The border vidette., 1917-06-16
BE A REAL AMERICAN.
Contribute to the War Fund of the
 Red Cross.

The following article by John
 B. Miller, appointed by PreSi-
 dent Wilson to take charge of
 the American Red Cross War
 Fund in the territory west of
 the Mississippi, is published up on request of D. M. Reynolds,
 Director of Publicity:
 If you are a real American you must contribute to the War
 Fund of the Red Cross during the week of. June 18th to 25th, whether you believe yourself able or not. If you are a real American it is not question of giving from your surplus-you must give and keep on giving until you can give no more, and, even after that, you must keep on.
 We are at war, but we do not realize what war is, and, if the Red Cross is able to do it's full duty, we will never know what war can be.
 Do you know what the Red Cross does? Some day, Some where in France. when our soldiers are in the trenches, a line of American boys will leap over the top of their trenches, slip through the barbed wire, and, in face of high explosive shells, gas, liquid fire, shrapnel, grenades, machine gun and rife fire, face the barbed wire in front of enemy trenches for the bare chance of meeting bayonet with bayonet, other boys no more to blame for this war than they are.
 You know what the loss will be. You know that after Ypres the Princess Pats had only 127 men alive out of the 6S9 that saw the sum come up that day.
 What of the fallen? If the Red Cross is ready. the Ambulance Corps of the fighting regiments will carry the wounded back through t h e communicating trenches to the dressing station. Here Red Cross surgeons, under the direct control of the United States Medical Department will give first aid. The wounded will be turned over to Red Cross am- and carried back to the Red Cross field Hospital for attention. From the Red Cross Field Hospital, Red Crcss ambulances, Red Cross trains and, in France, even Red Cross canal boats will carry the men back to the Red Cross base hospitals. If the wound is not fatal Red Cross cOnvalescing station will take care of the soldier till he is ready to go back to the front. If the man is dis abled Red Cross steamer will bring him back to America, and the Red Cross receiving station here will care for him, send him home and on top of that look after his family after he is wounded just as it will have looked after his family all the time he has been away.
 Do you know what this means? Tn the old days before the Red Cross came, GOO soldiers died put of every 1000 wounded. Today, under proper conditions the percentage is not over per cent.
 If your boy was wounded eve ry dollar you have in the world would go willingly to put him in Red Cross hands. Sixty thousand Los Angeles boys re gistered June 5th for the draft. How many of them will require Red Cross aid within the next years?
 The Red Cross in rot hit or miss organization, grabbing a dollar here and dollar there and wasting the money. It is one of the five offensive and de fensive arms of every civilized on the face of the earth.
 Every dollar that comes in is spent by the best business men in America for supplies and designated by the Me dical Department of the United States Army-the Department that has stamped out yellow fever as well as many other great national scourages.
 Ex- President Taft is the Chairman of the Red Cross. A partner in the house of Morgan is it's Financial Chief. It's ac- counts are audited by the War Department. It's existence and
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