The Chesterfield advertiser. [volume] (Chesterfield C.H., S.C.) 1884-1978, 1917-06-21

ment expects that the Red Cross shall
perform a vital service in helping to
care for the sick young men in the
Camps here at home and to do the
m ajor>pa also of caring for the
wounded and sick young men back of
the battle lines in France. Patriotic
citizens of South Carolina will not
stop to argue as to why this is true or
how this situation should best be met.
We are faced with the fact that our
boys will sicken and die without a fair
chance unless the generous, humane,
patriotic citizens of this country place
in the hands of the national war work
council the means by which the Red
Cross may be able to supply doctors,
surgeons, nurses, aids, attendants,
ambulance corps, supplies, medicines,
ETC., to fully meet the needs as they
arise. Not over per cent, of our
people at the outside will be called
upon to make the supreme sacrifice.
am confident that the large majority
of us who remain at home will well
come the opportunity to match the
sacrifice on the part of our sons and
brothers, who are to 60 to France, by
giving sacrificially as they never
gave before, both in service and in
money. Unless it sinks into the
hearts of the people of South Caro-
lima that they must join with the
people of other States to see that
thousands of our boys have a fair
chance for recovery from sickness and
wounds, these boys will not have such
a chance if we do not do our part in
this emergency. We need not fear
that what we ask for will be granted
without hesitation.
Breaking Under Strain
Second, We need not only to help
our allies with men and munitions
We know that the hospital and ambu-
lance corps in France as we'll as on
the Eastern front have been under an
abnormally terrific strain for the past
two and half years. In MANY cases
men and women devoted to this work
of mercy and relief are breaking down
under the strain. Every dictate of
humanity and patriotism demands
that we rush particularly to France
relief in the shape of men and women
who may replace the personel in the
medical corps.
Third. In the devastated portion
of France, where we are told there
are more than 100000 tubercular
French soldiers; in Belgium, in typhus
ridden Servia, in Poland and friend
less Armenia, men and women and
little children who have no other
means under heaven by which thew
may obtain food, stand for hours in
any sort of weather every day for the
privilege of securing a piece of dry
bread as large as your fist and a cup
of soup, which must sustain life for
"a hours. We can not assume all of
this relief work, but so far as pos
sible we can have share in it. The
money which we raise, however, will
be used in the order named, first car
ing for our own boys. This is as
much a national service as enlistment.
and call upon the people of South
Carolina and particularly the coun-
ties, to see to it that this State, which
has so often led the nation in times
past, shall not fall short in this ma
tional emergency. have every con-
hdence in the outcome, and I leave
the answer to the individual citizens
of South Carolina, men and women
alike, with assurances of the fact that
between the 18th and 25th of June
they will grasp this opportunity, and
working under their county leaders
will see to it that we measure up to
our opportunity and our duty"
Chesterfield county's apportion-
ment, named by Washington, is
100000.
1t is understood that Cheraw and
other sections are responding liber-
ally 1t is believed that when the
weeks campaign ends Saturday, that
Chesterfield will not be far behind in
her donations to this most deserving
Of all causes.
Messrs. w. P. Ot}s9 and C. C.
Douglass are authorized to take sub
scriptions here.