White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1917-12-16
WHAT THE RED CROSS
MEANS IN WORLDS WAR

In all the horrors of war or of
civil disaster there is one great shin
ing ray of light, one star of hope,
that illumines each CHASTITY scene. and
thati is the wonderful humanitarian
work of the Red Cross society
The news of the frightful disaster
at Halifax was still drumming over
the wires when the Red Cross train,
loaded with portable houses and re-
lief supplies, nurses and doctors. pull
ed out of the station in New Yorls
to battle its way thru SHOWS and bliz-
yards to that stricken city
Over on the battle fronts, In de-
serted hamlets. by desolate waysides,
in hospitals, by beds of awful suffer-
ing, soothing the dying, closing the
eyes of the dead. bringing the merci-
full touch of tenderness and the
divine healing sympathy, to the
wounded, the sick and suffering are
these soldiers of the cross marching
beneath Gods own banner and doing
His work.
1t Is with them that We can all do
our part in this war. which is of such
awful moment to the whole world
A nation of fiends, athirst for pow
er. mad for loot and craZed with lust,
has been loosed upon an unprepared
and peaceful world, with results that
stagger the imagination and stricken
the soul, SAYS the Denver Post.
For three years the shining scythe
of Death has reaped a CHASTITY harvest
and the sum total of human suffering
has reached an appalling plain.
Today no mon can say whittier this
nonstrous struggle shall lead, how
long il NAV last, nor what nations
shall pay-in torture. and tears and
mortal agony--the final toll.
To conceive of unhappy Russia
gallant Italy. proud France. naughty
England and our own glorious coun-
/ try humbled by a beastial horde oi
| Huns, whose souls are stepped in
| treachery and murder. and whose
! bayonets drip with the blood of limo
cent women and children, seems be
yond the power of the Imagination
but unless we each and everyone Oi
us, fully comprehend the task We
have undertaken, unless We open the
doors of our minds to the magnitude
of the sacrifices We must make, un
| less we ais one man and one woman
stand ready to give our all, of labor
fortune. yes. and life. at the call o
our country. God alone can tell Il
what tragic depths of woe the whole
human race may be forced to descend
To over-rate an enemy Is specie
of cowardice. but TO belittle him !
to invite disaster. We are grea
and powerful people, but We have I
deal with a great and unscrupuiou
enemy, we have a tremendous tas
to perform, task that calls for ever
. resource of our country and our pee
pie. The manner in which We NEE
that task is going to decide not onl
the fate of our country but the fat
OF the world.
1t is your business and mine. n
human being is too poor or to hell
less to do their part in this might
: struggle, not everyone can carry
gun, but every man, woman and chill
can give loyalty of thought an
speech, solidarity of purpose and un
ity of interest. we can all hug t
our hearts a passionate love for ou
country, faith in the justice of on
cause and a determination to respon
as one person, to every call of on
government-with that sort of loyal
ty. miracles can be performed
The last call of our government
for Red Cross memberships, Is 600
600 President Wilson has asked fOI