The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1917-12-28

something to live for and something
to fight for, and | will fight as long as
| live"
l could go around the circle of 5000
miles and quote you instance after in
stance of Red Cross work. But | want
to come back to this country for mo-
ment. There is not a man or woman
here who will ever Outlive this war
or the effects of it, and there is not a
man or woman here who has not
some circle of friends.
Let us look forward a few months
don't know how many. | can see
that circle gathered in the pari0r or
in the shop, and there will be one
there with one eye or no eyes, one
there with one arm or no arm, one
there with one leg or no legs, and they
will be talking about one or two who
are not there Now | ask you what
part in that conversation is the man
or woman going to take who has not
done everything in his or her power
all the time for those boys while they
were in hell for you and for me.
will tell you what part they are gong
, to take. They are going to take no
part. They are going to be strangers
! in their own land The time has come
when the man or woman is going to
! be measured not by money, not by
name, not by family, but by service.
You don't have to be a General; you
don't have to wear a uniform: nor GO
to foreign land. You may not have tC
get out of your chair, but what you
have to do is to play this game all the
time, and to do whatever is put mp tC
you to do. You have to stand by the
i.
that you cannot criticiSe the Admins
tration if you do it in helpful way
You have to stand by the Y. MICA.
the Y. w. C. A, the Knights of Colum-
bus, the Red Cross, the Thrift Cam
paign, the Liberty Bond campaign
I You are to do everything put up tC
you to the full measure of your power
This war is going to be won, but Wher
it is going to be won and the cost o.
winning it are going to be decided, no
in the trench, but by the people a
home. The sooner We concentrate ev
cry ounce of power in our bodies t
winning this war the sooner the wal
will be over. 1t is going to be over
There is going to be a meeting arOunt
table known as a peace table.
visualize it in this way: We are OD
Grating today in France a large arti
ficial limb factory. which is turning
out the best artificial limb known t.
modern science We are building an
other in Italy. Wounded Frencl
people, in future years, are going t.
walk around on American limbs. Pos
sibly the people of the world are go
ing to walk around on American limb
or on that American spirit which tn
American people are now sending t
Europe. ! believe the very work tn
American Red Cross is doing for tn
peoples of the world is establishing
, relationship among those people
, which will have a very marked effeC
on determining the character of tn
peace to he declared.
Otto II. Kahn. speaking at the sam
meeting with Mr.. Dawson. paid trib
ute to the head of the American Re
Cross work, saying that Mr.. Daviso
worked for the great and high tas
contided to him as he has never work
. ed before"
He has undergone fatigueS and dis
, comforts and heavy strain and har
wear of mind and body such as he wa
never called upon to undergo an
would not have consented to underg
for any business or for any mOnetar
reward continued Mr.. Kahn. Wit
his genius for organization, with hi
interchangeable zeal and driving power
and the force of his brain and per
sonality. he. spIendidly aided by hi
devoted fellow workers. has achieve
a result which will make the Ameri
can Red Cross monument and
vastly impressive demonstration to tn
world, not only of American charity
but equally so Of American efficienc
and of American grandeur in Dlannin