Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1917-12-14

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fighting line were not our own American boys the
Red Cross would be bound to- do all it could for
them. But they are our own. We do not fully
realize it yet, but we will later on From every
city, every village every farming community, from
almost every family in the whole land one more
boys will help fill the lines in France-and 1t is
for Them for your friends and mine, for your rela-
tives and mine, that the Red Cross is working.
1t Is going to take men and women by the mil
lion, working all their spare time, and a good deal
of time which they do not now think they can
spare And it is going to take hundreds Of mill
lions of dollars-all can spare, and maybe all
we have, whether or not we think we can spare
it. Belgium is crushed, Serbia is obliterated Rou
mania is little more than memory, Russia is inn
potent, Italy is bearing heavy cross, France is
immortal in spirit but growing thin There are
left chiefly the British lion and the American
eagle, and the English-speaking boys who bear
them aloft. If they FAIL civilization is dead
There is no longer any question that civilization
Is fighting for it's very lfe Germany has set out
to force the whole world to live under the German
fmperialistic plan. President Wilson, in his now.
famous Buffalo speech said ~ T.
1T is amazing to me that any group of people
should suppose that any reforms planned in the in
terest Of the people can live in the presence of
Germany strong enough to undermine or over
throw them by intrigue of force. -. Any man
who supposes that the free industry and enterprise
of the world can continue if>the Pan-German plan
is achieved and German power fastened upon the
world, Is as fatuous as the dreamers of Russia"
There never has been any question tina. the
American soldier will fight to death. if need be-
when once he begins the job. 1t is the task Of
the American Red Cross to 50 supply and fortlfy
those boys that just as few of them as possible
may be sacrificed. .1',.1
That is what the Red Cross has in mind wnen
1t comes to your house. or your Office, or your
kitchen door, wherever you may be found, und
asks you to be Of the Is, 100000 Red Cross
members to stand back of those boys in khaki.
This is not to be money campaign. Money is the
least important matter Of this moment. What is
wanted is members, The Red Cross wants these
l5,0OOOOO men, women and children banded to-
gether in chapters. organized into committees, and
trained to the minute to do whatever is needed for
the boys in France and for their families at home
and for those suffering ones who have lost every
thing but bare life. 49,
If the call Is for warm clothing, it wants these
= 100000 trained to make and turn out the kind
of garments needed so that they may 60 by train
load and shipoad at once If it is for knitted
goods-there has already been call for 6, 900
knitted articles and it is almost quite filled by
now-these 100000 must be organized to get
yarn and knit, or get others to knit and deliver
the goods at once. And if it is for bandages and
gauze dressings and other things for the wounded,
as assuredly it will be many time there must
be trained Red Cross membership to get them
made and in the hospitals in time to save life.
God help the American army in that day if the
people have not been quick to unite with the Red
Cross and supply the things the wounded boys
must have. And God pity you and rae in the days
when the boys come back from over there-such
of them come homeland listen to the excuses
we will try to make if we fail to keep them sup
piled with everything they need in their fight
for us. /
There will be another call tor money before
long, When the country gave $100,0OOOO0 to the
Red Cross council last summer, the great men
at the head of it estimated that by careful spend
ing they could make it last six months. The
next call probably will be for a larger sum- may.
be as much as a quarter Of million dollars II
So the American people must give 1t. Every cent
goes for relief work. In what he termed his "pub.
lie accounting" Henry P. Dawson, chairman Of the
Red Cross war council said in recent speech |
that of every dollar given the Red Cross relief
work, about $1.02 is spent for relief. What he
meant is that not one cent goes for overhead
expense, which is cared for in another way but
that the whole fund.- together with about 2 per
cent interest which it accumulated while in bank. |
goes for relief
All that will come later, when the Red Cross
needs more money to carry on its work Of mercy.
What it needs now is MISUNDERSTOOD 900 add. |
ed to the 100000 it now has. Every member
should be at least Of the class called magazine
Members. 1t costs ~ year, and entities the
members to the really wonderful Red Cross Maya
zine every month, filed with news and coored
pictures Of what the great order is doing all over
the earth.
It you are member, renew; not become one
when the Red Cross committee comes It is mere
~ trying to. get you to help win your war. and
care for the unlucky-who may be some Of your
own family.
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The Americans have contributed largely to the