Local headquarters will open Fri
day and Saturday afternoons of this
week from 2 until 4 o’clock, for the
distribution of yarn for refugee
knitting
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Answering the appeal for refugee
knitters in the “Red Cross News
Notes” of February 26th, the follow
ing ladies have responded: Mrs. Jack
Day, Mrs. C. S. Bratton, Mrs. Harry
Kerr, Miss Lemon, Mrs. Jack Sapiro,
Mrs. W. W. Council, Mrs. Malcolm
Brock, Miss Evangeline Church.
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Cordova Chapter has received of
ficial recognition from the director of
Chapter Production by being placed
on the honor roll of the Northwestern
division in the refugee garment de
partment for the high character of
work that it has turned out.
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The following letter, under date of
February 22nd, has been received:
Cordova Chapter, Red Cross,
Cordova.
Our dear Ladies:
We acknowledge receipt of the two
sweaters sent us this station and
thank you very kindly for your re
membrance. Yours very truly,
C. M. JONES,
Sargent, Signal Corps.
ALVAE LARSEN,
14th Infantry, U. S. A.
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Draw again the knitting needles
that temporarily were sheathed. The
hands that became expert in wielding
them when garments were to be made
for our boys in camps and trenches
have new work to do. This time it
is not a matter of supplying comfort,
it is one to relieve actual and terrible
suffering. Patriotism never had any
finer personification than in the case
of millions of American women who
responded to the country’s call and
became the “army behind the army.”
Now it is humanity that calls.
Refugees all over the world, who
have been driven from their homes
by the war, have been for several
years in rags, or practically with no
clothes at all. Pitiable stories have
been flashad across the ocean about
thousands upon thousands of children
who are bare-footed or bare-legged
■while snow and ice is upon the
ground.
Travelers returning from abroad tell
of the misery beyond description. The
daily press cables are full of heart
rending stories of distress.
Harry Pratt Judson, president ol
the University of Chicago, on his ar
rival in New York a few years age
from a tour of inspection in the Near
East, told of scores of thousands oi
Syrian and Armenian refugees who
had marched 700 miles through storms
and winds, with “nothing but scraps
on their backs.” Turkish soldiers, he
• says, have turned bandits, and there
is no peace and no safety.
On the same day another observei
told of the death during the war ol
160,000 children in two small Neai
East countries, whose total popula
tion does not exceed 2,000,000.
A Vladivostok telegram describes
the pitiful plight of several thousand
Russian children who were sent to the
country to escape famine but were lef1
Vv-tr *Yi in to rv nnprn tion a. The
American Red Cross is caring foi
some 1200 of them at certain centers
but thousands more are “running wild
in the Urals, subsisting on roots and
what they can beg and living in s
state approaching savagery.”
The Associated Press on February
5 reported the death in Petrograc
from starvation of W. D.- Childs, foi
many years chief representative o
the Western Union Telegraph Com
pany in Russia. Many other Ameri
cans have met similar death.
These few items in the news oi
the week give a faint suggestion o1
the enormous relief problem that con
fronts the world.
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Seeing the sights of London undei
American Red Cross auspices now if
a daily diversion for hundreds of con
valescent American soldiers who have
been cared for in hospitals situated
in Great Britain, and for other wound
ed men assembled in England for em
barkation to the United States. Gen
eral Pershing recently gave permis
sion for American soldiers in the
army of occupation in Germany tc
take two weeks furlough in England
at the rate of 160 a day. Prisonerc
back ^rom Germany join with these
soldiers on leave to give life to th«
parties with the convalescents fron
the hospitals. A jollier party nevei
drove through London than one no'
| long since, which stopped in front oi
St. Paul’s to feed the pigeons. Even
one in the party had lost either a let
or an arm or had been so seriously
wounded that he probably required a
crutch tot life.
One North Carolina boy, as a saucy
pigeon perched on his bandaged foot
said, “I’d like to tie a message to your
leg to tell the folks back home that
I’d be with them soon.”
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Great quantities of Red Cross hos
pital garments for which there is no
U3e now in France, are being diverted
to needy refugees returning to their
homes.
* * *
Never was Palermo, Italy, so full of
soldiers as it was last Chri3tmastide.
Wherever it was possible, leave was
granted the men to pass the holidays
with their families. Not only did the
soldiers bring with them r.U the joy
and triumph of victory, but, in count
less cases, this joy was doubled by
finding their children saved from the
dangers of Spanish fever which threat
ened every home and caused the
absent father more concern than the
Austrian foemen.
With this joy and gratitude for the
safety of their little ones, the name of
America is intimately connected. For
in many a case where a child’s life
had been saved from the threatening
disease, it is thanks to the energetic
measures taken by the American Red
Cross. For over ten months it has
had a milk distribution for needy
soldiers’ families. Since the epidemic
this distribution has been greatly in
creased, and it is estimated that a
thousand small children are helped
every week and that hundreds of
little lives have been saved In this
way.
* * *
The War Council of the American
Red Cross has appropriated $30,826
for the erection and maintenance of a
monument on the island of Islay, Scot
land, in memory of the 179 American
soldiers who perished in the sinking
of the Tuscania and Otrante. The me
morial, plans for which have already
been approved, will be a granite obe- §
lisk about forty feet high, bearing a jj
bronze tablet on one of its faces and gj
a bronze wreath given by President jj
Wilson. The erection of the monu- jj
ment and arrangements for its mainte- jj
nance will be in the hands of the jj
American Red Cross Commission for jj
Great Britain.
* >{. *
The American Red Cross has appro- jj
priated $44,115 to cover the cost of jj
providing fifty steel one-story portable S
houses on the island of Porto Rico for jj
families who lost their homes and pos- jj
sessions as a result of the earthquake
and tidal wave last October.
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More than 18,500 Portland grade B
school children have enrolled with the g
American Junior Red Cross as health jj
crusaders. Of the fifty-nine Portland jj
grade schools, thirty-six have entered
whole-heartedly into the campaign to
promote personal hygiene and better 1
community sanitation.
With the other counties of the Port- |
land Chapter, 24,000 children hn,ve be
gun the daily health regime that the |
American Red Cross believes will in- |
crease the average health of the na- j
tion over 20 per cent.
The thirty-six schools which have g
adopted the crusade devote ten j
minutes daily to work and a discus- 1
sion of personal hygiene.
* * *
Be glad you don’t live in Turkey, j
A Red Cro3S man writes that eggs in j
Constantinople are thirty cents apiece. |
They’re not passed by the censor, |
either. Bread is eighty cents a loaf, |
milk ninety cents a pint, butter four j
dollars a pound and sugar two dollars j
a pound. Imagine feeding a flock of g
wives at those prices. Two army |
officers, says the Red Cross man, j
stopped over night at a hotel and had |
to pay $235 for lodging, breakfast and I
dinner. Wonder what they "had to 1
give the hat boy?
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The Daily Times Job plant is j
well equipped for all classe of com- j
mercial printing.
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Read the Daily Times for the latest 1
and most reliable world news. j
CORDOVA,
MACHINE WORKS
E. R. GARNE8. Prop.
Residence Shop
Phone 101-S. Phone 1S2
Machine Woifc of all Kinds,
Blacksmlthlng, General Repair
ing, Horse Shoeing. Oxy-Acety
lene Welding and Cutting.
AUTOMOBILES
REPAIRED
Office and Shop: City Dock
Cordova, Alaska.
Out o? Town Jobs Given Strict
Attention.
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Delivered to the trade or families in
large or small quantities
FREI) HAEF, Distributor
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Pool and Billiard Parlors
CIGARS, SOFT DRINKS AND TOBACCO p
FIRST-CLASS BARBER SHOP
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ICHAS. GOLDSTEIN & COMPANY I
of Juneau, Alaska
Offer to the trappers and dealers of the North
the followinig prices for No. I Prime Furs: Z.
j Lynx, extra large No. 1.$35.00 to $37.50
Lynx, large No. 1. 30.00 to 35.0C §
Lynx, small . 20.00 to 25.00 |
Mink, dark coast skins. 5.00 to 7.00 |
Mink, dark coast skins, small. 3.00 to 5.00
Mink, fresh water. 5.00 to 10.00 |
Land Otter. 12.00 to 15.00 |
Red Fox, No. 1 large. 30.00 to 35.00 |
Cross Fox, according to beauty. 50.00 to 100.00 $
Muskrats.75 to 1.50 |
Silver and Black Foxes, as to color |
Wolverine . 5.00 to 1.2.00 %
Wolves. 5.00 to 20.00
Ship us your Furs! As soon as recelvod we will grade same and §
wire our best offer. If our prices are not oatlsfactory we will return
the furs and pay transportation charges on same both ways.
References: Any bank In Alaska, Dexter Horton National Bank, 8e- W
attle; National Bank of Tacoma, Tacoma, Wash.
SATISFACTION GUARANTEED
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confident make this Grill a popular one and en- ^
titled to their kind support. j|
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