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Fill Up The Barrel -
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The nation is probably aware of the fact that the national Red Cross organization has had the -the biggest job in its 75-year his- < tory in consequence of major floods in widely separated areas, and has done its best job in meeting the emergency. t What the country also should know, and do something about is that the Red Cross has come peri< lously close to exhausting its resources in doing the job.
Since the only resources of the .Red Cross are funds put up by people appreciative of its work, the present matter boils down to this: The American people must dig deeper in their pockets if the Red Cross is to stay on the job.
It does not stretch the imagination Very far to realize what ' would happen if another national emergency should come along, with the Red Cross off the job.
Suppose, for instance, the' recent Eastern floods had occurred without - the Red Cross on hand ' to spend $18,000,000 for the salvage of human lives; or that the more recent northern California floods had been unrelieved by the available $8,000,000 of Red Cross money.
The pyramiding of human tragedy in either of those events would have been a frightening thing to contemplate.
So now let us suppose something else: The Red Cross is now down to the bottom off its barrel in consequence of those expenditures. Another national emergency on the same scale, arriving before adequate replenishment of the , Red Cross barrel, would confront America with a situation unprecedented for horror.
The answer to that problem is for the American people to get the barrel filled again—and fast. Failure to do so, or even any delay about it, will sow the seeds of national disaster.
DEEDS RECORDED
From Mary H. Keyser, widow, to Alice R. Wood, tract No. I— 102 ac; tract No. 2-^303 ac; tract No. 3—349.15 and tract No. 4— 28 acres, in Hampton District; deed.
From Noah S. Williams, Exor. to Elmer J). Hickerson and Evelyn R. Hickerson, 2 acres, more or less, in Wakefield District; deed.
From John Elmer Wines et ux
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