Odessa Montour Central High School - Odessanean Yearbook (Odessa, NY)

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Recently aid was fender 3d by the Red Cross at the tires of the last Mississippi 'fFlood. Foodj clothes, and mone£ were sent to those who needed them. Hospitals were started and nurses were sent to care for the iniured» Food lines were formed by the Red Cross workers who prepared food fir the people and they were lined up and each relieved his or her share. These same thingd were done at the time of the New England Flood. Organized, workers were 3ent up there to clear the remains of the flood out of the towns. Even a bumch of the college boys from one of the New ngl:.nd colleges were sent up one day to aid the workers. It is hoped that by peace treaties which will help to prevent war and different ways which have been discovered to prevent,fire, flood, and disease, that the work of the Red Cross shall be lessened. But even though this organization is growing all the time I think it vri 11 always find enough to keep it busy and that a use will be found for all the money that it can collect. Beatrice Seailes Modern Inventions in Transportation and Their Benefits to the Busuness World. The first time that primitive man ever carried a d°er on his back or dragged the buffalo from tne place where he had killed it to his cave he made use of that tremendously important branch of our com ercial system that w $ now call transportation. From the time that beasts were first domesticated, on down through the ages to the present, man has continued to be an animal of transportation along with them. Time and the ingenuity of man soon brought into use the wheeled vehicle, the street car, and later the motor car, which has undoubtedly benefit ted more people than any other invention of transportation in the history of the world. So important has this method of travel become that to-day we find ourselves asking the question, ’’Will themotor car continue to revolutionize transportatio so that in the near f'ucuxe it will practically eliminate the use of the electric street railway? Judging from the nimoer abondoned in the past, the answere is Yes . Yearly the railroads report a marked decrease on passenger patronage. Why? Because travel by motor car is cleaner, more picturesque and allows a person to travel where he choses, in comfort, amid luxurious s,yr Oundings.,