The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1917-06-21
The Red Cross Organization
Every One Can Contribute His 'Bit''
to This Splendid Organization
The Time for Service and
SeIf-DeniaI is at Hand.

those who do 90. One or the other
or 90 the way of shame forever.
And they who give must give now
1t will be too late to send nurses
and doctors across the Atlantic after
our sons have fallen. With the men
must 90 the relief. 1t is too much
to ask that our soldiers shall 90 into
battle without the assurance that
lin the event of sickness or wounds,
nurses, doctors, medicine, bandaees
hospitals and ambulances shall be
at hand in the hour of aeonizine
need.
1t is bad enough that they shall
90 it is unendurable that they shall
90 without the assurance that we
care for them and would bind up
their wounds with the haste of love.
We cannot 20 with them, but our
love in tangible form can 60 all the
way.
It is bad enough that you and /
should remain here while they 60; it
is unspeakable that we should let
them 60 and we remain at home
and in ease while they struggle and
suffer and die to save you and me.
The American citizen who expects
to come to the end of this war as
well off in this worlds goods as
when it began needs to look deep
into his heart-there is eomethine
radically wrong with him. 1t is the
time to become poorer. A man will
be ashamed to prosper by saving
money in a time when ten million
men are struggling and suffering
and dying to save him.
Those of us who come to the end
of this war without having gone
down into our savings, without hav
ing suffered ourselves in self-denisl,
shall be ashamed ever again to walk
abroad in world of men who barred
their breasts TO battle that we might
enjoy life, liberty and the pursuit of
happiness.
Today ten million men of Eng
land, France, Italy and Belgium
stand between us and the Germans.
That is all. Should their line give
way, the Hun would food the world
with barbarism and blood. America
would disappear.
Let no American think that the
war will be won without him. To
think so is 10 invite defeat. That
line in Europe holds today because
it thinks we are back of it with all
that is in US. If we shall falter, it
will fail. Every ounce of America
will be required to win this war.
These ten million men struggle
and suffer and die for us.
What are we doing for them?
What can we do for them? That
should be our only question.
Tomorrow our own sons - our
younger sons-Will be on the way.
They will take their places in the
line OF battle. They will fall as
their English and French brothers
have fallen-fall that you and I at
home and in ease may remain at
home and in ease. We will wonder
if loving hands are caring for our
wounded. But it will be TOO late to
wonder: We must know.
You have hoped that they would
not 90. Quit that hope today. 1t is
a German hope-there is nothing
American in it. The first have gone;
and at this hour our Country is
numbering the next to be called,
numbering them by millions.
What are we doing for our own
sons and brothers who so soon shall
measure arms with the enemy?
Again there can be but one right
question-what can we do for them?
God be thanked-there is much
to be done, so much that no man or
woman who remains behind need
be ashamed, if he but do his duty.
We must send doctors and nurses,
we must provide hospitals and am
balances, bandages and medicines
for them. We must provide them
now; for English sons and French
sous and Belgian sons and Italian
sons are falling at this hour for us.
We must provide them now; for our
own sous W be falling all too soon,
and when they fall they must have
about them the evidence of our care.
Il will be too late when they have
fallen. 81.
There is but one means of sendine
these doctors and nurses, ambu-
lances and hospitals. bandaees and
medicines to the battle line: That
is the Red Cross organization. 1t
is authorized by our government.
Through many years and many ex-
psrie noes it has earned the confidence
of the. civilized world. IF you have