Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1917-08-17

the finest nurses, the most skilled
pharmacists, the best drilled experts
in every line of work required, gladly
and Immediately responded for this
work of mercy and labor of love.
They have dispensed with all unnec-
essary red tape and have gotten to-
gether an organization that has speed
and secures results. The best and
the busiest people of every cOmmuni-
ty have taken up Red ross work. A
tribute should be paid to the men and
women of Tazewell county for the ex-
cellent chapter and auxiliaries they
have perfected and the eagerness of
spirit that prompts them in the mag
nificent task of the hour. The appeal
of the work touches the best that is
in us an of us. The Good Samaritan
Of First Century told the inn-keep-
er that he would come again and re-
pay him all that he spent in cnriug
the wounded man. When our Good
Samaritan takes the wounded or the
sick to the base hospital and gives
him attention he promises to return
again and again with needed sup
plies. Then he comes to you and to
me and to all the people of this coun-
try and holds out his hands for sup
port. He must have it. He has had
it. He will continue to get it down
to our last dollar if he needs it. He
must keep up u steady flow of sup
plies of all kinds to every place at
home, on the sea, or abroad. lie
needs them so that he can keep his
promise. During all the wars we
have had to fight the spirit of the
Good Samaritan has been in the
hearts and the minds of the people.
They have made any sacrifices rcquir-
ed in order that the men at the front
might have what they needed.
But this is the first war When we
have had the Red Cross organized.
We did not have it even during the
Spanish American wGr. If we lad,
the dust of thousands which sleeps
in quiet cemeteries all over this coun-
try whose graves we decorate in tie
valor we praise with euloGie3 of elo-
quence, would today be living, breath
| ing personalities, moving and having
their being among us. Statistics tell
us that the skilful use of artillery
has reduced casualties to 6 per cent
on the Western front. That means
only six men out of every hundred
are killed, wounded or captured Hor-
rible enough, but far better than in
any war of history. Thanks to the
Red Cross and the quick. skillful aid
it gives, the majority of the wounded
and sick recover and are made sound
and well. Mi;n.~C the Red Cross
how terrible would be the toll of
war!
But with it, and with the Ameri-
can people standing back of it to sup
ply all that 1t requires, we have a
guarantee that the vast majority of
our boys whether wounded or sick
will come back, ready to take up the
burdens of peace and assist in guild
ing the ship of State through reefs
and rocks of reconstruction days to
Ravens of everlasting peace and pros
perity.
The Good Samaritan of the First
Century eXemplified the doctrine of
true brotherhood. We have learned
that the world is very small place
after all. Every league of sea and
every mile of land and every tribe
and nationality of this globe are get
ting to be familiar today to every
body We are getting to be geo.
graphical neighbors. Some day, and
let us pray that it may not be long
off, the battle flag will be furlcd and
all nations Mt war will meet around
the peace table. When all questions
have been considered and what will
appear to the best brains and hearts
of the conference is a just treaty will
have been signed, it will still remain
to bind up the broken spirit and open
up the vision of the unselfish service
in time of peace. Who will be better
qualified to lead in this service than
the Red Gross? The Good Samaritan
having stood by and rendered service
in time of war will be, by reason Of
his experience and his close study of
all the horrors of war, well qualified
structive work in times of peace. Then
too, wearing as he does the insignia
the red cross of sacrifcial service on
the field of white denoting rurity OF
motive, he will point to that cross on
| the heights of cavalry where the
| Supreme Sacrifice of all the ages was
made, with the pure motive of univer-
| sal redemption of all nations as the
motive, with the erection of a King
dom of Righteousness and peace
! among men as the end. Toady the
Good Samaritan of the Twentieth
Century would not only appeal to you
for support in things material, but he
would ask you to pray to Gods Bene-
| diction to rest upon all Red Cross
workers at home and abroad; to pro-
tect them in the hour of danger and
keep them unto genuine service. He
would ask you to perfume every COM
fort bag, every sock and every bit of
material you work up or supply for
the comfort of the camp or the ease
of the hospital wit hthe sweet in
scence of prayer in behalf of the boys
who receive them. He would beseech
you to have engraved on your heart
and he would have engraved on the
heart of every contributor and every
member of the Red Cross Society the
world over, the sentence inscribed on
the coin of the Republic, Gin God We
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