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Newspaper
Silver Lake Record
Location
Silver Lake, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1918
Page
5
Mrs. Britt, a tireless Red Cross worker, is revealed as a hard maternal figure who pushes others to endure. She confronts Mrs. Farlow about self pity, recalls her late son from the Spanish war, and admits she has no living child, using that truth to spur care for wounded or grieving mothers.
Frank A. Scott of the War Industries Board urges efficiency and economy in producing and distributing government needs. He says the preparatory stage is over, troops are in France, and national resources must serve the war effort, with luxuries sacrificed for victory.
A note from Silver Lake records invites guests to attend a forthcoming wedding. It promises special stock invitations and displays specimen details, with prices noted as very low for chosen choices.
Indiana State Council of Defense approved a resolution urging farmers to test seed and finish planting by May 25 to secure a bumper corn crop for wartime needs. The council, aided by county groups, will provide tested seed at reasonable prices and arrange supplies from Missouri New Jersey and an emergency 2000 bushel stock. Planting began April 25 and early frosts risk lower yields.
Poem honors American knitting women who supply Red Cross sweaters to soldiers. It depicts volunteers stitching, sending a million garments as a web of love and democracy, prayers for safe return, and devotion from wives and mothers awaiting sons abroad.
The American Red Cross organized vast aid to Italy during the wartime distress, ordering 750 tons of hospital supplies from America and Europe for immediate delivery. Shipments include quinine, anesthetics, ether, gauze, absorbent cotton, surgical instruments, and drugs to relieve the wounded.
More than a thousand repatriated French arrive at Evian each day, with 1,000 to 1,500 arriving daily. Two trains bring these unfortunates into the town, many under fourteen. The American Red Cross undertakes the care of these children.
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