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The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1919-09-24
RELIEF MEASURES
FOR COMING YEAR
TOLD BY RED CROSS
'OLLOWING exhaustive reports
II from it's various Commissions
to European countries, the

FOLLOWING exhaustive reports
~ from it's various Commissions
to European countries, the
American Red Cross can de-
fine fairly well the foreign relief pro
gram for the ensuing year.
1t is now clear that in the rehabilita-
ton of nations and countries devas-
tated by the war, the problem of vital
ity and the building up of man-power
takes the first place in Red Cross act
ivities. Further, it is evident that the
feeding of foreign peoples, as well as
general material relief is not a field
which can be assumed by the Red
Cross. There remains, however, the
problem of sickness and disease, and
particularly a diminished and weak
ened child population, which none of
the countries of Eastern Europe is in
a position to meet with its own re-
sources, but where the American Red
Cross is in a position to offer indis-
pensable aid and service.
Recognizing these facts, the Red
Cross effort in Europe during recent
months has been concentrated more
and more on establishing and extend
ing through the countries of Eastern
tive health service, looking not only
toward relief in the immediate situa-
ton but also toward the establishment
of permanent health service built on
national foundations in each country
concerned.
The medical and surgical supplies of
all kinds made available for use by
the Red Cross by a recent Act of
Congress at once enable the Red Cross
to plan this effort in medical relief on
a broad, comprehensive and construc-
tive scale. The SIS, 100000 asked by
the Red Cross in the Third Roll Call,
November Pill, will be devoted, there
fore, largely to the administration of
this program and making effective
the distribution of materials derived
from surplus Army supplies. The ma
terials for general relief to be admin
istered in addition to and in connection
with the above will be obtained large
ly from supplies now in the possession
of the Red Cross, or will be covered
by small expenditure where purchase
may prove necessary.
This program permits not only a
definition in scope of the work to be
carried on, but limitation in time,
presumably a period of one year. At
the expiration of that time the work
of the Red Cross abroad will have been
largely rounded out, and activities con-
centrated on a program of service to
Americans.
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1919-09-24
new EDUCATIONAL
IDEAS ANNOUNCED

Wv TITH the opening Of the
M school term this fall the
Junior Red Cross will be
concerned with two new
phases of education.
The first is the Observation-Disclosures
of general education. The other is
the providing of scholarships for chill.
dren of disabled soldiers, sailors and
marines who wish to attend schools of
the Federal Board for Vocational Edu-
cation.
The closer Internationally of ma
tions, resulting from the war, is max
ing necessary, among children every
where an understanding Of the social,
Industrial and commercial situations
as they exist now and as they will be
apt to develop.
The teacher who keeps in touch
with Junior Red Cross activities will
have, this fall, monthly bulletin that
will contain true stories of conditions
and incidents over the world and will
make her geography and history
lessons as live and interesting as q
motion picture. These bulletin stories
and articles are specially prepared to
give a basic understanding Of the
world as it is in the process of change
today.
In order that fatherless boys and
girls may have an education that will
fit them for taking care of the family
daDepdapt unon them the Juniors
will try to provide scholarship for
the use Of the orphans Of men who
have died in service
An innovation in school courses this
year is First Aid, which will be taught
by physical directors and other teach
ers who have taken the course and
have qualified as an instructor.
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1919-09-24

by the people. And their au-
thority is small. The result is
that the State gets little from
the Superintendent of State In
struction, and the counties get
very little from the county su.
perintendents.
Let every citizen of Louisville,
where we are familiar with a
good school system, think of
what this means. Suppose we
had a law providing that our su-
perintendent of city school
could only secure office by join
ing a political party and getting
himself nominated and elected
for a term of four years, with
an additional proviso that good
man Guild not be reelected no
matter how excellent his work
may have been. Is there any
one who doubts that such regu-
lations would very largely destroy
our school system? And yet we
are tamely submitting in Ken
lucky to system that makes
real improvement in the country
schools almost impossio,e.
The things that should be done
first do not, therefore, admit of
argument. The first thing to be
done is to submit an amendment
to the State Constitution permit
ting the Governor to name some
real expert in education State Su-
perintendent at a good salary,
with permanency of employment
assured. The next thing is to
give that officer some real au.
thority. The third thing is to
so arrange matters that the
county superintendent shall be
appointive officers, and shall have
some authority in selecting the
teachers for the country schools.
Until these things are done we
need not expect lasting improve
ment in our county schools. And
in order that we may know how
great are our educational needs
the Legislature must appropriate
SIS. 900 for a survey of our
schools. Louisville Post.
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1919-09-24
POLISH WOMEN CARRY OUT
A. R. c. HEALTH PLANS

"HE American Red Cross is
now conducting operations
in seventeen European coun-
tries. In Poland the gov
eminent is taking over certain parts
of the American Red Cross activities
so that the Red Cross can move into
new fields of relief work. The policy
of the American Red Cross is to estab-
lish relief activities wherever great
need exists, then to encourage local
agncies to take over the established
work and carry it on.
With a personnel of hundred, the
Red Cross has been making great in
roads on the typhus epidemic and has
enlisted the aid of 300 Polish person
mel, mostly young women who have
been taught the rudiments Of Ameri-
can ideas Of hygiene. After a few
months, the Americans in many places
were able to leave the work of santa
ton to Polish units. The American
Red Cross has supplied modern steam
sterilizers, 80 mobile laundries, $4,000
fiat irons, portable baths and many car.
loads Of clothing. bedding. and hospi
tai supplies.
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1919-09-24

of the old days, so enthused with
the joy of reunion, of fellowship
once more with old comrades.
that they capered, danced and
pirouetted with the ardor if not
the grace of youth.
Years may have brought bur-
dens, but age has not taken their
courage nor diminished the cheer
that makes the heart throb with,
renewed life, when the old days
are being lived over once more.
Talk of permitting the Grand
Army of the Republic to stop its.
encampments, to give up the
fight, to cease its patriotic work 2
Never, while a hundred of the,
old boys remain to foregather
and renew friendship. Ohio
State Journal
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1919-09-24
The Young Old Boys.

There have been repeated
statements made that the men
of the Grand Army, grown old
and weary, would step aside and
let the younger veterans take
over the patriotic work of their
organization. That idea has
been accepted by many as reason
able and quite probable. But no
one who saw these hardy old
veterans march through the
streets of the city Wednesday
got any impression from their
appearance that they intended to
step aside and let anyone else
take charge. We make the pre-
diction that the Grand Army of
the Republic will hold numerous
encampments in the future, con-
tinuing the work themselves for
many years.
More and more must needs
ride each year, the weight of
years making the long walks i'm
possible, but to consent to have
that famous organization surrend
err to the burden of age is not in
the hearts of the merry thou
sands who braved the rain and
the heat Wednesday to complete
the parade on schedule. One
saw in the delegation from each
state veterans showing by stoop-
ed shoulders, furrowed brows
and whitened hair the story Of
the burden of their long lives,
and yet in each delegation were
those so filed with the fiery arde
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1919-09-24
BABIES NEVER TASTED MILK

HOLITICAL and economic trou-
- les are not the only obsta-
L cles that face the new repub-
attempting to build up a democracy,
fashioned after that in the United
States, one of it's most serious prob
lens is an alarming mortality rate,
especially among women and children.
Statistics of the American Red Cross
show that in Bohemia, Moravia and
Silesia deaths in 1917 exceeded births
by over 10000. Figures for 1918, not
yet completed, will show a larger NOR
tally.
"This whole condition" the Red
Cross commission reports, "is due to
under-nourishment of mothers and
children. In it's investigation the Amer
lean Red Cross found that many chill
dren have never tasted milk-not
even mothers milk, as the women
were too weak to nurse their babies.
Seven year old children have the ply
steal proportion of five, and ten year
olds have the growth of a normal
seven year old"
The Red Cross has organized sys-
TEN of soup kitchens throughout the
country, through which it hopes to
save the lives of thousands of moth
ers and children. The rumor of sign
with the American flag and the Red
Cross over an old shack or hastily
constructed hut is enough to make
women of these foreign countries walk
miles for a ration of soup.
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1919-09-24
Be 4 MEMBER Of THE
JUNIOR RED CROSS
NY American school, whether
it be public, private or paro-
chial, may have Junior Red

a NY American school, whether
~ it be public, private or paro-
~ chial, may have Junior Red
Cross auxiliary.
Membership in the Junior Red Cross
may be obtained by applying to ths
nearest Red Cross chapter. As soon
as the school enrolls as an auxiliary,
every boy and girl in that school be-
comes a member of the Junior Red
Cross.
Membership fees depend upon the
size of the school. The yearly fee for
each school Is one-fourth as many dol
lars as there are pupils in the school
The Junior membership auxiliary fee
is a school fund. not sum to be col
lected from individual pupils. Some
auxiliaries raise their money by sales
or school entertainments. Others
have sacrifice boxes" where candy
money is contributed to the Red Cross
fund
The chapter school committee re-
ceiyes the money from the school.
Sixty per cent is forwarded to Nation
al Headquarters for the National Chill
dren's Fund, and forty per cent re-
tanned for neighborhood relief work.
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1919-09-24
Education In Kentucky.

All of the candidates for i'm.
portant Office in Kentucky this
year are manifesting a commend
able interest in the improve
ment of public education in the
State, but there is a lack of a
definite program. And yet the
things that should be done first
are so plain that there shoulk be
no difficulty in naming them.
In attempting to discuss the
educational needs of Kentucky
the Evening Post finds it
necessary to say the same things
over and over again. We fear
that we have little that is new to
present. What we will now say,
we have often said before. But
as yet there has been no crystali-
zation of public sentiment in the
State. We must needs point out
again and again the obvious de-
fects of our existing system,
even if we expose ourselves to
the charge of repeating some
thing that has been lone humid
red times made plain"
At present in the State of
Kentucky we have a State Su-
perintendent of Instruction. who
must be nominated at direct
primary and elected at a regular
election for a term of four years,
and he is made ineligible for re-
election, although it is obvious
that no man can learn the duties
of the office in much less than
that time. The salary attached
is, we believe, $500 a year.
The powers of the officer are very
small, and his duties are largely
statistical.
Again, when we come te
county school superintendent
the law most unwisely provides
that such officers must be elected
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1919-09-24
JUNIORS PLAN TO Be
BROTHERS AND SISTERS
TO WORLD CHILDREN
TITLE brothers and sisters to
all the children of the world

TITLE brothers and sisters to
all the children of the world
that's what the school boys
and girls of America are going
to be called from now on. The Junior
Membership department of the Red
Cross has plan which will gather
them all into this relationship. Even
the smaller kiddies will be included.
In central Europe 100000 children
are starving-75,000 are hungry and
homeless in Petrograd alone. Sixty
per cent Of the membership fees are
to be sent to National Headquarters
for a National Children's Fund to re-
lieve suffering throughout the world.
In America, in smaller numbers,
there are children in need Of help.
These unfOrtunates are not to be for
gotten while the orphans of France
and Belgium are receiving aid. The
remaining forty per cent Of the Junior
fees, as well as any additional money
raised by the school children. is to be
expended for community activities.
Under this head there are many
classes. Crippled children are to be
found in almost any town, and the
Juniors will help them to buy crutches
or artificial hands and legs. Little
folks in need of hospital or medical
care will have American Red Cross
Juniors ready to foot the bills If the
fathers aren't able to pay the ex-
penses.
Junior auxiliaries will try to furnish
diversion for the children who live in
orphanages and for the shut-ins. The
ideal of the organization is to estab-
lish international understanding and
good will among all children; to pro-
vide motives for purposeful school &C
tivities, and to carry out ideals and
habits of service.
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1919-09-24

LOcalsDd Gsaere Anssshssics Alninis
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1919-05-22
SALESMAN WANTED

McConnan & Company want num-
Der of statesmen to fill territory in
which their line has been well estab-
lished.
Position is permanent, profitable,
healthy and pleasant. Territories OPP
en- include Kittitas, Yakima and Ben
ton counties. Selling experience is not
necessary. We train you in salesman
ship. This is very good proposition
for man enjoying outside work. For
particulars write McConnon & Com
pany, Winona, Mimi, or Statesmen. So
licitors, Mr.. j. o. Engle, Eatonville,
Wash. After application has been re-
ceived, can call on you in person rel
alive to this offer. ]. o. Engle, solic-
itor. 5:22-612
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1919-05-22
1--WE are due for another

''We are due for another
BOOM" remarked an old-timer
the other day. God forbid, !"
say we. The community started
out on an inflated basis, real es-
tate and rental valuations were
disproportionate to the creative
and earning capacities of farm
ing and business and the "on-
paper" prices of farm products
ignored the laws of supply and
demand and outrun the consum-
ers' pocketbook. After the in
flation malady had run it's course
deflation became necessary. It
was most painful operation. In
fact not a few business men and
farmers succumbed.
Some there are who are ready
now to look upon the first faint
chickering's of a returning pros
perity as a signal to again pump
up the gas bag, by boosting the
price of real estate, raising rents,
and placing fancy paper values
on farm products.
Our experiences should be
worth something to us and we
should utilize them to the ex-
tent of cooperating in an effort
to keep real estate values COM
mensurate with the earning pow
ers of the land, rentals common
surate with the earning capaci-
ties of business, and the price of
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1919-05-22
CHIvALRY IN THE TRENCHES
How Suffering Tommy, Doomed to
Early Death, Attempted to Give
His Blanket to Yank comrade.

"Yank, I'm only twenty-eight, but
I'm an old man." said an English
Tommy just before we turned into
our sleeping rolls on the coolest night
that 1 had experienced. And his aw-
full cough, the result of being gassed
early i'm the war, when they had no
masks, added fatal testimony to his
statement.
All night long he coughed. About
midnight I awoke shiyering. From
his coughing knew that he was
awake, said: Tommy, never was SO
cold in any life," and then in a few
minutes was asleep again.
An hour later was again awakened
by his violent coughing. To my sur
prise seemed to be warm and wonder
ed if the wind had suddenly changed,
but from its constant whistling knew
1t had not. / reached out and felt
two extra blankets on me. suspect
ed whence they had come by that vic.
lent coughing.
I got up and carried them back to
where he lay, saying: Tommy. did
you put these blankets on me?" He
replied: Eyes, Yank, you said you were
cold"
"But what about your"
"Oh, me? I'm used to it."
well, all / got to say is, thank you
but If you ever do that trick again I'll
throw you out Of the window in the
snow and let you freeze to death" And
then put them back on his shivering.
gassed body.-William L. Stidger in
Association Men.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1919-05-22

punctures repaired in one hundred
minutes.
The cementless patch was and TX
expansive, and was and is only a
temporary relief. There are on the
market numerous articles claiming
permanency. Co.. -. .5--..-..-
Two years ago the ECONOMY
PRODUCTS CO., of Tacoma, Wash
ington, prepared and marketed the
first absolutely permanent repair ma
terial sold in the West. The article
made by this company has been and
is used by over 100000 car owners in
the West. 1t is absolutely guaranteed
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1919-05-22
whx Hu.kIes Go Blind.

Many dogs that are driven in dou-
ble.traced harness go blind. Particles
of ice, exceedingly hard and fine. fall
from the brush Of the dog that is trav-
cling ahead. and, striking the eye.
scratch II, and in time cause partial
or total blindness. The more fero-
cious dogs Of the pack fight their way
to the front of the teams, and are
usually saved from this trouble.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1919-05-22
Public Affairs

NUR GOVERNMENT is not
~ democratic and representa-
tive of us if we do not control it !;
if we do not take an active hand
in it. Most business men find
that they cannot divide their
time between their business and
politics, so politics suffer in con-
sequence. But some day some
man is chosen for Office who is
wholly unfit or a law is passed
which causes business men to
throw up their hands in horror,
or justice miscarried in a most
scandalous way. Then business
men are jolted into some little
temporary concern about govern
mental affairs which soon passes
off in the press of business af-
fairs. Until business men be-
come thoroly and permanently
interested in affairs of govern
ment, in their administration
and in the choice of men for pub
lie Offices, our democracy cannot
function as it should.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1919-05-22
g|||t g|l|g
Build Now!

~ USINESS, from ditch Dig
~ ging to banking, needs
building as a stimulus at this
time. Building investments, If
made with reasonable prudence
are enhanced in value with the
increase of population.
A universal building program
means more to the United States
right now than at any time in It's
history. 1t means individual af-
l., ielcy for labor; it means in
creased production in all core'a.-
ed industries; it means increased
material demands until produc-
ton reaches the quantity pro-
duction level necessary for re-
ducing unit costs; eventually, it
means lower prices. This coun-
try is the soundest, healthiest,
wealthiest in the world. If you
need a home or a building do not
hesitate a day longer in going to
work on it.
Prices will not be lower until
production is increased; costs
will not go down until quantity
production permits us to avail
ourselves of the economy of the
maximum efficiency of labor and
machinery.
To increase labor efficiency, to
increase production, to lower
prices-build now!
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1919-05-22
lis 1t Another Boom?
IT is TO BE HOPED that

TT is TO BE HOPED that
history will not repeat it
self in Kennewick. Several years
ago the community imbibed of
prosperity. 1t went to our heads
and we have been a long time
SOLDERING up. In the old days
we took lot for granted. We
took it for granted that there
would be a never-failing water
supply, that the irrigation pipe
lines and fumes would never
wear out; that the government
would speedily put thru the Ben
ton Unit of the Yakima project;
and that all we had to do to in
crease our wealth and speed our
course along the high road of
prosperity was to increase the
price of real estate, raise rentals,
and place fancy valuations on our
products. 1t all sounded so nice
and looked so easy that we didn't
climb, we simply scared, by lift
ing ourselves by the boot straps.
Now there are evidences that
the community is finding itself
and that progress and prosperity
are coming back, it is to be hoped
that we do not get such a boom
.ssOuse" on that we can neither
keep our heads clear and our feet
on the ground.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1919-05-22
Opium.

Opium is the dried juice of the white
poppy. flower that grows In many
parts of Asia. a few days after the
flowers have fallen off the plants men
go through the fields in the afternoon
and make little cuts in the poppy head.
Out of these cuts milky juice oozes,
which dries into a brown. sticky paste.
Every morning the men go through the
fields again and scrape off this paste,
which they put into jars. Later on
It is made into half-pound balls and
then packed for shipment.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1919-05-22

by dealers everywhere as being q NJ.
manent and a perfect repair IN.
heat of driving ''cooks" the patch =
the tube-it becomes a part of a.
tube, as it were.
The demand for YANKEE GRID,
has grown rapidly and you will fna
it on the leading dealers shelves ~
erywhere.
yankee Grip" has proven to be .
staple article as necessary to the 81,
owner as bread is to the human holm.
Those who know yankee Grip" accons
no substitutes and carry it always
adv.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1919-05-22
PRINCESS PROGRAM

Friday
cali Bahia and the Forty Thieves"
a 1919 extravaganza, full of delights
for old and young. Also give to
Five" Christie comedy.
Saturday.
Enid Bennett in "The Vamp," a
story that every "plain" girl can draw
a lesson from.
Sunday and Monday.
VIM. S. Hart in "Selfish Yates"
Every body that enjoyed a Buffalo
Bill show will like Selfish Yates"
Also Kilograms and Lonesome Luke
comedy.
Tuesday
Dorothy Dalton in "The Kaiser's
Shadow" Also Ford Weekly.
Wednesday,
Harry Morey with Florence Deshon
in "The Desired Woman" from the
widely read novel. Also "a Fight for
Millions" with William Duncan.
**~.+
Thursday
Jack Pickford in ''The Spirit of
IT." real live nephew of your Uncle
Sam. Also Photograph.
Coming soon
VIM. Farnum in "Les Miserables."
Elsie Furgeson in "The Lie"
Charles Ray in "The Family Skel-
eton."
Harry Morey in Cali Man"
Billie Burke in Lets Get a Di-
vorce."
Annette Kellerman in Queen Of
the Sea-"
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1919-05-22

TIMELY TIPS TO CAR OWNERS
Your greatest worry and big ex-
pense is tire and tube trouble. 1t will
always be so while the air cushion is
used in tires. What you want is a
repair for punctures and blow-outs
that is permanent.
For one hundred cents, one hundred