The Mineola Monitor (Mineola, Tex.), Vol. 52, No. 34, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 3, 1927 Page: 7 of 16
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THE SUNEOLA MONITOR
5,000,050 MEMBERS
GOAL OF BED CM
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Need of Expansion Due to Exoec-
sive Demands for Disaster
Relief and Other Services.
WAR WORK SOT iT
END FOR RED CROSS
MANY WONDERS IN
DEPTHS OF OCEAN
Demands for Service to Disabled
Veterans Last Year Cost
Nearly $3,000,000.
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A Red C ross membership of 5.0 jO
000 in the L'nitcrl States will b? 30i:;:!r
this year durin.? the Eleventh Annual
Roll Call, November 11 to 24. Chair
man John Barton Payne annonnro;i
following completion of a study oi
the demands which the past ye.it j
made on all branches of the ILrri
Cross organization.
He stressed particularly the In
creasing demands of disaster relief
as pointing to the need for an in
creased membership to aid in carrying
the growing responsibility in this field
"For several years our menborsbip
hag remained at a little more than
4,000,000 adults," he said. "We are
proud of this membership. It is a
body of our choice spirits, but there
are many more of like spirit who
Should be counted in this Roll C;iil
We need at least 5,000.000 adult mem
hers. We are obliged to draw annu
ally upon our reserves, and the do
mands upon u~ increase each y
!Out Roll Call funds should meet r:r
normal needt and add someth:- ; «o
our reserves for the great dfrioi.^rs.
We must have a large reso■ '><•. No
one can tell when a situa: . n may
arise when this reserve will !• :■ essen
tia) to the lives of thousand.-.
"The Red Cross cannot v,::!' in
raise funds," Judge P.iyne declared.
"Action prompt, instant, is its • i *3.
Instant action means the live* of
many. .It must he strong, it must bo
ready; this means a large reserve."
Total expenditures of the American
Red Cross in the fiscal year to June
30 last in all fields amounted to |16,
139,348.60, of which J11.360.34S.60 rep
resented the National Organization's
appropriations and $-1,779,000 the cost
to the Red Cross local chapters. In
eluded in this total was a disaster
relief, for which $S,216,8!)3.31 had
actually been expended to the close of
the year. This does not cover expen
ditures which continued to be made
in the Mississippi Valley flood, or in
other disasters originating during the
fiscal year but whose operations ex
tended over into the current period
t Service to disabled veterans, an
other outstanding demand on the 6r
gaoization, called for $2.930,223.S6, and
service to men of the Regular Army
and Navy. $507,832.30. Maintenance
: of an enrolled Nurses' Reserve, from
which the needs of disaster service
aad other emergencies are met, and
which numbers more than 45,000
nuraes totalled $45,248.83. For the
Public Health Nursing program, a na
tlon-wide activity of the Red Cross.
I801.06S.99 was expanded. Oilier serv
ices contributing to health and well
being Included instruction in Home
Hygiene an'' Care of the Sick, for
which $16? r,.;D.lC was spent: Nntri
tion |nstru;f:on, which teaches thou
sands annu . y correct food principle?
in relation to health. $171,370 73:
First Aid a i Life Saving, a service
which is aci .lly curtailing accident
and water t^.maUies, $334,780.06;
Junior Red G.ass, the children'*
branch of Red Cross activity. an:l nr.-
of the most unique organisations in
the world, $582,434.23.
Other Red Cross Chapter activities,
including Home Service to civilians
amonnted to $1,220,000; while other
national domestic operations required
$236,147.17.
An outstanding American contribu
tion to the r°st of the world is Red
Cross assistance in foreign disasters,
which the report shows, called for
$256,962 to the end of the fiscal year
Activities under the League of Red
Cross Societies, Junior Red Cross
foreign projects, assistance to Amer-
ican Insular chapters, and other for
eign and insular work completed the
idemands on the total appropriation
for the year.
These expenditures were cited by
. Chairman Payne as emphasizing the
need for a growing membership and
increased Income.
Red Cross Nurses Aid
In Every Great Disaster
Two major disasters, the Florida
hurricane and the Mississippi flood,
required the services of Red Cross
Dorses in large numbers over a long
period of time in the past year.
In the Florida storm, service of 350
nurses is recorded. It is estimated
that about 100 others assisted in the
ftrst few days as volunteers. The total
number of nurses in the Mississippi
valley flood was approximately 200.
In every major disaster the services
of Red Cross nurses are needed, lend
ing added importance to the enrolled
reserve wh:ch now numbers more than
45,000 Red Cross nurses. These nurses
are available for any emergency,
though they are on duty in hospitals
and in private practice. They consti
tute the reserve of the Army and
Navy nurse corps in time ol' war.
Besides emergency duty, Red Cros^
nurses assisted materially in mau>
local services, Chapter reports to Na
tional Headquarters indicate. The
Eleventh Annual Roii Gall of the Red
Cross, from November 11 to 24, it is
pointed out, is an opportunity for
avarvonama-Jiaeajaa. identified with
the Red
Expenditure of ^2,930,223.86 for
services to disabled veterans, and of
$507,832.30 for service to men of the
Regular Army and Navy, were out-
standing details of the Red Cross ap-
propriations for the past year's activ-
ities, and are. cited tiy Chairman John
Barton Payne as the continuing im-
portance of this pliass of the organi-
zation's responsibilities nine years
after the end of the war.
Of the total expended for disabled
veterans, the National Organization
contributed $1,161,223.86, and the local
Red Cross Chapters 21,769,000. The
service to men f the regular forces
was shared by the National Organi-
zation with an appropriation of $307,-
832.30, and by the local Chapters with
$200,000.
During .the year the Red Cro3s as
a whole contributed materially to the
success of the Government efforts to
have every veteran re-instate or con-
vert his war time insurance before
the final time limit expired. Chap-
ters worked in cooperation with local
veterans' bodies to assist former serv-
ice men with their insurance papers,
and the application routine, many
Chapters keeping open headquarters
up to the expiration of the final
moment at midnight.
Under loo?.! Chi:pl?rs of the Red
Cross, a.„JsUiuce to ex-service men
in filing clrins for lisnbility and ad-
justed compensation, securing hospital
care for disabled veterans, prepara-
tion of social histories for use in
treatment of men in government hos-
pitals, assistance in securing proper
guardians for veterans adjudged in-
competent to administer their affairs,
rendering reports on home conditions
of service men applying for discharge
because of dependency, and many
other forms of aid are a part of thn
Red Cross duty to these men.
An interesting detail reveals the
fact that prosecution of ex-service
men's claims is becoming increasingly
difficult as they grow more involved
with each year that passes since the *
war. The number of death claims is
growing constantly, in addition to the
fact that there is a steady increase
in the number of claims referred to
various tranches of- the Red Cross
concerned with assistance to veterans,
for aid in bringing them to a close.
During the past year, National
Headquarters estimated that the Red
Cross assisted veterans and service
men with cases involving total awards
of $558,681, for disability and death
compensation, revival of insurance,
adjusted compensation, pensions,
medical and burial reimbursements,
etc.
Red Cross representatives are on
duty with the Army and Navy both
in home and foreign garrisons, and
contact is maintained in the hospitals
and other centers wh<?re assi-Jtance to
these men and women may be needed.
Such Red Cross service, it is empha-
sized, covers only the fields where
regular governmental provisions do
not apply, and is designed to sup-
plement these benefits of the Govern-
ment.
It was emphasized that this par-
ticular activity of the Red Cross is
one of the strongest appeals for the
increased membership, which will be
asked of the country during the
annual enrollment, from November 11
to 24.
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Mineola Barber Shop across
from depot. Save that ,dime.
Work guaranteed.
WOOD COUNTY UP-TO-
DATE, OWNERSHIP MAPS
FOR SALE BY G. W. COWAiN
MINEOLA, TEXAS. 28 tfc
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If its quality and price you
want call and see us. Warren's
Variety Store.
Strange Fishes Tkat Climb
Trees and Do Odd Things.
What are the greatest wonders of
the sea? Ask Dr. Charles H. Town-
send, director of the aquarium, New
York city, and you will hear souie
strange and Interesting things.
"What makes the public wonder
most, and, what is most wonderful* are
not always the same," he says in an
Interview in Popular Science Monthly.
"People who come to the aquarium
are more interested in the little sea
horse that climbs trees. He is among
the few fishes with grasping tails.
Like a monkey, he uses the tail to
cling to seaweed and ' other marine
objects.
"Our sightseers like little things and
big things. After the sea horse, they
like to look at the 200-pound grouper,
one of the biggest of fishes, called
Jewflsh in the books. They like to
watch the shark swimming about with
"shark suckers' fastened to his under
side. These suckers attach themselves
by air suction disks, like vacuum
cleaners, on their heads. They are
bluish fishes, shaped somewhat like
the shark, though, of course, much
smaller, and are 'commensals,' mean-
ing that they eat with the shark. They
take the scraps that fall from his
table. The suction disks are among
nature's most remarkable appliances.
The whale, the shark and the sword-
fish are other of the big things which
the public likes.
"But the wonders to scientific men
who visit our aquarium are somewhat
different The two creatures that
arouse their greatest curiosity are the
horseshoe crab, cr llmulus, and the
mudfish, or bowfin, known as amla.
The horseshoe crab, which looks Ilk*
a flattened beehive with a rat tall, is
the only living animal related to the
extinct triloblte, whose fossils are so
well known. The mudfish, which looks
like many other fishes to laymen ex-
cept for a thickening of the tall, It a
descendant of one of the early forms
of fish life. It belongs to a line long
extinct, dating back unknown thou-
sands of years.
"In the eternal darkness, miles down,
under terrific pressure and Intense
cold, nature has evolved some of the
strangest creatures. There is the
"blind Ipnops,' for Instance. It has
no eyes, but carries a searchlight en
top of Its head. Now, what does a
blind fish want with a searchlight?
Nobody knows, but perhaps the light
attracts smaller fishes when the Ip-
nops is hungry. It Is brown In color
and of rather small size.
"Then there is the stylopbthalmus,
a siilver-colored, eel-like flsh with two
long stalks sticking out from its head,
and eyes at the end of the stalka.
Also, he has a fctrlng of lights along
either side that makes him look like a
subway tralh.
"Many deep-sea fishes are lumlnout
—'lit up'—to Illuminate the surround-
ing gloom. There Is the lantern fish,
two inches long, yet with nearly a
Hundred lights. These be can turn On
or off, as he wis1 f They lure small
fishes and help t, escape his enemy,
the astronesthes, ater of stars, whose
favorite meal Is a well-lighted lantern
flsh."
Lawyer Lc.r! C
for Verbal Brickbat
A good story is told of the late
Chief .Justice White of the United
States Supreme court, who was fa-
mous for his wit. A few months be-
fore his death the chief justice was
approached one morning by Judge
Timothy T. Ansberry, former member
of congress from Ohio and prac-
ticing lawyer in 'Washington.
"Good morning. Mr. Chief Justice,"
said Judge Ansberry. "I hope you arc
quite well."
"Good morning." was the response;
but not recognizing Ansberry, the
!chief justice added cautiously. "I-1 it
possible that I hate forgotten yur
name?"
"It's Ansberry," was the nrtsw-T
"Oh. yes, my dear Ansberry'he
jurist hastily put in "How mv von?
But you must excuse me for not
recognizing you instantly. You know
the cataracts are forming over my
eyes and l do not see as well as l
did!"
"But," said Ansberry, "1 noticed
that the cataracts do not prevent you
seeing the deficiences in my argu-
ments before your court."
Smiling broadly, the distinguished
Jurist laid a hand on Ansberry's
shoulders, saying:
"No, my dear Ansberry. a blind man
could see them."
Then turning to a friend who hap-
pened to be in the group, the ehief
Justice laughingly said:
SOLED AND HEELED
Seeds Hold Life Lottfg
Seeds of the Indian lotus a «.• :itury
old have more active life hi them than
the same kind of seeds of last year's
crop, according to a report of Dr.
Ichiro Ohg of the Education institute
of Dairen. Manchuria, to the Ameri
can Journal of Botany. Doctor Ohga
tested these ancient seeds both by
sprodting and by chemical examina
tion. and fhe.v won on both counts
The research was carried on during
Doctor ohga's sojourn in thl3 coun-
try, at the P,0/yce Thompson institute,
| Walk a block and save the
j difference. Hair cuts and
! shaves by a good barber 25c
and 15c. Mineola Barber Shop
across from depot.
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CORN FOR SALE
I 200 bushels good average corn to
I -i?!l at 75a bu.. 5 miles East of Mine-
| ola. FINLEY BROS. Mineola* Texas,
Route 4. 31-4tp
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Not That Ambitious
This story Is told of an Indianapolis
business man who bought a farm down
In one of the southern border coun-
ties of Indiana along the river, whew
he could hunt and fish and spend his
vacations in the open on his own farm
Rastus had been retained as a care-
taker, and whs being instructed in tha
duties he was expeeted to do.
"Nov/ 1 wunt nil these buildings
locked." he was instructed, "a pad-
lock put on the chicken house, a pad-
lock on the granary, one on the ouaoke
house and a padlock on the tool
house."
"Them others might be all right,"
was Rastus' rejoinder, "it's all right to
Mock up the henhouse, and the meat,
and the grain, but there ain't nobody
1b this here neighborhood what's go-
to* to break into a tool house to steal
tools to work with."
WE ALL HAVE TO EAT
EVEN ON ARMISTICE DAY!
THEREFORE WE INVITE YOU TO MAKE f
THIS RESTAURANT THE PLACE TO
SATISFY YOUR HUNGF', EVERYTHING
FROM COFFEE TO A REAL DINNER, SERV-
ED WITH TRUE COURTESY. WE WELCOME
YOU NOVEMBER 11TH.
caudles' restaurant
Mineola
And you have a pair of Shoes
almost as good as new—bettor
in some instances, if just the
new sole and heel are consider
ed, for we use only the highest
grade leather in our work.
E W JENNINGS
SHOE SHOP
With Reverence for the American Soldier who rests
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in war-time gaves and with cheers for the ".Dough-
boy" who was spared by the god of war, we renew
our allegiance to The Stars and Stripes. May Our
Flag ever wave in defense of this nation's princi-
ples and as a protector of World Peace.
My
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YOU'LL NEED TO DRESS UP AND LOOK YOUR BEST.
ONE NEVER LOOKS THE BEST WITHOUT GOOD
shoes
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We have just received a shipment of Men's and Boys' Oxfords,
in the very latest styles, both black and tan, sizes to fit.
Besides these you will find here a fine assortment of WORK
SHOES which are guaranteed to wear well. And also some fine
BOOTS made of extra good quality of leather.
Our new flannel shirts and lumber jacks will keep you
warm the cold days. Special prices.
The Ladies will be glad to know that we have reduced
prices on Dress Goods in patterns that will please you.
PAY US A VISIT ON ARMISTICE DAY OR BEFORE-
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Mineola
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Carraway, R. H. The Mineola Monitor (Mineola, Tex.), Vol. 52, No. 34, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 3, 1927, newspaper, November 3, 1927; Mineola, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth286036/m1/7/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Mineola Memorial Library.