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In the Mode for Mine* The three sprightly bats pictured here, for young girls, convey the ap peal of naive and happy youth, In theli simple designing. The hat at the top has a cap crown—made In section*— and brim rolled up saucily at the front Below Is a velvet tarn with sectional crown resting on a narrow upturned brim and little velvet apples dangling from the side. In the third hat the wider up-rolling brim Is featured bj placing on it triangular straps having their edges buttonholed with boovj silk floss. RED GROSS MET TEST IN JAPAN FUND DRIVE Spirit of Service Demonstrated in Readiness for Nation wide Activity. When President Coolldge by procla mation designated the American Red Cross as the medium through which contributions lor relief of the Japan ese earthquake sufferers should flow, the President’s desire came as an or der to the Red Cross. Immediately the entire machinery of the organisa tion was put in motion and within S4 hours the fund campaign was moving with vigor In every part of the ooun try. This emergency test demonstrated the peacetime readiness of the Red Cross to cope with stupendous tasks in behalf o't humanity. Within a month it had collected upwards of $10,250,000 in contributions, landed ten cargoes of supplies at Japanese ports and was keeping pace with re lief requirements—all without a sin gle dollar of the fund being spent for administration. President Coolldge. In expressing nls thanks~to the people, said F T,When the news of the tragedy in Japan first reached us, the American Red Cross, pursuant to a proclamation, asked the country for $5,000,000 to meet the great emergency. The answer to this appeal was prompt and generous; In less than two weeks a sum far In ex cess of the original goal was given." The work of the Red Cross for Japan is expected to influence a very large enrollment of new recruits dur ing the Roll Call, which starts Armis tice Day. Red Cross First Aid Standards Adopted In Great Industries rirst aid in an emergency which assures the injured competent atten tion until the doctor arrives is making marked headway through the work of the Chapters of the American Red Cross. In populous centers 314 chap ters conduct first aid classes and last year awarded 9,500 certificates to stu dents. Eight big telephone companies have enlisted their workers in first aid classes, police and fire departments in large cities are making the course compulsory in their training schools, and through colleges and high schools large groups of students receive in struction The Red Cross also gives this course through Boy Scouts, Qirl Scouts. Y M. C. A. and similar organi sations, and its standard methods have been adopted by railroads, elec tric and gas companies, mines and in the metal industries. The aim of this Red Cross service is to cut down radi cally the average of 60.000 accidental deaths per year in the United States. "Our country could secure no higher commendation, no greater place in his tory. than to have it correctly said that the Red Cross is truly American.” —President Coolldge. Every day Is a better one to the man and woman stimulated by ths Red Cross spirit Join now for hap piness. 110 DISASTERS IN YEAR ENLIST RED CROSS AID Nearly $400,000 Spent in United States —Greek Refugee Work Completed. For Its preparedness to render re lief through effective and generous aid to the sufferers from disaster ths American Red Cross Is universally re garded as the one organization from which response to appeal for help is immediate In the last year, accord ing to the annual report of the Red Cross. i;s disaster relief operations WOTe carried oul~Th lTD~1bcai!tte* & the United States. This work, with activities carried over from the previ ous year, required the expenditure In the United States of $397,468.04 by the American Red Cross, its Chapter* and Branches. In the emergency fol lowing the defeat of the Greek forces In Turkey and the burning of the city of Smyrna, which entailed the relief of nearly 900,000 men, women and children. Red Cross National Head quarters expended $2,605,696.09. The food distributed in Greece aggregated 25.000 tons; garments, 809.000; blan kets. 4S.650: new shoes. 5.000 pairs; medical, hospital and sanitary sup plies, 304 tons. In the feeding of the refugees there was listed upwards of 32.000 children under three years of age. The disasters in the United State* during the past year reported 240 per sons killed. 991 injured. 12.691 ren dered homeless. The total property loss was estimated at $20,710,000. Relief of suffering caused by disas ters of such magnitude as to over whelm the resources of the communi ties in which they occur is fundamen tal to the charter of the American Red Cross. In addition to making ap propriations from its treasury and as signing trained personnel to relief work, the Red Cross in disaster cen tralizes and makes more effective ro ller funds and supplies contributed by the country at large. Since 1SS1 the Red Cross has ad ministered more than $20,000,000 for the single purpose of disaster relief. That it may continue to accept the re sponsibilities which grave emergen cies place upon the American Red Cross appeal is made for a nation wide renewal of membership during the annual roll call, which opens on Armistice Day. November 11. and closes on Thanksgiving Day, Novem ber 29. Life Saving Work Of Red Cross Corps Wars on Brownings The insignia of the American Red Cross Lif<' Saving Corps on the bath ins apparel of men. women and youths is •• en everywhere at favorite bathing places along the coasts, riv ers. lakes and ponds. In its unrelent ing ca: i';tign to reduce loss of life by drowning the Red Cross is making constant headway. The demands for Instruction from organizations in all parts of the country were so numer ous the past year that it was neces sary to more than double the staff of Red Cross instructors. This work of training for water life-saving showed an enrollment of over 30.000 volun teers enlisted for duty on patrol, for rescue and resuscitation, all compe tent to instruct others in the standard water-safety methods. The Red Cross by request of the War Department gives water first aid training at the United States Military and Naval academies and in the military training I camps Tor reserve officers and civil-1 ians. The four fcauh prizes awarded by the Red Cross last year for heroic j rescues were conferred upon two girls, a boy and a man, Indicating that the youths of the country stand well at the top in conserving life along our water courses. Five Thousand Dollars By MORRIS SCHULTZ i®. 1 £*23. Western Newspaper Union.) r YING on hts bed In the cabin. Hank Winton listened to the whispered voices in the next room. Three days before, Hank, wounded in the arm, had ridden up to the cabin. Wo questions were asked of him—Chat is not the mountain way. But Hank suspected that his identity was known. And the dve thousand dollars placed upon hie head would mean a fortune to this poor, Ignorant young couple struggling along with their few moun tain sheep on the poor range. Five thousand dollars! Hank had Shot the sheriff, who tried to intercept him after his escape from the peniten tiary. The sheriff had recovered, j crippled for life. Twenty years faced Mm Five thousand dollars! He had never been worth a quarter of that sum. If he had had five thousand dol lars years before Molly would not have divorced him. Molly and her huBband were happy, but very poor; and there was the kid—Hank’s own kid, brought np In Ignorance that his father was alive. Hank would have given his liberty to have let the boy have bis chance In the world. Molly would see to that V— The startling thought that flashed through his brain dissolved as he beard that stealthy whispering through the wall again. He must get on at dawn. And, plan ning this, he tell aaleep frocu ex ha na tion. N«n morning hla ho*4 «->id, t with a ridfty glance at him: I •I fuses I got to g° ,nt° t»nln this norain’ to hare thavj^p to#dlcine sent oat. Yoa stay here with tue wife, old-timer. Shore, everything will be ■A right That wound you got chasin’ Hank Wlnton will soon heal In this hynr mountain air. You're good ter as long aa yon stay, old-timer.” Hank thanked him briefly. He knew why the man waa going Into town. It wee the remit of his talk with his Wife the Bight before. They meant to do the right thing, but five thousand dollars— And there was a baby coming. Fiva thousand dollars! Why, he, Hank, would have sold his best friend to giro five thousand dollars to Tom! Again that startling thought flashed through ,‘iis mind He watched his host ride off. The woman Went Into the kitchen and | made a pretense of peeling potatoes. Hank watched her through the open ! door. She was crying. Suddenly she turned and cams to I hhn. “You saddle the pinto and ride j away before my man gits back,” ahe ■aid. Hank smiled. It was a winsome ■mile; the desperado was still a young man; he had not lost all his boyish* “I reckon yon know.” “Shore, we both know, and I reckon you know why my man’s rid into town There’s time te git ewsy yet. Thai plate of yours can go fast. Ef It wasn't for—for the baby.” She put her hand to her throat “But I jest cant do It now,” ahe said. “You tako the pinto. He’ll understand.” “I—I got a kid of my own,” said She looked at Mb with alow under standing. "l%aA Chore la touch,” ehe ■14 "And I wa» tMnkln’, what's the sense of goln’ on bein' an outlaw wfcen Pm bound to gft caught sooner or la ter? If I was to tako my medicine 1 guess I’d be out la thirteen years or no, with s trade, and—and there’s that hid of mine. Twenty-Are hundred would j jest shout set Mb right with the world. And I guess tt would jest about net you right.” "You—you meaar* "Shore that’s what I Bean. Twen ty-five hundred's a mighty big lot of money and. ... I gnaaa I could trust yon." "You saddle that pinto P ehe A ashed out "Wall, I guana net," mid Hank. "Besides, I ain't wall enough to ride yet" Two hours later the galloping horse Ben converged about the aback. Hank was ridden down and covered. "Well, I guess we got you to rights, Hank," remarked the deputy. "Guess so,” Hank answered. The man who had sold him came up to the little group. "Satisfied that’s MbP he asked. "Shore that’s him," they anawereo curtly. They moved away from him. Hank laughed. "That’s all right, old-timer,’’ he said. "Don't hold It against him. I was aimin' to surrender, and we thought wo might as well divide up that there reward between us. Twenty-five hun dred each shore la a lot of money. Fair Exchange No Robbery. The Punxville grocery store had been broken Into and robbed. “It was the work of local thieves, home talent," announced the sheriff after sleuthing the place over thor- i oughly. The grocer beamed. “Wall, then,” he said, "I got ns «nidgo." “That's neighborly—but whyT” “Oh, ’taln’t so much nelghborllness. i I guess we’re even. Chances are I*vi; been sellln' tbs guilty parties thedi j groceries." More of a Prod. "Hit ala' so much what a man got gwlne make him happy," said Char coal Eph, rumlnatlvely, "aa what he wish lie had dat he gwlne go out an’ fit-"- Richmond Ttmes-Dlspatch. •pent Fifty Years Writing Faust. Nearly fifty years passed from the day Goethe began writing his dramatic j poem, Faust, until the last part bad been completed for the printer, some work on the poem having been dona | each year of that long time, with many revisions and rearrangements. The last part of the working wad* com pleted shortly before his ddath in 1882. WAITED- MAN TO SELL Rawleigh Quality Products di rect to consumers in East Ha lifax or Northampton County. Pleasant, pgramnent. profitable business. Little capital needed. Make practically every family a steady satisfied customer. Workers make large steady in come. Give age, occupation, references. W. T. Ravvleich Co., Dept. 1789, Freeport’ i'i. Okf Purr of t L Davy • ' > In. ,x<-r. ;ii tl . hi (■■• i-f (ho son. ' •!•(> : -.vy .Toth*'!. :i I’.-v: :;l . uurf. \V!u*n . ’tip • ' '<> lime gone '<■ vy NOTICE I have moved my office to the Dobbins Buildinr. You will find me in *he office of Mr. Allen C. Zollicoffer every Wednesday morninpr. J. B. HALL, Supe intend; nt Public Welfare n-9-41 N. W. COP.B, Florist 130 Fayetteville Stieet RALEIGH, N C. Agents for Roanoke Rapids TAYL' R-MATTHFWS CO ROAvOKE PHARMN Y CO $42.50 LOOK MEN SPECIAL HOLIDAY OFFER Opportunity of a Life 1 ime Dont spend your hard earned m >ney foolishly and buy for Father, Brother, Husband or Sweetheart, a cheap gold filled or plated watch. Give him the best there is, it is the cheapest in the end, to be remembered forever. Limited quanity, genuine. solid I I (fourteen) karat gold watches. Plain-eng., thin or octagon shape. Fdginor Waltham movements, fi fteen jewelled, or 111 in -s twenty one jewelled movements. Guarantee enclosed with < very •watch. Send Post Office order now. dont delay, and receive . watch immediately sent to you, registered, fully insured, packed in expensive, beautiful lined gift cas. Act quick. Wondrful 18 (eighteen) karat, solid gold. ■ white or green wrist watches, latest designs, octagon shape models, full jewelled. The very thing that you have wanted and ad mired on others. Now in the reach of every body. Get one while they last. Fxclusive Watch Co. 1842 Broadway, N. Y. C. Telephone Brayant 10259 j Attention | Ladies $27.50 The Roanoke Rapids Herald extends its heartiest greetings to the Ex-Service Men of Halifax County and hopes that their celebration of ARMISTICE DAY Saturday, November 10, 1923 Will be a Most Pleasant Event V