Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-06-25
ORGANIZED HUMANITY
Copyright, 1917
BY DIR. FRANK CRANE.

The Red Cross is the most splendid
expression of human instinct ever wit
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The most creditable feeling in the
human breast is the desire to help an
other. The Red Cross is this feeling
raised to it's nth power. 1t is the hu-
mainly OF nation speaking. 1t is the
utterance of the kindness Of the world.
Organization is the device of eff
cheney. Organization made the trusts,
makes government. makes war The
Red Cross Is the principle of organiza-
ton applied to the benevolent impulse
of the world.
The Red Cross is humanity doing by
modern methods and in a modern way
for good as much as other organiza-
tons are doing for profit or for evil.
The Red Cross is the mighty ANA
zonian stream carrying into the ocean
of human woe the relief that comes
from myriad rivulets of kindly pur-
pose.
The Red Cross appeals to the mag
ination. You would help the victim
of an accident before your eyes.
Through the Red Cross you help the
innumerable victims of calamity and
mischief throughout 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 con-
tending for the world. the White Pas
sions for greed, power and prestige.
and the Red Passion. which are the
humanities. In the end it will be the
humanities that will extinguish war
forever. Without these all devices of
statecraft or alliance. and even world
government itself. would lack compel
ling power. And just at present the
Red Cross is the finest forthputting of
the humanities.
The Red Cross is the only agency
that gives everybody something to do
The old. the little children, even the
sick and the lame can cooperate in
this organization and find their
sympathies not futile.
The Red Cross is the finest symbol
of the common denominator of all re-
lisions. 1t is not sectarian. 1t knows
no creed. Its benevolence is as wide
as that Gods who is the Father of
all men.
Whatever may be mems differences Of
opinion. there Is one point on which
they all agree, which is the duty of the
fortunate 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 institution
by which you can perform this duty.
The world has been cursed by long
distance evil, by men doing things
through agencies. corporations and
states which no individual would do
himself. Thus are the mightiest
crimes Of history committed. The Red
Cross is a vast organization for the
doing Of long distance good. 1t is the
most redoubtable instrument which
can be found to resist the gigantic i'm
personal forces that afffict the world.
The Red Cross is the one organization
that cannot possibly be too great nor
too strong. A nation may become SO
powerful as to be a menace. A corpora
ton may need to be curbed. Any in
stituticn may grow too rank. But not
this. For" said Bacon. the desire of
power in excess caused angels to fall:
the desire of knowledge in excess
caused man to fall: but in charity there
is no excess; neither angel nor man
come in danger by it."
The Red Cross brings to all man.
kind the subtlest luxury, which is the
luxury of doing good. There is no
human being so degraded that he does
not enjoy this.
Many are deferred from doing good
because it implies an assumption of
superior virtue. But through the Red
Cross you can do good without adver-
tisement.
The Red Cross is the one agency
through which all men, high and low,
saints and sinners, can help their fell
lows 1t is the one service that well
comes to its support the society belle