Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1918-01-18
Red Cross Notes.

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Farmers Union, published at Pull
man, Wash, explains the situa-
ton very neatly:
Do you prefer to have a Red
Cross in your window, or a wood
en- cross over the grave of some
American boy in France?
That is a question which every
American citizen must answer.
The more Red Crosses there are
in the windows of the homes of
the United States, the fewer wood
en- crosses there will be to mark
the last resting places of our sons
along the firing line. A Red
Cross in the window of home
means that the family residing
there is interested in seeing that
our sick and wounded soldiers re-
ceive every possible care and at
tention so as to reduce the num-
Der of fatalities to the lowest pos
sible minimum. The absence of
the Red Cross service flag from
the window of any home proves
that the family living there does
not take a dollars worth of inter
est in preserving the health and
lives of the boys who are going
into the trenches to protect our
flag, our institutions and our right
to live at peace with the world.
AS the Red Cross is the emblem
of life and hope, the wooden cross
is the emblem of death and sor-
row. The Red Cross button and
the Red Cross flag are the evil
dence of a willingness to give
time and money to provide safety
and comfort for our defenders and
CT arity to our wounded enemies.
The failure to wear the Red Cross
button or to display a Red Cross
flag Is the evidence either of a
greater love for money than for
humanity, or of a lack of loyalty
to this government and to the
boys who are fighting for it.
Whoever fails to place Red
Gross in his window is helping to
place a wooden cross over a grave
in France.
A member of the Olympia Red
Cross was recently at Camp Lew
is attending the roundup. A
young officer-a stranger -observ-
ing her knitting, said very earn
estly: "Do you know, nothing in
the world is such a comfort to us
as these knitted things, especially
the socks. Why, when fellow
gets a present Of a pair of these
real wool, handknit socks there is
as much excitement as over cut
ting the wedding cake. Every
body gathers around and admires
and envies. You see, we have to
wear our shoes until they are pref
ty far gone, and for tramping
around in this mud all day in
thin shoes there's nothing like
these hand-knit socks"
A more touching endorsement
of the noble work ofthe Red Cross
could not be made than the beau
tiful words of Hon. Geo. F. Weeks
of Occur d'Alene, in his Red Cross
address at Cottonwood last month.
At that time his son-Major For
rest Weeks-was fighting with the
Canadians in France. Since then
word has been received that he
was killed in action. Those who
heard Mr.. Weeks patriotic adj
dress here will recall his beautiful
tribute to his son and the cause
for which he laid down his life.
The father said:
81 have a boy over there. l
have given him willingly to the
cause of his country. | take
pride in his stalwart manhood. l
want to grasp him about the
shoulders some day and try to
tell him what a noble deed he
has performed. But if he shall
be wounded | want to feel that a
Red Cross nurse dressed his shat
tered form, or if he shall fall that
the ministering hand of an angel
of mercy from the Red Cross ten
derby cared for him in his last
hours on earth. That is what
the Red Cross means to me, that
it means to all those who have
boys to give that this great Amer
lean nation shall be free"
We are thankful to the follow
ing ladies for flour sacks this