The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1917-06-14
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RED CROSS WEEK JUNE 1875

ed; and The &rraved ourselves rs
her enemy beeause with that devo-
ton to system, with that failure to
understand the influence Of moral
tuous Of what we, who had ignored
military preparation, could do in
this war. She has now made an eyre
gious rror as it is for US to show.
Aneriea's Duty.
When we went into this war there
were many people who thought all
we had to do was draw q check, or
several checks, for = billion dollars
and that George" would do the
fighting. That il not the case. We
lave begun right in the raising Of
IN army. We have provided for .
million or perhaps = million and /
half Of men. That will probably not
be enough. A great deal better that
We should make over-prepAration in
matter in which the whole welfare
Of the world is engaged, than that
we should make misrepresentation.
We shall not realize what the war
is until our fighting men, those be-
loved with US, have been exposed to
dreadful dangers to the character
Of wounding that is so horrible un-
der this modern system of warfare !:
and until we all 60 to the bulletins
and study the names to see whether
those who are near and dear to us
have been taken for their country's
sake. Then the war will come in to
US. Then there will be nothing but
war, and everything else will be in
cidental; and until that psychologist
cal change has come, we shall not
feel the whole measure Of our duty
as we must in order to carry This
war through.
The Role of The Red Cross
The Red Cross is the only recogni-
ICED agency through which we may
help to take care Of the wounded of
the army and the nations that are
fighting oursbattles.. It is an admir-
able arrangement that some such
avenue as that should be supplied
to give vent to the patriotic desire
Of those who can not go to the
front, to work in behalf of their
country and the world.
Every country has a Red Cross,
and every country must have it be-
cause no army can furnish the in
strumentalities adequate to meet
the proportion of wounded that this
war furnishes. Think of it! Forty
million at the colors; seven million
dead; six million on beds of pain,
and the whole of Europe taken up
with hostilities. You can not exag-
gerate the function that our Red
Cross will have to perform merely
in attending to the wounded of our
army and other armies in carrying
onthis fight. Therefore one humid. e1
million dollars, great as the sum
seems, is inadequate; but the first
one hundred million dollars will be
the hardest hundred million to raise
And we must leave no doubt about
it; and I thank God that the organi
cation is in such competent hands
| to do the great work that has to h
done. >.
And now, my friends, the one
thing for which we ought to be
greatful is that in this great war, in
this war, in which we will have to
make sacrifices, oh, so great that
they wiring tears from US as we
think of them-we should be CRATE
full that we have cause worthy of
all the sacrifices that we can make.
The above "Call to Duty" was q
speech delivered by ex-president
William Howard Taft, at the confer
ence of the War Council, with dele
gates from forty cities, in Washing
ton, on May 24-25, 1917.
The same Call" comes now to
the Parish of St. Mary to stand by
its own Chapter, and during the
coming week to back the Chapter
and its leaders to the fullest ability,
even though it is calling for some
sacrifices of some kind.
We are confronting a situation
the like of which has never, before
existed and our obligations as Amer
leans are so great to humanity all
over the World, that every man and
woman in the Parish must. do its ut.
most to make St. Mary Chapter
| (Red Cross Week. more than sue.
cessful in every particular. And ir
this work the Chapters will be let
nobly and earnestly by the variou.
leaders at the Morgan City Head
/ quarters, and the Parish Lieuten
ants.
The opportunity is come to d.
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