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Show miiai THE CITIZEN Alto to make her home, decorations were used, jlloween was assisted by Mrs. Bran-n- g be hostess and Mrs. Clara Gleason. for Palo Dickert Bradley entered at a small luncheon Wednesday her home in the Bransford apart-ihonor of Mrs. J. T. Donnellan Covers were laid San Francisco. jjrs Wilma deg n nl e C8 eas Of folk Six. NCLE )vemi or at iVedj You e hoi tfr.j hUa TED'S STORIES. BED-TIM- E Administrative Accomplishment whatcha got, Uncle Ted? Ruth as her hero came up the iralli with an arm full' of bundles. "Whats all that, Uncle Ted? asked who was equally interested in he interesting looking bundles. Oh! . what do you suppose?, called Ive Uncle Ted in his cheery voice. cookies and ot lots of lemons and cake and evertyhing that kiddies like Lou enjoy on a hot day and love to We are going to make a get sick on. barrel of lemonade and sit under the big oak tree and Im going to tell you Now, ent mo & tin alk a eai It ve Quicker than it would take to tell, the trio was busy in the kitchen trying out of mothers way wThile they fixed a barrel of lemonade and put the cookies and cake in a big wicker to is S Hid ofC Son fe ad a: lei m TS iec tra liE is story. keep basket. for the shade, children, said Uncle Ted as he picked up the pitcher and glasses. You bring the cakes, Jack. And atfer they vrere all seated, he continued. You know, kiddies, some people are of the opinion that President Harding and Congress are not getting along very well. That is an incorrect view to take. President Harding is working mighty hard these hot days in Washington, and so is Congress, and they both are doing everything within their power to help adjust all the important problems that must be settled to help us get back into There are so many things. There is the tax problem, and the tariff, and the railroads, and merchant marine, and all those things mean hard work and they take lots of time. Such matters can not possibly be settled in a day. There are some unreasonable people who think that the mintue President Harding came into office he should have waved a wand and reduced all taxes automatically. That is ridiculous. With the tremendous waste of funds during the Now ship-shap- e. . the tremendous amount of money loaned to foreign countries the treasury has to be kept filled in some way, else the United States could not war and meet its bills. The real hope in the tax matter is that taxes can be more evenly distrib-uteThey can not be reduced to any appreciable degree right away. That Congress and the Chief Executive are trying hard to do and we must all be d. Patient. When we look at the railroad problem vp find that the government owes the roads and 5500,000,000 which does not include the claims the railroads have made for inefficiency of labor during government eontrol of between $300,000,000 the roads. President Hard I ing has been working hard to settle AMERICAN RED CROSS AID FOR this matter so that the railroads, so important to our national life, may get into normal condition. We find also that the railroads owe the government about $763,000,000 for repairs and additions made during the federal control. President Harding, in a recent message to Congress, suggests that the government pay the roads what is due them at once and give the roads ten years to pay the government what is due Uncle Sam. According to the railroads, they place the claims for inefficiency of labor at $800,000,000 and President Harding states in his message that the railroads are willing to waive those claims for the time being, if the terms President Harding proposes are put into effect. But where is all the money coming from to pay the railroads at once. I thought we were nearly broke as it is, said Jack. Jack, President Harding has gone into this matter very carefully. Under his plan no additional appropriation will be needed to pay the roads, no more tax burden will need to be placed upon us, and the railroads will be receiving what is honestly due them in order that they may get into shape and serve the coutnry as it should be served from a railroad standpoint. Let me read you from his message relating to this point: You are asked to extend the authority of the War Finance Corporation so that it may purchase these railway funding securities accepted by the director general of railroads. OVERSEA WAR ORPHANS. i . No added expense, no added investment is required on the part of the government; there is no added liability, no aded tax burden. President Harding then goes on to state that all that is necessary is for congress to give the necessary authority to make use of the War Finance Corporation and the funds it has available. There have been two important . activities, as President Harding points out, that since the vrar have bedn badly in need of assistance. The one is the placing of agriculture cn its feet and the other is helping the basis by at least railroads to a pre-wa- r paying them what is their just claim -- against the government. The War Finance Corporation was put back into existence during the last Congress and it has helped the farmers of the country so much that naturally President Harding sees that there is no reason why it can not be used to help the railroads also. That President Harding and the Republican Congress are thinking of America First is certainly shown by the earnest way in which they are trying to settle these vital and important problems. While every one in the country who can is getting away on vacations, these men have been hard at work in the heat of the worst summer Washington has known in years. I know that our confidence in them has not been misplaced, (and the country will soon learn, if it does not already realize, that it is no small job to undo some of the many evils wrought through eight long years. Ninety Red Cross medical units in the proposed chain of Child Welfare units in the most needy areas in Europe are already in operation, according to inforamtion given out at Pacific division headquarters in San Francisco. The American Red Cross is concentrating its resources and energies overseas. upon the rescue of children from the menace of disease and death which is their heritage from the war. Ten million dollars has been made available for this imperative relief work. In the welfare unit the average personnel consists of one doctor, two nurses and a field worker. The countries into which the work will be carried on over a period of over a year at least are Poland, the Baltic states, Austria, Hungary and the Balkans. Several million European children are still in urgent need of care. Poland alone has 800,000 war orphans and as man yagain who need clothing, and medical attention. adds a million more to the list, while the little country of Montenegro has Children starved consistently 20,000. for several years are shrunken in stature, malformed and harborers of tuberculosis and all sorts of skin diseases. A distressingly large percentage of Polish children is tuberculous. In the Balkans, where personal hygiene has been so seldom practiced and public hygiene so little understood, there is the menace of tuberculosis, malaria, hook:worm, and many other preventable diseases. General public health cannot be lost sight of for it is useless to cure the child and send it back to the same bed of infection. The Montenegro government is making limited appropriations for child welfare work, which are altogether inadequate, but the fact that they are made at all is significant when there is taken into consideration the fact that the country is just getting organized, and the differences in language and nationality as well as the factional . . Austria-Hungar- y differences. in Montenegro are without a single doctor and some districts with as many as 50,000 residents have only one doctor. There are no trained nurses in the whole country, with the exception of those with the American Red Cross. Every village Many villages needs a health center where children can be examined, where the people can be taught general hygiene; where they can receive medical aid and special nourishment; a baby clinic for instruction in infant care and feeding and and where mothers are given post-nattreatment. cines that they are only too glad to receive assistance. Four Child Welfare Units are now at work in Montenegro. The unit located in Kolasin, a little town of 1,800 serves the entire district, which has a population of $0,000. The report from this unit for the month of May, 1921, is typical of the work carried on by those Red Cross units. Children in seven schools in that vicinity were inspected for contagion and tuberculosis. A special sanitary survey was made in four adjacent villages and cases were admitted to the local hospital which is partly managed and attended by the Red Cross medical unit. Instruction was given in general health problems, nursing, bathing, etc., in the homes by the visiting nurse who also followed up cases in the clinics and investigated and relieved the patients requiring food and clothing. When possible, food is supplied by the American Red Cross, frequently by the American Relief association, and sometimes by the governments. It is in support oif the work of the medical units that Red Cross chapters here at home are engaged in producing or collecting 2,000,000 childrens garments and 250,000 layettes, all observers agreeing that the problem of adequate clothing will be greater in Europe next winter than at any time since 1914. In this work the American Friends Service Committee (Quakers) are al al The American Red Cross is confining its efforts to such districts as have none or but one doctor, in order not to compete with the native doctors, but to assist them with both material and professional aid. 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