The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1917-06-21

preston of human instinct ever wit
messed.
The most creditable feeling in the hui
man breast is the desire to help another.
The Red Cross is this feeling raised to its
nth power. 1t is the humanity Of ma
ton speaking II is the utterance of the
kindness of the world
Organization is the device Of efficiency.
Organization made the trusts makes
government, makes war. The Red Cross
is the principle of organization applied
to the benevolent impulse of the world.
The Red Cross is humanity doing by
modern methods and in modern way for
good as much as other organizations are
doing for pr9St or for evil
The Red cbss is the mighty Amaze
MAN stream 1earrying into the ocean of
human woe the relief that comes from
myriad rivulets of kindly purpose.
The Red Cross appeals TO the magma
ton You would help the victim Of an
accident before your eyes. Thru the Red
Cross you help the innumerable victims
of calamity and mischief thruout the
world.
The Red Cross is the long arms OF the
universal heart embracing the world
The Red Cross comes nearer being the
benefcent hand of God than any other
human organization.
Two great passion groups are contend
ing for the world. the White Passions
fer greed, power and prestige. and the
Red Passions, which are the hgmantes
In the end il viii be the humanities that
viii extiuguish war forever Without
these all devices Of statecraft or alliances,
and even world government itself, would
lack compelling power And just at pres
ent the Red Cross is the finest forth
putting of the humanities.
The Red Cross is the one agency that
gives everybody something to do. The
old, the little children, even the sick and
the lame can cooperate in this organiza-
ton and find their sympathies not futile.
The Red Cross is the finest symbol Of
the common denominator Of all religious
II is not sectaran. IL knows no creed.
Its benevoence is as wide as that Gods
Who is the Father of all men.
Whatever may be mems differences in
opinion there is one point on which they
all agree, which is the duty Of the fortu-
nate to help the unfortunate, Of the
strong to help the weak, of the straight
to help the lame, Of those who can see TO
lead the-blind, of those who have food to
share with the hungry The Red Cross
is the one instrument by which you can
perform this duty.
The world has been cursed by long dis
lance evil, by men doing things thru
agencies. corporations and states which
no individual would do himself. Thus are
the mightiest crimes of history commit
ted. The Red Cross is vast organization
for the doing Of long distance good. 1t is
the most redoubtabe instrument which
can be found to resist the gigantic imPeH
sonal forces that afnict the world.
The Red Cross is the one organization
that cannot possibly be too great nor too
strong. A nation may become so power
ful as to be menace. A corporation may
need to be curbed Any institution may
grow too rank But not this For" said
Bacon. "the desire of power in excess
caused angles to fall the desire Of lmowl-
edge in excess caused man to fall; bat in
charity there is no excess; neither angels
nor man come in danger by it,
The Red Cross brings to all mankind
the subtest luxury. which is the luxury
of doing good There is no human being
so degraded that he does rot enjoy this.
Many are deferred from doing good be-
cause il implies an assumption Of supe-
rior virtue But thru the Red Cross you
can do good without advertisement.
The Red Cross is the one agency thru
which all men high and low, saints and
sinners. can help their fellows. 1t Is the
one service that welcomes to its support
the society belle and the shop girl, the
nun and the dancer, the artist and the