Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-12-22
CR0NE PLEADS
FOR RED CROSS
Meeting Of Y. P. S. Of First
Lutheran Church Last
Night Interesting.

That the Red Cross membership
drive tomorrow will be the most eff
fcaeious American answer to Ger
many was asserted last night by
Frank Crone. president Of the Home
Loyalty league. who delivered q short
address to an audience gathered In
the parlors Of the First Norwegian
Lutheran church under the auspices
Of the Young Peoples society.
The evenings program was opened
with a reading by Anna Doe and q
II. B. Thorgrimsen then introduced
Mr.. Crone who said, in part, as fol-
lows: l f
Our Fed. Cross membership drive
will make that country realize that we
are in this war in order to win 1t. We
an end it only by winning it.. and
Red Cross work aids US in carrying
the war to that successful end"
Mr.. Crone recalled a series of Ger
man atrocities committed in Belgium
and France and cOntrasted the be-
havior Of American soldiers with that
of the German boches.
u A~guinaldo~ May Lead.
For fifteen years." Mr.. crone said,
II lived in the Philippine Islands and
was much fighting there. Our Amer
lean soldiers had to fight. and, of
course. there was much killing be-
the fight had hardly ended before the
Americans established schools for the
children Of the Fflipinos. What did
the Germans do to children in occu-
pied or conquered territory?
And. by the way, the Filipinos are
with us in the war. Today l received
a letter from one of the men over
there and he said that probably five
thousand men from the Philippine
the allies. 1t is not improbable that
the famous General Aguinaldo will
lead them"
Delounoes Red Gross Lies.
Mr.. Crone turned his attention to
which nave been circulated here al
well as all over the country relative to
the work of the Rel Cross. He de-
nounced these insidious attempts to
destroy the mutual confidence Of one
another in mankind and pointed out
that the purpose was toe obvious to
need further comment.
In some details. Mr.. Crone described
the work of the American Red Cross
Italian soldiers and emphasized the
fact that surgical dressings are the su-
preme need of the hour.
I'VE are still in the war" Mr.. Crone
said. and it would be folly to say
that we have v%anquished Germany.
We have not. II war were suddenly
and abruptly ended today, Germany
would be the winner. We cannot al
low that, for we are fighting to make
the world not only safe for democ,
racy, but safe for ourselves"
MIR. Crone concluded by outlining
the plans for the membership drive
which takes place here tomorrow aft
b. j.. Bjornson read a paper on the
social and intellectual results of the
Reformation. tracing the outlines OF
the effects Of that great spiritua'
movement: The works Of Copernicus
and Rabelais were mentioned a. in.
stances of the intellectual results oil
the Reformation in contrast to the
principal work of Machiayelli. The
lecture which dealt very interestingly
4iNithe the various phenomena OF intel
lectual Europe, was a little too pro
fusely studded with quotations from
books and current magazines.
The final number of the program
was a reading by Esther Dyer.
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Estimated that one-quarter Of
American life insurance companies
assets are tied up in railroad secur
tiles.