The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-02
Little Tot Begs Papers To Help
the Red Cross.
Many Like Her Do What They
Can To Help.
THEY KEEP UP U. S. MORALE
Many Poorly Paid TOilers Give
to the War Causes.
Death Means Nothing to Boys
They Are Backing Up.

please and have you any old papers
that can have so 1 can belong to the
Red Cross and can I get them now.
All of us girls are goin' to belong to
the Red Cross and we has to gather
old papers to get enough money" The
statement was somewhat breathless
and incoherent, but the eyes OF the
little girl glistened with fervor, and
her tones were earnest and took for
granted that everyone would do every
ones part toward winning the war.
The conversation as set forth took
the little girl got her old papers, about
member in. good standing of the
conversation was one sided, but what
can a householder say to a little girl
who is SO DESTROYS of becoming a Red
Crosser" that size will go out and beg
old papers from the neighbors and for
that matter, from persons she has
never seen before.
1t is this fever to do some part in
the world war that will have the
greatest effect on the soldiers of the
United States in keeping up their
morale, the thought to VIM" as Doc
tor Kulp calls it. The highest and the
lowest, all have this desire. and ex-
press 1t in various ways, nearly all of
them by the little emblem of the Red
Cross that one sees on nearly every
lapel or vest or waist in the country.
Many Toilers Give Mite.
Age nor youth show no lessening of
the desire to serve in the war to the
utmost of their ability, and many is
the poor old washerwoman and hard
working old man who shovels snow
and cuts the grass who has given his
dollar and his quarters to swell the
wal treasury of the nation at war for
democracy and freedom for all men
everywhere.
In the fall of 1914 the world stood
aghast at the spectacle of a mere
handful of courageous Belgians hold
ing off the millions the Germans mass
| ed for the attack. France threw her
| legiors into the field with all possible
speed. and the crosses of St. Andrew
and st. George crossed the EnSlish
| channel over the heads of that first
the gauge of battle. Germany ad-
vanced almost to the Paris goal, was
halted over night and the great war
| machine was hurled back on its
launches at the Battle of the Marine
Then the enslavement and the horror
and the reign of frightfulness began
| typifying to the world the ultimate in
the creed of Kultur. Laden passenger
vessels were sent to the bottom with
| out warning.
Whole Nation Aroused.
President Wilson wrote notes and
tried to sway the ruthless and reck-
/ less Hun to the path of honor. He
failed il this and issued an ultimatum
You will stop or fight" Germany
did not stop. America declared war
and the Stars and Stripes were added
to the clustered colors of the allied
| nations of the world.
And now even the little children
the old men, the women, the young
and hardy warrior, the clear-eyed
sailor of the western world have all
| Joined hands in the common cause OF
Liberty.
! Typifying all that it means and all
that is back of the boys in olive drah
stands that one little girl, braveIy
| facing a strange householder and de-
handing "all your old papers so ]
can belong to the Red Cross"