The Dolores star., 1918-10-25
ton Of MT least $1,000. 900.


elapsed since the United States en-
tered the war, the American people
Will have either paid in or pledged TO
the American Red Cross for its work
of relief throughout the world, in
money or in material values, net
total Of at least S325 100000.
Revealed Americas Heart.
1t has been because of this spirit
which has pervaded all American Red
Cross effort in this war that the aged
governor of one of the stricken and
battered provinces of France stated
not long since that. though France had
long known of Americas greatness.
strength and enterprise it remained
for the American Red Cross In this war
to reveal Amcrica's heart.
In this country, at this moment, the
workers of the Red Cross, through its
chapters, are helping to add to the
comfort and health of the millions OF
our soldiers in lO2 camps and canton
mentS, as well as of those travelling on
railroad trains or embarking on ships
for duty overseas.
The home service of the Red Cross.
with its now more than 10000 workers,
is extending its ministrations of sym
pathy and counsel each month to up,
wards of 100000 families left behind
| by soldiers at the front-a number
| ever growing with the increase of our
men under arms.
But, of course. the heart of the Red
| Cross and its money and attention al
ways move toward and focus them
| selves in Europe where the American
Red Cross, as truly the greatest moth.
er in the world" is seeking to draw "a
| vast net of mercy through an ocean of
| unspeaiable pain
Red Cross Worth Recognized.
Nothing is withheld that can be
| given over there to supplement the
efforts of our army and navy in caring
| for our own boys. The Red Cross does
| not pretend to do the work OF the
medical corps of the army or the navy :;
its purpose is to help and to supple
ment.
Nor does the Red Cross seek to
| glorify what il does or those who do
! It; our satisfaction Is in the result,
which, we are assured by Secretary
| Baker, General Pershing. General Ire
| land and all our lenders, is of ines
timable value and of Indispensable i'm
| portance.
BY the first of January your Red
Cross will have working in France up
wards of 5000 Americans-a vivid
contrast to the little group of eighteen
men and women which, as the first Red
| Cross commission to France, sailed
about June ]. 1917, to initiate our eff
forts in Europe.
Your Red Cross now has active. op.
Grating commissions in France. in Eng
land. in Italy In Belgium, in Switzer-
land, in Palestine and in Greece. You
have sent n shipload Of relief supplies
and a group of devoted workers to
northern Russia; you have dispatched
commission to work behind our arm
les in eastern Siberia: you have sent
special representatives to Denmark to
Serbia and to the island of Madeira.
Carries Message of Hope.
Your Red Cross is thus extending re-
lief to the armies and navics of our
allies; and you are carrying a practical
message of hope and relief to the
friendly peoples of afflicted Europe and
Asia.
Indeed, we are told by those best in
formed in the countries of our allies
that the efforts of your Red Cross to
aid the soldiers and to sustain the
morale of the civilian populations left
Mt home. especially in France and
Italy, have constituted very real fac.
tor in winning the war.
The veil has already begun to lift.
What the Red Cross may be called
upon to do in the further course of the
war, or with the coming of victory,
peace and reconstruction. it would be
idle to attempt to prophesy.
But your great organization, in very
truth "the mobiliZed heart and spirit
of the whole American people" has
shown itself equal to any call, ready TO
respond to any emergency.
Spirit of All Bes, and Highest.
The American Red Cross has become
not so much an organization as great
movement, seeking to embody in organ
lied form the spirit of service, the
spirit of sacritice-in short all that is
best and highest in the ideals and as
pirations of our country.
Indeed we cannot but believe that
this wonderful spirit which service in
and for the Red Cross has evoked in
this war, is destined to become in our
national life an element of permanent
value.
At Christmas'tim we shall ask the
whole American people to answer the
Red Cross Christmas roll call. 1t will
constitute a unique appeal to every
mnn, woman and child in this great
land of ours to become enrolled in our
army of mercy.
II is the hope of the War Council
that this Christmas membership roll
cell shall constitute Il reconsecr;btion
Of the whole American people, an in