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The Washington times., 1918-12-12
EACH SERVICE MAN
TO RECEIVE MEDAL

Immediately upon authorization OF
Congress. by virtue OF the passage OF
a bill now pending, Director of the
Mint Ray T. Baker will have designed
In the Philadelphia mint a medal
commemorative of the great war
which will be awarded to every SOL
dier, sailor. and marine, enlisted men
and officers alike.
The medal will be of bronze and OF
a size suitable Ito be worn in the
coat lapel. IL is stated.
The last medal designed and issued
by the Philadelphia mint was the
distinguished service decoration de-
vised by General Pershing and award
ed to heroes of the war who have dis
tinguished themselves by exception
ally brave and Valorous deeds on the
field Of battle.
In discussing the medal division of
the mint today, Director Baker de-
plored the fact that the public Is not
generally familiar with the issue OF
Presidential medals" which have
been issued in honor of each one of
the twenty-siX Presidents of the
United States from George Washing
ton to William Howard Taft. These
medals are OF a peculiar bronze.
which looks like dull gold. They are
circular in shape and about twice the
size OF a silver dollar. presidential
medals" are sold for 81 each, with
postage and registry charges added
and may be obtained by the public by
addressing the Superintendent of the
Mint at Philadelphia, Director Baker
said.
In addition to this class Of medals.
A. a.
mint twenty-eight medals and small
plaques commemorating events in
which the army has been concerned
since the Revolution. and thirty.two
medals and plaques commemorating
navy events. Some OF these are made
up in solid gold, and many are in
silver, as well as the cheaper bronze.
The Washington times., 1918-12-12
FouR-mINuTE MEN TO MEET.

washington's Four Minute Men and
the theater managers whose combined
efforts made a success of the last Lib
erty loan will hold their final reunion
at a banquet and entertainment Sat
urday evening, December 81. at the
Lafayette Hotel. An interesting pro-
gram is being arranged. consisting OF
orchestra music, vaudeville, and NOV
ing pictures.
The Washington times., 1918-12-12

We must keep our army equipped
and ready to enforce peace terms.
Continue 10 lend Uncle Sam your
noney-buy W. 3. 8. constantly.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1918-05-09
Red Cross
Proclamation by President.

President Wilson Tuesday is
sued a proclamation designating
the week of May 20-27 as RED
Cross Week" and calling upon
our people to contribute literally
to the second $10O,00O,000 war
fund of the American Red Cross
for the alienation of suffering a.
mong the American troops in
France and their dependents at
home.
In the proclamation President
Wilson says during this ap-
preaching Red Cross Week the
people will be called upon again
to give generously to the continu-
alton of the important work of
relieving distress, restoring the
waste of war, and assisting in
maintaining the morale of our
own troops and the troops and
peoples of our allies by this mani
festation of effort and sacrifice
on the part of those. who, though
not privileged to bear arms, are
of one spirit, purpose, and deter
mination with our warriors"
The President urges us to give
generously to this cause. We
beg our Richmond county people
to get prepared and either at the
big Red Cross rally at the opera
house Sunday afternoon, May
10Th, or during the following
week, give and give literally.
We might mention just here
that the contribution can be made
| in cash on the spot, or can be dis
tributed in FOUR monthly pay
ments, namely, one-fourth July
1st; one-fourth August 1st; one
fourth Sept. LIST; and the balance
October lst. By this means the
giving will not come hard, as
would be the case if the full a.
mount had to be paid on the spot
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1918-05-09
HE GAVE HIS SHIRT OFF HIS BACK
How an Italian Officer Travelling on Train
Helped New Born Baby.

One of the ways TO say that a man
is good hearted is to descend to ex-
pressive Americanese slang and say
she'd give you his shirt"
A young italian officer did exactly
that-gave the shirt off his back to a
baby just born. 1t was during a flight
of the Italian refugees just after the
Italian army had been tricked by the
Austrians.
Here's the story:
An Italian officer, who had been a
volunteer worker at the station when
the crush came through, walked into
the American Red Gross Office at Bo
logna, Italy, and told Of poor young
woman who had given birth to baby
on the train in which he was riding 9
few nights previously. They had beer
riding for over 16 hours, and thu
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1918-05-09
HUSBAND GONE SONS GONE :
HOME AND RELATIVES GONE
A Fact Story Telling Just What the Red Cross
Did for Mime. Pellier.
By an Eye Witness
kdAUDE RADFORD WARREN

ing into Switzerland and then into
Haute-Savoie. From there they went
to Lorraine. Mime. Pellier hoped that,
even though her village had been bonn
barded, her home might have escaped.
She found nothing except her bare
fields.
You changed that picture, you Amer
leans, who can never be bombarded,
who can never lose through war i've
out of the seven dearest to you. It
was not your husband and children
who died; not your wife who was
widowed; not your little ones who
came back, bony and tubercular, to q
home that had vanished. Not yours,
but only the grace Of accident saved
you; not yours, but II might have been
and so you changed the picture. You
could not build up with your own
hands that heap Of stones into home,
nor till the fields, nor bring Nine. Pei
lier back to hope and the children
back to health. But through the Red
Cross you saved the remnants of that
family that had suffered a. you might
have suffered.
Things the Red cress Old.
You took the mother Of Nine. Pei
lier to a Red Cross hospital to be treat
ed for anaemia. You took the little
girl, who was in the first stages Of
tuberculosis, to a Red Cross sani-
tarium. You found q place which
could be made habitable for Mime. Pei
lier near her fields which she was
anxious to till. You gave her clothes
and furniture; you got her seeds; you
lent her implements. You sent Wis
iting doctor to watch over her health
and that of her little boy. You sent
nurses, who achieved the mighty vic
tory Of making her and the child take
baths. Later you persuaded her to let
him go to a refuge not far away where
he might attend school and where she
could often visit him. Through the
help Of your Red Cross hope and cour-
aye duu hiuUAlAOA AuNS SVAuC UuSh "
that woman, and she is rebuilding her
family life. The biggest thing one hui
man being can do for another you, IL
you are a helper Of the Red Cross
have done for that mother.
Red Cross! saw its work every.
where In Franee--ln fields and In
blasted Villages; In hospitals and
schools and clinics; In refugees and
vestlarles for widows and Orphans and
for the sick children Of soldiers fight
Ing to keep you safe from the enemy.
This symbol Of help has double
meaning now for Americans, who have
always taken for granted the blessing
of safety. 1t stands for your willing
ness to pay the price Of exemption, Of
pity, of sympathy. A bitter, black
road this road of war, but across 1t,
like a beacon of hope, you have flung
the Red Cross.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1918-05-09
Donations During Past Week,
CoIored People Contribute.

Rev. T. T. Taylor, of the color
ed Methodist Church of our town,
has turned over to Mrs. w. 7.
Covington $7.01, which was con-
tributed by his church for the
purchase of testaments for the
boys who shall go to the training
camps. Each white and colored
boy who has gone to any OF the
training camps has so far been
given a testament, and these
have been purchased by soliciting
the amounts from individuals
and friends.
We wish to thank this congre
cation for their generous dona
ton to this great cause.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1918-05-09

wretchedly poor and disheartened
mother had been jammed in with the
hundreds Of other frightened Italians
on the same train. Hungry, tired and
miserable and in a frightfully weak
ened condition, she had scarcely suffi-i
cient clothes for herself, not to speak
of properly caring for newborn babe.
The young officer stripped himself Of
his shirt and there among this fright
ened, half starved, forlorn crowd the
poor Italian infant was wrapped In its
first body covering.
Mother and babe were afterwards
nursed back to health, clothed and
looked after by the American Red
Cross. And this Is only one small, IL
olated Incident among thousands that
come under the working Of the Red
Cross.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1918-05-09
Mangum Branch.

We are pleased to acknowledge
receipt of a box of beautifully
knitted socks from the following
ladies of Mangum Branch:
Mrs. ]. S. Manor
Mrs. C. c. Bolton
Mrs. c. A. Green
Mrs. T. F. Stanback
Mrs. ]. D. Misenheimer
Miss Ida LeGrand
Miss Jennie Matheson
Miss Pauline Stanback
Miss Mary Ledbetter
Also a box of Hospital Gar
ments made by the following
ladies of Mangum Branch.
Mrs. J. L. Baldwin
Mrs. Will Terrell
Mrs. Walter Horne
Mrs. T. F. Stanback
Mrs. w. A. Smith
Mrs. ]. Lee .-
Miss Eta Chandler
Miss Josie Chandler
Miss Jennie Matheson
Miss Addie Little
Miss Nellie Waddill
Miss Virginia Stanback
Miss Addie Manor
We appreciate the good work
these women are doing. They
are keeping busy for the Red
Cross all the while. We sent
them quite a number of. hospital
garments this week, for when
they sent the finished garments
to us they were sent with the
request that we send them more
to be made. These women know
how to sew. All garments have
been we'll, and beautifully made
We are to send them more
wool for socks just as soon as
our shipment arrives.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1918-05-09

This Is the picture saw last Janu-
airy In France,-and you have merci-
fully changed it! Color enough there
was-above, the eternal blue; in the
background, fields of living green,
which the German shells could not
prevent from creeping back; in the
middle foreground, long village
street so battered and burned that
1t was merely canyon Of cream-col-
ored ruins. In front of one little
broken house were four figures in
black-an old woman. poking among
the fallen stones In a vain search fol-
something that could be used; a
younger woman, seated on what had
once been a doorstep, with her face
hidden in her arms; and little boy
and girl, who stared. half frightened
half curious, at the desolation about
them. The little boy held In his thir
hand Red Cross flag. All four were
pale and gaunt: the faces and bodies
Of the children showed none Of the
round curves that make the beauty Of
q child.
This Is their history: When the
war broke out, Nine. Pellier, her
mother and her four younger children
were visiting her husbands mother in
the north of France. Her husband
and two elder sons we're at home In
Lorraine taking care Of the summer
crops. Then the warl The mother
in-law Of Nine. Pellier was III and
could not be left. Her old mother
was afraid to travel to Lorraine with
the full care of the four children. Be-
fore they could all start together the
Germans invaded. Bad news is allow.
ed to come into northern France, and
so as the months passed Nine. Pellier
learned that her village home had been
bombarded and that her husband and
two sons had been killed. Except for
the Belgian Relief Commission, which
operates in northern France also, she
and her little ones would have starved
outright At tine best they were I'M
dernourished. Then the great push
began, and hopes for France grew
high. But as the French soldiers ad
vanced they had to lombard the north
ern towns. Nine. Pellier begged tht
Germans to let her go away with hel
children-even into Germany. This
was refused. She tried to seek safet!
in some cellar whenever there was &
| bombardment. Nevertheless shell
killed two of her children.
| Found Her Home Gone.
Home gone; husband gone; BRAY,
soldier sons gone; little, tender boy
torn into shreds! That woman's fac
would have shown you what she hat
suffered-her face against the batter
! ed ruins the Germans had made. A
last she and her mother and her TIVE
remaining children were repatriated
They knew the infinite relief of cross
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1918-05-09

Active plans are maturing for
the approaching Red Cross Drive,
for the week of May 20-27. This
drive is not to be a membership
campaign Though new members
will be at all times gladly well
Gomez, but is for the purpose of
raising Richmond county's quote
of the $l00,000,0O0.
The chairman of the local
Chapter is T. c. Leak. The
chairman of this special Drive is
]. LeGrand Everett, with l. S.
London as Publicity chairman;
the other two members of the
Publicity committee are A. G.
Corpening and B. T. Payne.
These five gentlemen constitute
the executive committee for the
Red Cross Drive.
The various heads of commit.
tees are given below. These
will appoint their subcommittee
and report same to the chairman
Mr.. Everett, by next Monday:
and the full committees will be
published in next issue of the
Post Dispatch. The campaign
will start on Monday, May Goth
though on Sunday afternoon
May 10Th, at 3 o'clock, a big
rally will be held in the opera
house.
The various chairmen are:
Employees Solicitation: w. B
Cole.
Music: Miss Mossie Long.
SOLICITATION COMMITTEES
Rockingham (city): Mrs. Boyc
R. Gasque, Mrs. J. T. Bennett
Mrs. R. S. Leak.
Rockingham (ruraD: Mrs. Geo
G. Terry, Mrs. R. T. Nichols.
Wolf Pit: ]. F. Diggs.
Mineral Springs: J. E. Nichol
son.
Mangum Branch: A. J. Little.
Beaver Dam: Frank Gates, Jr
Black Jack: T. G. Thomas.
COLORED:
Rev. T. T. Taylor, Rev. Lun
Fletcher, Rev. w. c. DeBerry.
The above named chairmen o
committees will please name thei
assistants and report by Monday
The program for the rally ii
the opera house Sunday, 10TH
eau be seen on the front page.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1918-05-09
Sermons May 10Th.

Every minister throughout the
Nation is requested to emphasize
the need of the Red Cross, on
Sunday, May 10Th. While the
ministers all over the Land are
preaching on this world-healing
subject, our own ministers Of
Richmond county will do no less.
They will gladly respond with
suitable remarks on Sunday the
18th.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1918-05-09
stopping ten minutes for refreshments
at a Red Cross Canteen.

stopping ten minutes for refreshments
at Red Cross Canteen.
Think of big cup of hot coffee and
wealth of man-sized ham sand
wiches served by the Red Cross-wo-
men with the joy Of service in their
eyes. Think of ten minutes for re-
freshments within sound Of the guns
such refreshments served by such wo-
men. Did ever a weary Lad have such
refreshments? Did ever cup of cof-
fee and a sandwich taste so good?
1t is service like this, the supplying
of stood that's got honey taste" at
O time when mans spirits are likely
to be at lowest ebb, that moved Com
handing General Of the American
Forces to write on December 80: ~The
extent Of the work Of the Red Cross
is only limited By the number Of mem
bers 1t has and the amount Of funds
available for its usa."
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1918-05-09
Army of Nurses Wanted.

Surgeon General Gorgas has is
sued a call for 5000 more nurses
for service in the American mill
tary hospitals, these to be secur,
ed in the next two months. Al.
together $4,000 nurses must be
enrolled for the government this
year.
Nearly 1000 nurses have al
ready been supplied by the Red
Cross, as a reserve for the Army
and Navy Nurse Corps.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1918-05-09
Kits With Socks
and Tobacco.

The Red Cross Bulletin says
that every American soldier en-.
tering the trenches carries an
American Red Cross Comfort
Kit containing towel, shirt, writ,
ing paper, pencil, soap, handker
chief, socks, mirror and tobacco
These kits are appreciated ant
really valuable to the men.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1918-05-09
20 Pounds Wool.

In last weeks paper we stated
that Mrs. Henry Rogers had
given our Red Cross chapter 2
pounds unwashed wool. This
was a misprint. 1t should have
been 20 pounds.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1918-05-09
FULL VANISHED
HAM SANDWICH
What Ten Minutes for Re-
freshments Means in
Modern War.

Think of what refreshments mean
"over there" Think of the Sammle or
the Poilu coming out Of the trenches
with thirty-six hour leave Of abb
sence, getting aboard the train or mo-
tor on the L. o. C.-the Line Of Com
nunication between the front and the
rear. Think Of these tired fellows
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1918-05-09
Red Cross Sewing Room Re.
port, Beginning Monday
A. M. April 29th.
MONDAY.

"A. wi. APfu ZStn.
MONDAY.
A. M.-Mesdames J. LeGrand
Everett and r. S. Leak, made 3
coats.
P. M.-Splendid afternoons
work done, but failed to register.
TUESDAY.
A. M.-Misses Halle and
Faith Covington and Mrs. ]. T..
Bennett, made II pair pants,
worked "a button.holes and sew
ed on "a buttons.
P. M.-Mrs. w. B. Stansill and
Mrs. w. c. Leak, made l pair
pants and coat.
WEDNESDAY.
A. M.-Mrs. Walter Covington,
Gasque, W., L. Parsons, J. T.
Bennett, made pair pants and
finished one pair, made l coat and
finished one, worked "a button
holes and sewed on "a buttons.
P. M.-Mesdames G. F. Smith,
J. T. Collier and w. L. Parsons,
made l coat and l pair pants;
odd jobs restricting etc.
THURSDAY.
A. M.-Mrs. R. S. Leak made
l coat and finished one.
P. M.-Mesdames J. w. Leak,
J.C. Davis, John Alfred, J. T.
Collier, R. S. Leak. Finley, made
8 pair pants, 6 coats, 40 button.
holes and buttons, ripping and
restricting.
FRIDAY.
A. M.-Mesdames A. L. Nc
Donald, Walter Scales, Eugene
Payne, Nuttall, ]. T. Bennett
Alden, made 2 coats, A pair pants
Ia buttonholes and buttons.
P. M.-Mesdames J. R. Smith,
T. B. Lilies, w. L. Covington, &c
Thomas, J. T. Brady, Joe Porter
E. N. Ingram and Miss julia
King, made s shirts, l pair pants
made over 2 pair pants, 81 but
ton-holes and buttons.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1918-05-09
THE Big DRIVE

The Big $1OO.0OO,OOO Red
Cross Drive Begins May
2O-27. Plans, and Names
of Chairmeu of Commit.
tees for Richmond County
Outside of Hamlet Which
Has a Chapter and is There
fore a Distinct Unit.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1918-05-09
SEWING ROOM SUPERINTENDENT.

he ladies of the town and county are invited and urged
to visit the Sewing Room and assist just whenever they
arrange to do So If can't come your regular day.
then other day. you wanted and welconed
Bisbee daily review., 1918-07-31
REGULATIONS FOR IGHTLESS
 NIGHTS ARE 10 BE ENFORCED

City Marshal KemptOn has or dered his policemen to see that the following regulations are carried out on Monday and Tuesday nights He said:
 ''The order is compulsory and if any one disregards the regulations their lights will be discontinued"
 It is hereby ordered and directed by the United States fuel administra- tor that the following rules shall be and are in effect until further or ether order and subject to modified tion hereinafter from time to time and at any time:
 L No city, village or town and no person, firm or corporation under any contract with any city. village or town, shall use or consume any coal, oil, gas or other fuel for the main tenance of lights in the streets, parks or other public places of sucn city, village or town, except under the following restrictions and linita- tions:
 (a) Street illumination automatic ally lighted, maintained by or for any such city, village or town, in the streets. parks or other public places thereof, shall not be lighted before sunset and shall be turned out not later than sunrise;
 (b) Street illumination lighted by hand in any such city. village or town shall be only so much as may be necessary for safety. and the use of lights commonly known as cluster lights for purposes. of display or de- coration shall be reduced to such DOT tion of the cluster as is necessary for safety.
 2. The local fuel administrator for the territory within which any city, village or town is located shall arrange with the proper municipal or town authorities of such city, village or town for the regulation of public lighting in accordance with the pro visions of paragraph No. 1 of this order Regulations for public light ing so arranged shall in each case be subject to the approval of the proper state fuel administrator. and in case regulations in accordance with said paragraph one for the public light ing of any city, village or town, satis- factory to the state fuel administra- tor of the state within which the same is located. shall not have been ar ranged between the local fuel ad- ministration and the proper municipal or town authorities as hereinaboye
Bisbee daily review., 1918-07-31

It is too bad that a class. an entire organ ization, cause, even, suffers from the sins and shortcomings of a few individuals. Take the case of our great national game of baseball and the players who are the idols of hundreds of thousands of fans the coun- try over and of every walk in life and every age and both sexes. A few players have jumped to munition factories and shipyards in order to dodge active service and still make money on the side playing ball in the steel and shipyard leagues. In fact, quite few we'll known players eligible for active service have been guilty of this repre- hensible act. So many athletes have slipped under this fence that General Crowder has taken notice of it and proposes to weed them out and send them to France. But all ball players are not of this kidney. Scores of them, like Hank Gowdy and Black Jack Barry and Red Faber and Duffy Lewis and Benney Kauff and Grover Alexander have gone gladly and proudly to fight the Hun in his lair Most of the ball players will come through clean. But the one branch of sport and athletics that shines far and bright above all the rest is the football de partment. The gridiron gave its all to war. The pigskin warriors waited for no draft. Over half of them had gone to the marines and the flying corps and the engineers and the infantry and the artillery long before the draft It is estimated that 90 per cent of the football stars of the past ten years are in some active branch of the service, and it is estimated further that 60 per cent of them are fighting in France right now. These boys of the moleskins and the long hair and the field goals and touchdowns made the pug and the ball players and all other classes of athletes in America look slow when Uncle Sam called his children to come and take part in the greatest, grim mest game of all