Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1917-12-14

fighting line were not own American boys, the
Red Cross would be bound to do all it could for
them. But they are own. We do not fully
realize 1t yet, but we will later on From every
city, every village, every farming community from
almost every family in the whole land, or more
boys will help fill the lines in France-and it is
for them for your friends and mine, for your rela-
tives 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 good deal
Of time which they do not now think they can
spare. And 1t is going to take hundreds of mill
lions Of dollars all we can spare, and maybe all
we have whether not think we can spare
it. Belgium is crushed Serbia is obliterated, Rou-
mania is little more than a memory Russia Is I'M
potent Italy is bearing heavy cross, France Is
immortal n spirit but growing thin. There are
left chiefly the British lion and the American
eagle and the English-speaking boys who bear
them aloft. If they fail, civilization is dead.
There is no longer any question that civilization
is fighting for it's very life Germany has set out
to force the whole world to live under the German
imperiastic plan. President Wilson, In his now
famous Buffalo speech, said
1T is amazing to me that any group of people
should suppose that any reforms planned in 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 continue if the Pan-German plan
Is achieved and German power fastened upon the
world is as fatuous the dreamers of Russia"
There never has been any question that the
American soldier will fight to DEATH If need be,
when once he begins the job. It is the task of
the American Red Cross to supply and fortify
those boys that just as few of them as possible
may be sacrificed.
That is what the Red Cross has in mind when
1t comes to your house, your Office, or your
kitchen door, wherever you may be found, and
asks you to be one 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 warm clothing, it wants these
100000 trained to make and turn out the kind
of garments needed so that they may go by train
load and shipload at once If it is for knitted
goods-there has already been a call for 6.OOOOOO
knitted articles and it is almost or quite filed by
now--these 100000 must be organized to get
yarn and knit. 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,
as assuredly it will be many time, there must
be trained Red Cross membership to get them
made and in the hospitals in time to save lfe
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 as come home-and listen to the excuses
we will try to make if we fail to keep them sup
piled with everything they need in their fight
for
There will be another call for money before
yNI +y,r Tho
Red Cross war 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
next call probably will be for a larger sum- may
be as much as quarter of million dollars. II
! SO, the American people must give it. Every cent
goes for relief work. In what he termed his pub
lie accounting Henry P. Dawson, chairman of the
Red Cross council, said in recent speech
that of every dollar given the Red Cross for relief
work, about $1O2 is spent for relief. What he
meant is that not cent goes for overhead
expense, which is cared for in another way but
that the whole fund, together with about per
cent interest which it accumulated while in bank,
goes for relief.
Z All that will come later, when the Red Cross
needs more money to carry on it's work Of mercy.
What it needs now is MEMBERSHIP 100000 add
ed to the 100000 it now has, Every member
should be at least of the class called magazine
Members" It costs So year, and entities the
members to the really wonderful Red Cross Maya
zine every month"; filled with news and colored
pictures Of what the great order is doing all
the earth
IT you are member renew if not become one
when the Red Cross committee comes 1t is mere
ly trying to get you to help win your war, and
care for the unlucky-who may be some of your
own family