The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1917-05-16
THE MAN YIN q TIMES.


treasure and Of blood. And, therefore,
lit is a matter Of the greatest impor-
/ tance that we should at the outset see
I, to it that the American Red Cross is
equipped and prepared for the things
that lie before it. Of course, the
scale upon which it shall act will be
greater than the scale of any other
duty that it has ever attempted to
perform.
| Red Cross War Council.
1t is in recognition of that fact that
the American Red Cross has just add
ed to its organization small body
of men whom it has chosen to call
its war council. Their first duty will
be to raise great fund out of which
to draw the resources for the per-
formance of their duty and 1 do not
believe that it will be necessary to
appeal to the American people to re-
spond to their call for funds because
the heart Of this country is in this
/ war.
l say the heart of the country is in
this war because it would not have
gone into it if it's heart had not been
prepared for it. 1t would not have
gone into it if it had not first be-
lieved that there was an opportunity
to express the character of the. United
States. >
! Look for No Profit.
We have gone in with no special
grievance Of our own, because we
have always said that we were the
friends and servants of mankind. We
look for no profit. We look for no
advantage. We will accept no ad
vantage out of this war. We 20 be-
cause we believe that the very princi
pies upon which the American Repub
lie were founded are now at stake and
must be vindicated. In such a con-
test, therefore, we shall not fail to
respond to the call to service that
comes through the nstrumentality of
this particular organization
Concentration and Efficiency.
And l think it not inappropriate
to say this: There will be many ex-
pressions of the spirit of sympathy
and mercy and philanthropy, and
think that it is very necessary that
we should not disperse our activities
in those lines too much; that we
should keep constantly in view the
desire to have the utmost concentra-
tion and efficiency of effort, and
hope that most, if not all, of the
philanthropic activities of this war
may be exercised, if not through the
Red Cross, then through some already
constituted and experienced organiza-
ton. This is no war for amateurs.
This is no war for spontaneous i'm
pulse. 1t means grim business on
every side of it.
To the Memory of Women.
There is another thing that is sig
nificant and delightful to my thought
about the fact that this building
should be dedicated to the memory of
the women, both of the North and
| South. 1t is sort of landmark of
the unity to which the people have
been brought so far as any old ques-
| tlon which tore our hearts in days
gone by is concerned, and 1 pray God
that the outcome of this struggle
may be that every other element of
differences amongst us will be oblit-
Grated and that some day historians
will remember these momentous years
as the years which made single
people out of the great body of those
who call themselves Americans.
The evidences are already many
that is happening. The divisions
which were predicted have not oc-
Cured, and will not occur. The
spirit of this people is already united,
when effort and suffering and sacri
flee have completed the Union, men
will no longer speak of any lines
either of race or association cutting
athwart the great body of this nation.
So that | feel that we are now be-
ginning the processes which will
some day require another beautiful
memorial erected to those whose
hearts uniting united America.
Senator Williams Speech.
Speaking on "th, women of the
South Senator Jrhn Shary Will
liams, of Mississippi, said in part:
"The Southern women of the six
ties bore all, suffered all, dared all,
gave all without any. external sup
port, save trust in the love of God
and of their men folk; actuated only
by love and devotion to the cause of