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Show SOUTH CACHE COURIER- HYRUM, UTAH - History of Past Week The News Happenings of Seven Days Paragraphed INTERMOUNTAIN. While posing as a motion picture player Miss Rose Frledenreich, 23 years old, accidentally shot and killed her mother, Mrs. Joseph Friedenreich, wife of a local tailor, at their home in Denver. Utah coal prices $4 lump, $3.40 prepared sizes, $3 slack are not official, and it has not been announced by the fuel administration what the prices will be. It Is believed, however, that the prices named will be allowed. Henry W. Morgenson, a druggist, was shot and killed at Denver when he tried to prevent a bandit from escaping in a motor car after the robber had made an unsuccessful attempt to hold up a jewelry shop. Carl Wiltsche, an Austrian seaman, Is under arrest at Seattle as the result of a federal investigation of the stranding of the Alaska passenger steamer Spokane off Idel Point, B. C., November 22. Wiltsche was a member of the Spokanes crew. Denver negroes on Tuesday took the of first steps for closer members of their race in Colorado when they filed incorporation papers for the Negro Commercial association. One hundred Denver members plan to extend the organization over the state. Two Salt Lake boys, John E. Hayward and Warren Miller, members of United States ambulance company No. 343, known as Dr. H. B. Spragues unit, were injured when the special troop train on the Illinois Central, on which they were traveling, was derailed near Granger, 111. DOMESTIC. Judge James R. Hamilton, In tlie criminal district court at Austin, Tex., dismissed the embezzlement charge against former Governor James E. Ferguson, on the motion of District Attorney John E. Shelton. Eddie Keyes, aged 29, Is reported to have confessed to the authorities that he killed Leonard Ilelwick, 11 years of age, at Santa Ana, Cal. The headless body of the victim was found Saturday In a ditch near Balboa, a beach resort west of Santa Ana. A roundup of and other nationalities owing allegiance to the Austrian flag in draft campsln this country is to be undertaken immediately. WASHINGTON.' Win the war first, then prohibition, is the slogan Womens Christian Temperance union delegates carried when they left for their homes at the close of their annual convention ,at Washington. President Wilson is devoting all his attention to the railroad problem, with the intention of making a quick decision on whether the government shall fffeOTH kV.'M IMEM Austro-Hungaria- That is why the Red Cross want literally by the million for their wounds. It means 15,000,000 members. It is not so much splints and wound pads and the $2 or the $10 or the $25 or the pillows and all manner of $100 or the $1 fee that membership without costs, though that has its importance. dressings surgical stint.. It means pajamas and It would be even more necessary if bed shirts and surgical shirts membership did not cost a cent. But the kind that surgeons can in this case the fee is a small consiopen and reach wounds with- deration. What Is needed is an army d out handling buttons. It of 15,000,000 Americans means bed socks and bath who will stand back of the army and robes and convalescent robes navy, and supply them with everything and all the things that in- they need to keep them well and valids need. cheery, and to give them every chance It means drugs and medi- for life if they get sick or are hurt. cines and operating instru- Confidence in his backing is a mighty ments and all the appliances factor in a fellows spunk when he is true-hearte- operate the railroads for the war emergency or whether it shall extend aid in the way the railways ask. America at last is formally anJ actually at war with Austria-HungarPresident Wilson on December 7 signed the declaration that had been adopted by the senate and ho.use of representatives in less than four hours. The administration mineral leasing and waterpower development bills, which have heretofore passed the house, but failed of passing the senate, have been reintroduced by Chairman Ferris of the house public lands committee. Formal approval has been given by Fuel Administrator Garfield to the plans of the Coal Shippers Terminal Pool association for establishing terminal coal pools in the central west to facilitate handling of the coal supply. Congress was informed by Secretary McAdoo in his annual report that must be provided in addition to funds from taxes and bond issues already authorized in order to make estimated receipts for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1918, equal disy. - another bursements. The dredge Desmond, FOREIGN. with a crew of thirteen, sank in a civil warfare in The storm on Lake Michigan and seven Russia has come. General apparently persons were drowned. The disaster Kaledines, the leader of the Don Cosoccurred off the mouth of the Calumet sacks, supported by General Korniloff, river. of the Rusformer, commander-in-chie- f Inquiries in every quarter confirm sian forces, is declared in an official first reports as to the cause of the ex- communication issued by the Bolshev-ik- i plosion of the French munitions government to have raised the steamer at Halifax. Many suspicions standard of revolt in the Don Cossack had been expressed, but the most thor- region against the people and the revough investigation, it is asserted, olution. shows no evidence of an enemy plot. Ecuador has severad diplomatic reTwo men, pretending to be making lations with Germany; according to an a motion picture, held up and robbed official announcement made by the the Culver City Commercial & Savings government. bank and escaped with $10,000. CuLieutenant Commander David Worth lver City is near Los Angeles. and Lieutenant Norman Scott Bagley Nat Wills, who bore a nation-wid- e were among the survivors rescued reputation as a Comedian, was killed after the sinking of the American deby gasoline fumes in the garage on his, stroyer Jacob Jones by a German subestate at Unionhill, N. J. He died marine in the war zone, December 6. while preparing to set forth upon a Sixty-fou- r of the crew were lost. mission of human kindliness. The proposal submitted to the FinInvestigation of alleged incendiar- nish landtag by the senate provides ism in connection with a fire Decem- that Finland shall become a republic, ber 1, which destroyed a building of with a president elected for a term of the Western Chemical Manufacturing six years, according to advices from companys plant at Long Beach, Cal., Helsingfors. where supplies for the government are Five Americans, one German anc being made, has resulted in the arrest three Chinese were tortured and then of Alexis Schwitalla, secretary of the shot to death by the Yaqui Indians company, his brother, Alfred Schw- who raided Esperanza, seventy miles italla and William Rittle, a watchman. south of Guaymus, Sonora. General Pershing, commanding the The first draft of men under the American expeditionary force abroad, Canadian military service act will be on December 9 reported the deaths of to the colors on January 3, it called four more members of his force. Three is announced. About 25,000 men will were due to dieasse and one to a mocomprise the first, it is expected. torcycle accident. The American consul at Tiflis has Demanding a salary increase of 25 reported a rumor that the former czar per cent, double pay for overtime and of Russia has escaped. The message the recognition of seven hours night contained no details, and made it clear work as the equivalent of eight hours that there was no confirmation of the day work, 1500 postal employees rumor. formed a permanent organization at a A revolution has broken out in Lismass meeting at Cleveland. bon, the capital of Portugal, according The Halifax catastrophe, especially to a dispatch received by way of Oporin the number of lives lost, will rank to and Outbreaks also are said as by far the greatest in the history to have Tuy. occurred at Oporto. of the dominion. The only event that been successful in Italians The have is even approaches it in that respect n back the rush of the keeping Pacific Canadian the sinking of the forces from the Asiago railway liner Empress of Ireland near plateau region to the plains of northFather Point in the St. Lawrence river ern Italy. on May 29, 1914, when 934 persons In the Verdun sector the Germans perished. made another to pierce have The explosion of an infernal Ma- the French line in theattempt of Bezon-vauregion No. chine in the express car of train but were repulsed after some7 on the Northern Pacific caused the brisk what fighting and suffered condestruction of the car near Windsor, siderable casualties. obN. D., according to information Information has been received by tained by officials investigating the the Portuguese legation in Madrid affair. advices that the confirming Alameda was recommended as the revolution inprevious had been sucPortugal on site for the additional navy yard Premier Costa having been cessful, conto a in report San Francisco bay thrown from power. gress by the special board headed by With close to 400,000 troops the GerRear Admiral Helm. The approximate. mans $36,307,-000are hammering away at the Britat fixed cost of the plant was sand-suckin- g long-expect- , Austro-Germa- x, ish before Cambral in violent massed national secretary Joseph of the Lithuanian Socialist Federation of America, was arrested at Philadelheld phia by government agents and in $10,000 bail for a further hearing December 14, on the charge of violating the espionage act. V. Stilson, with which modern surgeons are daily performing miracles in saving lives and restoring to usefulness legs and arms which under other methods ArTEK DRAWHC SY ARTHUK HUIARt BR.OWH A TEERED CAOSS AfAGAZAE would have been cut off at 7 once. By WILLOUGHBY LEE. American soldiers must not be for a ,HE heart of America at this single day without all of these things Christmas time is yearning need. they The French have been. In toward the hills and valthe early days of the war and it has leys and mud flats of been said in some later days word and France, for thousands tens of thousands and, for went out that the French surgeons all we know, hundreds of were operating without anesthetics bethousands of our finest boys cause they had none. It is bad enough are over there with Persh- to lose an arm or a leg, but no one likes to think of being tied fast to a ing. And by table and the leg or arm cut off with Christmas there may be of them, and two no chloroform or ether to give the sufyears from now, so far as anyone can ferer unconsciousness while the knife see, it may be nearer 5,000,000. For is wielded. America has taken oath that mot until Also, within the last year, word has kalserism has been blotted from the come from the battlefields of France earth will the war end. that the little Poilus had to use old Those boys of ours who are over newspapers to stanch the blood from there, and the others Who are going, their wounds. That was because their need all the help and encouragement supply of gauze had run out and no and aid the folks at home can possi- more was to be had. It meant infectbly give them. That Is why the Red ed wounds, gangrene, lockjaw, and Cross, instead of confining Itself to giv- the loss of legs and arms and lives that ing them hospital treatment after they might have been saved. have been hurt xz are sick, is giving All America will agree that none oi them Cl jtfstmasJMj ps and comfort kits these things must happen to Pershings and doi mg s vry&tiig possible to make boys, i But it will happen unless the Christmas enjsyawe for them. Not a American people get right behind the man in all Black Jack Pershings Red Cross, and make and ship those army, will be without some reminder supplies in a of the people at home for whom he Is hospital stream. The surgeons at the Frenct a one all Not man in of fighting. any say that Sometimes it takes the army and navy cantonments scat- hospitals a whole box of surgical dressings tered all over the United States will be without a genuine Christmas even 7,000 of them for a single woundec man. They have been so short at th to a Christmas tree. The Red Cross has gone into the Santa Claus business French hospitals that instead of throw the away after using wholesale, as it goes into everything ing havedressings been driven to try to clear they It undertakes. them and use them over and over. And that is why every man, every That is what Maj. Grayson M. P woman, every child, owes it to himself and to, the soldiers and sailors to Murphy had in mind a few weeks ag become a member of the Red Cross. A when he cabled to the Red Cross tha campaign is being carried on to enlist nothing on earth is now of equal lm 10,000,000 new members of the Amer- portance to getting a big supply o ican Red Cross, which will make it five surgical supplies into France. Unlesi times as large and ten times as rich we do, he said, disaster and disgraci and powerful as any other Red Cross are ahead for America and the Ret Cross and the American people canno in the world. It Is because of the millions and mil- afford to incur that. No American sol lions of American boys who are going dier must lose a leg or an arm or ai over to France that the whole Amer- eye, or give his life, when it can bi ican people has got to join the Red saved by anything the American peo Cross in helping care for them. A few pie can flo. Major Murphy Is the Ret hundred thousand can be looked after Cross commissioner for France, ant by the present membership ; but multi- knows perhaps better than any otlie ply them by ten or twenty or twenty-fiv- man in the world exactly what need and it takes a nation to back them to be done for the army in a medica and surgical way. When he properly. It has been great sport this year to America will do well to listen. fix up the Christmas packets, and write Money Is not all the Red Cross m the little personal note that goes with have for this work money is not e each one, and picture to ones self the the most important thing, though pleasure with which the unknown sol- will take millions of dollars. Wha dier in France will hail the gift from needs most of all is an immense n the home land. Bar there has been no ber of members, and their perse real fighting only a trench raid or so, service. It needs, and has to have, in which only a few lives were lost whole American people, fathers fewer, in all likelihood, than would mothers, sisters and daughters, have occurred in the natural course of the children, to back up the events if they had remained in civil ment and the Red Cross in thisgov w life. So, while there was sorrow for Take, for example, the recent call the brave fellows who went down fight- Major Murphy for 6,000,000 warm k ing, and for those others who were ted articles for the soldiers and slain in the submarine brushes with the destitute of France. If the mo the Germans, there was not the over- had been at hand to buy the lot, tl whelming grief that comes after every were not that many knitted thing! great battle. the whole world of the kind wan Next year it will be different so But the Red Cross appealed to different. In the spring and earlier members, and asked each chapter if the French line should break at any its quota, and the socks and swea point Pershing will hurl his boys into and mufflers and wristlets rolled ir the gap, and everybody knows what carloads, and are still coming. that means. There will be 'fighting mothers and sisters and daughters of the kind that made a whole world wives went to knitting, and that admire the men of Bull Run, and swered the call In an amazingly si and and time. Chancellorsville, Chlckamauga,. and Gettysburg, and The situation will be the same w wherever Americans have fought. the boys begin to need bandages They will be pitted against a foe who, gauze dressings and hospital garrm whatever we may say of his arrogance in great numbers. Not all the sti and cruelty, his disregard of the laws in all the land will have s of humanity and the ordlnnry decen- things to fill the demand.enough But cies of civilized life, Is a hard fighter. American enrollet people are That means that the hospital will be Red Cross members, being and they full of American boys whose lives de- learning by tens of thousands hov pend on the work the Red Cross must make and pack and these thl do for there is no other agency that and whatever the ship demand, they Can wait on them. It means bandages meet it in full. assaults without, however, having made any substantial inroads in Byngs new lines. Suspension of hostilities over the Russian front for ten days, beginning at noon Friday, has been arranged, the Berlin war office has announced. -- never-endin- g e, -- An-tieta- fighting 3,500 miles from the home he is defending. Now a word about the different kinds of membership : A patron member pays $100 .in one sum, and the interest on that money accrues to the Red Cross every year. A life member pays $25 in one sum, and the interest suffices to keep his membership alive so long as he lives. But the most stress is not to be laid on these forms in this campaign because, as I have said, money is not the chief object. Everyone who can possibly afford it ought to be what is called a Magazine Member. It costs $2, each year, but it brings with it the Red Cross Magazine, published every month with a wealth of pictures of Red Cross work, and inspiring articles telling what the Red Cross is doing all around the world. For those who cannot spare $2, the annual membership costs but $1, and one who has this membership is just as much a Red Cross member as anyone, the only difference being that he does not get the magazine. The great effort will be to enroll the $1 and $2 people, for it is numbers and not money at this time that the Red Cross wants. When the membership has climbed to the 15,000,000 mark, then will come the call for members to help turn out supplies. There is no compulsion nobody has to pledge himself to give any money except his dues, nor to give service nor anything. . But of course you will want to help, and you will have a world of opportunity. Whether you can knit, or sew, or roll bandages, or run errands for those who can do those things, or give money to help them buy supplies of yam and muslin and gauze,' you can help. It will be your part to do the biggest thing you can to back up the fighting boys over there. The first thing is to become a Red Cross member. Take somebody in with you if you possibly can. Help the membership team that comes to you for your name and your dollar or twp dollars. Remember, it is not, in the final analysis, the Red Cross you are helping at all it is the boys who are over there fighting for you. Nobody concerned with the Red Crass ever gets a penny out of anything given for relief, or from any garment made lyid entrusted to it. Every penny and some American to stitch every goes soldier or some destitute one whom the Red Cross is trying to keep alive. You will hear if you have not already heard a dozen stories about graft in the Red Cross. .They are lies, everyone of them. They were started maliciously, and have been peddled ever since by gossips, some malicious, some merely chatterers with no sense of responsibility, who would in the same spirit repeat a slander about a good woman. You have heard, or will hear, that the high officers of the Red Cross get most of the money given it for relief. Exactly the reverse Is true. Every member of the war council, every head of every Red Cross bureau in Washington, every head of every bureau in everyone of the thirteen divisions of the Red Cross in the United States, is giving his time free, and is spending money of his own while he does the work. In a recent public speech on this subject, Henry P. Davison, chairman of the Red Cross war council, declared that of every dollar given the Red Cross for relief, .about $1.02 is spent for relief. Not only are the expenses met from funds provided for that purpose, but the money contributed draws Interest while in bank, and the Interest also is applied to relief work. The Red Cross is led by the biggest and brainiest and most unselfish men the nation could find. Trust them. They are doing the very best that brains and money and determination can do to prevent human suffering, and to take care of Pershings boys. Help tbem. Your own may be there coon. |
