The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-07-24
SPANISH WAR VET"
WRITES STRONG CARD
SHOWING THE NEED OF RED
CROSS NURSES IN THE
TRENCHES.

There should be no slackers in Ter
rell county in contributing to the
Red Cross fund. This is no time for
any one to hold back their donations.
Dawson is already represented on the
battlefields with at least one young
citizen, and d number of Terrell
county young men are in the service,
and with more to soon go in defense
of their country. They are destined
to be sent to foreign lands-among
strange people and to the very hell of
the mad slaughter in which the Unit
ed States is now party-unwilling-
~, but to the end.
Uncle Sam cannot always provide
for the comfort of his boys" as he
should, and it is up to the individual
to help take care of our wounded
and sick ones through the agency of
the Red Cross, that great organiza-
ton which has done, perhaps, more
relief work for suffering humanity
than any other. AS / have said, I'm
Gle Sam can't always furnish nurses
and surgeons. In 189S-99, after the
little brush" with Spain, a number
of Terrell boys volunteered for SER
vice IN Cuba, and for several months,
while on garrison duty, they had no
nurses nor physicians to attend them.
Their duty was frolic compared to
what is before us now. but for eight
months they knew not the sound of
a white woman's voice, for weeks
they had not the services of a physi-
clan, and if our citizens could have
seen these boys with fever raging as
high as 106, delirious and needing
attention, begging for the soothing
touch of a woman's hand or have
heard their delirious calls for loved
ones at home-if one will draw
comparison between these petty suf-
ferings and the fearful, horrible bat
ties in which our boys are likely to
lose their lives or suffer limbs torn
away, or great gaping wounds
through their bodies and then think
of the great work the Red Cross can
and will render, there will need be
no soliciting funds here-the contri-
buttons will be voluntary.
We are in the war. Our boys
maybe your boy or your brother
must help get us out. He may be the
first to fall victim of a German bull
let. Won't you feel better to know
you have done your "bit" toward re-
storing him to life or making easier
his last moments? That is what the
Red Gross is for and will do. Did you
see War on Three Fronts" at the
opera house and notice the men shot
down in the trenches and hurriedly
carried out to make room for anoth-
err soldier? If the Red Cross was
on hand land it was if funds were
sufficient to provide the nurses) those
wounded boys were made as comfort
able as possible. If you give now
won't you feel better when we begin
to read the American casualties
(Which we will soon) on Frances
battle lines to know that you have
done your share? You will. And if
you do not give now you will wish
you had.
Give and give and give, and then
give until it hurts" Your financial
hurt will help to heal some handsome,
red-blooded American boys physical
hurt. Won't that be enough reward
for your financial sacrifices?
Five thousand dollars, only 20
cents per capita, is the amount Ter
rell county has pledged itself to give
The mothers and sisters are doing
their part-help them in their labor
of love. (Signed)
A DAWSONIAN.