The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1917-11-19
CROWN POINT RED CR0SG
HIS SPLENDID NEE TING

: ruI or what re SAYS u regard 10 this
war. and he especially made If clear
that pro-Germans. if they cannot say
anything good about America. her work
ana the war they should keep their
moutns smut. for If tney don't they pay
the penalts, and whatever wrong is
said must be proven
Mrs r. it, Wneeler was then called
upon 20 make 2 report Of her visit TO
the Indiana Womeps County Council OF
Defense. meeting which Was held 81 IN
disnapolis last weeK Mrs Wheeler
stated She beard some very interesting
speakers. and IS BRIEF gave some OF the
lmpe-tant points or their speeches Mr.
Feeser. chairman Of The national Red
Cross League. she said spoke Of the
. home service League The home serv-
ice league, ne explained was for the
purpose ~ helping those families who
Nserc ia nesd. not 10 he taken ass charity.
bIt tn hetp the women and children
along ~ that Their husbands could 90
20 war Another duty is to keep the
children in school 60 educate them
properly and develop them into true
Americans
Air. Farsfsall another o9fICial Of the
American Bed Cross fold Of Germany s
par. n tile war her disregard or per
soRai right ana was in the war only
to win. SO bent on winning. that she
risas all her goal-world dominion
thoroughly prepared. ana urged Ameri-
cs to get BUSY
Or stone of Purdue University also
gave veey interesting talk along the
same subject also pr. Alien McCraf-
ford said there were 10000 white
slave refugees today. and this condition
would have to be remcdied Mrs
Wheeler eertsmIe is to be commended
upon her splendid report. which was
nor only very thorough, but very inter-
estnr
John hiilercw Then made a report
of has visit g. the national rcd Cross
meeting III cleveland lase week MIR
hHHgfew ia detail gave splendid
outline Sc the big parade ia which 00O
Cleveland women took pert. headed by
Mss Kathleen Burke. a Red Cross
nurse who was near the firing line at
Ncrdun and who told Il the meeting at
Cleveland, tha so FAR. she has been the
only American woman who has been
near the firing line and told of her eN-
pcriencn. Mt ilIIiigrcw stated that the
next war fund campaign viii be carried
On next February. but this vim not
conflict With the next Liberty Loan
campaign lie also stated that out OF
the enc hundred million dollar war fund.
eighty million has been collected Peo-
ple should buy Liberty Bonds readily
without fear or loss FOR the govern
ment has made Investments which are
sure TO brine big returns. for every dol
Tar the government spends is SO I'M
vested that IT bfings Sl02
MI KilHgrew. like Mrs Wheeler.
heard several other speakers and TO mar
rate au of them il quite Impossible.
owing 20 the length of this article AIr.
hilligrew certainly deserves much
credit Tor the splendid report he gave
The next number ON the program was
the singing of the star SpanzIed Ban
nerr by the audience after which
Albert Ga4It of whiting gave LONG
and interesting talk on his experiences.
as an ambulance driven in France for
SIX months Mr. Gavit told what his
duties We're told Of sone Of tile Ger
man atrocities for instance. taking
French prisoners and cutting on lheir
fingers. disabling them so that they
could not fight any longer. destroying
the roads killing the wounded and
dropping bombs on hospital. killing doc
tors and nurses and many other terrible
things 4Ir Gavit said that the rrencn
We're not suffering in the hands of the
Germans as much as some Of the other
countries that England was her
enemy. and She meant tie do her the
worst harm. and that the German
prisoners got far better treatment from
France than vice versa. He explained
% detail the gas balls. gas masks. hel
NETS and the different airplanes He
explained the conditions IN general un-
der which the soldiers lived. Last
winter coal in France was SIS to Sln0
ton and only a quarter Of ton could
he bought st one time. I;sc soldiers
get plenty 20 eat but unreasonable,
~nea- they never have suear -ua