Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1917-12-20

fighting line were own American boys, the
Red Cross would be bound to do all it could for
them. But they are We do not fully
realize 1t yet but will later From every
city, every village. every farming community, from
almost every family In the whole land. more
boys will help fill the lines France-and 1T is
for them. for your friends and NINE for your rela
dves and mine, that the Red Cross is working.
1t is going to take men and women by the mill
lion, working all their spare time and a good deal
of time which they do think they
spare And 1t is going to take hundreds of mill
lions of dollars-all spare, and maybe all
we have, whether not think 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-speakfng boys who bear
them aloft. If they fail. civilization is dead.
There is no longer any question that civilization
Is fighting for its very life. Germany has set out
to force the whole world to live under the German
imperiaistic plan President Wilson, in his
famous Buffalo speech, said
1T is amazing to that any group of people
should suppose that any reforms planned 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 that the
American soldier will fight death, If need be-
when once he begins the job. 1t is the task of
the American Red Cross to supply and fortfy
those boys that just few of them possible
may be sacrificed
That is what the Red Cross mind when
1t comes to your house, your Office, your
kitchen door. wherever you may be found, and
asks you to be of the 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
100000 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.
If the call is for clothing, 1t wants these
100000 trained to make and turn out the kind
of garments needed that they may go by train
load and shipload at If 1t is for knitted
goods-there has already been call for 100000
knitted articles and 1t 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.
assuredly it will be many time there must
be trained Red Cross membership to get them
made and in the hospitals in time 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 me in the days
when the boys come back from there-such
of them come home-and listen the excuses
will try to make if fail o keep them sup
piled with everything they need in their fight
Cor
There will be another call for money before
long. When the country gave S1OO,OOOOOO 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
call probably will be for a larger sum- may
be as much quarter of a 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 q speech
that OF every dollar given the Red Cross relief
work, about S102 IS spent for relief. What he
meant is that not goes 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 later. when the Red Cross
needs more money to carry on its work of mercy.
What 1T needs now is members-1O 600, 600 add
ed to the 100000 it has. Every member
should be at least of the class called Magazine
Members" 1t costs 81 year, and entities the
members to the really wonderful Red Cross Maya
zine every month, filed with and coloreS
pictures of what the great order doing all over
the earth
If you are a member, renew; If not become one
when the Red Cross committee comes. 1t mere
ly trying to get you to help win your war; and
care for the unucky-who may be your
own family