White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1917-06-17

must contribute to the War fund oil
the Red Cross during the week oil
Jane 18th to 25th whether you be-
lieve yourself able or not. II you
are a real American II Is not a ques-
ton of giving from your surplus
you must give and keep on giving
until you can give no more. and
even after that. you must keep on
We are at war, but We do not
realize what war Is, and, II 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
does7 Some day. Somewhere in
France when our soldiers are in
tile trenches. 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 fre. shrapnel
grenades machine gun and rifle fire
face the baEoe5 wire In front OF
enemy trenches for the bare chance
OF meeting bayonet with bayonet,
other boys no more to blame for this
war than they are.
You know what the loss will be i.
You know that after Ypres the
Princess Pats had only 127 men
alive out of the $50 that saw the
sun come up that day.
What of the fallen7 II the Red
Gross is ready the Ambulance Corps
of the lighting regiments will carp
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 will carry the men
back to the Red Cross base hospitals
II the wound is not fatal Red Cross
eonvaJescing station will take care
of the soldier till he is readp to go
back to the front II the man is
disabled Red Cross steamer will
bring him back to America, and the
Red Cross receiving station here will
care for him. send him home and on
top of that look after his family
after he Is wounded just as II will
have looked after his family all the
time he has been away
DO yon know what this means?
In the old davs before the Red Cross
came 600 soldiers died out OF every
1000 wounded Today under prop
er conditions the percentage is not
over per cent
If your boy was wounded every
dollar you have in the world would
20 willingly TO put him in Red Cross
hands. Sixty thousand Los Angeles
boys registered June 5th for the
draft. How many of them Will re-
quire Red Cross aid within the next
two years7
Every dollar that comes in Is
spent by the best business men In
America for supplies and materials
designated by the Medical Depart
ment of the United States army-the
department that has stamped out
yellow fever. as we'll as other great
rational seourges.
Ex-president Taft is the chairman
of the Red Cross A partner in the
house of Morgan is its hnancial
chief. Its accounts are audited by
the War Department Its existence
and operations are directed under
special acts of Congress and Presi-
dent Wilson himself. by executive or
der. established the executive COM
mittee under which the Red Cross Is
now being managed
The Red Cross is therefore a part
of the fighting forces of the govern
ment and must be supported as such
This support will be easy enough TO
get, when that support is late Let
the toll of one battle mount, as II
often does. To $4,000 men or more!
With the hospitals overerowed and
our own men DYING for want Of at
tention, the response to the Red
Cross call win roll in fast enough
but then IL will be too late
Don't you be one of those TO hold
hack until that time. Don't be q