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The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-05-13
SOME STRINGS ON
 RED CROSS GIFTS
Eighteen Dollars Given for Relief
 of the Chinese in France
 5i otIVCH

One of the least known phases of the Red Cross is the accounting.
 In talk recently given at a Red Cross luncheon by the Deputy Comp troller, a most interesting phase of this branch of Red Cross work was brought out in the story of the re- stricted gifts.
 The fact that a person makes re stricted gift to the great Red Cross in- dicates that that person is particularly anxious to know that his or her money reaches definite piece of work in this war relief.
 Every penny that comes into the Red Cross has to be balanced on an edge to see into just which of the more than five hundred accounts it shall drop. When that penny comes in it must be spent in just the way the donor wishes.
 On the very day the Comptroller spoke, there had come in a restricted gift from little Sunday school in small California town-$1S to be spent for relief of Chinese in France-not SIS to be spent for relief of Chinese, which could have been easily arranged with the general work now being car ried on in the flooded districts in Chi na. Not that, but SIS, given possibly in little penny and ive-cent contribu- tions by Sunday school children who had learned somewhere that there were Chinese in France who needed help. That money will be spent for the relief of Chinese in France. The restriction of the donors will be ob- served.
 The same morning came $15 for re- lief of Belgian soldiers in Paris-not Belgian soldiers who might be in Os- tend or Belgian prisoners in Brussels or Germany, but $15 to go toward the relief of Belgian soldiers in the city of Paris-and this restriction will be ob- served and the $15 will find it's right place.
 You may get an idea of the amount of business conducted with the Red Cross funds in this unofficial work of Mercy when you learn that the clear ance of the Red Cross for the month of February was greater than the clearance of the largest Washington bank.
 Can any one doubt the care in the expenditures of the American peoples millions when he learns that each penny is carefully considered to see where it must be charged, and that every item of receipt and expense is carefully scanned, not only by compe- tent officials of high business standing, but also by our own GoveEnmcnfn War Department
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-05-13

Just what a Red Cross canteen is, how it is outftted, and the hundred problems the American women have to meet in feeding the French, Eng fish and American soldiers is well shown in this letter from an American Red Cross worker:
 We have really wonderful place. It was given to us so rough and plain and ugly. had a coat of plaster put on the walls, painted bright blue wainscot three feet high with a sten- cil of flowers of red, white and blue above, white walls and ceiling, doors and windows outlined with light green, and stencils of bright colors between the windows of trumpets, and over the five doors delicious little paintings by Miss Kirkpatrick and Miss Beckett of soldiers and canteeners in the most clever and attractive way.
 Brightest Little Room.
 At the end of the room we have two girls, one American and one French, holding French and American flags. We have red and white oilcloth on the tables, red glass carafeS and red tur- key window curtains, and always flow CTS on the counters. It is the gayest, brightest little room you ever saw. However, it only holds about 120 men seated at the tables and it is to be used as a recreation room and even movies. Our big room is to have a huge kitchen and seats for 1000 men or over, and will open right on to the platform. It is to be decorated by an artist from the Beaux Art, as Miss Beckett has gone and Miss Kirkpat- rick is too busy.
 It will really be splendid big place and we can work in comfort instead
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-05-13
SAVIOURS
By ANGELA MORGAN

Yours is the daring skill to tread The waters of world at war; Yours is the miracle to shed Where rocking seas of hatred are, Courage and comfort, like star. You cry unto an earth dismayed, And God is thrilling in your tone: Brothers, the ship is not alone; Be not-afraid!"
 Ye are the Christs of this black hour, The Great Physician come again, Within your sacred hands the power To heal the race of men. Ye hold the hurt world to your breast; Ye bind her bruised and broken soul; The sick, the maimed and the oppressed- Yours is the gift to make them whole. And where the stricken miles unroll Ye sound the resurrection morn; Above the bier where Justice lies, With visions of an age new born, Ye bid the dead arise!
 O World, that walkest now in tears Where Truth again is crucifed After the thousand, th0dsand years-# See yet that Christ is not denied!
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-05-13
YOUR HUNDRED
 MILLION DOLLARS
WAR FUND COMMITTEE TELLS HOW IT WAS
 SPENT.
No Part of It, Says John D. Ryan, Went for Any Expenses of
 the Organization.

John D. Ryan, vice chairman of the War Council, recently discussed the disbursements of the first $10OOO0,O00 American Red Cross. fund and spoke of the necessity for further funds. He announced that the week set apart for the drive is May 20 to 27.
 eve have collected $1O5,00O,OO0," said Mir. Ryan. "We have allowed refunds to chapters-as you know, chapters are entitled to retain 25 per cent. of the collections covered by the chapter. They have not in all cases availed themselves of the 25 per cent, but we have allowed $17,006,121 on this account. We have appropriated to date S77,721 ,91S and we have avail able for appropriation on March 1 $10,371, ,217, with the addition of $3,- 5OO,O0O we know to be perfectly good when called upon.
 "The appropriations have been made to the different countries as fol- lows: France, $30,936, 103; Belgium, $2,OS6, 131; Italy, $3,5SS,S26; Russia, $1 ,243, ,845; Rumania, $2,676,368; Ser via, $875,1S0; Great Britain, $1,885,- 750, including $1,000,000 that was ap- propriated by the War Council to the eign relief work, $3,576,300.
 For relief work for prisoners we have expended $343,304, and this work is only beginning. These appro- priatiOnS have been made to care for the prisoners that we feared might be taken. We also spent for equipment and expenses of Red Cross personnel sent abroad $113,SO0; for army base hospitals in the United States, $54,- GOO; for navy base hospitals in the United States, S32,000; for medical and hospital work in the United States, $531, 1000; for sanitary service in camps in this country, $403, GOO; for camp service in-the United States, SC, 6,451, ,150, and miscellaneous in the United States, $1,11S,748. We have funds restricted as to use by the donors amounting to $2,52O,409 and we have as working capital for the purchase of supplies for resale to chapters or for shipment to France of $15, 100000. We have working cash advances for France and the United States of $4,296,0O0.
 People say we use 60 cents to spend a dollar. The expenses of the Red Cross today are well within the amount of money provided by mem- bership fees. No part of the $1O5, 5,OOO,- 900 that we got is spent for carrying on the work"
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-05-13
ebRogersDoes
 ABit of Figgerir1'
By JOSEPH C. LINCOLN
 Of the VigiIantes,

Caleb Rogers was seated at the little desk behind the counter of his "gen. eral store" at Rogers Corners. His check book was open before him. and he was tapping his front teeth with the end of a penholder and apparently considering deeply. Daniel Griggs who owns the big farm half mile uI the road, entered the store and stood for a moment regarding it's proprietor with an amused smile.
 "Well, Caleb" he observed, "you look and act more like a Rockefeller every day you live. 1 presume likely you're figgerin' whether you'll invest this months income in more Standard He or use it to buy your wife another diamond collar?
 Mir. Rogers smiled also, but he was serious enough a moment later.
 "Dan," he said, II tell you what was figgerin'. was figgerin' whether I hadn't better make the check 1 was goin' to give the Red Cross folks a hundred instead of fifty"
 Griggs' mouth opened in astonish ment.
 What About Jim Grigqs7
 "You give a hundred dollars to the Red Cross, Caleb Rogers p he demand ed. "You! Are you crazy? You sar tainly. ain't worth any more money than I am, and was calculatin' to give about ten-not more'n fifteen anyway The Red Cross is mighty fine thing I know that well enough. But if you'll tell me why folks no richer than yor and me should give"-
 Caleb's foot, which had been resting over one corner of the desk, came tC the floor with bang. He straighten ed, leaned forward and shook his fore finger earnestly at his visitor.
 "Tell you?" he repeated. "Yes, Dar Griggs, I will tell you. I'll tell you be cause you've got boy, same as have up here at the big camp, and it won be many weeks, or even days, afort they're both over on t'other side of tht big pond fightin' the most cussed cruel, interruptions gang of thieve! and murderers that ever rigged up il uniforms and killed women and babie! for fun. Oh, of course you know al that, you'll say. You know your so1 has enlisted and is goin' to war, tC battle, to run his chance along witt the rest of bein' killed or wounded o taken prisoner. You know it, yes, in . general way you do. Such things, tn, woundin' and all that, happen to Othe boys every day, but it's amazin' how slow fellers like you and me are to re alize that they're just as likely to hap pen to that one boy we set so mucl store by. It's what I've just been try in to realize, Dan. I've been sittin here thinkin' 1t out.
 "Take my own boy-or take yours to fetch it right home-take your Jim Jim left here and he went off to caml to be trained. And 1t was colder thai the northeast corner of an ice chest ul in that camp, and he no sooner landed thar than he realized he hadn't got tn, heavy sweater he'd ought to have His mother would have knit 1t, bu 'twould have taken time, and he'd hav' pretty nigh .froze waitin'. So the Re- Cross gave 1t to him, along witt wristers and a comfort kit On tn way up to camp wherever that trool train he was on stopped there wa
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The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-05-13
TOOYOUNCTOKEEP
 GAS MASKS ON
The Myriad Things the Red Cross
 Does, That Government
 Can Not Do. .j

Many people say: "Why doesn't the government do the work of the Red Cross?" There is no better reply to this question than to cite some of the activities of the American Red Cross.
 Last August the American Red Cross issued an order for an automobile to be given to a French hospital for chil- dren of Foul, near Nancy. A lot of chintzes for the bedrooms were sent down to brighten them up, lot of toys for the children-French children brought in from the war zone, too young to keep on their gas masks. To day ten Red Cross automobiles are hauling to Red Cross hospitals in France French children whose parents, held in slavery in Germany, are now being dumped every day at Evian, on the Franco-Swiss border.
 Fancy our government doing that for French children. Yet it must be done if the French morale behind the lines is to be kept up. These deeds of the American Red Cross are just as much a part of our military policy 1n France and Italy as though they were done un- der articles of war.
 Hired Knitters2 No!
 The government could, of course, hire knitters; It could, of course, issue pensions for soldiers families in Amer ica. It could buy ether and bandages and hire nurses. But these things are so small part of the Red Cross work that with them alone our cause would fail. Every man or woman who out of his own heart here at home gives to support the Red Cross in helping our cause from an angle of attack that is new in modern war. It is the angle of brotherhood. It stihenS the courage of civilians. It puts heart into our soldier allies by the comforting knowl- edge that their home affairs are going well. And every dollar put into the Red Cross makes not only for victory in this war, but for everlasting peace between the great nations now fighting together in this war. England and France have been our beneficiaries, not merely with the blood of our soldiers. But England and France and Italy have seen how freely and how well we spend our love of humanity upon their people at home, how truly and effec- lively we are friends in need, brothers in democracy. That is the Red Cross job-to make enduring the peace gnin- ed by our gunA.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-05-13
THE HEROISM OF MERCY
By OPIE READ

There is no greater heroism than the
 heroism of mercy. There is no truer bravery than the bravery of tenderness.
 Out of the crash of nation against nation arises Christ-like sympathy, and the insignia of its tenderness is the cross of red. It is the only remaining glow of a Christian hope. It is religion under shell fire. It is sigh set to the music of sympathetic action. If a man who speaks truth should say to you, With the use of five dollars you can save a
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-11-30
Get OF the Track.

With each succeeding day there is
additional evidence that. there Is no
need to have concern over the
problem of finding jobs for the SOL
diers when they return from France.
The jobs are waiting-anxiously
waiting. According to the Topeka
Capital, the Kansas state board Of
agriculture intends to adopt a reso-
luton urging that the army lie de-
modified as rapidly as possible in
order that Kansas farmers may be
assured of all the help they 'vill need
next season. The farmers OF Kansas,
says the Capital, have sown 100000
acres to fall grain-a record acreage
the spring if help is available. Kan
sas authorities want the boys sent
lack to their local boards to be mus
tered out. thus landing them in the
same communities from which they
were uEdWtl, anu Nc''6Ss
zion in some parts of the country and
scarcity Of help in others. :.
The suggestion is good one The
men and the jobs will get together if
given q chance. The federal employ
ment service at Washington has
worked itself into a frenzy Of late
over the greatness of its task o. find
ing Jobs for the men and finding men
for the jobs. They need not worry.
There will be work even for the in
cumbents of the employment service
if they will resign their places on the
government payroll. The country is
going ahead if officialdom gets off
the track.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-11-30

There. is a good suggestion III the
remark of the Pottsville, Pa, Journal.
that we must crush German con-
ceit." The trouble in the past has
been that we have nourished German
conceit. We have sent our students
tc German Universities. We have
sent our musicians to Germany to
finish their training. We have &C
corded Il special merit to everything
that bears the brand Made in Ger
many" We have even coddlad the
Socialists who got most of their ideas
from Germany. We threw down our
tariff bars to permit German goo6s to
have more extended sale in Our mar
kets. We sent our invalids to Ger
man mineral springs when we had
better ones at home. We have
praised everything that bore the Ger
man stamp. Why shouldn't Germany
be conceited?
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Maine Gossip
IN Latter from tha Front.

A Letter from the Front.
By Adolphe e. smylis Of The Vigil
I've studied hard since last wrote
Since I muffed that inshoot hand-gren-
But brush up my parlo:
So wrestle verbs while loafing, Dan.
On my frst-base-hospital COT
's DaT t ~ pa1e ls Cor sle; sb Tsat
Wait til / spill this at Luna PARK
'Combien ces saucissons Gig
They'll never know I'm asking what
The price of hot dogs might be!
The table d'hote talk Is quite easy,
Not half as hard as 1t seems
Though I'll never get wise in nickels
To NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. centlmes!
However. I'll get SO frenchitied
I'll scare folks when / get home.-
A bonehead turned philogoist
With a bulging Gallicized dome!
The chump!' / can hear you saying.
what's started him on this bunch!
or him and his pinochle bunch!'
So l might as we'll tess up, old son,
I've had sinking spells of late;
I'm rubbing the katIes and Maggies
And Honorias off my slate!
A slip of a girl here. started me
At frisking the French grammaire,-
One who could take me captive
With a strand of her dusky hair;
An orphan maid who teaches us french
And what it means to be brave
Not a man left of kith and kin,
Each one in a soldiers grave.
Bless Aod, when / hear that Black Jack
Is unter den linden tree
I'll know that this oblate spherold
Is safe for democracy.
Then back to the dear old U. S. A.,
But first l will tell Yvonne
That l know a bank up in Harlem
Where 1 have cached some mon.
And if she will flicker an eyelash
That l can interpret as 'Oui,'
I'll transplant my Picardy fiower,-
That's what we'd call fat accompli!'
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-11-30
NEW PORTLAND

John Mitchell and Eugene Strick-
land were business visitors in King
field on Monday.
Nathaniel Luce has been quite III
lately.
Little Colby Atwood. who has been
threatened with pneumonia, is gain
ing rapidly.
Clayton Atwood is able to resume
his stage duties.
Friends in town will be interested
to know that Mrs. Perley Gordon of
Livermore was the recent guest OF
her parents. Mr.. and Mrs. Walter
Beedy Of Kingfield.
Miss Marion Beedy is clerking in
Wyman's store.
Former neighbors in town will be
interested to learn that Clyde Saw
age and family have moved from
North Arson to Lexington on to the
Clarence Pinkham place. Mr.. Saw
age was in town recently.
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Editorial Comment
Our Anti BoIshevik Army


OF all the points made by the rumpus
at Madison Square Garden the only big
one, the one worth all the bumps and
bruises, is the demonstrated fact that
the soldiers and sailors of America are
anti-Bolshevik, anti-red, anti all the
crazy-headed anarchy rampant in the
name of Trotzky and Lenine and the
new Russian autocracy.
The bumps and bruises will heal
themselves. No one peaceably desiring
to assemble in American fashion was
seriously interfered with. 1t was only
those looking for trouble who met real
signed to be provocative of disorder.
and in that sense all who attended t
might have expected trouble. AS a
matter of fact, the men in uniforms
both inside and outside showed a fine
American sense and humor in singing
out, so far as possible, actual red
ness for rebuke.
The episode makes t clear that Boil.
shevik gatherings will be for a good
while frank invitation to riot and dis
order. No municipal police force, no
military police can cope with the sort of
clear-headed, justifiable wrath which
our men in uniform displayed. We are
certainly not going to turn our streets
into battlefields and subject the peace
able citizens of our town to the risk of
pitched fights merely to enable a few
thousands malcontents to vent a vague
sympathy with murder and anarchy.
1t is especially interesting that a
number of Observer reported a good
sprinkling of East Siders among the
soldiers. The sooner our men return
the better. They have been closer TO
the German idea. closer to the Boil
shev:k idea. than any of US. And they
seem to have learned a wisdom good
to see. The notion of the dear intel
lectuaf'. that a red army was re-
turning to rend rs proves to have Just
as much fact in 1t as most intellectual"
premonitions.
We shall have our fringe at Bolshe-
viks. But our fighting men who have
seen what war is and know what order
and nationalism mean will not be of it.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-11-30

comes universal in the United States,
greatest republic on Garth and leader
in world democracy:"--Ida Hustled
Harper.
Let suffragists take hearts The
next Job after making the world safe
for democracy is to make "democ-
racy' safe for the world. It is SOME
Job, and even in America we need the
help Of womanhood, even es we
turned to 1t in time Of war.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-11-30
SOLDIER BOYS

Lieut.. John B. Ellis OF the Quarter
masters department and Miss Char
lotte Brewer, both OF Bar Harbor we're
married at Camp Devens recently by
Chaplain Paul Gordon Favor.
Three former Maine National Guard
officers of the old LIST Maine and now
attached to the 54th Regiment, Heavy
Field Artillery, which departed from
the local Notifications early last sum-
mer, for overseas. have received promo
tons according to information received
in this city. Captain Edward H. Besse
of Portland. attached to the 54th Head
quarters Company. has been advanced
from the rank of captain to major;
Captain Solomon A. Hermann of West
brook from captain to major, and Cap
tain Wayne NJ. Gilmore from captain 20
major. Major Hermann is attached 20
Battery b and Major Gilmore to Bat
terry E. All three men have been con-
nocted with military affairs for years
and are well known in Portland
through their connection with the for
mer First Maine Regiment
Rodney E. Brazier of Thomaston and
H. Erwin Bradbury Of Bangor, the two
privates who have been assisting the
local exemption board since Sept. / have
been transferred to Auburn, where they
will assist in making up the records of
that board. Their work in connection
with the Knox county board has been
so efficient and satisfactory that they
received a call from Augusta to assist
the Auburn board.-Messenger, Rock
land
Lewiston Sun. Nov. 29-Major Roger
A. Greene, former captain Of the 1O1st
Trench Mortar Battery, who has been
in the thickest of the fighting IN
France for more than a year. arrived
in Lewiston Thursday for three days
stay. His coming was, happy surprise
to his many friends. He is looking fine,
feeling fine and tips the scales at pre-
cisely the same figure as he did when
he entered the service. He arrived in
New York last Saturday. and made
short visit at his old home at Hoosic
Falls. The day before the armistice
sail for the United States to recruit
two more companies and drill them
for duty overseas. After a three days
stay In Lewiston. he will 60 to Fortress
Monroe for duty.
Private Lewis Preston of Barring. who
was reported missing in action Oct. S.
is safe. His mother received letter
from him stating that he was well and
happy. The news in the letter stating
that after he wrote the letter home on
Oct. S. that he Immediately went into
the trenches and went over the top with
his company. In the fierce battle that
followed with comrades dropping
around him. reinforcements came up
and they gained their objective. He
was separated from his company and
when the roll call came he found him.
self in another company. When he did
not show up after the battle. his. origi-
mai commander reported him az missing.
His relatives and friends are we'll
pleased that he u safe.
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Need Woman Vote More Than Ever.

The suffragists OF the United
States have endured so much hui
after another enfrancise its women
while their own refused TO do Sc. that
they can probably stand tho shock Of
having Germany grant woman SUI
frage! According to the dispatches.
when the people of the different units
that have made the German Empire
shall take q vote on the form of
Government they prefer, women will
have exactly the same voice as men!
Hungary and Austria have already
arranged for this and It IL not an
exaggerated assertion that woman
suffrage il likely to prevail In all the
countries Of Europe before 1t be-
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BELGRADE

Mr.. and Mrs. G. 3. Farnham are re-
ceiving congratulations on the birth of
a daughter. Muriel Lydia, born Nov. o.
Miss Ruth Cummings. Miss Frances
Minot, Oral Page and Earle Mosher,
students at Bates college, passed
Thanksgiving day at their respective
homes here.
Miss Marguerite Watson. who is
teaching In Winthrop, and Miss Fannie