Bellefonte, Pa., October 21, 1921.
WORK OF THE RED CROSS
3 Thousands Aided by Instruction
in Care of the Sick, Food Se-
lection and First Aid.
How the American Red Cross guides
thousands of persons to health Is
shown in a summary of the society's
activities In the health fleld based
upon the annual report for the last fis-
cal year.. Through its Nursing Service,
its Home Hygiene and Care of the
Sick courses, nutrition classes, First
Afr classes, Life-Saving classes and
Health Centers and in numerous other
ways designed to acquaint masses of
citizens with proper methods of living,
the Red Cross carried its message of
health into all parts of the country.
The work of the Red Cross during
the war in its traditional field of nurs-
ing, furnishing the military and naval
establishments of the nation with 19,-
877 nurses, is well known. And there
are today 37,787 nurses registered with
the American Red Cross and subject
to call in emergency. During the fis-
cal year, 1,661 Red Cross nurses were
accepted for assignment to Govern-
ment service, 388 by the Army and
Navy and 1,163 by the United States
Public Health Service.
In addition to the nurses enrolled
by the Red Cross for Government sery-
ice, the Red Cross itself employed a
total of 1,348 public health nurses in |
the United States and Europe. By far
the greatest number was employed in
the United States, 1,257,
in foreign service.
Home Hygiene and Care of the Sick
classes, giving thorough instruction in
the proper care of the sick in instances
where the illness is not so serious as te
require professional nursing care, dur-
ing the fiscal year numbered 5,179. A
statistical picture of the Red Cross
operations in this field follows:
New classes formed during
NOU... sire aes 5,179
Classes completed during year. 6.209
New students enrolled ........ 101,068
Students completing course.... 73,432
while 81 were | .
| Once a Nobleman’s Villa, Now a Chil
What the Red Cross accomplished |
in giving proper instruction through
its Nutrition Service is indicated by
the following table:
New classes formed during
Yeates 142
Classes completed during year... 186
Naw students enrolled ........ 2.341
Students completing course.... 2.013
In addition to the above, a total of
22.0006 children were given instruction |
in the proper selection and prepara-
tion of foods.
AMERICANS BUY
AUSTRIAN VILLA
“Liegenschaft,” Ancient Seat of
Nobility, Now Home of
Laughing Children.
Villas in Vienna are used to varied
and passing tenants since wartimes
Impoverished noblemen move out for
fat profitters to move in, or grafting
politicians. Now and then, however,
one of these fine old houses gets a new
tenant that it is not ashamed of. The
handsome estate shown in the photo
graph, “Liegenschafr,” is housing the
largest family in its history, about 65,
and its aristocratic paneled walls ech¢
with an amazing amount of merry
chatter and laughter. It had probably
been many a day since any kind of
merriment had sounded through its
tapestried halls. The present pos
sessors of this big villa and the tw
dwellings on the grounds are 60 baby
orphans, one to five years old, and
the women who take care of them. |
Nothing but American money could
have purchased such a good home for
these helpless youngsters. The Na
dren’s Home, i
tional Lutheran Council, through its
luropean Commissioner, Dr. John A
Morehead, mide the deal, and turned
it over to the local Lutheran Church,
to be managed by Miss Margarete
Wahliss, who gathered up 60 little ,
witifs out of box cars where destitute
refugees were letting them sleep and
giving them scraps of food now and
then
Liegenschaft, located in a beautiful
suburban section, Huetteldorf, at the
foot of the slope of the Salzberg, adapt: ;
ea itself with ease to the new regime.
Billiard rooms and boudoirs were turn-
ed into splendid nurseries over night, |
i and the library makes the jolliest sort
bof
play room on rainy days. The
Loeryvstal fringed candelabra have a most |
Through its 260 Health Centers, the .
Red Cross reached 90,252 persons. In
these Health Centers, 4,015 health lee- |
tures were given and 780 health ex- |
hibits held.
In the United States last year, 75,-
432 persons were killed and 3.500.000
injured in industrial accidents.
prevent this cnormous waste the Red
Cross held 5,100 first aid classes with
a total of 104,000 students enrolled.
RED CROSS RESCUED
600,000 FROM DEATH
Spent $1,200,0C9O for Relief of
Famine Sufferers in China
Last Year.
To help overcome conditions of acute
distress in five famine stricken prov-
inces of Northern China, where mil-
lions of persons were affected by an
unprecedented shortage of food, the
American Red Cross during the last
fiscal year spent more than $1,200,000,
1,000,000 of which was contributed di-
remy by National Headquarters and
the r&iAinder 1s variou$ groups ‘n-
terested in the welfare of China.
~ “Through the wide relief operations
thus made possible it is estimated that
more than 600,000 famine sufferers
were saved from starvation.
To the end that similar prompt re-
fief measures by the organization may
always be possible the Red Cross is
asking continued support by the Amer-
jcan people by universal renewal of
membership at the Annual Red Cross
Roll Call, November 11 to 24.
The method of relief employed by
the American Red Cross in its opera-
tions in China was particularly effec-
tive, for in addition to saving hundreds
of thousands of lives it provided China
with more than 900 miles of permanent
roads that are sorely needed to pre-
vent a recurrence of famine. At one
time the Red Cross employed 74,000
Chinese workmen, paying them in food
for themselves and dependents, this
food being brought in from Manchuria
and elsewhere.
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ONE DOLLAR
| ANNUAL DUES IN THE
. AMERICAN RED CROSS
MAKES YOU A
PARTICIPANT IN
RELIEF WORK FOR
THE HELPLZSS THAT
GIRDLES THE GLOBE.
ANSWER
THE ANNUAL
D CROSS ROLL CALL
To |
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fascinating jingle when you jump up
and down on the floor. As for the
kitchen, it is the busiest spot in the
house and works overtime. Gardens.
orchards, cows and chickens were
counted in the first equipment, so that |
little “datside purchasing is necessary.
The apple trees are immensely popu- |
lar with these children who had for-
gotten what apples looked like. even if
they ever had known. Inside the white |
picket fence are chestnut trees rigged }
up with rope swings. Back of the |
vegetable garden is a rippling brook |
with tiny pebbles on the bottom that
tickle your bare feet, and there is a
stunning robber's cave up
| the hill a little way.
American Lutherans, in their World |
i Service Campaign for $1,250,000 to be |
conducted the last two weeks in Octo |
ber, are underwriting numerous or- |
phanages in 17 countries of Europe, in |
{ addition to the Council's many other .
“degrees after the
activities there. Europe's orphan
problem is so appalling that it is ut-
terly impossible to cope with it alone.
If American friends succeed in sus-
taining Europe in this one thing, it
will be enough to guarantee the sal-
vation—political, economic, commer-
cial, moral and spiritual—of the next '
seneration.
“BUDAPEST UNIVERSITY”
NEW REFUGEE COLLEGE
Refugee camps,
beds, and soup
kitchens, are com-
mon enough in
Europe, but in Bu-
dupest there is
even a Refugee
College. There is
no pipe organ in
the chapel, nor
marble sculpture
in the rotundas,
and it has, alas,
no football team
as yet, but there
are just as many
DR.J. A.
MOREHEAD
uuies of the 16 professors as if it were
L (ull fledged State ’Varsity, and the
graduates have Just as authentic di-
nlomas,
From miles and miles away these
persecuted Lutherans had fled to Buda-
pest and Dr, John A, Morehead, Eu-
copean Commissioner of the National
Lutheran Council, found the wretched
‘olony on the outskirts of the city
living in box cars, two years ago.
American money very quickly brought
about a building for classes and an-
other one for the faculty boarding
house, and out of the box cars came |
a corps of distinguished professors and
120 students to start with.
“I have never witnessed so impres-
sive a ceremony,” stated Sir William
Atkinson of England, who was present
al the Commencement exercises of
Refuge College and Seminary last
June, and saw the ciass of 1921 march
down the aisles singing. Their clothes
were home made, patched and worn
shiny, and their hands rough from ex-
posure and hard worx, but their
voices rang clear and triumphant in
that old Luther hymn of four centuries
ago. “A Mighty Fortress Is Our God.”
OVEMBER 11-24, 1921.
— = A. -_ So
WORKED BENEATH THE EAR
Discovery in Jerusalem Solves Mu:
of Mystery Conne:sted With f.ing
Solomon's Temple.
How often great discoveries snring
from trifling incidents! The tiie re
flection comes to mind naturally on
hearing how the guarries of Ring Noi
omon were found. Dr. Allen Moore
for 17 years a resident of Palesiine.
tells the curious tale.
For many many years, says Doctor
Moore, travelers and archeologisis
were puzzled to know where the enor-
mous blocks of stone still standing in
the ruins of Solomon's temple at Jeru-
salem were quarried. One day a lit
tle dog chased a lizard down a hole
among the debris. The next instant
the dog also disappeared.
His master, coming to: the opening,
peered down in vain. He called, and
to his amazement his volce came back
as from great depths. He summoned
assistance, and a passage was opened
into immense subterranean quarries.
There were found huge masses of
stone almost ready to be hoisted
above ground.
“And don’t you remcmber,” asks
Doctor Moore, “that we are told in
our Bibles that the temple was built
without sound of saw or of hammer?
The fact that the quarryman worked
underground partly explains that.”
Upon some of the stones were found
inscriptions that perplexed the explor-
ers until one scholar pronounced them
Phoenician. The stones were wrought
by some of that army of workmen sent
by King Hiram of Tyre to aid King
Solomon in his task.—Youth’s Com-
panion.
GROUSE LIVES LIKE ESKIMO
in Cold Weather the Bird Finds a
Safe and Warm Retreat
in Snow House.
In the temperate months the grouse
has an excellent choice of food con-
sisting of a great variety of berries,
small fruit, seeds, buds, clover, beech-
nuts, grasshoppers and a multitude of
young, tender leaves. In the winter
one wonders at thelr survival; for
now the fall flight of the robins com-
pletely exhausts the berries, which
were wont to linger and ripen well
into winter, compelling the grouse to
depend largely upon yellow birch
buds, with many a forced meal on an
evergreen.
Fortunately, whenever the tempera-
ture is far below zero the sky is usu-
ally clear and the grouse are active
and unconcerned, but if the days and
nights are dark and cold or the air
filled with merciless pellets, they have
the habit of plunging into deep snow-
drifts, where a foot below the surface
the heat and weight of the body form
__—
a globular retreat, in which they re-
main comfortably until the storm
clears or hunger forces an exit.
Sometimes in winter or the early
spring there may come a rain or a
warm day that melts the surface spaw
followed by severe weather, and then
thousands of grouse are imprisoned
and the heretofore safe retreat be-
comes their tomb, should weeks pass
by before the seal is broken.—Na-
tional Geographic Magazine.
Who Made the Alphabet?
If it takes a genius to make great
words, it was also a genius who made
the alphabet which makes the words.
The pedigree of our alphabet can be
traced continuously for nearly 3,000
years, and then comes a hiatus, says a
recent writer. The genesis of writing
must naturally be sought in pictures.
Caveman, when he painted his women
or beasts on rock walls, or carved elks
and elephants on antlers and tusks,
was laying the foundations of one of
the great human inventions. Behind
all this apt artistic effort we must see
some esoteric motive, for it was not
due merely to the striving of the crea-
tive soul after expression. Doubtless,
adds our authority, when caveman held
an exhibition of his works, his friends
praised the ingenuity and beauty of
his pictures, but there is something
more than the desire of simple repro-
duction hidden in hig handiwork.
MEDICAL.
A Talk with a
Bellefonte Man
Mr. James H. Rine, of 239 High
Street, Tells His Experience.
There is nothing like a talk with
one of our own citizens for giving
hope and encouragement to the anx-
ious sufferer from the dread kidney
disease. We, therefore, give here an
interview with a Bellefonte man:
“My back was in such a weak con-
dition I couldn’t put my shoes on and
could hardly drag myself around,”
says Mr. Rine. “I had very severe
pains all through my back and limbs.
I used Doan’s Kidney Pills for these
troubles and they cured me. Oothers
to whom I recommended Doan’s Kid-
ney Pills Were cured of backache by
this remedy.”
Over three years later, Mr. Rine
added: “It was ten years ago I first
used Doan’s and I haven’t been troub-
led since. I recommend Doan’s
whenever I hear any one complaining
of backache or kidney weakness.”
Price 60c, at all dealers. Don’t
simply ask for a kidney remedy—get
Doan’s Kidney Pills—the same that
Mr. Rine had. Foster-Milburn Co.
Mrfs., Buffalo, N. Y. 66-41
——Come here for your job work.
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