The Cordova daily times., 1919-03-12

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 Local headquarters will open Fri day and Saturday afternoons of this week from 2 until o'clock, for the distribution of yarn for refugee knitting
 Answering the appeal for refugee knitters in the Red Cross News Notes" of February 18th, the follow ing ladies have responded: Mrs. Jack Day. Mrs. c. S. Bratton, Mrs. Harry Kerr. Miss Lemon, Mrs. Jack Sap1ro, Mrs. w. w. Council, Mrs. Malcolm Brock, Miss Evangeline Church.
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 Cordova Chapter has received of- ficial recognition from the director or Chapter Production by being placed on the honor roll of the Northwestern division in the refugee garment de- partment for the high character or work that it has turned out.
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 The following letter, under date Of February 22nd, has been received: Cordova Chapter, Red Cross,
 Cordova.
 Our dear Ladies:
 We acknowledge receipt of the two sweaters sent us this station and thank you very kindly for your re- membrance. Yours very truly,
 c. M. JONES,
 Sargent, Signal Corps ALVAE LARSEN, 14th Infantry, U. s. A. Copper Center.
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 Draw again the knitting needles that temporarily were sheathed. The hands that became expert in welding them when garments were to be made for our boys in camps and trenches have new work to do. This time it is not matter of supplying comtort' it is one to relieve actual and terrible suffering. Patriotism never had any finer personification than in the case of millions of American women who responded to the country's call ana became the "army behind the army" Now it is humanity that calls
 Refugees all over the world, who have been driven from their homes by the war, have been for several wears in rags, or practically with no clothes at all Pitiable stories have r been flashed across the ocean about thousands upon thousands of children who are bare-footed or bare-legged while snow and ice is upon the ground.
 Travellers returning from abroad tell of the misery beyond description. The daily press cables are full of heart rending stories of distress.
 Harry Pratt Judson, president o1 the University of Chicago, on his ar rival in New York few years ago from a tour of inspection in the Near East, told of scores of thousands of Syrian and Armenian refugees who had marched 700 miles through storms and winds, with nothing but scraps on their backs" Turkish soldiers, he says, have turned bandits, and there is no peace and no safety
 On the same day another observer told of the death during the war or 16O,OOO children in two small Near East countries, whose total popula- tion does not exceed 2,000,0OO.
 A Vladivostok telegram describes the pitiful plight of several thousand Russian children who were scnt to the country to escape famine but were left stranded by military operations The American Red Cross is caring TOT some 1900 of them at certain centers, but thousands more are running wild in the Urals, subsisting on roots and what they can beg and living in a state approaching savagery."
 The Associated Press on February 5 reported the death in Petrograd from starvation of w. D.. Childs, for many years chief representative of the Western Union Telegraph Com pany in Russia Many other Ameri- cans have met similar death
 These few items in the news of the week give faint suggestion Of the enormous relief problem that con- fronts the world.
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 Seeing the sights of London under American Red Cross auspices now is a daily diversion for hundreds of con valescent American soldiers who have been cared for in hospitals situated