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American Red Cross Present! Twelve-Star Service Pin to Colored Minister. [The Rev. R. H. Windsor of Rayville, La., and the Twelve-Star Service Pin Presented to Him by the American Red Cross. Having the right to and needing a twelve-star service pin, the Rev. It. H. Windsor of Rayville, La., a zealous Red Cross worker, lias been presented with a unique decoration by the Amer ican Red Cross. The father of nine teen sons, twelve of whom are with the colors, this genial colored minister of the Baptist church probably holds the record for sons In the mllltnry service of the United States. If there are any others with similar or better status, they are yet to be heard from. In the accompanying Illustration of the twelve-stnr pin, topped with the Red Cross Insignia, it will be noted that the first bar bears five stars. These represent five individual sons— Bennie, Robbin, Jeff, Johnnie and / Archie. The next bur bears two slurs / representing twins, George and Lnfa ' yette; the next bar Is similarly decorated, representing William and James, also twins; and the bottom bar, with Its three stars, represents the triplets, Matthew Mark and Luke. Bight of the boys are volunteers, and the other four were called In the draft. Upon hearing of the remarkable record of the Windsor family, Presi dent Wilson, who Is also president of the American Red Cross, wrote to the Rev. Mr. Windsor as follows: “1 am writing to say with what In terest and admiration I have learned of the fnct that twelve of your sons are In the service of our country, and the thirteenth impatiently wultlng to follow them In. This Is a splendid record, and 1 congratulate you from the bottom of my heart. The colored troops have proved themselves fins soldiers.” NOTICE, COLORED ^ ROMAN CATHOLICS All Colored Roman Catholics are requested to meet at 10 o’clock every Sunday morning at Sacred Heart Church, Twenty-second and Binney streets, for instruction. All other persons who desire instruction in the teaching of the Roman Catholic Church are invited.—Adv. | Attention Christmas Shoppers ••• Our Small Goods, Player Roll ■" i and Columbia Record Depart ments offer many Christmas suggestions such as Violins, Llkelele.s, Banjos, Guitars, Saxa phones, Clarinettes, Drums, Band Instruments, latest song player rolls and Columbia Rec ords. NOTE THESE VALUES Boy Scout Bugles, $6. Guitars, $6 to $12. Ukeleles, $4 to $10. Banjos, $18 to $25. Snare Dnim«, $12 to $35. Violins, $12 to $200. Player Rolls, 25c to $1.00. Music Rolls and Bags, $1.60 to $15. Violins, all sizes, at special Christmas prices—these instru * ments are of the best known * makes and are backed by our t own -ersonal guarantee. Call at once and make your selection for Christmas deliv ery. Schmoller & Mueller 1311-13 Farnam St. Doug. 1623 _ Mr. and Mrs. Randall, 2411 Bur dette street, entertained at a six course dinner Thursday, November 28, in honor of their sister, Mrs. Lillian C. Vincent, and Miss Craddock, of Marshall, Mo. Covers were laid for ten. Smoke John Ruskin 5c Cigar. Big I gest and Best.—Adv. Furnished Rooms—Strictly mod ern. With or without board. 1516 j North 16th. Tel. Webster 4983. Mrs. E. E. Vincent, 1438 North 20th, is rapidly recovering from a severe attack of illness. Mrs. L. A. Harrison, one of the best known fanners of Oklahoma, is visit- 1 ing her son, Y. C. Harrison, and his wife at 2023 North 27th street. For moving, expressing and hauling [ call Douglas 7952. Penn and Sibley. | —Adv. Mr. Ivory and wife, of Portland, Ore., were recent guests of Mr. and Mrs. L. S. Williams, 2609 Grant street. A reception was given in their honor. Mrs. L. O. Gregory, 2622 North 25th street, has been confined to her home because of illness. Mrs. Mary King died of the influ enza Sunday, December 1. Mrs. King was a native of Buxton, la., and moth er of Mrs. Philip Baldwin of Omaha. Why not take a course in conversa tional French with R. L. Desdunes, 2215 North Twenty-fifth street? Phone Webster 3300.—Adv. The two Peoples brothers and Shir ley Kennedy are reported returned from camp. Mrs. Silas Johnson, who has re cently been quite ill. is recovering. Attend the Helpers’ “crazy” social. Tons of fun.—Adv. Mrs. Green, of 937 North 27th, re ceived word from the war department that her husband is dead in France. N. W. C. A. RETURNS THANKS The management of the Negro Wo men’s Christian association wish to thank the public, which made it pos sible for us to realize $54.05 from our dinner November 20, and especially do we feel grateful to Mr. John Walls for services rendered on that day and for the use of his establishment. The prizes, which were managed by Mmes. Roberts and Riggs, were re ceived by the following persons: Mrs. Nannie Kenner, chocolate set; Mr. Randolph Stephens, handbag; Mrs. William Lewis, basket. We also gratefully acknowledge the thanksgiving offerings from the vari ous churches, namely: Zion Baptist .$ 13.08 St, John’s . 11.71 Bethel South . 11.00 Pilgrim Rest . 6.01 Pleasant Green . 2.36 Mount Moriah . 1.85 A. M. E., South . 1.15 Total .$ 47.41 Total from churches and din ner . $101.21 the HOYS ARE COMING HOME Quite a number of the boys who have been at Camps Funston and Lewis have been discharged and have returned home. Among those who have returned from Camp Funston are Henry Wilson, Carl Frampton and Clifford Walls, and from Camp Lewis are James and Larry N. Peoples, Harry Mason and several others whose names The Monitor has not learned. CALLED HOME HY DA UC.HTER'S IL LNESS Henry B, Roberts, who has been absent from Omaha for several months, has been called home by the serious illness of his daughter Made line, who is now convalescent. CARD OF THANKS We, the relatives of the deceased, Mrs. Helle Richardson, wish to thank our friends for their kind remem brance and sincere sympathy ex pressed for us in our recent bereave ment. William Richardson. Mrs. Richardson. Harvey King, Sr. William King. Frank King. John King. Louis King. Mr. and Mrs. Harvey King, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Hoyd Gater. !§ t K. & M. | Grocery Co. f Successor to Iy H. E. YOUNG $ i We solicit your patronage. X 2114-16 North 24th St. $ U. S. HEALTH SERVICE ISSUES WARNING Increase in All Respiratory Dis* eases After the Influenza Epidemic Probable. Influenza Expected to Lurk for Month*. How to Guard Against Pneumonia. Common Colds Highly Catching—Im portance of Suitable Clothing—Could Save 100,000 Lives. Washington, D. C.—With the subsid ence of the epidemic of Influenza the attention of health officers Is directed to pneumonia, bronchitis nnd other diseases of the respiratory system which regularly cause n largw number of deaths, especially during the winter season. According to Rupert Blue, Surgeon General cf the United States Public Health Service, these diseases will he especially prevalent this win ter unless the people nre particularly careful to obey health Instructions. “The present epidemic.” said Sur geon General Blue, “has taught by bit ter experience how readily a condition beginning apparently as n slight cold may go on to pneumonia and death. Although the worst of the epidemic is over, there will continue to be a large number of scattered cases, many of them mild and unrecognized, which will be danger spots to he guarded ngainst.” The Surgeon General likened the present situation to that ufter a great fire, saying, "No fire chief who understands Ills business stops playing the hose on the charred debris ns soon as the flames nnd visible fire have dis appeared. On the contrary, be con tinues the water for hours nnd even days, for he knows that there Is dan ger of the fire rekindling from smol dering embers.” “Then you fear another outbreak ol Influenza?” tie was asked. “Not neces sarily another large epidemic.” said the Surgeon General, “but unless the people learn to realize the seriousness of the danger they will be compelled to pay a heavy death toll from pneumo nia und other respiratory diseases. Common Colds Highly Catching. "It Is encouraging to observe that people nre beginning to learn that or dinary coughs and colds are highly catching and are spread from person to person by means of droplets of germ laden mucus. Such droplets nre sprayed Into the air when careless or Ignorant people cough or sneeze with out covering their mouth and nose. It is also good to know that people have learned something ubout the value ol fresti air. In summer, when people are largely out of doors, the respira tory diseases (coughs, colds, pneumo nia, etc.) are Infrequent; In'the fall, as people begin to remain Indoors, the respiratory diseases Increase; In the winter, when people nre prone to stay In hndly ventilated, overheated rooms, the respiratory diseases become very prevalent. Suitable Clothing Important “Still another factor In the produo tlon of colds, pneiunonln and other re spirntory diseases is carelessness or lg noranee of the people regarding suit able clothing during the seasons when the weather suddenly changes, sitting in warm rooms too heavily dressed or, what Is even more common, especially among women, dressing so lightly that windows are kept closed In order to h< comfortably warm. This Is a very In Jurlous pra'ctlce. ♦ Could Save 100,000 Lives. “I believe we could easily save ont hundred thousand lives annually In the United States If all the peopl« would adopt the system of fresti all living followed, for example, In tuber culosis sanatoria. There Is nothing mysterious about it—no specific medi cine, no vaccine. The Important thing is right living, good food uud plenty ol fresh air. Droplet Infection Explained In Pictures “The Bureau of Public Health Treasury Department, has Just Issued a striking poster drawn by Berryman, the well-known Washington curtoonlsL The poster • exemplifies the modern method of health education. A few years ago, under similar circumstances, the health authorities would have Is sued an official dry but scientifically accurate bulletin teaching the role ol droplet Infection In the spread of re spirntory diseases. The only ones whe would have understood the bulletin would have been those who already knew all about the subject. The mull In the street, the plain citizen and the many millions who toll for tlielr living would have bad no time and no desire to wade through the technical phrase ology.” COLDS, INFLUENZA, PNEUMONIA, AND TUBERCULOSIS ARE SPREAD THIS WAY Copies of (Ills poster can be ob tained free of eliarge by writing to the Surgeon (Jenenil, U. S. Public HealUl Service, Washington, D. CL When Man Ate G'-ass. M. Mn ice I Baudonln. who line been examining some human remains, dat ing from the neolithic epoch (the latest period of the stone age), has pre si nled the Academy of Science with a curious report. The shape of the incisor teeth of two young children of this distant epoch leads him to the conclusion that the present single root teeth of human beings are in reality - a development from three germs, and ' that man is descended from the herb ivorous animal with an ancestor po* ■easing 132 dental germs. — England's First Typewriter. So long ago as 1714 a patent for a typewriter was taken out In England by Henry Mill; it was called a "mn chine for Impressing letters singly and progressively as in writing, whereby j all writings may be engrossed in paper ; so exact as not to be distinguished, from print.” His machine was very j clumsy, and it was not until more than ' a century later (1829) that anything j further was attempted. Then t'lie first American typewriter, “called a typo grapher,” was patented by W. A. Burt • | Tunnels and Geology. Geologists owe much of their knowl edge of tlie Alps to the tunnels which have been bored through these moun tains to make railway routes between the northern and southern parts of Europe. There has been no more Im portant discovery made in this way than during the construction of thn Loetschberg tunnel. This was the un expected piercing of a great coal seam In the center of a mass of much young er Trlassic stone. — Accidents at Different Ages. One of the large casualty companies has prepared a compilation showing the percentage of deaths due to acci dent at different ages. Out of a total of 713.801 deaths embraced In the com pilation. 21.1 per cent were persons from fifteen to twenty-nine yenrs old ; 10.1 per cent, thirty to thirty-nine; 12.3 per cent, forty to forty-nine; 8 per cent, fifty to fifty-nine, and 4.7 per cent, sixty to sixty-nine. Has Two Independence Days. Thcr- is one country on the Ameri can continent, Ecuador, which actu- ! ally boasts of two national days. These Independence days of the little re- j public are the 9th of August and the I 9th of October, and mark two deter mined revolutions, the first of which failed, only to spur the patriots, re volting against Spanish domination, to shake It off, a few months luter, for ever. Got George in Wrong. I.ittle Ethel, whose big brother. George, was her teacher’s beau, walk ed proudly to the desk with her exam ples worked neatly. The teacher, af ter looking them over, said "Ethel, I don't like your methods.” “Well, then," said Ethel, “I'll t"ll my brother, George. He wrote them for me.” His Great Task. "I want to get some Information," said tlie tired man with three suit cases. “Why don't you apply to the bureau of Information?” “I’m work ing up to that. First I’ve got to get Information ns to how I cnn find the bureau of information.”—Washington Stur. Guard Your Work. Do not work so hard that you have no time to look up and around you, no time to exchange Ideas with another, no time for quiet thought. To work without growth means exhaustion. The spring Itself must be fed If Its waters ure not to fall. Fox Farms. There nre ten or twelve fox farms In Alaska. One of them, sltunted In the Tatiana valley, a mile and a half from Fairbanks, consists of ten acres of cleared Innd, the greater part of which Is covered with pens In which the animals live. Suspicious Creature. “A hard woman to please.” “How so?” “When her husband telephones that he will tie detained at the office sho wants to know whose office and the nature of the detention.”—Birmingham Age-IIerald. A Billion Silver Dollars. One billion silver dollars, laid In n row, says (las I .ogle, each coin Just touching the one before It and the one following, would form a line thnt would reach practically around the en tire world. — Tea Blending Practical Monopoly. The business of tea blending Is pe culiarly British. For 100 years Minc ing lane hns blended ten for the whole world and brought the work into the region of an exact science. Bees as Weather Guides. Bees are good weather guides, being sluggish and Inactive In the morning If the day Is going to be wet, and ac tive and lively If It Is going to turn out bright und fine. What Our Heirs Think. "Our lowest ambition should be a life of ninety years," says a noted physician. Well, It Is sort of a low umhltlon Just merely to hang on.—Bos ton Transcript \ -■ ———I 1^—i WHITE BORAX i i ( NAPTHA AN ODORLESS ALL-PURPOSE SOAP Ask Your Grocer for “WHITE BORAX NAPTHA” And You Will Have the Cleanest and Whitest Clothes in the Neighborhood. D f \ 13 K| E" 2506 NORTH 24TH ST. |\ 1^1 I—- WEBSTER 1412 Women's Dark Grey, High Cloth Top Shoes, $8.00 value, for.$5.98 Boys’ Heavy Solid School Shoes, regular $4.50 values, for.$3.50 Girls’ High Top Dark Brown Shoes, regular $5.50 values, for.$3.98 Men’s Dark Brown Shoes, regular $9.00 values, for.$6.75 Men’s Dress Pants, $3.50 values, for.$2.75 Men’s Hosiery, pair.25c Women’s Waists, at.$1.25 Boys’ Wash Suits, ages 2 to 6, at.$1.45 ,a Men’s Arrow Brand Shirts.$1.98 Men’s Monarch Shirts...99c Millinerv, Bungalow Aprons, Children’s Dresses, Hosiery, Notions. 25 PER CENT UNDER DOWNTOWN PRICES The McCree Lunch Room 1210 Dodge Street GOOD HOME COOKING Hot Bread; Home-Made Pies a Specialty. TABLES FOR LADIES. THE CRUSADER The Greater Negro Magazine. Winning a welcome everywhere. You must have it. A Monthly. One Dollar a Year. THE CRUSADER 2299 Seventh Avenue, .... New York City ] THE CHRISTMAS CIFT THAT § \ DOES DOUBLE DUTY I & €J Here’s your chance to make your U Christmas Gifts do double duty— please the one to whom they're given jQ % and give the boys in service the best © of everything, Give WAR SAV- :* INGS STAMPS for Christmas pres » enls instead of cash both in your ■if. home and office. » I LET UNCLE SAM BE YOUR SANTA CLAUS § | THIS YEAR I 35 He's giving you life, love and liberty. © Lend him assistance. Buy War Sav- ^ M ings Stamps. It is such a little thing M to do for your boy and mine—give 5 twice at one price. jb I NEBRASKA WAR SAVINGS COMMITTEE |