Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-12-23

Wes,are. tOld,a ON war $oO,OQV,
every month, but every day. II any
abody.wants to gasp--instead Of -:aelps
ing-let him gasp at that! ~
But Shelping-aot gaspiag--is the
role which the commission has chosen
for itself, and there is little fear that
the countries which iterepresents will
chooses any other. Foremost among
them, :eFby force of circumstances,
stands America. She has generous
helpers. The belligerentH countries
cannot send supplies, but their ,citii-
ze1ls can help with money. italy and
Spain are helping. Canada and Aus
tralia ARE helping, Notwithstanding
that they have other very pressing
claims on their resources. E:ut the
United States Of America stand in the
forefront Of this particular battle.
America is. great and rich-and she
is not at war. Such a position constl-
tutes IN itself an obligation which AM
erica has been swift to recognize, and
creates an opportunity which, with
her spirit and her traditions, she was
not; likely to miss. She sees that,
unless she does this work, itrcannot
be done at all-atd Belgium must be
left to starve. @i
Hands That Reach Across the Seas.
Z Perish the thought" says Amer
ica-a5 they used to say in the old
m%elodramas. But being emphatfcally
a. business people, as well as a gener-
GUS people, Americans know very. well
that It is not an easy job that they
have undertaken to tackle. On the
contrary, it is a tough job and Ions
one. "A spasm Of emotion will not
serve to put it through. The efforts
Of a few charitable individuals can
not cope with it. It is@ea national
~work-4-one wherein every citizen
should have a part and should not
count that part played until the work
is done. 1t is in this spirit that the
commission for relief ~entered.scn its
task. America has not failed and
surely will not fail to justify its con-
dence that she would be found ready
and willing to answer the call which
it made on her benevolence. This
year will be memorable in the his
tory Of the world. For decades and
generations Ito come men will recall
it and speak Of its woes and its gio,
,ries. The nations at war will have
their memories Of deadly struggle! OF
vacillattng fortunes. of defeat and
victory; we'll nigh every household
will have it's hero to honor OF com
memorate. 'rhe nations that have es.
capped, the scourge and have not pass
ed. through the furnace of trial may
have their memories a%ls0-less poig~
nant, it may be, but more gracious,
not less honorable, and, turn the for
tunes Of war how they may, devoid f
all bitterness. /
Every Contribution Needed.
siA rare fragrance sWeetens the men,
Dry Of deeds Of mercy. Such mem
Eofy. everyone who, aids in saving Bel
glenn II helping: TO build up for his +
country. He is helping, too,Styand sat
q sseason%when such help1ls soreiy
keep alive thes tradition
OF ibrotherly love, OF friendship and
cOmradeship among the rationssof the
earth. The mind OF man9ican con
cefyeI no Woftnier occasion for the
rich to give abslndantly from their
abundance, for the humble to spare.
things If not out Of their purses. then
from their larder, their granary or
their storeroom. For 1t is just food
that Isl wanted-that men and woms1
may not die and may have wherewith-
al to give to their little children when
they cry for hunger. But the men
and women are q NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
| shall number the children? # Sissnot