El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-06-14

(By John B. Miller, appointed by Pres
ident Wilson to take charge of the
American Red Cross War Fund In
the territory west Of the MIssIa.
supply
II you are a real American you must
contribute to the war fund Of the Red
Cross during the week Of June 18 to
rs, whether you believe yourself able
or not. II you are a real American It
Is not a question Of giving from your
aurplus-you must give and keep on
giving until you Ia give no more,
and, sven after that, you must keep
on.
We are at war; but we do not real
lie what war is, and, II the Red Cross
is able to do it's full duty, w will
never know what war can be.
Do you know what the Red Cross
does7 Some day, Somewhere In
France where 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, ma
chine gun and rifle fire, face the barb
ed 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 Prin-
cess Pats had only II men alive out
Of the 689 that saw the sun 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 the COM
%municating 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 turn
ed oyer to Red Cross a~mbulances, and
carried back to the Red Cross field
hospital for immediate attention.
From the Red Cross field hospital,
Red Cross ambulances, Red Cross
trains and, in France, even Red Cross
canal boats will carry the men back
to the Red Cross base hospitals. II
the wound is not fatal a Red Cross
convalescing station will take ARE
of the soldier till he is ready to 60
back to the front. If the man is dis
abled a Red Cross steamer will bring
him back to America, and the Red
Cross receiving station here will care
90 HI. ronJ HIN bnpoa and on Ton nf
that look after his family after he is
wounded just as 1t will have looked
after his family all the time he has
been away.
Do you know what this means? In
the old days before the Red Cross
came, 600 soldiers died out of every
1000 wounded. Today under proper
conditions the percentage s ~not over
Is per cent.
If your boy was wounded every dol
lar you have in the world would go
willingly to put him in Red Cross
hands. Sixty thousand Los Angeles
boys registered June 5 for the draft.
How many of them will require Red
Cross aid within the next two years?
The Red Cross Is not a hit or miss
organization, grabbing a dollar here
and a dollar there and wasting the
money. 1t is one of the five offensive
and defensive arms of every civilized
government on the face Of the earth.
Every dollar that comes in is spent
by the best business men In America
for supplies and materials designated
by the medical department of the
United States army-the department
that has stamped out yellow fever as
we'll as other great national scourges.
ExPresident Taft Is the chairman
Of the Red Cross. A partner in the
house of Morgan is its financial chief.
It's accounts are audited by the war
department. It's existence and opera
tons are directed under special acts
Of congress, and President Wilson
himself, by executive order, estab-
lished the executive committee under
which the Red Cross is nov being
managed.
The Red Cross is therefore a part
of the fighting forces of the govern
ment and must be supported as such
This support will be easy enough to
that support Is too late
Let the toll of one battle mount-as It
often does-to $4,000 men or more!
With the hospitals overcrowded and
our own men dying for want of atten-
ton, the response to the Red Cross
call will roll in fast enough-but then
it will be too late.
Don't you be one of those to hold
back until that time. Don't be a slack