Show TERRORS OF THE F FLOOD BLOOD such such a calamity as the devastate ing floods sweeping the ohio and mississippi valleys is no mere local affair when a million or more people are driven from their homes by the swirling rivers when water supplies are threatened when people lose their property the whole nation is affected and must be prepared to meet the calamity the historic method of protecting the people against these disasters is to build levees of earth or other material to keep the river in its bed the floods wash vast quantities of sand and gravel off the hills and fields which is deposited in the bed of the river that raises the river level higher erand and higher in time the bottom of the river might be about as high as the nearby near by land so that the levees would have to go higher and higher there are few more pathetic sights than the refugees of such a disaster perhaps huddling over some smoky fire in the open on a wintry night trying in vain to keep warm wondering where the food for their clamoring stomachs is to come from such calamities are another reminder of the glorious work done by the american red cross and other agencies if it was not for the labors of these blessed societies the misery ei existing sting in these flooded districts would be something beyond description it will take a great outpouring of money to save all these sufferers from peril and misery and the money should not be stinted for such an errand of of mercy |