The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1918-12-11
FUIURE POLICY OF THE
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The whole American people will be
invited in the week preceding Christ
mas to enroll as members Of the Red
Cross. It is confdentially believed
that there need be no further CAM
paigns for Red Cross funds, but, in
stead, annual roll call will constitute
the foundation Of the Red Cross.
The people should, therefore, know
as definitely as possible the plans of
this, their national humanitarian So
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Since the armistice was signed, I
have had an opportunity to confer
in Paris with the heads of all :Ameri-
can Red Cross commissions in Eu-
rope, and later in Washington with
the President of the United States,
the War Council of the Red Cross,
the managers of the fourteen Red
Cross Divisions in the United States,
and with the heads Of our depart
ments at National headquarters.
am, therefore, able. to speak now
with knowledge and assurance in
saying that the beneficent work of
the American Red Cross is to go
forward on a great scale--not alone,
as heretofore, for purposes of relief
of war, but as an agency of peace
and permanent human service. "
Since Americas entry into the war
the purpose of our Red Cross has
been primarily to aid our army and
navy in the care of our own men
under arms; and, secondly, to extend
relief to the soldiers, sailors and
civilians of those nations, which were
Fighting our battles along with their
[own. With the funds which have
been so generously contributed by
the American people, this war work
of the Red Cross will continue and
Fstbe completed with all possible SYM
pathy and energy:
Wherever our soldiers and sailors
may be, the Red Cross will stay with
them until they are demobiized.
Nothing which we may do will be
left undone, either for the men in
the war zone, for those returning,
for those in the camps and hospitals
or for their families at home to
whom will continue to be donated
the ministrations of the Red Cross
Home Service. In this latter effort
$4,000 trained Red Cross workers are
now engaged at $500 different places
throughout the land.
The problems of reconstruction,
involving feeding and caring for the
distressed civilian populations Of
Europe, are Of such magnitude that,
necessarily, they must be met very
largely by the governments of our
Allies, with whom our own govern
ment will cooperate.
The great tasks Of fighting tuber-
culosis, promoting child welfare and
caring for refugees, with which the
American Red Cross has concerned
itself so effectively in France, Italy
and Belgium, will at an early date
be assumed by the governments, the
Red Cross organizations, and the re-
lief societies Of those countries
which, now that they are released
from the terrific burden of waging
war, naturally desire to take. care,
as far as they can, of their own peo-
pie. IT,, :
J. The war program of the American
Red Cross will thus steadily: and
rapidly merge itself into peace
program. The wake of the war will,
however, reveal the prevalence Of
disease and give rise to epidemics
and emergencies which in all parts
Of the; world will call for unlimited
voluntary effort, the cutting Of red
tape and the manifestation Of, those
qualities OF human sympathy which
government action cannot display.
Here will be the opportunity for
the American Red Cross. But even
our Red Cross must not act and can
not q 4 act most effectively alone; we.
must labor in cooperation With the
National Red Cross and relief asso-
Citations Of other nations, to the end
that not alone the heart Of America
but the heart Of all mankind may be
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An American Red Cross is nevertheless.
planning develop its permanent.
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