Carrizozo outlook. [volume] (Carrizozo, N.M.) 1910-1945, 1917-12-21

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once.
American soldiers must not be for n
single dry without all OF these things
they need. The French have been. In
the enrly days OF the war-and II has
been said In some later days-word
went out that the French surgeons
were operating without anesthetlcs be-
cause they had none. II Is bad enough
to lose mn arm or n leg, but no one
likes to think OF being tied fast to n
table and the leg Of arm cut Off with
no chloroform or ether TO give the suf-
ferer Inconsistencies while the knife
Is welded.
Also, within the last year, word has
come from the battlefelds OF France
that the little Pollus had to use old
newspapers to stanch the blood from
their wounds. That was because their
supply Of gauze had run out and no
more was to be had. II meant infect
ed wounds, gangrene, lockjaw, and
the loss OF legs and arms and lives that
might have been saved.
All America will agree that none OF
these things must happen to P~ershing's
boys. But II will happen unless the
American people get right behind the
Red Cross, and make and ship those
hospital supplies In n never.ending
stream. The surgeons at the French
hospitals say that sometimes II takes
n whole box OF surgical dressings
1000 OF them-for a single wounded
man. They have been so short at the
French hospitals that instead OF throw
Ing the dressings AWAY after using,
they have been driven to try to clean
them and use them over and over.
That Is what Mai. Grayson NJ. p.
Murphy had In mind n few weeks ago
when he cabled to the Red Cross that
nothing on earth Is now Of equal Inn
portance TO getting a big supply of
surgical supplies into France. Unless
we do, he said, disaster and disgrace
are ahead for America-and the Red
Cross and the American people cannot
afford to Incur that. No American SOL
der must lose u leg or an arm or an
eye, or give his life, when II can be
saved by anything the American peo-
pie ran do. Major Murphy Is the Red
Gross commissioner for France, and
knows perhaps better than any other
man In the world exactly what needs
Ia be done for the army In u medical
and surgical way. When he speaks
America will do well to listen.
Money Is not all the Red Cross must
have for this work-money Is not even
the most important thing, though II
will take millions OF dollars. What II
needs most Of all is an Immense mum.
Der Of members. aud their personal
service. II needs, and has 10 have. the
whole American people. fathers and
mothers, sisters and daughters, and
the children, 10 back up the govern
ment and the Red Cross ia this work
Take, for example, the recent call Of
Major Murphy for 6,OOO,OOO warm knit
ted articles for the soldiers aud foI
the destitute OF France. II the money
had been at hand to buy the lot, Their,
were not that many knitted things II
the whole world OF the kind wanted
But the Red Cross appealed 20 III
members, and asked each chapter fol
It's quota, and the socks and sweaters
and muflers and wrlstlets rolled In b.
carloads, and are still coming. Tn,
mothers and sisters and daughters ant
wives went to knitting. and that an
swered the call In an amazingly shorI
time.
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