The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1922-06-15
THURSDAY, JUNE Is, 1922
ARE WE CUTTERS?

Miss Daisy Warn, who has been the
Red Cross secretary in this county
for the past two years left Kingstree
this week for her home at Beaufort.
The loss of this young lady's services
as a social and civic worker in VIII
iamsburg county is incalculable. She
is leaving Kingstree because the IL
nancial support given the Red Cross
chapter by citizens of this town and
county is no longer sufficient to car
nv on the work of the organization
a service to the community tat can
not be measured by dollars and cents.
We trust that the people of this coun-
ty and town will realize Immediately
the importance of reopening the Of
flee of the Red Cross secretary and
continuing the splendid work so ably
carried on by Miss Warn the past two
or more years. We want to see her
continue the wirk.
For the remainder of this year the
sum Of $1,000 would be sufficient to
continue the work, and retain the
services of Miss Warn in the county,
and one of our substantial citizens
suggests that if ten of cur business
men, including himself as one, would
guarantee five dollars u month for
seven months we could depend on
.srnSlle! donations from otner sources
for the balance of the required
amount. Think what splendid op-
pcrtunity this would be for tithers
and non-tithers to direct some of
their giving to the relief of local suf-
fering, or to a genuine hone mis-
sionary work.
We understand that several busi-
ness firms of Kingstree have volun-
telily offered to assist in reopening
and continuing the Red Cross office
if a sufficient number of their fell
low citizens will agree to assist in
like manner towards raising the
amount needed. The County Record
will gladly receive contributions OF
pledges in behalf of this object, keep
ing a strict record of and reporting
names of donors and amounts to the
local chapter. Or better still, call up
or write Mr.. Thomas McCutchen, pres
ident Of the local chapter and make
your guarantee direct to Rim.
We hardly think the thoughtful peo-
pie of Kingstree will allow so valu-
able an institution as is the Red Cross
to this community to close its office
and cease fur.ctioning permanently.
With US it was a wartime institution,
but since that horrible nightmare, the
organization has been maintained here
and it's benefits to the community
have been invaluable, for what we per-
sonally and individually cannot do the
Red Cross does.
A great statesman says, Dollars
are as dross when humanity is at
stake" Just a dollar would soothe
some aching pain-at home. Let it
not be said of a single person in this
community whose stove house is full:
81 was an hungered,and ye gave me
no meat; I was thirsty, and We gave
me no drink; l was a stranger, and
ye took me not in; naked, and We
clothed me not; sick, and in prison,
and We visited me not"
Make the Red Cross your mes.
senger. The author of the above quo
tation will give you due credit. There
has never been a time in Williams
burg's history when in social and
civic circles its people have been
more closely united than at present.
In fact the county just at this time
is attracting attention of inmeasura-
bic values from distances beyond our
geographic lines. Our people are
about to properly interpret the man
dates in wholly writ relative to sell
fishness and idleness. Beautiful pic
lures of happy homes and prosperous
conditions can be predicted for the
near future with practical certainty
but, let US remember that sorrow,
grief and suffering is still here, and
always will be, in more or less de-
gree. 1t is the Mission of the Red
Cross to help bear and to tighten
these burdens when they cone.