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VOL^JXVj. ~-_ BIG STONE GAP. WISE COUNTY, VA.. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25. 1qi?. m? aq
Red Cross
To the Chapters of the Po?
tomac Division.
Cooperation with Woman's
(jommitteo of Council of Na?
tional Defense respecting Bras
earil as a substitute for mourn?
ing for ono who e life has been
los; in the service.
Kudosed pleasu finil a joint
circular addressed to the local
units of the Woman's Commit?
tee of the Council of Nalioual
pefonse und to tho chapters of
tl ? American Red Cross, with
respect to a plan suggested by
the Woman's Committee and
approved by the President, for
the wearing of a Brassard as u
substitute for mourning by the
relatives of those soldiers and
enilors who have lost their lives
in the sorvice.
Tho Bed Cross War Council
hus undertaken, at tho request
of the Woman's Committee, to
prepare these Brassards for dis?
tribution to the bereaved fami?
lies, and you are respectfully
requested to undertake this re
t-l onsibility, always in coopera?
tion with the local units of the
Woman's Committee.
American Red Cross Chapters
will provide tho Brassard with?
out churge to the widow and
parents of the soldier or sailor.
To other members of tho family,
it will bo furnished at cost. Ma?
terials for the Brassard have
reached the division warehous?
es Requisitions from cbupters
will be filled upon application
to division headquarters.
A Brassard consists of a band
of black broadcloth three incites
wide, to be worn on tho left
sleeve, midway between elbow
and shoulder. The length of
the bund its delivered is eigb
inohes, and should bo adjusted
to the size of the sleeve, the
ends being lapped or sewed in u
-ruin. The seam or lapped
edges of the arm bund should
be placed at the Beam of tho
sleeve.
Tho stars should be midway
of the width of the baud. When
ono uttir is worn it should be
placed about 1 1.4 inches be?
yond the first quarter of the
hand,und u distance of about
1 1-4 inches should be main?
tained between the centers of
tho stars when more than one
ifl worn. If t wo stars are worn,
tho first star should bo moved
jne inch nearer the seam.
It is suggested that'Chapters
confer immediately with the lo?
cal unit of the Woman's Com?
mittee of the Council of Nation?
al Defense, and if deemed ad
visuble, together with the
chairman of your Home Service
Section, regarding tho distribu?
tion of the Brassards. It is
considered better policy to lot,
each community decide for It?
self the best method of insuring
the success of this plan locally.
A joint circular letter address?
ed to the local units of the Wo?
man's Committee, und to Rod
CrosB Chapters with respect to
this plan, which bus been ap?
proved by the President of the
United States is enclosed here?
with, und it is earnestly sug?
gested to our Chapters that
they act in close cooperation in
this matter with the local units
of the Woman's Committee
wherever they mtiy be.
I venture furthermore to re?
quest all ofticiuls of Chapters in
ibis division to be so good its to
cause the fullest possible pub?
licity to bo given to ibis letter
und its enclosure.
Very sincerely yours,
Ukmrv White,
Manager Potomac Division.
The Womau'u Committee of
the Council of National De
tense, in executive session on
May 20, recommended the wear?
ing of a Brassard as a substi?
tute for mourning, by the rela?
tives uf those soldiers and sail?
ors who have lost their lives in
the service.
This action was brought to
the attention of the President of
the United States, who sont the
following letter to Doctor An?
na Howard Shaw, the Chair
man of the Woman's Commit?
tee:
Washington, 2i May, 1018.
My dear Doctor Shaw:
Thank you for your letter of
yesterday. 1 do entirely ap?
prove of the action taken by
the Woman's Committee in ox
ecutive session, namely; that in?
stead of tho usual mourning a
three-inch black band should
be worn upon which a gill star
may bo placed for each mem?
ber of the family whose life is
lost in the service, and that the
bond shall be worn on tho left
arm. I hope and believe thai
tho ' thoughtful people every?
where will bo kind enough to
make tho suggestion to the
committee public with the state
ment that it has my cordial en?
dorsement.
(Signed) WoODitOW Wilson
Iii adopting this insignia, the
Woman's Committee desired
that it should never bo com
morcialized, but that it should
always bo possible for the mem?
bers of the families of those
who havo made this supreme
sacrifice, to prepare for them
selves Ibis badge of honor.
In order to facilitate the
adoption of the brassard it bus
seemed to the Woman's Com?
mittee that the Chapters of the
American Hed Cross are espe?
cially well equipped to propure
; them, and the Committee has,
therefore, requested these chap?
ters, through tho Chairman of
the War Couucil of tho Ameri?
can lted Cross to furnish the
brassards to those who have
the right lo wear them, either
of black broadcloth, or of thin
black silk elastic, according lo
the texture of the garment wich
which it will be worn. To this
bund, tho regulation military
stnr fifteen-sixteenths of an
inch embroidered in gold thread
shall be applied by bund. It is
the understanding that the
brassard and star will be fur?
nished without charge to the
widow and the parents ot tho
soldier or sailor. To other
members of tho family, the
Brassard will be furnished at
cost.
This would not imply any ex
elusive right to prepare the
Brassard, but would merely be
such a sympathetic service as
tho members of the Red Cross
delight to render, and it would
bo understood by the Local
Units of the Woman's Commit
tee that this action is a joint
ono between their organization
and the American Red Cross.
II. V. DAvibsoK,
Chairman?Red Cross War
Couucil.
The above circular letter mer?
its the consideration of ail the
Indies of the chapter and its
branches and I trust that the
suggestions will be adopted.
R. A. A vKits,
Chairman,
Commissioned Lieutenant.
Kred L. Buchanan, of East
.Stone Cap, has recently boon
commissioned lieutenant by
General forsbing; Kreil is well
known by every ono unJ bus
many friends in this section.
He bus been serving Uncle Sam
about nine years and bus made
good in everything. Ho served
about four years with tho in?
fantry and since then bo bus
been with the marines. He is
also a member of the famous
Rainbow Division, was tirst
made gunner sergeant and then
to tho position he now holds.
In a letter from him last week
bo said that the Boches were on
the run and that they were go?
ing to keep them that way und
that bu had boon constantly
"over the top" since July 19th
and hud stopped no German
bullets yet, only bud a slight
wound in the band but not se?
rious.
Kred is a son of Mr. and Mrs.
A. E. Buchanan, of Kast Stone
(Jap, und they are certainly
proud of their son.
First Wounded Then Killed.
K. 11. Wells, who was recent?
ly wounded iu Franco and
whose conditions gave bis fos
ttir father and mother, Mr. and
Mrs. W. L. Murphy so much
concern, lib soonor recovored
from bis wounds and rejoined
bis regiment until be sustained
a mortal wound on the great
battlefield in Franco and was
numbered among the slain.
This will bo sad news to those
who knew bim, but it is also
glad news. He was among the
earliest volunteers in his coun?
try's service and Iuib been in
the fore frout since early spring
Ho baa fouud a hero's grave
and a hero's reward. What
need we more tbun this to wish
for any of our young men.?
Norton Progress.
The Fourth Loan
Is the Fighting Loan
As the campaign for the Fourth Liberty Loan, which com?
menced September 2Stli, approaches the American Army in
Prance move* on (?ward Berlin. Under our owii leaden the
great American Army has won a notable victor}'.
The fourth Loan must he a great success. The fourth Liber?
ty Loan is u lighting loan.
When our soldiers on the battle front are braving death, each
one offering to make the Bupreino sacrrifice we who remain safely
at home surely should ?live them ever support, should make every
RaoHfice to strengthen them. If we CUUUOt tight ourselves we call
make our dollars light.
It is a great cause for which America is engaged in this war;
it is a grout struggle in which the very hope of the world is hound
up that is being waged in Europe und oil the hjgh seas. It is an
honor to have a part in it and all Americans, all of their lives, will
he proud of the part they had in it or ashamed of their failure to
do their part.
The Fourth Loan is a lighting loan. Kvery subseriher to the
Loan strikes u blow for Liberty, for Victory,
Positive Proof
Lcninc and Trotzky Trickery
Revealed.
Washington, Sept. Jo. ? Proofs
removing any doubts that Len
inc and I'rol/.ky, the Bolshoviki
leadersJare paid I lerman agents
?if in deed any doubt remains
?are laid before the world by
the United Stairs government
in the first installment of an
amazing series of ofticial docu?
ments disclosed through the
committee on public informa?
tion.
Secured in Russia by Ameri?
can agents, these documents
not only show bow the German
government, through its impe?
rial bank, paid its gold to Lc?
ninc, Trotsky and their inline
diale associates to betray Rus?
sia into deserting her allies, but
give added proofs, if any be
necessary, that Germany bad
perfected her plans for a war of
world conquest long before the
assassination at Sarovejo con?
veniently furnished her pretext.
The documents further show
that before the world war was
four months old, and more than
two years before the United
States entered it, (lertnany a)
ready was Bettln Z afoot her
plans to "mobilize destructive
agents and observers," to cause
explosions, strikes and out?
rages' in this country mid plan
lied the employment of "anarch
ists and escaped criminals" for
the purpose.
HANK WITH ZIMMKKUAN
Almost ranking in their Sen?
sational nature with the noto?
rious Zimmerman note propos.
iug war by Mexico and Japan
upon the United States which
was first given to the world by
the Associated Press, these
documents lay h ire a new strata
of Prussian intrigue, a now
viow of the workings of kultttr
to disrupt the Allies, standing
between the world and Knisor
ism. They disclose a new store
of human treachery for gold
whicb might almost well be de?
scribed without sacrilege its
placing its perpetrators on a
pedastul with Judas and hi*
thirty pieces of silver.
The intrigue appears to have
been carried down to the last
detail of arrangement with
typical German system.
TAH) HUN AOENT8
Not only do the disclosures
prove that Lenine, Trotzky and
their band are paid German
agents. They Bhow that the
Holsheviki revolution which
threw Russia into such an orgy
of murder and excesses its tho
world seldom tins seen, actually
was arranged by the German
general Btatf. They show how
tho paid agents of Germany be?
trayed Russia at the Brest-Lit
ovsk "peace" conference; how
German stall oflicors secretly
have been received by the Hol?
sheviki us military advisers;
how they have acted us spies
upon the embassies of the na?
tions with which the allies were
at peace; how they actually
havo directed the Bolshoviki
foreign, domestic and economic
policy wholly in the interest of
Germany and tho shame and
degredatiou of Russia. They
Bhow how a picked German
commander wuh detailed to
"defend" Potrograd against the
Gorman army and un extension
of Uormuii intrigue and domi
nation almost- beyond llio rodllll
of imagination.
IK)( I MKNTS A UK i'KOOR
Originals of documents, pho?
tographs of originals ami type?
written circulars, boiiio of them
mark od "very Beeret'! or "pri?
vate" ami many of them bear
ing tbo annotations of tho Bob
slioviki loaders themselves:
boiiio of them containing ref
eronco8 to "Comrade Trotsky"
or "Comrade Leniuo" comprise
the damning record. Some of
the originals, it is shown, al?
though deposited in the Beeret
archives of the Bolahevlki,wero
required to bo returned later to
representatives of tbo Qerinan
general stall' in Petrograd, that
they might be destroyed. But
evidence of thorn romained in
ihn fabric Of roguery ami into
the vacancies they lit perfectly.
The Bolshevik! leaders, them
selves, informell their "com?
rades" thai the (termini gbv
urnmunt hail required the re?
turn of the order of the German
Imperial Bank depositing 60,'
000,000 gold rubies in a Stock?
holm bank for l.enine and
Trotsky, and that the time the
UCCOUnt9 of the bank had been
"audited" to conoonl the pay?
ments.
Clothing' for Belgians
Will be received at Hostie'.
store buililiiitr on Thursday,
Friday and Saturday from 10
a. in. to I p. in.
The Hoy Scouts are requested
to aid in its collection.
It. A. Aykks, Chairman
Hig Stone (Jap Chapter
American Bed < 'russ
Camp Fire Girls Outing.
Saturday morning a number
of the Camp Firo Girls left
home to hpend the day at the
Natural Tunnell. They "hiked"
to the Southern station, but
reached there just in time to
boo the train pull out. Then
they gol a car hoping to catch
the train at Kust Stone (lap,
but when they reached there,
the train hud been gone some
time. So they camped there
until the afternoon train which
they boarded for the Natural
Tunnell, where they spent a
few hours very enjoynoly re?
turning on the evening. The
girls were Misses Bonnie Cat
ron, Irene and Lucile Draper,
Louise Cox, Ruby Jenkins, El?
sie Taylor, Helen McCormick,
Helen Carico anil Edna Oatron.
Of Interest Here.
An interesting account of the
beautiful wedding of .Miss Alma
Nix at the home of her parents
"Cnsa Bianca" in Bockville,
L. I., to Lieutenant Le Boy
Walter SaunderB, of Washing?
ton, 1). 0., was in the Bristol
Herald Courier last Tuesday,
which'will be of interest here to
a large number of people, MisBi
Nix|having spent some time hero
about, two years ago the guest
of Miss Jule Bullilt,who is now
Mrs. Willis Slaughter, of Wash?
ington, D. U. They were school
mates together at Hollins Col
lego two years.
Farmers and
Special Care is tu Rc Taken
to Defer Agricultural
Workers.
Washington, D. ('., Sept. 21?
Untier the rules of the Wur De?
partment for executing tho now
tlrtift lii>v, special provision is
made for informing tho district
boards in regard to farm-labor
requirements in order that nec?
essary food production may be
maintaiued,says a statement is
BUod by the Department of Ag?
riculture The statement run.
tin hob:
In the now druft the district
boards are cbargod with the
dot) <>f putting into deferred
clos>-eH those persons who two
more likely to further the war
by remaining in civilian occu?
pations than i>y entering the
army. Accordingly, three ml
visor* are to be selected for each
tlinlrict board?ono for agricul?
ture, one for labor, and one for
other occupations. The agri
cultural adviser will be up
pointed by (be board upon the
recommendation of tho Secreta?
ry of Agriculture, The advis?
ers uro not members of tin?
horn.I but may, when invited,
attend its meetings.
Il'iw AHItU l l.l I IIAI. AOVI3KR
Ti ti duties of the agricultural j
ads imt will he to furnish to the
boai I facts relative tri farm In
bor requirements, not only of
ho. own district, but of tho
who'll country, tin should be
the r. pository of all facts hav
ing i' latino to ib.- deferment ol
agricultural workers, wholhei
these be neceseiiry farm labor?
ers, managers or operators, lie
will lie expected to advise the
j district hnurds as |n n shortage
or surplus of necesstiiy farm
woikers for any given district,
as well as for the entire nation.
Such information will In- sup?
plied to the advisers by the De?
partment of Agriculture, This
will make it possible to have
in c.-ssary workers transferred
front districts in which they
lllhy not be necessary to other
districts in which they are
son ly needed.
Tim advisors may also con?
cern himself with individual
crises that come before the dis?
trict board, lie will have the
right, under certain conditions,
in examine the questionnaires
ami other records in the tiles of
the local board for the purpose
of ascertaining w llether persons
entitled to deferred classifica?
tions have actually claimed it.
In case be linds ihe names of
such registrants lie may (lie for
them a claim for deferred classi?
fication with the district board,
which, in turn, may require lite
local board to certify the ques?
tionnaire und recortl of any
such registrants for considera?
tion. Reasonable time will be
given for the purpose of obtain-]
ing information and supplying
the ailidavits required. If a
local board determines lo con?
sider a case for deferred classi?
fication because a registrant is
engaged in a necessary occupa?
tion, notwithstanding no claim
for deferred classification on
that ground has been made, it
shall endorse tho recommend?
ation on the questionitnrie ot
the registrant and forward it
to the district board having
jurisdiction. The district board
will there upon consider the
cttse and proceed to classify the
registrant, notwithstanding the
fact that no claim for deferred
classification by or in respect
of the registrant has been made.
W it.I. All).
Schools Hay Close for Lack
of Teachers.
Richmond, Va., Sept. 20.?
Educational officials >>f the state
uro confronted with the problem
of either supplying 1,172 school
teachers or closing down several
hundred schools scattered
throughout the state. The re?
port of Superintendent Mart to?
day disclosed Too white schools
without a sufficient teaching
force while Ulli colored schools
are insufficiently provided.
Higher wages paid in the vari?
ous munition factories in this
vicinity is given as the cause of
many teacher* deserting the
ranks iMscausd of the low -alary
rute.
Girl Scouts Hike To Big
Stone Gap.
A number of (iirl Scout* hik?
ed to Hig Stone trap last Satur
flay. They made the trip in
fifty minutes and mal.- oalv
oui. stop at Roaring Branch of
about live ihiiiiitoH. The return
trip was tnndo in about the time
with a short stop at the Branch.
Those going on the hike wore;
Mrs. II adorer, Misses I'm diu
Evorugo, Margaret and Eliza?
beth Guntner, Kuln Kress. Mos
su St.'ong, Elizabeth Mel.in,
Anna Kocd, Mabel Fenke, Bulb
I'annell, Kclsic Tilly, Curie
Brooks and Kuby Odell.?Ap
palnchin Progressive.
U. D. C.'n'OTICK
The September meeting was
held at the home of Mr-. l'.. K.
Good loo; ten nieinbers responded
to roll call.
As I bo August meeting was
small ami we did not have a
quorum, the election of officers
WHS deferred until September
and dues were paid for August.
A letter was read from our
-tale president also a letter from
lib.' state secretary. We tleeiil
led io continue to give medals to
the school children in the-griiin
intir grades and high school, and
a picture in the lower grades for
the bes. grades during the year.
As Ihn slate convention meets
in Richmond on the Isi of Octo?
ber, Mr- Alexander was ap?
pointed a delegate to represent
us. The officers for the next
year: President, Mr*. II. A. W.
Sktien; First Vice-President,
Mrs. U. E. tioodloe: Second
Vice^ President, Mr-. ti.go
Taylor; I!.riling Secretary,
Mr-. Wuinpler; Corresponding
Sec retary. Mrs. W. T. Goodloij;
llistorlmi, Mrs. I,, t >. Pettily
Registrar, Mrs. MeCbrmiek.
Secretary.
RLU CROSS NOTES
A shipment of 120 pairs of
socks ami 20 sweaters was sent
to Washington, September 'Jini
for the Italian Commission. On
September 20th, tin sweaters
were shipped In Washington,
A call has been made for 26
sweaters by October lOtll. Will
the sweater knitters, please take
notice.
Mus. C. (" Loxo,
Supervisor Ol Knitting.
Family Reunion.
Mr. and Mrs. E, R. Taylor
had a very enjoyable reunion of
their whole family at thoir love?
ly home in the (lap last Sunday
week. Thorn were twenty Ihren
of thoir family present, which
includes the grand children,
sons in law and daughters in
law, all of whom enjoyed the
day and the delicious dinner,
which was served them. Those
present were Mr. ami Mrs .) S.
Taylor anil childion. of Peter --
town. W. Va., Mr. and Mrs.
Harold Pyleand baby,of Kings
port, (J.S.Taylor, of Stonegn,
Jannis Taylor, of Blackwood,
Mr. and Mrs. George I. Taylor
and two children, of the Gap,
and guest Mrs. ,1. Marrs and
baby, Alien, of Texas, Mr. ami
Mrs. liny Stone and two chil?
dren, Misses Lucile and Jewel
Taylor ami Roy Taylor, of the
Gap.
The Church of Christ.
Preaching on lirst and third
Lord's day mornings ; s,.ml ami
fourth evenings. Would be de?
lighted with your presence,
1 Fksti s N. Wolfs, Minister.