McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1918-10-18
RED CROSS WORK
AMONG REFUGEES
HUNDREDS or THOUSANDS or
ukFoRTuNATEs IN ITALY
WELL CARED FOR.
SCENE IN BOLOGNA STATION
Alien Enemy Females Put Under the
Permit Rules-Great Plans for the
Further Relief Of Beioians and
French.


Permit Rules-Great Plans for the
Further Relief of Beisians and
French.
(From Committee on Public Information)
Washington.-How the hundreds Of
of unfortunates driven from
their homes In the course of the Aus
trian invasions of Italy were safely
piloted to their destinations is related
in report received from an American
Red Cross worker who has been look
ing after refugees in Bologna.
"An arrival of emigrants from Eu-
rope would give but faint idea of an
exodus of refugees" the report says.
MANY of them are taking their first
journey on a railway. In most cases
1t is impossible to make themselves UNI
derstood. They pour into the Bologna
station, dragging behind them unwieldy
packages. TASKS. bottles, babies, sew
Ing machines. hens (refugees have
cats, dogs, canaries, bullfinches, pig
cons, turkeys-in fact. our rest home
has seen every variety of winged and
four-footed live stock). There they
stand, stupefied by the noise and con-
fusion of the arrival, utterly unable to
move, while maybe their train is about
to depart.
However, we are there, looking
for just such as they. The willing
soldiers who are assigned to help the
Red Gross take their difficult bundles,
the huge sacks and a few of the ba-
bies. We take the eldest child. leading
the way as sort of decoy; and away
VIC so, in and out of passenger trains,
troop trains (no bridges or subways
here), until we arrive at the train de-
sired, hidden away behind all these
obstacles, absolutely unattainable If
not for our Intervention.
1.-THE train Is jammed. They always
are. Everyone on board cries to us
there is not another inch of room. We
pay no attention to them. Our latest
soldier enters a car and opens pas
sage for the family. When all the mem
bers and their endless belongings are
squeezed in we go back and pick up
another family"
Seven thousand men at Kelly field,
division Of military aeronautics, last
month saved articles which in other
times would be regarded as junk, but
which brought the government $1,000
Some of this refuse was old paper, oil
barrels, straw, bags, garbage, tin cans
and metals.
In addition, great piles of old cloth.
ing, tents, motorcycle parts, airplane
fittings, engine parts, rubber tires and
the like We're saved. "Don't throw II
away" is the slogan which is prompt
Ing the accumulation and sale OF
masses of materials at this and other
camps.
The fruit and milk cans that the
Kitchen police" smash every day, fol
example, bring considerable money to
the government. They sell at $40 q
ton. Kelly field ships them by the car
load to copper refineries, where they
are thrown into fumes and serve to
collect millions of molecules Of copper
that would otherwise be washed away
The cans are then heated, the copper
separated from the tin and marketed
How to conserve clothing and shoes
lumber and equipment Is taught the
soldier, who is not slow to see the adj
vantage In dollars to himself as wei
as to the government. 1t is intended
soon to open shoe repair shops and
tailor shops at Kelly field to make the
work of reclamation OF still greater
value to the government.
Midnight Of October 5, 1918, has beer
fixed by the United States attorney
general as the time when regulations
establishing a one-mile prohibited area
around federal or state forts, camps
arsenals. aircraft stations, government
or naval vessels, navy yards, factories
or workshops for the manufacture d
munitions of war, etc, shall be effec
tive as to German alien females. This
date Is fixed by the attorney genera
under authority granted to him in ths
presidents proclamation of April 10
1918.
The effect of the attorney generals
act in fixing this date Is to make i
unlawful for any German alien femal,
Of fourteen years of age md upward.
to be found within one-half mile o.
any Of the places mentioned (excep
on public carriers) without a permi
from the United States marshal. Per
mits to reside In or to enter the pro
hibited area must be obtained, and ap
plications for these must be made il
the same manner as for similar per
mits In the case of German alien en-
envy males.
Salt producers have agreed with Thu
United States food administration tt
pack their product in only few stand
ard sacks and when packed in woot
the barrels where possible sill b.
hooped with wood instead OF steel
When packed in cotton. salt will here
after be obtainable in only Ave, ten ant
twenty-five pound or larger sacks. Pro
portionately, one-pound sack will
contain so per cent more cotton thar
a five-pound sack. The new arrange
ment is expected to save large guam
titles Of cotton and steel and redue,
the drain on labor.
By an arrangement between officials
Of the war ana navy departments tn,
navy will obtain through the draft al
the recruits needed. An average allot
ment of $4,000 men each month vii