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RED CROSS NOTES
Clothes Will Be Received All Week
and Next Monday at the Middle
kauff Building
Distress among the refugees of the
countries occupied by German armies
on account of lack of clothing, shoes
and bedding has grown beyond the
capacity of their governments to con
trol it, and the American Red Cross
has been requested to furnish relief
to the suffering people. To accomp
lish this a clothing-collection cam
paign in the United States has been
arranged for the week of March 24
31 to provide 10,000 tons of personal
furnishings, 1,000 tons of which must
be raised by the Southwestern Divi
sion of the Red Cross, comprising
the states of Missouri, Kansas Ar
kansas, Oklahoma and Texas.
Every report and survey from
abroad by Red Cross and Government
officials unmistakably show that the
clothing problem faced by those re
turning to their devasted homes is
one of the most serious dangers they
have to face, and it is equally clear
that it is to America that the suf
fering people must turn. The rea
son they must look to America and
the outside world for aid is that ev
en though they had the raw material
they would be unable to make use of
it, because one of the acts of the
German occupation was to destroy or
take away all machinery that might
become useful to the people should
they return to their homes. Conse
quently clothing has to be furnished
them by such countries that have the
facilities to make it. While the
French, Eritish and Italian Govern
ments are doing all that can be done,
they have been unable to catch up
with the needs of their own popula
tion and the refugees of France and
Belgium. The Red Cross has deter
mined to care for not only these re
fugees but tthe destitute people of
all the countries of the Allies, includ
ing Frace, Belgium, Italy, Roumania,
Serbia, Greece, Czecho-Slovakia, Asia
Minor, Palestine, Poland and the
Southern Slav countries. The re
fugees of France and Belgium num
ber 2,000,000 and of the other coun
tries several million more.
The people of the Balkan countries
are in even greater need than the
people of France and Belgium, for
the former have been within reach of
the Governments, the Red Cross and
other relief organizations through
out the war; but the later have been
exiles for two years and more, at the
beginning of which they had but the
clothes on their backs when driven
from home. The rough and perilous
life they have ben compelled to live
soon reduced these to rags, and there
have been no additions, except from
pieces of carpets, burlap and blan
kets held together as best .the owner
could. They have no shoes since the
original pair fell to pieces. There is
no leather. They have had no bed
ding since the last article of this was
used as make-shift clothing. Thus
miserably clad they have been com
pelled to endure the utmost severi
ties of climate, seasons, travel and j
brutality of their conquerors.
Through every possible medium the
plight of these people will be brought
home to the American people, so that
the clothing collection campaign may
result in as widely-spread and suf
ficient relief as the circumstances de
mand. Americans will not be asked
to make sacrifices, for that is un
necessary. Only the cast-off, unused
or surplus clothing is desired, shoes
of every size, bedding, pieces of cloth
canton flannel, underclothes, etc.
Really, every article of clothing of a
worth-producing, substantial kind
will be of the greatest use. These
things represent but little value to
Americans and unusually can well be
spared. They will be of ".the utmost
value to people who are suffering
and will be appreciated more than the
giver can imagine.
This campaign will take place when
Americans are changing from heavy
to lighter wearing apparel. Much
of the heavy clothing will not be
again worn. Much, ordinarily, will
be put away and forgotten, become
damaged or lost. Thousands of .suits,
coats, dresses, cloaks, soft hats, stock
ings, pajamas, parts of clothing, shoes
boots, blankets, comforts, sheets, and
millions of articles that represent
Americans surplus supply of clothing
and household equipment should be
donated to the millions of people who
badly need even the barest essentials
of comfort and who have proven
themselves worthy of the highest con
sideration of all the peoples of the
world.
This campaign differs widely from
the clothing collection last year.
Then it was for the benefit of only
the Belgians and the American Red
Cross handled .only the collection.
Now all of the destitute people of all
of the countries associated in the war
with the United States are to be help
ed, and the American Red Cross un
dertakes not merely the collection,
but the packing, delivery to trains
and to the ships of the European Re
lief Administration and supervises
the actual distribution to the needy
individuals in Eurore.
The quantity of material asked
now is double the amount asked, last
year, but the work of administration
in this relief is momplfcated and ex
traordinary CTensive. There is no
comparison of the two campaigns.
The work now to be done is of such
a magnitude that the assistance of
every available person is needed to
make the campaign the success called
for by the range of need. A great
deal of expense and appropriation of
transportation space and help that
was wasted in the clothing campaign
last year must be saved in this cam
paign. Many useless and frivilous
articles were donated that required
time in packing, space in bales and
trains, only to be thrown out at the
central collection points, thus wast
ing funds and labor of employes of
the Red Cross. People who are suf
feiing through lack of clothing have
no use for flimsy dresses, dance slip
pers, silk hats, canes, umbrellas, par
asols, and such articles will not" be
accepted. But any articles of cloth
ing that they can put in condition
for wear will be of great use. It
is not necessary that they be in per
fect condition for any amount of as
sistance can be obtained for repair
ing and altering garments.
Since the end of hostilities the
roads and passes of the countries
have been crowded with thousands
of refugees finding their homes
burned of blown apart by shell fire
and the entire country devastated.
There is no shelter except such as
they can construct from the debris,
and little of this is left after the
first arrivals. Around fires in the
open air families are again taking
up the first elements of social, muni
cipal and national life, but with f
satisfaction that tthe enemy will not
return and the promise of an undis
turbed liberty. The severity of
weather, the scarcity of food and
clothing and the dangers to their
health, the deaths of members of the
family and others of their country
men have become such frequent hap
penings that they have been accepted
as a part of the general misfortune,
which only the hardiest and most de
termined could endure and have sur
vived. This is the condition when the
American Red Cross arrives, and it
is evident that every effort at re
lief is successful. But the Red Cross
representative "must arrive with arms
laden with relief, for there is noth
ing in these countries that can help.
Food must the brought and clothing
must be delivered for first relief.
Supplies of clothing must follow rap
idly to every locality in thousands of
square miles of territory until every
individual has been reached with a
supply that will last until the indivi
dual has been able to acquire the
means of taking care of himself or
herself. . The extent and immensity
of the work to be done may be be
wildering, but it must be done. The
American Red Cross is the only or
ganization with the facilities to do
it. This in itself is a great distinc
tion, but when the work is finally
done; when thousands of peoople will
have owed their lives to the relief
from America; when a prompt and
effective re-habilitation of their coun
tries has been largely accomplished
because of the help given by America,
the utmost appreciation and satisfac
tion will be mutually felt by them
and Americans they, because of the
benefits received, and, we, because of
the opportunity to do it.
The Y. M. C. A. Abroad x
An article presented at the Satur
day Afternoon Club in the discus
sion of current topics and printed by
request.
Edwin James, war correspondent,
in a letter to the N. Y. Times, in Jan.
offers three causes for the storm of
criticism which has recently swept
over the U. S. of the work of the Y.
M. C. A. in France. First, "mis
management of canteen service," se
cond, "the unfitness of some of the
Y workers," and third, "overmuch
care for the moral welfare of the
American doughboy."
These criticisms have been taken
up and ably answered by Mr. John
De Mott, head of the International
Y. M. C. A., and Mr. Perkins, finan
cial chairman of the organization.
In the summer of 1917, the Y. M.
C. A. was asked to assume charge of
the canteen service of the A. E. F.,
which after several consultattions
with Gen. Pershing and his staff, they
reluctantly connsented to do. Army
Bulletin No. 33, covering this service,
directed that all canteen supplies
were to be sold at the supply cen
ters for cost, plus cost of transporta
tion, with a slight margin to cover
losses in transit. Ignorance of this
standing military order is the reason
why the doughboy has so often been
unable to understand why the dough
boy has so often been unable to un
derstand why he should pay for sup
plies at a Y canteen, when he has
read of millions given to the Y, by
"the 'folks" back home. Unfortun
ately, the first ship-load of supplies
was torpedoed off the French coast,
and the demands of the men for lit
tle home comforts were met by pur
chasing supplies wherever procurable
and at retail prices. Though dispen
sed at absolutely cost, their prices
seemed exceeding high to the boys re
cently used to home prices, and the
quartermaster closing out his stock
at the same time at governnment
prices, gave prompt rise to the charge
of "profiteering"; a charge easily dis
proved when the strictness of army
reports is considered. Another source
of misunderstanding was the use of
French money, since the franc looks
much like our quarter, though equal
to about 172 cents, it was expect
ed to have equal purchasing power;
and when used in a Y canteen to
purchase articles recently purchased
at home for ten cents, the small
amount of change received was a
fruitfully source of dissatisfaction.
Thefree distribution, at various as
signed points, of supplies by other
agencies, as the Salvation Army and
the Knights of Columbus, added to
the feeling that the boys were being
grafted by the Y, when, as a fact,
the Y. canteens were subject to army
regulations which must be obeyed.
The large number of Y huts and their
equipment, all of which is free to the
soldier save the canteen supplies, has
absorbed many thousands of the dol
lars so freely contributed to the Y.
The extensive service at the base
ports, in the training areas and up to
the front-line trenches, includes a
wide and varied program of movies,
concerts and theatricals, also read
ing matter, writing materials and
athletic goods, all free of charge. It
was stated as a fact that the night
the 42nd Division left for France,
more than one" million letters, writ-
ten on Y. paper, were mailed from j
Long Island. Up to March 1918,
2138 men and 202 women had been
sent as Y. workers to France, 115
million cigarettes, 9 million cigars, 2
million packages of chewing gum and
30 million cans of preserved fruit
had been distributed free to the sold
iers, and athletic goods aggregating
many tons and one million feet of
moving picture film had been sent
overseas. 5050 Y centers had been
established outside of Paris and 12
buildings fully equipped within. At
the various rest camps established
for soldiers on furlough, all that is
finest and best in American home
life has been placed by the Y, at the
disposal of the war-weary soldiers.
In his second criticism, the person
nel of the Y. Workers, Mr. James
asserts that many of their managers
should have been left in America to
conduct pink teas and fill Chataqua
platforms, for while there were doubt
less many Y workers that were effic
ient and lovable, and every ready to
share dangers and hardships with
the boys, there were enought unde
sirables to injure the reputation of
the capable ones. Mr. Perkins, in
reply to this, says that the urgent
need for many workers, made it im
possible in every case, to choose ef
ficient one, but that a man was dis
missed as soon as his unfitness was
determined, and the incapables had
been largely weeded out.
Mr. James' third criticism is that
too great zeal for the moral welfare
of the doughboy, who considers him
self capable of looking after his own
morals, particularly when on fur
lough, has "mussed up the whole pro
gram," and made the Y unpopular as
a recreation center, suggesting that
the Army is no reformatory, and war
not a Sunday School Picnic. Mr.
Perkins answers this with the able
argument that if safeguarding the
morals of our soldiers and sailors is
ground for criticism and unpopular
ity, the Y. M. C. A. must plead guilty,
but that it is willing to await the
later impartial judgement of Amer
ican fathers and mothers as to this.
In conclusion, summing up the Y.
aside from the church as the most
potent moral force in the world today
who shall say its mistakes, often
magnified by busybodies who seem
able to stir up a noise vastly cut of
por portion to their importance, have
not been the result of undertaking
more than it was able to perform,
working along vast lines and with in
sufficient preparation? As a personal
instance of its efficiency a Hays
boy wrote his parents at Christmas
ttime that he had not heard from
home ssince June. As more than
fifty letters had been written him in
that time, a letter enclosing one to
him, was immediately dispatched to
the Y. M. C. A. headquarters at Toul,
and as soon as word could be return
ed, the parents were assured that
the letter had been placed in the
boy's hands by the Y. M. C. A. secre
tary, and a letter tthe same morning
from the son confirmed this.
I quote the following from the Lit
erary Digest of Nov. 9th, "It was at
a little hospital in France. A Y
worker was passing and thought of
a Scotch boy within, with whom he
had been talking that afternoon. He
entered, expecting to find the boy
marked for transfer home that night
but when he approached, he found
that something had intervened be
tween all hopes and plans. The
wounded lad's eyes were bright with
fever, and he beckoned to the man
of mercy. "Come here, mummy," he
said; put your arm under my head
and I think I will sleep to night."
"And then" says the worker, "I
saw that he had become a child
again." "Hear me say my prayers
now, mummy," he said, and begin
ning, "Our father which art in Heav
en," he felt his way through it like
a blind man in a narrow alley, till he
got tangled in forgetfulness, and
stumbled for a moment into silence.
Then looking up at me he said, "Kiss
me, mummy," and I kissed him, and
tucked him up as his mother used to
do, when he was a boy at home, and
by- a way of sleep that night, he
found a dawn beyond our daybreak."
As we come to realize more fully,
the immense value of this great or
ganization to the welfare and moral
of the American soldier, let us dis
courage criticism and charges of mis
management, in view of the magni
tude of the good accomplished by
this big hearted brothers of Human
ity, who cheered our homesick lads
in the camps, sailed with them on
their perilous voyage, went through
shell-fire to save them when wounded,
and brought food, and friendliness
and comfort to them even to the
.firestep of the front line trenches.
Remember this, let us hope that its
mistakes, if any, may be inscribed on
the sand, soon to be swept away by
the wholesome, irresistable tide of a
national gratitude.
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SHERIFF'S SALE
(First Published March 27, 1919 in
Hays Free Press
In the District Court of Ellis Coun
ty, Kansas.
Hattie A. Bowlby,
VS.
Joseph Ast, Carrie Ast, and the First
National Bank, Ellis, Kansas.
Notice of Sale
By virtue- of an order of sale issued
out of the said District Court in the
above entitled action and to me di
rected and delivered, I will on April
29, 1919, at 2:00 p. m. on said day
at the south front door of the Court
House in the City of Hays in Ellis
County, Kansas, sell at public sale to
the highest and best bidder, for cash,
all of the following described Real
Estate situated in Ellis County and
State of Kansas, to-wit:
The South Half of Section Thirty
one (31), and the South Half of Sec
tion Thirty-two (32), all in Town
ship Twelve (12), South Range Nine
teen (19).
The said property is taken as the
property of the defendants and will
be sold under said order of sale to
satisfy judgement as to the said Hat-
tie A. Bowlby, and will be sold with
out appraisement, subject to an eigh
teen month period of redemption as
provided by law.
ALEX WELTZ,
Sheriff of Ellis County, Kansas.
PUBLICATION NOTICE
Case Number 6637
In The District Court of Ellis
County, Kansas.
John S. Dreiling, Plaintiff,
VS
The Unknown Heirs, Executors, Ad
ministrators, Devisees, Trustees
or Assigns, of, William E. Webb,
Philena K.Webb, James W. Dow
ner, James K. Knight, George W.
Updyke and William J. Wells,
Deceased, Elizabeth Hutchinson,
heir at law of Martin Allen, de
ceased and S. B. Hutchinson
Husband of Elizabeth Hutchin
son, Defendants.
To the Defendants above named,
You and each of you will take no
tice that the Plaintiff, above named
did on the 10th day March, 1919,
file his petition in the Court above
named against you, the said defend
ants, and that you and each of you
must answer said petition so filed as
aforsaid, on or before the 24 day of
April, 1919, or said petition will be
taken as true and a Judgment rend
ered against you and each of you,
Quieting and Establishing the Title
to Lots Numbered Nine, (9) and Ele
ven (11) of Block Numbered Fifty
(50) of the Town of Hays City, (now
the City of Hays) Ellis County, Kan
sas and forever barring you from all
title interest and estate therein in fa
vor of said plaintiff.
A. D. GILKESON,
Attorney for Plaintiff.
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Office over Basgalls Grocery Store.
Phones: Res. 130B; Office 258.
J. R. BETTHAUSER, M. D.
Physician and Surgeon
Successor to Geo. P. Henim
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RUTH FLIESBACH
Public Stenographer
Chamber of Commerce Office
Private Phone 254
C. M. HOLMQUIST
Attorney-at-law
Office over First National B.mk
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Attormey-at-Law
Office over Citizens State Bank
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