Arizona republican., 1918-03-10

ming it are going to be decided. not in the trench but by the people at home. The sooner we concentrate every ounce of power in our bodies to winning this war, the sooner the war will be over.
 No yarn will be distributed at the | Red Cross headquarters in the Cham Der of Commerce building on surgical dressings days-Tuesdays and Fridays, according to a new ruling announced yesterday by Mrs. w. K. James, chair man of supplies.
 Red Cross chapters of New York state have spent $79,41S65 in relief to- families Of soldiers and sailors. accord ing to an announcement of the local Bureau of Civilian Relief. The report covers the time up to December 31 last year and notes that 5,S21 families have been cared for,
 More than 1000 families were cared for last month in this territory. In | Connecticut the sum expended to the end of the year was s19,641.71 and New Jersey used $19,099S7.
 l Providing the men leaving for train ing camp with sweaters, the service section last week contributed 30 sweat CTS to the men as they left town. One hundred and fifteen additional sweat CTS were forwarded to Fort Riley by the service department of the local chapter of the Red Cross last week.
 
 The Junior auxiliary received it's aI- lotment for the month of March as fol- lows: The school children will make 20 black sateen or galatea pinafores; 20 children's capes with hoods; 20 boys shirts; 20 girls dresses; 20 house gowns and 12 bath and hand towels.
 In the course of an address on seWhat the Red Cross Is Doing In Europe Major Grayson M. P. Murphy, Amer
 ican Red Cross commissioner tc Europe said: This war is not a wal
 of armies. It is a war of nations
 There isn't man, woman Or chil6
 in Great Britain, in Belgium, in France
 or in Italy, that is not a factor in this
 war.
 T tell you that if you should go. as
 I have gone, about those ruined dis tricts in France and had seen little children four and five years old. driv. ing in the herds at night, had seen lit. tie boys coming down the road-littl, bits of tots-with their arms full O. fagots that they were accumulatin; against the winter, had seen old me1 and old women working in the field until it was so dark that as you looked you could just make out those vagu ghostly forms gathering in the crop for France, you would realize wha this war is, what this war means. q have passed through those town and looked in the windows at nigh where you would see little here an there, and they were always working working, working, working to carry O. \ this war. It is not the armies 0 France that are the essential thing t France in this war, not the armies 0 H England, nor of the other countrie. Those armies will do their part and d ' it to finish, if they are supported b the people behind them.
 'The great crying need in Europ today is to build up the spirit and kee up the spirit of the people behind tn lines, and it is that great work whic
 the Red Cross-thanks not to us O the other side, but to you on this sid --has performed and which has bee the largest single factor of our hel since our entry into the war" All families who have a son in tn
 army and navy, and who have n
 service flag, may secure one froI \ the service section of the Red Cros 2 in the Chamber of Commerce.