospital supply
service; half a million for rest sta.
lions for American troops.
Aid Of refugees eleven thousand
families accounts for nearly three
million dollars; care and prevention Of
tuberculosis takes over two millions
care Of helpleSs childrea over a mil
lion; Esllsi 3St@ Il 80 devastated DIS.
The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1918-05-16

tblCtSt AuCluuluS CuIC Va ANC lhVoSNkAN
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 1t. The item for relief of the
blind amounts to four hundred thou
sand dollars. The dispensary service
sends supplies to more than thirty-four
hundred hospitals. The Red Cross re-
ceives and distributes more than two
hundred tons Of supplies daily at Paris.
For this distribution and its other
work it requires a big transportation
service of motors and trucks. This
transportation service has cost mill
lion and a half, and its operating ex-
penses run to a million dollars.
Every dollar it spends means misery
alleyiated. Its work is building abroad
for the United States the best good win
in this world 1t is building the best
good will among ourselves. Whatever
else the war may produce, we shall be
proud Of our Red Cross.
The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1918-05-16
ENEMEY CLAIMS
ATTACK FAILED

Berlin, May 15.-(via London. -
The official announcement from gem
eral headquarters this evening says:
"An enemy attack this morning
north of KENNEL, which was limited
to penetration at one point Of our
foremost lines, was repulsed. A
strong attack by the French north
west Of Moreuil failed with heavy
losses"
The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1918-05-16

"Listen to the gossip-er" is taking
the place of that old song, Listen
to the Mocking Bird"
The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1918-05-16
RECOMMEND KIDNEY
PREPARATION

During our twelve years. expert
ence as retail druggists we have hand
led DR.. Kilmer's Swamp-Root; we
would not consider our stock COM
plete without it.
We recommend it to our custo-
mers and tell them if used according
to directions it will produce very sat
isfactory results in different ailments
of the kidneys, liver and bladder.
We have not had one kick, but have
had customers praise its merits. |
have no hesitancy in recommending
Swamp-Root to our customers.
Very truly yours,
H. M. COOK PHARMACY,
June 81, 1917. Spencer, N. C.
IS ~~
Letter to
DIR. Kilmer & Co.,
Binghamton, N. Y.
g.
The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1918-05-16
Prove What Swamp-Root Will Do For
You.

Send ten cents to DIR. Kilmer & Co.,
Binghamton, N. Y, for sample size
bottle. 1t will convince anyone. You
will also receive a booklet of valuable
information, telling about the kidneys
and bladder. When writing, be sure
and mention the Greeneville Weekly
Sun. Medium and large size bottles
for sale at all drug stores.
The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1918-05-16

FOR SALEl FOR SALE!
Used Cars At Bargainst If Sold At
Once.
/ 5-pessenger Maxwell.
One 2-Passenger Dodge.
One 2-passenger Overland.
Two 5-Passenger Overlands.
One 7-passenger Studebaker.
Three 5-Pasenger, 1917 Fords.
Two 5-Passenger, 1915, Fords.
! also have the famous line Of Hud-
son, Hupmobile and Maxwell cars.
Have samples of these cars in stock
to show you, so don't hesitate to call
on me at City Garage. New phone
311 at Garage, new phone 2062 at
residence. CLoYD F. PARMAN.
The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1918-05-16
Our Cheap Column

A Little Advertisement in this Column
Will Bring Quick Results-one
Cent Word.
The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1918-05-16
Observation-Disclosures

I sognt to say to you thGt
no Other organization since
the aCorId began hos ever
done sWch great constructive
Cork sCith the efficiency, dis-
patch and understanding,
often Under edVerse circum-
stances, that has been done
By the American Red Cross
IN FrsHce.
-GeaerGI Pershins.
The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1918-05-16

WANTED-A good reliable driv-
inghorse, to years old; one es-
pecially suited for rural mail service.
H. T. LaRue, Midway, Tenn.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-15
The Simple Life

A sincere and inspiring soul was Pastor
Wagner, who put capitals on the Simple
Life and dined at the White House on
the strength of them. He brought across
the Atlantic real message and a yalu-
able one. We should all be better and
wiser folk had we hardened to it. Yet he
did not penetrate very far in America,
save as he impinged upon current slang
to denominate temporary period of con-
valescence after too much Broadway.
That is the way of most preaching, un.
fortunately. We always doubted how
many large families Colonel Roosevelt's
eloquence brought into this mad world.
The stream of life is fairly deep propo-
sition. Families, large and small, come
and go by virtue of very fundamental
tendencies. So does the complex or the
simple life, for each of us. The fine
words Of preachers--and editorials-are
more like bubbles on the surface than
anything else; they may show which way
the current is setting, but they seldom
control the waters below.
1t took the war to succeed where Pas
tor Wagner failed. Military life is about
the simplest life civilized people main
tain. All our men who enter it will
chew about as hard morsel of simple.
primeval existence as can be contrived
The pity is that the rest Of us are not
New-York tribune., 1918-05-15
Here Is Loyalty

Every American of heart and vision
will be profoundly touched by the fare
we'll which the "Freie Presse," of Brook
lyn, addressed to its readers in discon-
tinuing publication. This sincere voice
of true Americanism is grateful relief
after the mass of German treachery and
enmity which the Kaiser's propagandists
have preached in the tongue of the
Fatherland. The "Freie Presse" has for
fifty years sought to guide its readers in
the true course:
"But the last stretch of the road must
be travelled alone by our readers. .
We hope that during the trying months
of the first year of the war they recog-
nizcd what the time does demand of them -
uncompromising and absolute loyalty to
the land to which they and in future
belong; uncompromising obedience to the
laws and uncompromisng submission to
the measures made necessary by the war"
Here is pathos and here is loyalty
Here are those stanch Americans of
German stock whom we had learned to
know and trust. We believe there are
many of them. "By their acts we shall
know them" They have gone through
a trying test and wearying years of dis
illusionment and grief. We can sympa-
thize with their trials and be proud to
call them Americans.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-15
The Abolition Of German Teaching

Next Friday the Board of Superintend-
ents will vote upon the question Of dis
continuing German classes in New
York's public schools during the war. We
can see no good reason why this should
not be done, and done quickly.
First of all, the reaction of healthy
American boy or girl to the German Ian
guage now would naturally be one of
dislike or derision. Therefore the money
spent on this at this time would be very
largely money thrown away.
Secondly, it seems rather ridiculous to
talk about the atrocities perpetrated by
German troops and extol the beauties
of German literature to our children.
That literature is no more wonderful
for example, than French literature, and
for the rest real sense for the beauties
of masterpiece in foreign tongue can
be acquired only after a much longer
course than that usually given in our
public schools.
AS to the practical value Of German,
it ought to have now, for us, practically
none. Either Germany has transgressed
all the laws of civilization or this gigan-
tic struggle is merely one of sordid
rivalry. There is no middle ground
New-York tribune., 1918-05-15
Where Are the Brown Charges ?

Fourteen days ago Lucius P. Brown,
Director of the Bureau of Foods and
Drugs of the Health Department, was
suspended on charges to be preferred
later. How much later? We under
stand that an assiduous search has been
made in DR.. Browns Office, and outside
it, for evidence of irregularities, incom-
potency and ineficiency. When the pro-
fessional standing and personal integ-
rity of DR.. Brown were openly attacked
and he replied respectfully he was sum-
marily suspended. The attack was
vague, indefinite and public.
1t seemed SO obvious that the charges
should be specific and that the opportu-
nifty for defence should be public that we
welcomed as an evidence of good faith
Commissioner Copeland's suggestion of
an open trial. But now, when public in
terest is presumed to have Jagged a bit.
DR.. Copeland retraces his steps and re-
fers the matter to the Corporation Coun-
sci, who may reply that it is customary,
as it is, to conduct this sort of exanaina
tion privately Then Lucius P. Brown
can be lynched behind closed doors with
out annoying the public with the un-
pleasant details.
One point is overlooked. If it is not
customary to carry on Civil Service
trial in the open, neither is it customary
to suspend an official without bringing
definite charges against him. DR.. Brown
has right to a hearing just as public
as the accusation and suspension from
Office.
Mayor Hylan tried the good old-fash-
ioned plan of asking that the heads of
the departments be served up to him on
political salver. Commissioner Am
ster deserves honorable mention for his
refusal to serve his party by any such
antique attack on the Civil Service.
Commissioner Copeland is in danger of
lending his hard-won scientific reputa-
tion and personal standing, whether wit
tingly or not, to further Mayor Hylan's
purposes.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-15
to face other shocks which will be hardly

to face other shocks which will be hardly
less terrific.
We are in for life and death strug-
gle for the next three months. And it Is
mistake now to seize upon an alleged
change of plans with respect to the
American troops to talk glibly of Ger
man failure and Allied success. This
merely means clearing the way for an
other period of pessimsm when the Ger
man attacks again. 1t tends to slacken
the pace of preparation, lessen the effort
and help the German thereby. We
ought to beat the German. We shall beat
him if everybody works up to his limit
We shall be close to victory in that hour
when we have at last ceased to under
estimate our task or our enemy.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-15
Lords Cheaper Than Common.
tFrom The London Daily Mems,

tFrom TIC LONDON Daily Nc,cs)
1t costs S279,898 year Ito run" the
House Of Commons, including s2osooo for
members salaries, and s44,567 to work the
House of Lords For the coming year the
Lords are putting on an extra item q,
f1,so0 for six reporters, as they are now
issuing their debates daily. like the House
of Commons. In view of the fact that the
Commons, who hold many and long sit
tings, can manage with twelve reporters.
the Lords, who sit neither early nor very
often, are doing themselves we'll,
New-York tribune., 1918-05-15

Speaker Clark opens a speech by de-
nouncing partisanship and then ad-
dresses himself fervently to the sin Of
being Republican. zone Stump Speech
Too Many" says "The New York
World" wishing that Clark hadn't done
it, and that nobody will do it again. Per-
feet contradiction The larger the beam
in ones own eye the more clearly one
sees the mote in another's. Only true
partisan can adequately denounce parti-
sanship.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-15

much for successful traction over any but
the most solid roads. When it is moved any
distance the gun must be shifted to trans
port carriage with the big 76-inch wheels.
Both the transport and the carriage have
two secondary wheels, each of smaller size.
Altogether it was necessary to make some
$50 cast steel wheels, each solid piece, as
against like number of buit-up wheels of
more than 100000 parts. The order was re-
celved last August and the first shipment of
completed carriages was started for France
last Thanksgiving Day.
The Morgan contract calls for the equip
ment of and inch gun barrels for wagon
road transport and railway car barbette
mountings for 8-nch rifles and 12-inch NOR
tars. The amount of machining and other
work involved in preparing and adjusting all
the castings required and the structural
work on the trails is prodigious. This is a
job that is one of separate rather than
quantity production. It is as unlike the Ford
method of production as can be imagined
Power and machinery are used on gigantic
scale, of course, but these big instruments
of war are made by men using powerful
tools, rather than by men experimenting
automatic machines
New-York tribune., 1918-05-15
Neu Halls

The expansion of the Morgan plant under
the stimulus of war orders is interesting
and typical of what is happening through
out the manufacturing districts of the coun-
try Five lofty halls of steel and glass,
varying from $50 to $50 feet in length. are
being rushed to completion to handle the
present and anticipated government con-
tracts, and the number of workmen is more
than doubled.
One wonders what is to be done with all
this added capacity for production when the
war is over. Colonel Morgan has plans for
peace uses for the whole plant, however,
and the same is true of most of the plants
that are extending to meet the present
emergency.
1t was found that the neck of the bottle
OF the plants production was in the hori-
zontal boring machines. Those machines
and the men on them determined how fast
big guns could go to Pershing. 1t was nee
essary that they should never stop. The
situation was explained to the men in
charge of them. They rose to the occasion
Immediately, and now the big boring ma
chimes never stop. The men cheerfully cava
up their lunch hours and stayed on the iob.
with occasional sandwich in one hand
and the crosshead in the other.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-15

sharing that lot. Some are, Of necessity.
More will share it each year if the war
continues. The complex ]ivers still per-
slst around US, however, as theatres and
shops and restaurants bear witness.
More power to the war, the one invincble
preacher and nersuader!
New-York tribune., 1918-05-15

The breach made in the pay-as-you-go
policy by Governor Whitman's signing
of the Wagner bill is not great one, but
it is one which should not have been
made nevertheless. This measure per-
mits New York City to issue each year
during the war, and for one year after,
$15,O0O,000 of corporate stock and serial
bonds to finance non-revenue producing
improvements. 1t is the understanding
that the money will be used for school
and hospital extension work Those are
desirable expenditures, but still ex-
penditures which should be made pos
sible out Of budget appropriations.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-15
Following the Flag

They haven't-those men--put little flags
American flags-on every machine in tho
big shop just for decorative purnose,
They're following the flag, and they like to
have it before them IS daily reminder tho
they, too, serve who stay and work-,;t.
hell.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-15

You can purchase merchandise adverusoo v" IS
TRIBUNE with absolute safety-for II dssa"s'acuos '
,t, In anv case THg TRIBUNE to pay your
money back upon request No red tape. NO au'oo""s
We make good promptly " the advertiser Goes NOT.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-15
The Poured Wheel

Those who know something of steel cast
ings will understand why it seemed impos-
sible to cast many spoked steel wheel six
feet and four inches in diameter and with
tread of twenty inches.
The making of this single piece would do
away with built-up wheel of hundreds of
parts. 1t was worth trying. So Colonel
Morgan took up the plan with his foundry
at Canton. Here he encountered stubborn
conservatism on the part Of some of the
foundrymen. They were so sure that the
thing couldn't be done that it made Colonel
Morgan equally sure that they could do it.
The incentive of difficulty triumphed
To-day wheels from Morgan's company con-
vey and inch American made gums to
the front in France.
All over the works are posted up copies
Of letter from the chief of ordnance ex-
pressing his appreciation for the way the
Morgan works put the rollers under the big
guns-and did a few other things at the
same time.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-15
Benefits of Carnivorous Diet

tFron The Boston TrdHscTSpO
ever bothered with tramps out your
way?"
"No; have a sign on the gate reading:
We are vegetarians, but our dog int
New-York tribune., 1918-05-15
Putting 1t Up to Alliance

Washington put this problem up to Alll-
ance Alliance is little town, but it boasts
q great engineering plant-that Of the Nor
gan Engineering Company The speciality
of this company is big jobs. 1t doesn't
manufacture. 1t builds. 1t deals with
things of iron and steel in monster dimen-
sions. Massive machine tools, rolling mills,
presses, brakes, forges, power hammers,
cranes-these are the things on which it
lives. 1t abhors the rattle of small! gear.
but it rejoices in the thud of the mighty
hammers on great forgings. 1t is happy in
1O0-ton cranes mounted high above long
aisles; it smiles when one of these monsters
picks up weight of scores of tons and con-
veys it quickly and smoothly from place to
place. 1t laughs when a boring machine
goes through steel castings a knife
through cheese. 1t lives and has it's being
in the daily conquest of mass by wee men.
So Colonel w. H. Morgan, president of the
company, grinned when Washington went to
Alliance.
"We'll cast the wheels in a solid piece of
STEEL" said the colonel"
"It never has been done," said one.
ut can't be done," said another.
"Well do it," said the colonel
New-York tribune., 1918-05-15

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arc reserved.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-15
Cradles

The cradles for the guns had to be made,
cradles not only for action, but cradles for
the transport carriages; and then there
was the recoil mechanism. A big gun
cradle is no baby's affair. Then there were
the powerful, built-up steel traiss-the can
mons tail. A 6-inch rife, thirty feet long,
with its trail. cradle and recoil, by the time
it is mounted on its carriage weighs too
New-York tribune., 1918-05-15

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New-York tribune., 1918-05-15
GUARAk TEE

Entered a. the rostoace at New York " secoea o'"'
Mail Matter
New-York tribune., 1918-05-15
Wheels for Pershir,g
A Romance of Ordnance
By Theodore M. Knappen

4 LL1ANCE, Ohio, May lit was
n question of wheels for great guns.
The ordnance bureau wanted impro
vised carriages for guns that had been built
for fixed carriages In our coast defence
service we had some big stationary guns
that could be spared. Pershing was calling
for big guns. The only way to satisfy him
was to put the big coast guns on wheels.
England had to do a lot of improvising
like that in her first year of the war. Plans
of the English improvisations were obtained.
They were very elaborate-306 parts to each
wheel Moreover, they had failed to stand
up in the rough usage of war. Also, they
were tedious to build. Simpler and stronger
carriages were demanded.