The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1918-12-20
ILLUSTRATIVE SPEECHES
Designed 10 Tell What Home Service
Is And Does-So. 1, Friends For
Fighters Families.

I hats part of life. We never can
tel when things are going TO happen
ami when we may need a friend.
Tins is specially true in war times.
Every American boy over there in
France is easy in his mind chiefly
because he knows he left his folks
here at home among good friends
and neighbors. He feels sure they
Will be looked after if anything hap
pens while he is away If he wasn't
sure of that he'd be a worried sol
make a good soldier.
About a year ago, the Red Cross
decided that 10 soldiers family
should be without a friend, no mat
ter whether they were strangers in
town or not. The Red Cross asked
every Chapter to organize a Home
Service committee. Note that word
Home" 1t meant just what it
says. 1t is Home folks helping other
Home folks to carry on. It's the
town standing by those who have
stood by it.
Whenever anything happens that
a soldiers family, or a sailors famf-
ly, or marines family finds a pref
ty hard problem, all they nave to do
is talk it over quietly with the Home
Service folks. If it's matter of
business, or law, or medicine, the
home Service Ctlice has special
committee of business men and doc
tors and lawyers who are always glad
to help out. And it's all just be-
tween you and them. 1t never goes
any further.
There are over $4,000 people do
ing Home Service work in different
parts of the country, and they have
helped over a million people SO far.
They will have wider field than ev-
er, in peace times, for they intend to
stand by as long as there is an
American soldier left in Europe and
as long as there is an American sol
dier's family that needs service over
here.
Home Service believes in the mot
TO 1T can't be done, but here it is. -
They found a lost boy the other day
when the police had about given it
up. His uncle had given him a qaur-
ter. That's easy" said the Home
Service worker. There's only one
place to look for small boy with a
quarter"
Yes, that's the answer. He had
been there all afternoon and was
sound asleep, waiting for the even
ing show when they found him.
Home Service is going right on
after peace is declared. 1t intends
to stand by the disabled soldier, af-
ter the Government has given him
medical care and helped him to learn
a new trade. You can all help there.
He needs friends most while he is
trying to make people stop calling
him a hero and give him a job in
stead.
The finest thing about Home Ser
vice is that it belongs to all of US.
Our people are in it, and it's our own
folks who are using it. 1t isn't
charity. Anyone can give money, but
it takes a real heart and sound COM
mon sense to help people. That's
what Red Cross Home Service is
real help at the right time, a real
friend for every fighters family.
No. 2, Standing BY.
About three years ago, Sir Baden
Powell, the famous English soldier,
was asked when he thought the war
would end. He answered.:
1.-The war will be decided about
1885"
Apparently most of us think the
war was decided when General Foch
broke the supposedly unbreakable
Hindenburg Line! AS a matter of
fact. Sir Baden-Powell's date is not
so far wrong. The war will be de-
cided about 1885. 1t will be de-
cided by the kind of men and wo-
men who will be left twenty years
from now to carry on the country's
work
Most of them are children today.
Many of them are young men and
women. A great number of them
will be the sons and daughters of
soldiers.
for their fathers and mothers, the
American Red Cross did a wonder
full new thing in April, 1917, some
thing no other Red Cross of any
country has ever done. 1t estab-
lished a service exclusively for sol
diers' and sailors families, and call
ed it Home Service. The purpose of
Home Service was to see that no
fighters family lacked for anything
while he was away.
If they needed money until the
Government allowance and allotment
came they were to get it. If they
needed a doctors, or lawyers, or a
business mans advice, they were to
have it. The home fires were to be
kept burning at any cost. 1t was to
be in every sense a home" service
Our men will soon be coming
home. Some of them have been dis
abled in the service of their country.
If they have been disabled. they will
receive medical and surgical treat
ment from the army doctors and will
stay in the service until the cure is