The Coconino sun., 1917-06-22
IT IS OUR DUTY TO
 HELP RED CROSS
By John B. Miller

If you are real American you must contribute to the War Fund of the Red Cross during the week of June 18th to 18th, whether you be- lieve yourself able or not. If you are real American it is not a ques- tion of giving until you can give no more, and, even after that, you must keep on.
 We are at war, but we do not re- alize what war is, and, if the Red Cross is able to do its full duty, we will never know what war can be.
 Do you know what the Red Cross does?
 Some day, Somewhere in France" when our soldiers are in the trenches, a line of American boys will leap over the top of their trenches, slip through the barbed wire, and, in face of high explosive shells, gas, liquid fire, shrapnel, grenades, machine gun and rifle fire, face the barbed wire in front of enemy trenches for the bare chance of meeting bayonet with bay onet, other boys no more to blame for this war than they are.
 You know what the loss will be. You know that after Ypres the Prin- cess Pats had only 127 men alive out of are 689 that saw the sun come up that day
 What of the fallen? If the Red Cross is ready, the Ambulance Corps of the fighting regiments will carry the wounded back through the com municating trenches to the dressing station. Here Red Cross surgeons, under the direct control of the United States Medical Department will give first aid. The wounded will be turned over to Red Cross ambulances, and carried back to the Red Cross field hospital for immediate attention, From the Red Cross Field hospital, Red Cross ambulances, Red Cross trains and, in France, even Red Cross canal boats vii carry the men back to the Red Cross base hospitals. If the wound is not fatal Red Cross convalescing station will take care of the soldier till he is ready to back to the front. If the man is disabled a Red Cross steamer will bring him back to America, and the Red Cross receiving station here will care for him, send him hime and on top of that look after his family after he is wounded just as it will have looked after his family all the time he has been away.
 Do you know what this means? In the old days before the Red Cross came, 600 soldiers died out of every 1000 wounded. Today under propet conditions the percentage is not over per cent.
 If your boy was wounded every dol lar you have. in the world would go willingly to put him in Red Cross hands. Sixty thousand Los Angele: boys registered June 9th for tho draft. How many of them will re quire Red Cross aid within the nex two years?
 The Red Cross is not hit or miss organization, grabbing dollar here and dollar there and wasting tho money. It is one of the five offensive and defensive arms of every civilized government on the face of the earth
 Every dollar that comes in is spent by the best business men in America for supplies and materials designated by the Medical Department of the United States Army-the Department that has stamped out yellow fever as we'll as other great national scuorges.
 Ex-President Taft is the Chairman of the Red Cross. A partner in the house of Morgan is its Financial Chief. Its accounts are audited by the War Department. Its existence and operations are directed under spe- cial Acts of Congress, and President Wilson himself, by executive order, established the Executive Committee under which the, Red Cross is now be- ing managed.