The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1917-12-15
Appeal Of the American Red
Cross to America
Issued Under Authority Of the National Com
mitee Of the Christmas Membership Drive


stores OF emergency supplies for our
own army.
/, We are operating six canteens
for use of French soldiers-where
we serve about 10000 soldiers a
day.
I'VE are providing an artificial
limb factory near Paris
"We' have opened children's
refuge hospital at point in the War
Zone
1--WE are making arrangements on
a large scale to help refugee famil-
les through the winter
1900 tons of supplies are arriv-
ing in Paris daily
But the space forbids! Here is a
scant handful of facts snatched
from a single cablegram And such
fundamental Red Cross activities
as the establishment in France Of
more than a dozen large Base Hos
pitals, fully manned and equipped,
are not even touched upon.
By April next, the American Red
Cross Commission to France will
have spent some $4OO,O00,OOO. Yet,
in recent cable to Mr.. Dawson
the Commission makes the plea
eve cannot state too strongly the
critical situation that will arise dur
ing the coming winter. The amount
of work that can be done (that must
be done, men and women of Amer
icaD will be limited solely by the
resources at our command. If the
American people can get real pic
ture of misery. -"
Well, here is one picture! One
of human anguish which a cynical
Autocracy has painted across Eu-
rope in blood and tears!
"There arrived last week at Ev-
ian, where the repatriates from,
France and Belgium are re-
ceived back into France train
loaded with Belgian children.
There were $50 of them, thin,
sickly, from four to twelve
years of age,-children Of men who
refused to work for the Germans
and of mothers who let their chill
dren go rather than let them starve.
They poured off the train, little ones
clinging to the older ones, girls all
crying, boys trying to cheer. They
had come all the long way alone. On
the platform were the Red Cross
workers to meet them. Those CHI
drer who could walk at all, marched
along crying Meat, meat, we are
going to have meatv Their little
claw-like hands were significant, but
doctor said, We have them in
time. A few weeks of. proper feed
ing and they will pull up. Thirty
per cent of the older repatriates die
the first month from exhaustion.
The children can and must be
saved"
Small wonder that cablegram
from the American Red Cross Com
mission to France ended with the
words: "If the American people can
get a picture Of. the misery among
those driven out of their homes and
dumped in poverty among the other
parts Of the country, oftentimes ter
ribly sick or mutilated, they will
gladly do all in their power to help"
But, do not suppose, men and wo
men of America that your American
Red Cross in the effort to supply the
needs of the civilian populations in
France, Belgium, Russia, Poland, !,
Serbia, is for one instance neglect
ing its primary duty to serve "Our
Boys" Your sons, your brothers,
your husbands, who have gone into
he Army and Navy to fight for you
n this war against War, are first in
,ur thoughts as in yours, and we are
cooperating with the
War Department in work for their
comfort and safety-at home, and
'over there" The merest outline
f this work would fill, pages-and
rive you but its dry bones. Better
single picture Of your Red Cross
'on the job" in a single emergency!
The recent torpedoeing Of the Ar
ny Transport "Ant1les" resulted in
he death Of sixty-seven persons. As
he vessel sank within five minutes,
he hundred and seventy survivors
.ouid save nothing but clothes they |
,tood in. The hour was about 600
4. NJ. Many survivors were in their
tight clothes. After being for three