The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1917-06-21
A LAST APPEAL
TO GIVE FREELY
FACTS, FIGURES AND INFORMAL
TON TO STIMULATE AN OUT
POURING OF MONEY
TO HELP At THE FRONT A ;, At HOME
Open Your Ears to the * and Re-
spond in a Way to o,ell
the Total.

small for appreciation. Z
However, no pledge can t. received
for less than IS.
Pledges may be paid all down or
/, one-four September I, one-fourth
October /.
II It is found absolutely impossible
to make contributions according to
those dates, the cntributor may name
his own terms, though it is desirable
that the contributor adhere to the
dates named.
Bank checks are as acceptable as
cash and should be made payable to
the "Red Cross War Fund" Persons
sending checks made payable TO them.
selves should be sure to indorse same
before making contribution.
Persons contributing cash and who
are not now members of the American
Red Cross, may signify their desire
to become members by noting on the
oNo1N' Nv o'' Niioi tlN Wloh OiN
dollar Of their contribution applied TO
membership.
The solicitor will give a receipt for
each cash contribution.
1t is now the end of the week set
apart for the great Red Cross work.
We have, or We have not, done SO
much for the cause that it hurts IN
pocket. in stomach and in mind Some
it will hurt in one, or perhaps two Of
these places, and some it will hurt in
all three. Which are you?
As one last appeal for this work,
let this paper quote to you some re-
marks about the great society from
the Minneapolis Tribune OF several
days ago:
1T may be your son, your husband,
or your brother, reader OF this, whom
the ministering agents of the Red
Cross will shield from the sickle of
death in the war of Europe.
Your own boy or your neighbours boy
down the street or on the next farm
viii need the touch Of a cooling hand
on a feyered brow. One of them or
both-God only knows-will be MAIN
90 in battle. or i'll in a hospital. He
viii be far from home and kin, but #
you do your part, if you are true to
the love you bear your boy, or your
~neighbor's boy. there will be friends
pain. 10 utter a word Of cheer, to
rouse hope whore there was only de-
spair and TO nurture the suffering
back to health. These friends will be
the men and women Of the Red Cross.
How many Of them there shall be,
how well they shall serve in hours
of darkness and distress-that is up
to you. The money you give is the
answer.
Your boy, or your %neighbor's boy,
or both, are going to the ~front'to help
make the world a better and safer
place in which to live. They will give
the zeal of their youth. possibly the
strength Of their bodies. to the cause,
but in return they will gain a soul
spirit they did not have before. They
may forfeit their lives, but if so they
will have enriched the world with the
memories of their sacrifice. They will
have hplnpH 10 avail tho moral GRAND
eur Of mankind, TO heighten its spirit
ual values. They will live on in the
immortelles of the heritage they leave.
But if they come back to you, you
will have a new pride in them and
they in themselves. 1t is that the
greatest possible number of them
shall come back that We are all asked
to give what we can to the Red
Cross.
At best the war zone is a via
dolorosa-a way of sorrow, 1t is the
mission of the Red Cross to do what
human power can do to make it also
a way of cheer. Those who have
charge of the work of gathering a
fund have set 500, 000, 900 as the
minimum which the people Of the
United States should subscribe to
provide the necessary workers and
equipment. With this sum it will be
possible to throw a protecting shield
around American soldiers at home and
in France, to give aid where the trag.