Graham guardian., 1917-06-15
CONTRIBUTE TO RED CROSS

By John II. Miller. Mr.. Miller was
appointed by President Wilson to take
charge of the American Red Cross Wal
Fund in the territory west of the Mis-
sissippi.l
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 a 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 $50 that saw the
sun come up that day.
What of the fallen? If the
Red Cross is ready, the Ambu-
lance Corps of the fighting regi-
ments will carry the wounded
back through the 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
balances, and carried back to the
Red Cross Field Hospital for i'm
mediate 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. If the wound is not
fatal, a 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 a 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?
In the old days before the Red
Cross came, 600 soldiers died out
of every 1000 wounded. Today
under proper conditions the per-
centage in not over 5 per cent.
If your boy was wounded every
dollar you have in the world
would 60 willingly to put him in
Red Cross hands. Sixty thousand
Los Angeles boys registered June
9Th 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 govern
ment 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 Departmental the United
States Army-the department
that has stamped out yellow
fever as well as other great ma
tional scourges.
Ex-Presdent Taft is the Chair