Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1917-08-31
RED CROSS THIRD
Government Places It's Import
ance Next to That of Army
and Navy in Winning War,
Says Noted Speaker Here in
Address Monday Night.

Those who heard the lectur, of DIR.
w. r. Thompson, of Richmond, at the
Methodist church last Monday night
expressed themselves as highly pleas
ed with his admirable lecture on the
war and the work of the Red CIR, SIS
Society. DR.. Thompson is a very
able speaker and it was cause for
sincere regret that the entire COM
munity did hear him speak. He pre-
faced his remarks by saving that
MIR. Henry w. Anderson, State chair
man Of the Red Cross was booked for
Tazewell, but he had departed with a
relief cargo for Rumania, and was
now somewhere between Japan and
his destination, being held for the
moment out this devastated lard bv
the new offensive of the Germ: rs
MIR. Anderson could have brought
with him graphic stories of the
trenches, as he has spent sometime
laboring there for the Red Cross and
the people of TaZewcll would have
gladly listened to him.
However, the audience felt amply
repaid by the address of DIR. Thomp-
son. Incidentally, the speaker said
he was awaiting his cali to Poland
where commission of the Red Cross
will carry the ministry of relief as
soon as the way can be opened
DR.. Thompson reviewed the war and
especially the ambitions Of the Ger
mans in beginning it. He said Ger
many was animated by two notions:
her ideals as expressed by Kultur and
her boaSted military superiority. She
sought to impose her ideals by the
power of the sword if not otherwise.
Her supremacy of ideals had been es-
tablished in Belgium. Over that un-
happy land, with one hundred and
fifty thousand of her inhabitants
being driven as slaves in work for
the Germans and more than one hun
dred thousand women and girls en-
during worse than slavery, could be
written the one word: KULTUR.
its true meaning. The military su-
premacy of the Germans, he affirm
ed, had not been so well established.
Nowhere had they won victory that
brought them decisive results. Just
now the offensive power was eLtire-
~ with the allies and they are break
ing down ON land the resistance of
the Huns. 1t is only a question of
time before the inferiority of the
Germans was everywhere establish
ed. But he added, the submarine
problem was still unsolved and unless
we could discover some way to de-
stroy it the Germans might in the
end win the war. We might be left
alone in the struggle if the, way can
not be found to stop the undersea as
ysinations.
The orator pictured the splendid
work the United States had already
done. In four months we have equipp-
an army of a million men and that
three hundred thousand were sleep
ing now beneath the stars of France.
Three weeks ago the last of our ships
moved from its moorings and was
now somewhere in active service. He
declared that we are moving rapidly
to the accomplishment of our bit in
making the world the safe place to
live in. He said six hundred thous-
and men would probably be all the
French needed to help hold the lines
and that our next million would go to
Germany either by way of the Kiel
canal or the Balkans and that when
the American flag is unfurled on the
soil of Germany the world will hence
forth be safe for decent people.
DR.. Thompson said the Red Gross
was the third department of the War
service. The navy holds the first line;
the army the second and the Red
Cross the third with the especial du-
ty of gathering up the fragments
and the wastage of war and rebuilding
them into strong, clean citizenship.
He extolled the activity of the Amer
lean people in this respect and paid
a tribute to the people of Tazewell,
and the surrounding country for the
excellent work they were doing. He
said they were well organized and
well lead. They could be depended
upon to do their full duty. From the
start to the finish the address gripp-
ed the hearts and minds of the hear
ers and all united in the verdict:
"The Finest Speech Tazewell Has
Heard"