Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, May 21, 1918, Page 5

THE BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER t****fitt*i*******)‘t*fi NOVEL INTRODUCTION. to the noble task of helping soldiers’ famfilles to meet and adjust the prob- lems of everyday life and alding them te maintaln’the’ standards ot health, education and industry. ; Hognq Service—True Service, .Homeservice-means keeping-the sol- dier's children well and in school. It means. tifing the. family over financlal . | troubles, ‘arranging - the household budget. meeting ‘Insurance premtums, | * * ” “The work that the Red .| The other days (says a writer in a = Cross -is/ doing In France" % this winter Is worth more ' % * than a mililon and a half * % | American: soldiers In the . % * * * * * x * | London newspaper) - I' witnessed a| | pathetic incident while washing my hands in an_hotel. | Two young of- ficers entered, strangers to each oth- : er. one with his left coat sleeve empty, the other with his right arm * **"** *kh in a sling.” They looked at efi’ch oth- ; 'adjusting & mortgage, :bringing. med- Tractors 1 1or-c ;. | er, and one of them-said with some . The fat.her Hssen his wm and klfl" icalald and legal advice to bear at'the | The French: governmel diffidence : “Shall ‘we:wash'hands'to- @Jes goodby, 'shonlders his gur and frightimoment. Insbort “Home Serv- | China has become Interested in the |\ gother 2 Whereupon each washed marches away to war. ice'™ 18 true service, in that it provides | employment of-eaterplllar. tractors for th ther’s-hand, @ R For a time the current of life ‘flows ‘the. warm handelasp--of friendship | the cultivation of rice. - On_September OLIOE 718D ried it, and af*er | smoothly for the soldlers little taml- | rather than:the:humiliation: of charity. | 29, 1017, a 45 horse power track ma- this rovel mtroductwn they went off | | ; MOtHer | 1t calls for sympathetic understanding | chine valued at miore than $5,900 Unit- ch'togeth i land intelligent .consideration of the | ed States curréncy, was-purchased tele- 7 e e ee ls e % most vital needs of the soldler’s family. gmgmcnlly If the experiment fs’ e b ! - ‘The Red Cross is:pledged to “Howe | cessful, larger orders will follow. Ev-| To whom can'th Amflflqfln 8 | Service” wherever:needed inithe Unit- | erything depends upon whether the| family look at this critical erlod? [ e States. In each chapter of the Red' | tractor can operate in the soft rlce-psd- it ol B Must_a_braye man’s, loyalty to b8 | Oross there will be a home service dy flelds of Cochin Chin: ni'you:feel:all in; no’ appetite, | ¢ Amean des | section, under ‘competent hands, whose o no’ ambstion. almost wish you were| i}l . to. J:hl Dsetes, A0 e milgston “will be to’ protect’ the welfare | Tokyo Grows in ance. tletad tYo&xr disesgve system. is up- 0 nopha y -no of 'the soldiers’ and safiors’ homesan set, ‘stored up’ poisons are sapping ple’ will. not permit the ’m" to safeguard the Dormal develu?maeu': d;h fi, 2;3‘5:“;;’ ,{',’; ,‘.’,{;:;‘;;(,T;‘;’;; your vitality, your. energy is stran- “bl of their soldiers and gallors:to "tamilies 1o employment and fn gled. sNatirerand.selencethavecpro: suffer because thelr-breadwinners are | g ¢ self ha over lastiyear, the average: belng 87| Guced-‘a’ real’ remedy, : “Hollister’s #ghting for thelr comtry, And so.the [~ 8,0f self help and self rellance.; - | per cent. In the eight tax-collection | Rocky Mountain .Tea,” a combina-| ' rtment. ..‘.Olvmln Re- x R districts the total exceeds 99,000,000 | tion of life-giving herbs for the re- | Red- Oross’ Department o . No Wondar. g yen +($49,500,000) ;- the rates. of in-| lef of constipation, stomach and| = «] called Smith a hard name Just| crease vary from 9% per cent in the | bowel trouble, expelling the poisons Femr ey now.” Yotsuya district to 50 per cent in the ?:«g ;;::t::llldgs:letv: g\;ilior;igg_gzs :Jxllg e doesn't seem to;be displeased.” | Ryogoku and 72 per cent In theiYeltal , of “Homs Serv- u?yiy should he be? I told him he dlitflcts, where " the_offices and rest: happy. Cost trifling, benefit sur- " n have rising. - Get a pacKage today. " City| j A¥ putrlotlc ey und wo&’:m”"u w;brxck." A } dences of the narikin, are located. Droa Biore iaaus i Voot . lines In France today.” - —Gen'eraf Petaln A gnat net of mercy drawn through -an ‘ocean of unspeakablc pain’’ - iBressed Weight 672 ovinde of Beef 56 % WhenSW1ft&Company buys a steer Welghmg 1200 pounds, only ‘about 672 pounds goes tomarket as beef; the other. 528 . . pounds consists of hide, _ A“ fats, other by- products, and waste. When' the’ ‘packér pays 15 cents a pound for a steer, he sells the meat to the retailer for about 24 cents. But the packer gets only about 6 cents a ponnd for the other 528 pounds. What s Y"“' Red Cross Money Done? . . IN the first place, it has enabled the American people, s through the Red Cross. to help care f'or its army i and navy. TR {id * Secondly, it has enabled America to hearten her : Allies’ fighting forces and to keep up, among the civil- = ian populations, the spirit to win the war. -That, alone, has made the American Red Cross.one of:the largest - factors since our entry mto,the war. Lt Canteens which provided food and ‘hot drinks— more than a million mieals to soldiers in December; warchouses, crammed with materials, situated all along the French line, all along the Ttahan lines, at seaports and at places where our soldiers are going to fight; This means that the packer gets about 16 cents a pound for all the: products from a.-steér | institutions for the care of consumptives, institutions for which he pays 15 cents. ~ for the re-education of maimed men—these are a few | The difference of 1 cent per of the concrete accomphshments abroad. | pound covers the cost of:dress- 5 i ing, preparation- of by-products, o At home—the millions of woolen sweaters, muf- freight on beef to all parts of the | flers, socks and other comforts for the men in camps; - United States, operation of is- » : tributing houses; and leayes. a | the work of sanitation around cantonments and the _ | net profit of only about:Jj of . help and advice given dependents of soldiers and sailors cent’per ‘pound ‘on all dressed | A | —thesé'are'things which will *‘make you, yourchildren ‘beef sold. 5 | and your ‘children’s children, in whatever part 9f the L;,'ze volume of business and - world they may be, proud of being Americans.’ 4 . utilization - of parts that” were | Will you do your share to" keep this Hand of formerly wasted, make this ' Mercy at its work ? ; achisvemént possible. |« e A Bookof interestingand instructive : . ! ; facts sent. on request. DT N SRS OON. DO o W SRR ... 52 . 1. AR P T ! Every cent of every dollar received for the Red Cross War Fand goes for War Relief. U w%x:m,&cch::::fih s The American Red . Cross s the lv.r:eut and nost it feeds md clothes entire populations in times of i efficient organization for the relfef of luflarlnx that the great calam { World has ever seen. n is. umu “to help your soldler boy in his time of G j ey uplala':?tl enur‘ego:{ vo)unt;er woerkers: o Wlth its thousands of workers, its tremendous i fligfiflf&‘f:fi'}ev&nfis"‘wvflu are l:xmo:::.il:.a:zg stores and smooth running transportation facilities ;. giving thelr. services without pay. ;:fll:fiu:tz’lngl :su:n‘x:;;m. advance gui ..thus ; i | R &,]:nfl::fl:?flfigfli by its mambershlp fees.and ;:,:"‘? :l mmn huda q : - g 1 oth illkey St ehvie 1 enery JAX torn allied country. R st Hr s Tt res ey suitiasty. /] ; It plans tomorrow to help in the work of restora- astically endorse 1t. } | tion throughdut the- world. ‘X‘vunty-two mlulon Ameéricans have jolnod ”n _4 Contributed to the Red Crnsl by Barker S Drug and J ewelry Store