The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-05-22

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"A, TO THE PEOPLE OF AMERICA
What are you giving to the Red Cross?
III What are you giving to the cause for which
Americas splendid youth is now giving all?
Are you, too, giving yourself?4
Are you giving little more money than you
think you can spare? ~
Are you giving up some luxury that some
brave man over there may have necessity?
" Are you cutting off some fancied necessity
that little starving child may barely live?
Have you enlisted in the army, which marches
under the white banner splashed with the scarlet
cross? ....
Are you part of that great constructive con-
tinqent of the American army that fights
wins without gun?
If you do belong to this contingent, are you
marching with your regiment or are you tagging
behind? ..:;... *.=,: En-
- Are you doing your utmost to keep the Red
Cross banner floating where the eyes OF suffer-
ing can see it and the arms Of pain may stretch
out in, signal Of their need? .S.sAs Il, l s
], H No one who has been over there will ever look
upon that blessed cross Of red blazing down its
field Of white without seeing the eager little faces
Of tiny, starving children as the Red Cross nurse
feeds them the first real meal they have eaten
in months. 4. - 49,
! Again will come: the sight Of hope Pickering
across the faces of those who must forever walk
within the dark, as their hands are taught by
plying Red Cross craftsmen to take up the bur-
den Of livelihood. sH
Beneath that banner stretch long rows Of hos
pital beds, each occupied by patient form whose
pain-racked mouth twists into the semblance of
smile as the Red Cross nurse lays cool hands
across his eyes.
H .zWavering bands of old, old people whose
years seem multiplied by despair, murmur words
Of benediction as woman with the cross OF red
upon her arm whispers words Of hope and gently
leads them to place of rest. l{ts@
III Deep-set eyes looking out of faces coated with
the powder and CRIME of the trenches, light up
as the poiu grasps cup Of coffee from the Red
Cross man as he leaves the trench opening on
his way back to little rest M ss.. ,s;f
Young girls with hectic fushes on pale cheeks
take OF, a new lease of life as the Red Cross doc
tor shows them how to combat the dread tuber-
culosis.s5 S u NJ
Sornber eyes Of wounded men brighten as the
Red Cross stretcher-bearer lifts them tenderly,
for they know that soon will come the Red Cross
hospital and the Red Cross nurse and perhaps
the blessed surcease from pain that ether brings
while the Red Cross surgeon performs the neces-
sary operation.
s, Under the influence of that cross of red long
stretches Of devastated country begin to take on
the hope Of growing things and waving grain be-
gins to lift it's green blades in the stark places
Of mud that war has left behind.
All these and more, much more, one who has
beensover there sees in the Red Cross manner
which you must keep flying at the head Of your
regiment unless you would be traitor to the
cause you have espoused.
In it is the living expression of all the love
and ideals that are in this world Of rapine and
murder and grief and pain today.
Even while our dearest and best are dying,
even while cities are falling even while the cries
Of tortured humanity fill the air, the army march
ing under this banner-your Red Cross banner
must carry clear and strong the message Of hope
to all the world or the black horror Of the pres
ent crisis will engulf the souls of men forever
more.
Hold this banner high so that the allies 5000
miles across the sea shall read this message:
I'VE come, every man, woman and child in Amer
lea, and we will bring everything we possess if
need be and place it beside your lives as token
osfour fealty and loyalty to you and the cause
for which you are fighting"
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