Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1921-02-01
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uisasters'' affecting 159 communities
swept away $11 100000 worth OF prop
-rty and caused S7S0.000 additional To
lie spent in relief work in addition 10
100000 expended at Corpus Christi,
Tex, last year for the disaster there
late in 1919. Tornadoes were unls-
ually numerous the Red Cross said.
and caused II disasters, while twene.
ty-two relief expeditions followed fig
,!res. One relief expedition succorcd
l., -rasshopper plague in North Dako-
Ia. Besides domestic aid. emergency
relief was given TO famine sufferers
in China and earthquake victims in
.lexico and Italy, the report said.
Balances of the United War Fund
. resulting from the drive OF November
1918, and remaining in community
chests will be turned over 10 Herbert
Hoover's European Relief Council
pending a decision from the president
rs to the disposal Of the S3.500.000 Of
ne United War Fund in the hands nI
the committee of eleven. Following
the lead of the knights Of Columbus
board of directors in voting that or
Tanization's share Of the fund balance
TO the Hoover fund other organizations
have intimatcd their Willingness to
surrender claim to the S1,500,000 OF
tfl6 lOldl aY0,UUU,VVU OtlltlilNt VI tBS "t'i
fund now in community chests. I'VE
have been assured by Mr.. Hoover that
starving children in Ireland will be
cared for by his council said Su-
preme knight James a. Flaherty.
= Secretary Daniels on Friday Of
licially welcomed the seven little Rus
sian orphans. adopted by Rear Ad-
niral Newton McCUllE. into the navy
family" The admiral called at the
department and for half an hour the
usually quiet office Of the secretary
looked like q Russian kindergarten.
Nr. Daniels said afterwards that
while qualified as an expert intcrpre-
icr of baby talk" because Of his own
.nrge family. he found some difficulty
in understanding it in Russian. Dur
ing a picture taking ceremony all sew
cn youngsters insisted on sitting ion
either the Secretary'S or the admlraiS
iYp and the pair we're literally swamp
.tl in Russian children. IT took STRAIT
eEy to let the photographers get their
pictures Admiral McCully will keep
;he; children here until formal adon-
ton proceedings have been completed,
then take them to his home in Ander-
son, S. c., where they probably will
reside permanently.
Motherhood is safer in any II for
eiTn countries than in the United
states, and babies in ten other coun-
tries have a better chance OF living
through their first year. according to
lie house commerce committees re-
port on the Sheppard d-Towner bill to
appropriate S1,4S0.000 for safeguarding
Tho health of mothers and babies. The
rrIort classed the bills as emergency
legislation and said there was practi-
catly no opposition to it. Thc@com-
.nittee found, it is said. that maternal
and infant morality in the United
States was not decreasing. statistics,
before it showing q Is per cent. in
crease in deaths from child birth be-
tween 1919 and 1920. Infants under
CHE year of age are dying from pre-
ytntable ailment at the rate OF 250,-
b4N a year, the report said. In rural
sections; studied, it was ascertnined.
ts.s report added, that so per cent of
u,r;hers received no advice or trained
care preceding the birth Of children.
- Two men held up Cashier Z. f.
Smith at the American Railway In
press company's main office at the un-
ion station at Tampa Fla. last Fri
day afternoon and escaped with con-
:ederate, in an automobile. 1t is SAID
lttN S1SpiOu III booii "''N N''
Packages of merchandise from the
%:t:r According to Smith. hc was ac-
Crstod by two neatly dressed men who
requested a money order quickly. AS
Saith was in the act Of opening his
cage. one Of the men thrust Il revol-
Yer against the hack Of his head with
tie order: "If you make any noise. III
hk,w your brains out" Smith was
lhan thrust through the door, hand
uGiie6 and compelled to lie behind a
counter. While one man guarded hlln
tils. other gathered up three packages
al currency from the safe and TWO
.rrkages of mercha ndise. from a desk:
The men then slipped quietly out OF
tiln building, Joined Va confederate in
= waiting automobile and\sncd away
\ few minutes later fellow cmpoyc
learned of Smiths predicamoni The
..xnress company. il was announced ny
M!oarer Eve, offered $1,000 reward
:,r the apprehension Of the alleged
robbers.
= Senator Kenyon. Of Iowa. has in
'roduced in congress a bill to cStah-
!i&h a rural credit system to standard
70 productive farm credit paper IN
tie open market. The bill creates two
corporations by special charters.
Anmely a rural credit society and
General insurance league The credl,
society will consist Of one centlQl
'g.nk of S25,000,00O capital to he fur
nished by the government without IN
,r:est. which will he retired by a sink
ng fund created by the bill. The Gre
uit also will! consist of forty-ctGht
branches. one for each state, with $50"
900 capital each TO be inrnishcG by thc
insurance company accepting the lc'l-
eral charter created by the bill. THIS
took will be paid per cent. cum
nlative dividend and become Il guar
anty aga inst the loss OF the govern
ment's capital. Any number ot COM
munity associations or cnmmrucS may
be\ organized by farmers with not less
than seven members each This COM
mune stock will hC owned hy farmer
members and divided into shares ni 81
each. Three commissioners arc to he
appointed by the secretary OF aGrlc'ii-
ture TO negotiate with one OF the large
life insurance companies. for the r'lr-
pose OF inducing it tu accept such Fed
eral charter in lieu of its state c!iartcr
and make an Investment iii the credit
society aS2rcgaiing $500 600 and
choose the socirty'S auditor and de-
putty auditors. The fact that the cap
ital Of. such IN insurance company
becomes :. .iiarantnr Of every piece
of that rural credit parcr and tn" IN
surance company is placed in 4 posi-
tion to acuIIirp accurate Information