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Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1920-09-02
AMERICAN RED CROSS
TO GIVE RURAL HELP
Program for Public Health and
Community Welfare Is Now
Well Under Way. n

Rnrnl communities and towns OF less
than 5000 population benefit In u very
large part BY the public health and
community welfare work Of the Aneri-
can Red Cross. Almost all OF the
5000 Red Cross chapters have some
rural sections In their territory. There
fore the Red Cross Rural Service.
Briefly, the purpose Of Rural Serv-
Ice 10 to asslst people to get out of life
more health, wealth and happiness In
this purpose public hearth instruction
and general educational progress Of
both children and adults play big
part
Recreation Is found to he one Of the
biggest needs in rural life. There IL
lack of sufficient play-life for the chill
dren and social life for the adults.
Picnics, pageants, debating clpbs,
baseball leagues. community singing
and other social events which bring
the people Of surrounding communities
together have been organized and car
ried on under the guidance of Red
Cross rural workers to great advan-
tage. In many Instances solving rec.
reational problems and getting people
together proves to be the awakening
Of the community to other conditions
which nay b. improved BY united
action. 4
Al a result of community organiza-
ton, townships In which there had
been neither plans nor interest In
community progress have been organ
lied to work together with the unifled
purpose Of bringing their community
up to the most enlighteaed standards.
Lecture and musical entertainment
courses have been started as result
Of community meetings, AZ well ms cir.
culating libraries, Red Cross schools of
instruction in Home Nursing. Care OF
the Sick and First Aid. In the larger
towns the need for restrooms and pub
lie comfort stations Is being met Play
grounds for ths children have been
established and recreational activities
worked out for the year.
10 order that there may be concerted
effort in carrying on the programs Of
the various welfare agencies In the
rural districts. Red Cross Rural Serv-
Ice helps the organizations already on
the ground. The main object Of the
service 10 to lend hand everywhere
and take the lead only where neces-
sary.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1920-09-02
EMieIency.

spears like Polk Swaney, that
runs the store at the crossroads, hain't
overrid with enterprise" commented
citizen Of Fiddle Creek. "Tuther
day, frinstance, went there in the
middle of the afternoon, to buy little
something, talk politics, and so forth
When / sa'ntsred in nobody was in
sight on the place. But after I'd
tromped around for a spell a sleepy
voice from under the counter sorter
snarled:
'If you're a drummer that aims to
sell me something, ! don't want it: ana
II you're customer that is figgerin
on buying something, why In fury can't
you just as well come around some
time when ! amt plumb aw-w-w-wnl
wore outT'-Kansas City Star.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1920-09-02

sion Of congress for the purpose Of
having II repeal the Silver act of the
Harrison administration. The next day
he submitted himself to the surgeons
knife for the removal of cancerous
ulcer which had appeared in the roof
of his mouth. His grave physical con-
dition was concealed from the panicky
mind Of the public, and the operation
was performed In the closest secrecy
aboard yacht as it steamed slowly up
the East River, off New York. Not up-
til many years had passed was it
known that VIXEN congress assembled
he faced it with rubber jaw.
Under the pressure of the president,
the Silver act was repealed, but only
after bitter struggle which left the
Z Democratic party hopelessly split. The
passage Of a tariff bill divided the par
ty still more. It was such lobby
made, log-rolling measure that Cleye-
LAND refused to sign 1t, but let it be-
come law without his signature. After
that TIE Democrats went down In de-
feat in the congressional elections Of
1894.
In the depth Of our domestic
troubles the president sent hfs famous
Venezuelan message to congress. In
1t he announced that the British gov
eminent had rejected all our appeals
for the arbitration Of a land dispute
which 1t was pressing in South Amer
lea, and he boldly proposed that we
ourselves slsould decide the question
and then proceed to enforce our de-
cisi0n.
Stocks tumbled headlong in Lon
don and New York, and there was
much wild talk on both sides Of the
Atlantic. But the president confidently
reassured his troubled private secre-
tary, "Thurber, this does not mean
war; it means arbitration" AID that
was the outcome Of all the hubbub.
Cleveland's outburst of plain speaking
had the effect Of awakening tie Eng
lish people, as never before. to the val
ne Of American friendship, and It
opened a new era In the relations Of
the two governments.
Cleveland's hardest, longest battle in
| his second administration was for the
! gold standard. Almost alc1e he upheld
Il through four years, aoandonedy ~
most IL tie Delnocfnts and unaided by
the sole Republicans II congress WIzo
were afraid II .hpftint tie H@rts''
NiiI. ne sIlSeF pes2'e.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1920-09-02
HOME SERVICE FOR
EVERYBODY IN NEED

Do you know what the present day.
Home Service of the American Re6t
Cross IL?
Many people do not know that, BE-
sides completing the work for ex-serv-E
Ice men, especially the disabled, it prof.
vides the same neighborly service To-
families IN general that II formerly
gave families Of soldiers. sailors and
marines.
"Home Service covers a wide ana
varied field" says Frederick G. Mum
roe. general manager Of the American
Red Cross. 1T gives aid to families
in solving such problems as budget
planning, marketing. tiding over times
of financial stress, keeping children In
school. helping crippled children, Wild
owed and deserted mothers, children
backward in school and children In
confilct with the laws It renders serv-
Ice to the homeless and transient, to
the illlterate, to tenement dwellers, to
the unemployed, and gives friendly as
slstance md advice to foreign speak
Ing groups"
In addition to helping families In
the solution of their own problems.
Home Service helps in strengthening
the weak spots In the social life OK
communities. It joins hands with 9TH
ers to make communities safer,
healthier and happier.
Organizing action along lines 10
which the community Is already inter~
ested is one Of the objects Of Home
Service. 1t has established community
meetings, patriotic celebrations, pag-
eants and picnics. Rest rooms, recre-
alton facilities, play supervisors and
moving pictures have been provided.
Through Home Service other agencies
are influenced to bring about improved
commercial amusements and better
school facilities and to promote travel
ing libraries as we'll as to secure coun. |
" agricultural and home demcnstra-
tion agents.
Ii you need assistance at any time,
70 to the secretary OF the nearest Red
Cross chapter and describe the situa-
ton. Your confidence will be sacrediy
respected and every possible effort win
be made 10 aid you.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1920-09-02
ROVER CLEVELAND had no

ROVER CLEVELAND had no
NJ more than left the presidency in
defeat and settled down to the prac-
tee Of law in New York City than it
was seen that he was still almost as
much the leader Of the Democratic
party as when he was In tie White
House.
In the four years Of his retirement,
he seldom saw party leaders. Yet 80
strong was the reaction against the
Republicans AID so loud the call for
him In 1892 that he returned in tri-
umph to the White House.
One of the periodical panfcs Of the
10th century smote the country with
financial and industrial paralysis I'M
1893. only two months after the In
auguration. AS usual, the party In
power caught the blame, a1d day after
day q leading Republican newspaper
shouted In gleeful headlines: another
bank gone Democratic!"
= AS the first means Of restoring con-
fidence, Cleveland called special ses-
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1920-09-02
NURSING SERVICE IS
RAPIDLY EXPANDING
This american Red Cross Work
Flcurishing IL Small Towns
Throughout Country.

More than $1,000 graduate nurses
have been enrolled In the American
Red Cross to date and it, department
Of nursing il daily Increasing this en-
rollment.
The department Of nursing has been
authorized to maintain an adequate
reserve Of nurses for the army and
navy. 1t win continue to supply the
needs Of the United States Public
Health Service to which it has az
signed more than 1000 nurses in the
last year.
Il Will assist In establishing proper
nursing service 10 foreign countries
where the American Red Cross has or
ganised hospitals dispensaries ana
schools for Rurses. Courses 10 home
hygiene and care Of the sick have been
started for thousands Of women who
have never received any education in
this direction, Rural nursing which
was In Its infancy short while ago
has been put ahead at least a decade
through the work Of the department
Of nursing and local Red Cross
chapters.
Public health nursing has been cx-
tended to many rural communities ana
now fiourishes actively In hundreds Of
small towns and counties. Nearly o
thousand efficient nurses have already
been assigned to this kind Of work.
The department Of nursing d unit
Ing with other organizations in q years.
campaign In recruiting nurses for
training schoolA In educating the rem
eral public as to standards Of nursing
education and In showing communities
their responsibility toward schools Of
nursing. 1t viii endeavor to meet all
these needs as well az to continue the
enrolment or dietitians who viii be-.
utilized a. instructors in homo dietee-
ics, In developing nutritional clinics,
and In supplying dietitians for the
United States Public Health Seryice.
and the civilian hospitals.
The Nursing Service viii continua b.
offer to women and young girls the,
opportunity Of securing Instruction 10
home hygiene and care Of the sick IN
every community In the country. This
instruction has not only laid the f6uA-
dalton for public health but IN some
places has given impetus to the estab-
lishment Of hospitals and community
school houses.
sAs q community profits BY the work
Of the NURSE" says Miss Clara D.
Noyes, director Of the department oil
nursing. ut IL logical that the COM
munity should be aroused to its respon-
sibility. The American Red Cross
stands ready to help in general cam
paign Of recruiting and must have thel
support, sympathy and understanding
Of the medical profession as well al
the intelligent cooperation Of thsI
people at large"
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1920-09-02

man to the sea. Afterward he rose
to a high and prosperous rank I'm the
practice of law.
The only political office Harrison
ever held before his election to the
presidency was q seat in the senate.
Defeated for reelection to that body
In the year before he was elected pres
jdent, he left Washington with no
thought that he would soon return as
president-elect, and he frankly de-
scribed himself as "a dead duck"
The only candidate that the rank
and file of the Republicans wanted to
nominate in 1883 was Blaine. But he
was not well, and he refused to make
a contest for the nomination. At last
he cabled from Scotland: flake Har-
rison." And the convention indiffer-
emily took him.
The more notable events Of the Har-
rison administration-the Mckinley
tariff act; the silver act, which more
than doubled the purchase Of that
metal by the treasury; the Sherman
law on the subject Of trusts; the de-
pendent pension act. and the first Pan
American congress hardly belong In
this little story, because none Of them
originated with the president himself.
He did not rise to leadership, and con-
gress took the reins. All the while he
sat in the White House In cold aloof-
ness.
I With the cry of "God help the sur
pIusir the Republicans gave the coun-
try in Harrison's administration the
first ''bilIion-dollar congress- the ap-
preparations for the two-year term ris-
ing to that unprecedented total. To
the popular protest Speaker Reed re-
torted: "This is a bilIion-dollar coun-
try" But the country did not feel rich
enough to pay the higher tariff rates
Of the Mckinley net.
That law was passed only seven
weeks before the congressional cleo
tons in 1890. OF course anyone who
had anything to sell seized upon the
excuse to mark up prices. The shop
ping women rose in their fury at the
higher cost OF living, and the voters
overwhelmed the Republican majority
IN the house.
/, That was the forerunner Of still
ereater political overturn IL the presis
dental c;aNfion 10 1892. when Harrison
vent down under ! sWeepIng sIrtesy
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1920-09-02
BRINGS JOY TO SMALL BOY
French Youngster Has Peculiar Rea-
son for Welcoming q Visit
- From the Mail Carrier.


The little French boy can experience
q Joy that is unknown in this coun-
try. His father or mother. or kind
aunt, may have a generous impulse,
and send him a postcard which will
carry more fun with it than any COM
ic card, such as they ordinarily love.
On the opposite side to the address
Is a large space devoted to close print
ing, which is signed by the generous
relative. and commands the mail car
rier to hand over to that lucky boy,
at his own door, some nice little sum,
perhaps FIVE or ten francs. The space
devoted to correspondence is about an
inch strip down the side, the right
proportion for small boy.
Think of the Joy OF answering q
man carriers knock and finding your
self presented with an extra bit of
pocket money quite unexpectedly II
adds new thrill to life.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1920-09-02
The
Scrap Book
KITCHEN LIKE LARGE TRUNK
Recent Invention said to include Ev-
/ erythlng Needed Within Re-
niarkabiy Small Space.

Z The kitchenela, is a complete and
perfect kitchen occupying a space
about Aka feet. It was recently pat
ented and It includes cook stove, ta-
Die, sink and ample shelf capacity for
taking care Of ali the necessary uten-
sils and some Of the most needed vi
ands and other commodities which are
called for in the course Of days
cooking.
" A great deal Of ingenuity has been
exercised In the arrangement Of all the
various features Of the kitchenola SO
that there is not square inch Of lost
space, and when the article is not In
active and immediate service 1t folds
up into a piece Of furniture which
might be mistaken for chiffonier or
something of that sort. One of the
front panels drops on hinge and re-
yeals an oil stove and at the same
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1920-09-02
JUNIOR RED CROSS
ACTIVE IN EUROPE

Garden seeds for Polish orphans.
milk for anaemic Greek babies, car
penters' tools for Czeeho- Slovakian
cripples--these are only few of the
gifts that young Americans are send
ing to the war-crushed children of the
Old Warld.
Through the Junior Red Cross the
boys and girls Of the United States
are giving 3 fresh start In life to little
war orphans scattered all over Europe.
They have set up orphans homes In
France, school colonies in Belgium and
Montenegro, and day schools In Al.
bania.
They are sending dozens of young
Syrians. Montenegrins, and AIbanians
to American colleges In Constantinople
and Beirut and maintaining more than
hundred orphans Of French soldiers
at colleges and trade schools. 10 or
phanages and farm schools up and
down the peninsula of Italy there are
nearly 500 wards Of American Juniors.
Last winter thousand French chill
dren from the inadequate shelters of
the devasted regions were sent by the
Junior Red Cross to spend the cold
months in warmer parts Of France.
At the same time Ave thousand little
Belgians were having hot lunch every
day at Junior Red Cross school can
teens.
American school children have al
ready raised something like a million
dollars for these enterprises, and they
are still hard at work.
In China. through campaigns Of ed
ucation. the Junior REQ Cross is help.
ing to. combat widely prevalent blind.
ness and cholera.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1920-09-02

time forms very serviceable table
Immediately in front Of the stove. or
to one side there is lid. and when
this is raised sink is found under It.
As the lid turns aside 1t is engaged
with catch and held In horizontal
position, where 1t performs the func-
lions of a drain board. In addition
to this there are a number Of shelves,
compartments and drawers for special
and general purposes.-St. Louis
Globe Democrat.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1920-09-02
FOLLOWED DIRECTIONS.

Eva s., twenty-four years
old. a maid employed In jersey
City, was locked up last night
in the West Thirtieih Street
police station, charged with
grand larceny. she Is alleged
to have stolen $1G0 worth Of
articles from a Sixth avenue
department store.
The explanation she gave was
that she saw q sign In the store
which read: customers. please
take small packages home. g.
New York Times. "
Evening journal., 1920-01-08

county pair si94,seG in salaries to
teachers. This year the amount being
paid to teachers in Kent county is
si93,6OO. Last year the rural schools
Of Kent county spent s92, ,73l for all
purposes. This year they will spend
$4,000 for the single item Of teachers
salaries.
The enemies OF the Code are promis-
ing a reduction Of school expenses In
event they are given control of the
next General Assembly. 10 might not
be bad idea for them to tell the peo-
pie now just what items they would
cut.
Would they cut the item OF teachers
salaries? Almost all other States are
paying even more than Delaware, and
Evening journal., 1920-01-08
AMERICAN LEGION
WELCOMES ALL
Membership Open to Mem
bers of Unions Who
Served Country
LOYALTY TO NATION
SOLE REQUIRED TEST

Franklin D'Olier. national commander
Of the American Legion, today issued
from national headquarters at Indian
apolls. a statement regarding the attl-
tude OF the American Legion toward Or
ganized workers.
"The attitude Of the American Le-
gion towards organized labor" says
the statement, rs exactly the same es
its attitude toward all groups OF Amer
lean citizens who are interested In a
square deal for all in the maintenance
Of law and order and the protection Of
the institutions handed down 20 us by
our forefathers.
'The preamble OF our constitution
expresses very clearly the purposes OF
The American Legion and reods as fol-
lows:
For God and country we associate
ourselves together for the following
purposes: To uphold and defend the
Constitution OF the United States Of
America; 10 maintain law and order; 20
foster and perpetunte a one-hundred
per cent. American SIN; TO preserve the
memories and inc dents Of our associa-
tion in the great war; TO inculcate a
Evening journal., 1920-01-08

What items in the budget would they
slash? What ones would they omit?
They surely know, since they are so
free to find fault. The people have a
right to know before these enemies are
given control, whether these enemies are
"bluflng" or mean business. If they
mean business. let them put their fin
ger on the items and say. Here is
where I would cut expenses"
Surely they don't ask to have the
patient under the influence Of ether
and placed on the operating table be-
fore they know where they will cut Now
is tn time to make the diagnosis, to
find out what is wrong and should be
cut and what is right and should be
left alone.
Those papers which have been Yell
ing about waste Of money surely know
what they are talking about. Now let
Evening journal., 1920-01-08

sense OF Individual obligation TO the
community, State and Nation; to COM
bat the autocracy Of both the classes
and the masses; TO make right the mas
ter Of might. to promote peace and
good will on earth; TO safeguard and
transmit to posterity the principles Of
Justice, freedom and democracy; to con-
5 scrate and sanctify our comradeship
by our devotion to mutual helpful
ness
"The purpose OF the American Legion
Is two-fold-seryice TO our comrades
and service to our country.
Under the head OF Service 70 our
comrades, we will exert all of our in
fluence and all Of our strength to the
end that the ex-service man, especially
the disabled man and his dependents
and the dependents Of those who paid
the supreme sacrifice. shall receive that
lust and fair treatment which they have
reason to expect from a patriotic and
liberal country.
"ln serving our country we shall en-
deavOr TO keep alive that spirit OF SER
vice which induced US all to respond
to our countrys call in the time Of her
need even to the extent OF being will
ing to pay the supreme sacrifice. And
this we propose doing by assisting in
the maintenance Of a hundred-per cent.
Americanism based on fair play and
square deal for all
THE members Of organized labor are
patriotic American citizens and the
members OF the American Legion are
patriotic American citizens who have
proven their patriotism and their 10y
atty. Consequently, on the purposes
Of the American Legion both they and
we are in accord. Many Of our most
loyal members are members OF organ
lied labor, and IL Is our hope that we
may be able TO convince every ex-
sevice man who is a member Of organ
ized labor that our purposes are the
same as loyal citizens and That every
Evening journal., 1920-01-08

the teachers in all rural and town
schools amounted to si5S,9i527. This
year the salaries OF the teachers in
rural schools only, q. e., outside spe-
cial distrlcts), amount to si66,i20, or
$4,000 more than for the entire county
last year. Last year these rural schools
spent only Si66.606 all told, including
salaries. textbooks. fuel, repairs and all
other expenses. In other words, the
teachers Of the rural schools Of Sus-
sex county are getting as much money
this year as was spent last year for
everything In connection with the
schools.
In Kent county the contrast is stii
greater. Last year, under the old laws,
all the rural and town schools OF Kent
Evening journal., 1920-01-08

ducing salaries. No enc worth her salt
is going to try 10 teach a lot Of children
without supplies, without books, in a
school house badly in need Of repairs,
when she can get SIS . month up
ward in an Office, where she is fur
nished good, comfortable surroundings
The day is forever passed when school
teachers Will consent TO spend seven 30
nine months In a forlorn, dark, b.ldiy
ventilated, poorly heated school house
on a mud road in the edge Of a woods,
furnished with few supplies and books
and expected to handle all sorts of
youngsters. MOI when town jobs as
clerks, typists, stenogapheFs. ETC., are
being offered for more money.
Enemies Of the School Code are al
ready promising TO reduce expenses if
they are given control. Let them
specify where they would reduce.
Evening journal., 1920-01-08
EPWORTH CHURCH
TO WELCOME SOLDIERS

4 reception will be given oy the
EpSorth NJ. E. Sunday School to the re-
turned soldiers and sailors Of the
Church and Sunday School on Friday
evening. A splendid program OF music
and speaking has been prepared.
Caleb +. Burchenel will make the
address Of welcome, Robert Eaton VIII
sing several selections. and Epworth's
choir, under the leadership Of Prof.
George e. King will sing. William P.
White with the harmOnica will also be
among the entertainers.
Refreshments will be served. All
members OF the Sunday School and
Church are requested to be present.
Evening journal., 1920-01-08

lt has been only by the hardest kind
OF work this year that Delaware has
secured enough teachers to keep her
schools open New Jersey, just across
the river, Is now talking Of a minimum
yearly salary OF $1,000 for teachers.
Would the enemies of the Code reduce
teachers salaries, If they were put in
power2
Would they reduce the item Of text
books? Would they deprive children
Of books in order TO cut expenses ?
That would be equivalent to depriving
a workman Of his tools. Would they
stop making repairs and let the build
ings go 10 rack and ruin? Would they
stop buying supplies, such as maps
If so, they would drive teachers out OF
Delaware almost as rapidly as by re-