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Show THE RICH COUNTY REAPER. RANDOLPH. UTAH SPEED RELIEF TO FLOOD V ICTIMS THE CHEERFUL CHERUB Its fun to Advance Organization of Rescue Agencies Guts Death Toll in tions Record Tragedy of Human Suffering. Na- $o to Absit omen. (L.) May this bring no evil omen. irYi-tine.e- .3 And ait m Mid Foreign Words and Phrases firylind then Come out end Find the noisy street And see the S&me old world edfcjn. WNU Canaille. (F.) The rabble. (F.) En effet. (F.) In effect; just so; really. Fidus Achates. (L.) Faithful Achates; i. e., a true friend. Hoc tempore. (L.) At this time. Punica fides. (L.) Carthaginian faith, treachery. Mauvaise quart dheure. (F.) A bad quarter of an hour; an awkward or' uncomfortable experience. 1. e., Nee. (F.) Born her maiden name being Dos-a-do- s. Back-to-bac- k. Service. HOUSEHOLD QUESTIONS Items of Interest to the Housewife 3 A boiled custard poured over soda, two teaspoonfuls cream of peaches or bananas makes a deli- tartar, pinch of salt, one egg, half cupful milk (or a little more). cious dessert. Make into a nice light dough, and To remove paint from cotton bake as a loaf in a slow oven. clothing soak the spot in a soluLeather book bindings can be tion made of equal parts of ammonia and turpentine. When spot preserved by periodic treatments disappears wash garment in soap with an equal mixture of castor oil and paraffin. suds. Associated Newspapers. The rampaging Ohio river, sweeping to the highest flood stage In all history, forced the larger part of the population of the city of Louisville, Ky. (shown above), to evacuate their homes. Relief agencies are dcing heroic work. Inset: Typical of the homeless are this mother and child of Evansville, Ind., hard hit by floods. IZLJ By WILLIAM C. UTLEY us is the dreadful spectacle of the worst flood BEFORE has ever known. Drunk from the effects of rains and thaws, streams once peaceful and useful have broken all bounds, spilling, careening over farm lands, ravishing whole towns and cities, leaving in their wake despair and destruction. un-seaso- mid-wint- er once-ferti- le Before the rampant monsters cit- - S izens by the hundreds of thousands on flee their homes, stripped of any strikes is the the of the Red survey eyes but a few personal belongings, Members are usually architheir lives work and savings often Cross. mechanical tects, and civil cruelly obliterated overnight. Moth- eers, contractors and builders,enginreal ers are separated from their chil- estate men and health offpublic wives from their husbands. dren, Before an emergency occurs Thousands even less fortunate have icers. are supposed to have studied been marooned, praying that rescue they all places 'where trouble might will arrive before it is too late. start. Their job in disaster is Millions more sit in fearful waiting, to estimate first the number of dead, hoping against hope that the raging injured (estimating the number terror will be quieted before it needing hospital attention), homecan reach them. homes destroyed, homes damless, On the crest of the churning watand families suffering losses. aged ers ride the Four Horsemen of Saving of human life is always Death, Famine, Pestilence and War. Yes, even war, for martial law ex- the first consideration, so the rescue goes immediately ists in the face of the invading enwork. In a flood the big job is emy, and where the disaster is at to its worst there are orders to shoot to get marooned victims to dry and to kill those who break the rules. safe spots, to bring the sick and With transportation stricken, util- injured to medical posts, to save ities crippled and supplies shrunken, property if it is properly identified thousands are hungry and thirsty. and to perform other acts which will Typhoid, meningitis and pneumo- reduce the possibility of further loss. nia threaten the health of entire cit- Real courage, strength, health and a knowledge of first aid are preies. requisites for members of this subRelief Work Speeds. committee. Considering the magnitude of the Doctors, dentists, nurses and famcatastrophe the death list is surprisingly small. This is due almost ily caseon workers serve without for the entirely to the speed and efficiency charge with which the rescue and relief medical aid. They immediately secure and make ready whatever hosagencies work. forepital facilities are available locally, of one and first the Always most of these agencies in a disaster and set up emergency hospitals if is the Red Cross. Its chairman, they are necessary. Admiral Cary T. Grayson, has estiWhen flood sufferers are rescued mated that probably a million or from danger spots, the crews usualmore persons will have been cared ly know where to take them. This for by the Red Cross alone in the is because the on shelter has made periodic canvasses present disaster. The volunteer membership of of the area for empty houses, public plus 8,000,000 junior work- buildings such as churches and ers, includes at least one chapter schools, and automobile camps, in every county. Practically every where disaster refugees can be kept chapter has its standing committee temporarily from the elements. on disaster preparedness and relief, Temporary buildings are constructheaded by a chairman who is one ed if the load makes them necesof the outstanding leaders of the sary. . community, recognized for his manHotel managers, wholesale groagerial ability. To this committee cers, managers of chain food stores, are subordinated several others operators and army or which are trained to quickly pro- restaurant men usually make up the navy medand shelter vide food, clothing, on food. They know ical aid during an emergency. When in the advance types of food supvast task their work is done the deals in, how merchant each .which often remains is taken over, plies of a stock he on hand much keeps on rehabilitaby a can be made how these and supplies famto tion, which makes awards available to the Red Cross quickly ilies affected by the disaster. in time of disaster. Meetings of these committees are Communication Is Vital. held at least twice a year. In them which hazard of Tremendously important in time every type disaster is the flood is the work of the of threaten community might on transportation and comcarefully studied; plans are laid to be followed if the disaster occurs, munication. Headed by local leadand committee members are thor- ers of the transportation and radio oughly trained in the duties that industries, this committee must keep will fall to them in that case, the avenues open for the work of all the others. It must have a good First Objective. of all the faciliMembers of other chapters which working knowledge before and the in ties discommunity have successfully battled with must prooccurs. It disaster a after to come tell and invited asters are cars vide trucks, boats, automobiles, their experiences. The chapter to be used that may anything chairman presents hypothetical sufferers from the flood be to relief transport of disaster problems solved epidemics, rebuilding after area, or td bring in food- from ' the 7: outside world.. 7 f a tornado, fife and flood. - First in the field when disaster ' Often the most difficult task faces ee ee ee ee ee ' ee Life-Savi- ng WNU Service. Mens patent leather shoes A Big Building dancing pumps, evening shoes, and so on will last twice as long Russia is constructing the bigif they are kept on trees and gest building in the world. Already rubbed with vaseline after use. over a million cubic yards of earth the Red Cross after the emergency has passed, and it is a function with which comparatively few are familiar. Think what has happened. Inhabitants of the stricken area have bought their homes or furniture. They may have a little car. Perhaps their livelihood comes from a small business or a farm. In almost no time stark tragedy leaves them with nothing at all. They cant produce a living. They have no place to live. They probably have no money, or at least too little to do them any real good. Now it is time for the on rehabilitation to begin. Living Standards Maintained. Widows with children may have to be resettled in completely rebuilt homes and new furnishings given them. Farms whose usefulness has been destroyed through the deposits of silt must be restored that their owners may once more earn a living. Small shops must be rebuilt or restocked to enable their operators to make a living again. A few instances, picked at random, of what this Red Cross aid has meant in the past will serve to illustrate. In a New England town a mill worker and his wife had finished paying for their little home. When the mill shut down in 1935, their small savings were carrying them along temporarily. The flood came. Police forced them to evacuate. They returned some time later to find their home washed away completely. The Red Cross traded their lot for another in a safer location, built them a new home and furnished it. City relief officials found the man a job. In Pennsylvania in 1918 a fruit farmer and his wife made a modest living, owned their home. The mans health failed, so his son and daughter-in-law moved in to run the farm, succeeding in making a bare living for the family. On the day of the second Johnstown flood the son went to the rescue of a neighboring family in distress. He ' was drowned. Their own farm was ruined. The case looked hopeless. Hopeless? Red Cross workers helped with the funeral, found new clothing, made the house livable again. They soon repaired it well and made it possible for the family to buy new furnishings. Plans were made to care for the remainder of the family until the young wife was eligible for a widows pension. These are some of the permanent improvements that are directly attributable to the Red Cross. Of course, it costs a lot of money. In reviewing the various' branches of the society which must gird for any emergency one has been left out. on fundThis is the information. This and public raising is the most important work of all, especially in the present disaster. Flood suffering has reached unprecedented proportions with relief needs mounting, Admiral Grayson explains. The only limit must be the maximum generosity of the ' American people., . ; 7 have been excavated for the foundations, and the steam shovels and pumps are at work night and day behind a high wooden fence near shell in it. Kropotkin square in Moscow, and within sight of Kremlin. Known Tablecloths that are no longer as the Palace of the Soviets, it in use make good cot covers, bed- will have 200,000 tons of steel and spreads, or curtains if they are 400,000 tons of concrete. 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