Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1917-12-14

Red Cross would be bound to do all 1t could fc
them. But they own. We do not full
realize II yet, but we will later on. From ever
city. every village every farming community fror
almost every family In the whole land, one NOR
boys VIII help fill the lines In France-and 1t
for Them for your friends and mine, for your rela
tlves and mine, that the Red Cross is working.
II Is going to take and women by the mil
Hon, working all their spare time, and good dea
of time which they do not think they cal
spare. And 1t is going to take hundreds of mil
lions OF dollars-al we can spare and maybe al
we have whether or not we think we can spare
It. Belgium is crushed. Serbia is obliterated, Rou
mania is little more than memory. Russia is Inn
potent, Italy is bearing a heavy cross, France Ii
immortal in spirit but growing thin. There are
left chiefly the British lion and the American
eagle, and the English-speaking boys who bear
them aloft. If they fail. civilization is dead.
There is no longer any question that civilization
is fighting for It's very life. Germany has set out
to force the whole world to live under the German
imperialistc plan. President Wilson, In his now
famous Buffalo speech, said:
1T is amazing TO that any group of people
should suppose that any reforms planned In the in
terest Of the people live in the presence of
Germany strong enough TO undermine over
throw them by intrigue Of force Any man
who supposes that the free industry and enterprise
of the world can continue If the Pan-German plan
is achieved and German power fastened upon the
world. is as fatuous as the dreamers of Russia"
lHere never mas been any question that the
American soldier will fight to death, If need be-
when he begins the job It is the task Of
the American Red Cross to supply and fortlfy
those boys that just as few of them possible
may be sacrificed.
That is what the Red Cross has in mind when
1t comes to your house, your Office or your
kitchen door, wherever you may be found and
asks you TO be one of the 100000 Red Cross
members to stand back of those boys in khaki.
This Is not to be money campaign. Money is the
least important matter Of this moment What is
wanted is members. The Red Cross wants these
100000 men. women and children banded to-
gether in chapters organized into committees and
trained TO the minute to do whatever is needed for
the boys in France and for their families at home
and for those suffering ones who have lost every
thing but bare life.
If the call Is for clothing, 1t wants these
100000 trained to make and turn out the kind
Of garments needed so that they may go by train
load and shipload ut once. If 1t Is for knitted
goods-there has already been a call for 100000
knitted articles and 1t is almost or quite filed by
now-these 100000 must be organized to get
yarn and knit or get others to knit, and deliver
the goods at once. And If it is for bandages and
gauze dressings and other things for the wounded |
as assuredly it will be many time. there must
be a trained Red Cross membership to get them
made and in the hospitals in time to save life.
God help the American army in that day If the |
people have not been quick to unite with the Red |
cross ana supply the things the wounded boys
must have. And God pity you and me in the days
when the boys come back from over there-such
of them as come home-and listen to the excuses
we will try to make If we fail to keep them sup
piled with everything they need in their fight
for us.
There will be another call for money before
long. When the country gave $1OOOOOO00 to the
Red Cross war council last summer the great men
at the head of II estimated that, by careful spend
ing. they could make it last six months The
next call probably will be for larger sum- may
be as much quarter of a million dollars. If
SO, the American people must give It. Every cent
goes for relief work. In what he termed his pub
lie accounting" Henry p DAWSON chairman of the
Red Cross war council, said in Il recent speech
That OF every dollar given the Red Cross for relief
work. about S1.02 Is spent for relief What he
meant Is that not one cent goes for overhead
Expense, which is cared for in another way but
hat the whole fund. together with about per
'ent interest which 1t accumulated while In bank
goes for relief
All that viii come later when the Red Cross
leeds more money to carry its work OF mercy
What IL needs now Is MISUNDERSTOOD 600 add
d 70 the 100000 1t now has. Every member
houd be at least Of the class called Magazine
lemhers." IL costs 81 year. and entities the
nembeTs 20 the really wonderful Red Cross Maya
Inc every month. filed with news and colored
lectures OF what the great order is doing all over
he earth.
II You are a member. renew; IL not become one
'hen the Red Cross committee comes II Is mere
trying to get you to help win your war. and
are Tor the unlucky-who may be some of your
wn family.