The Alaska daily empire., 1917-08-17
JUNEAU CHAPTER OF AMERICAN
 RED CROSS

The importance of the work of the women of Juneau in the work of the American Red Cross was empha- sized at the meeting held yester- day afternoon sin the Dream theatre. The speaker, Robt H. Scott, touch : ed upon the unprepared condition of our Allies at the commencement of i the war and issued an appeal for the support of the American women who are so vitally interested in safe guarding the lives and health of our l soldiers.
 "The great humanitarian work of i the Red Cross had it's real begin ming in the mind of that great wo- man, Florence Nightingale" said Mir. Scott. You remember her an gelic administrations during the Cri- mean war and how by her courage and watchful care the wounded sol diers were nursed back to health; you remember as she passed from bed to bed, from room to room, giv- ing aid and comfort to the sick and | Wouliueu SolultIS lar away lioih home, they called her "the Lady of the Lamp" You recall Longfellow's words
 "On Englands annals, through the long
 Hereafter of her speech and song That light it's ray shall cast
 From portals of the past. A lady with Lamp shall stand
 In the great history of the land
 A noble type of good
 Heroic womanhood."
 "It is this type of true heroic womanhood that is needed in our country at the present day." de- clared MT. Scott We need women who will sacrifice their time and comfort to to assist those patriotic women who are already devoting so much time and effort in the prepara- tion of Red Cross supplies
 ''It is not question of what can conveniently be done,' he contin- uel, but what can be done at a sacrifice"
 "Women are needed at once for the nursing service; a tremendous quantity of all kinds of surgical dressings and hospital garments are needed at once. Men are dying for want of care, and every man of our Allies that dies for want of the care which we might provide, must be replaced by an American soldier"
 ''It was predicted that the war would not come to an early conclu- sion because the hearts of the Ger man people are bent upon victory and that the teachings of the inn perialistic leaders of Germany, Won Bernhard and Trietzsche have be- come so integral a part of the Ger man reasoning that they now be- lieve it to be their heaven decreed mission to place the brand of their German Kultur upon the forehead of every man, women and child thoughout the civilized world. The triumph of our American ideals il was stated can only be assured if this country shall profit by the bit ter experiences of the warning na- tions of Europe and shall fight not merely with the spear and sword If death and destruction, but with the shield and buckler of efficiency and conservation.
 ''In the days to come,' concluded the speaker, eff you have done youI part for our soldiers on the bat tie line; if you have made your gift to them, not as coin flung to a vagrant beggar, but as a deer and patriotic sacrifice; if you have helped to bring our men from out the valley, where the shadows luri and death is near, then in the day of victory, you will have a share ir that great triumph. and you can sing My Country Iris of Thee and know it is true"