The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-11-20
Surgical Dressings in Sufficient Guam
titles to Take Care Of the
Wounded Men
Needed.
WILL YOU BE STACKER?
Women Who Faii to do Their Part
May Find Bloody Hands Of Broth
ers Turned Towards Them
in Rebuke.

| The Keokuk chapter American Red
cross is appealing to the women of
keokuk and Lee county to help in
the work of making surgical dress
lngs. The following appeal has been
addressed to them by C. F. McFar.
land, chairman of Keokuk chapter:
Women Of Keokuk and Lee
County: American women must win
the great war and you must do your
part. or 1t will not be won. The sol
! d1ers can fight and die, but they
cannot win without your help. The
war council of the Red Cross appeals
to every woman in America to get
into the work. Our boys in France
sre merely playing at war now-just
practising. In few weeks they are
going in in earnest. Whole COM
panies, regiments and divisions will
be killed and wounded just as the
British, French and Canadians have
been When this happens do we
want them to come staggering back
| or be brought back to find they can
not be properly taken care of for
lack Of surgical dressings or hospital
supplies as has happened thousands
of times to the other boys in the
past years of the war? If such a
thing as this should happen through
our Indifference or carelessness, the
very heavens would cry out against
us. The way to prevent it is for us
to have our supply depots crowded
to the roof with everything a wound
ed boy needs-and It's, up to the
women to see that this is done.
Then again If we love our boys and
appreciate what they are doing for
us. we will do all we can to make
them comfortable and keep them
well and healthy when they are at
the front-here is where the knitting
women find their work.
Then we must in the name OF God
and humanity help the children of
the brave Belgians and Frenchmen
who have been fighting our battles
for three years and whose children,
wives and mothers are being driven
from their homes by the Germans
and dumped onto France to be taken
care of.
Cornelius N. Bliss, Jr., treasurer
of the A. r. c., is just back from
France and writes:
Nothing so well shows effect of
the war on the civilian population as
the scene at Evian-les-Bains, on the
border of Lake Geneva, where the
repatries sent back by the German
government through Switzerland, are
arriving in France at the rate Of
1000 day. The night we were
there one of our party found girl,
10 years old crying as If her heart
would break. On investigation it
was found she has been sent through
from northern France alone, with no
one waiting for her and with no
knowledge as to her future in part
of the country far removed from her
own home and people.
Saw. His Sole Possession.
1--WE saw an old man walking down
the street in the procession from
the repatrie train. with a basket
under one arm that contained hardly
anything and under the other arm a
saw, his sole possessions with which
to start life anew in a region that
was strange to him. Multiply these
simple little touches Of human inter
est a hundred times and you will
have some idea Of the situation daily
confronting those VINO visited the
country adjacent to the theatre of
war.
Nothing could be more impressive
than the arrival of the repatrie
trains at Evian. 1t is pathetic to see
old men and women and children
crowd the windows of the cars. The
young men and women have all been
kept back by the Germans, only
those too old and feeble and those
too young to work are returned to
France. 1t is inspiring to hear the
men and women and even children
hopeless Of the future, crying "vive
Ia France" because they are in
their own land again, and then to
see the nurses in white uniforms
rush to the doors, take the children
in their arms and lift them to the
platform, while the American ambu-
lance boys help the old and feeble
to a1ight."
Is there a woman in Lee county
who cannot spare time to help in.
the work necessary to help these
pitiful people? It is our job and we
have got to do it-lets do 1t right
Fl. P. Davidson says: Everything
must be subordinated to winning this
war: It must be our business from
now on"
Mr. Bliss says: Nothing counts in
the world but the winning of the
war"
The Red Cross calls on every
woman to get into this work in ear
nest. Don't wait to be drafted
volunteer. This is not question of
giging money; give that to the Y.
w. c. A. war fund lust now. It's
work that is wanted now. There
are several kinds of work you can
do:
II you want to do hospital supply
work. offer your services to
Miss Cornelia Meigs, Second and
Morgan streets.
Mrs. Frank Anderson. I'll North
Seventh street.
Mrs. B. B. Hobbs, s1s North Third
street