Cleveland County herald., 1918-05-23

soul, something or yourself goes with
the gift, particularly when it is CIV
en- in such form that it never can
come back by way of direct benefit
to yourself You know there is the
old cynical definition of gratitude as
The lively expectation of favors to
come
well, there is no expectation of
favors to come in this kind of giving.
These things are bestowed in order
that the world may be filter place
to live in, that men may be succored,
that homes may be restored; that suf-
fering may be relieved; that the face
of the earth may have the blight of
destruction taken away from it and
that wherever force goes there shall
go mercy and helpfulness.
"Give All You Can Spare"
And when you give, give absolute
~ all that you can spare and don
consider yourself liberal in the Civ
ing. If you give with self-adulation
you are not giving at all. You are
giving to your own vanity; but if you
give until it hurst then your heart
blood goes into it.
And think what we have here; we
call it the American Red Cross, but
it is merely a branch of a great in
ternational organization which SIS not
recognized by the statutes of each of
the civilized governments OF the
world but it is recognized by inter
national agreement and treaty as the
recognized and accepted instrumental
ity of mercy and succor And one of
the deepest stains that rests upon the
reputation of the German army is that
they have not respected the RED
Cross.
"That goes to the root of the mat
ter. They have not respected the in
strumentality they themselves partici-
pied in setting up as the thing
whihc no man was to touch, because
it was the expression of common hut
manity. We are members, by being
members of the American Red Cross,
of great fraternity and comrade-
ship which extends all over the world
and this cross which these ladies bore
today is an emblem Of Christianity
itself
at fills my imagination, ladies AMI
gentlemen to think of the women all
over this country who are busy TO-
night and are busy every night and
every day doing the work of the Red
Cross, busy with a great eagerness to
find out the most serviceable thing
to do, busy with a forgetfulness of
all the old frivolities of their social
relationships, ready to curtail the du-
ties of the household IN order that
they may contribute to this common
work that all their hearts are engag
ed in and in doing which their hearts
became acquainted with each other.
when you think of this you real
ize how the people of the United
States are being drawn together into
a great intimate family, whose heart
is being used for thel ser TcI4&tars
<-t',-'se-ts=zzSyeA5 r1Iy, pur s5r the, services
of civilians where they suffer and are
fractions.
And you have then this noble pic
ture of justice and mercy as the two
servants of liberty. For only where
men are free do they think the
thoughts of comradeship; only where
they are free do they think the
thoughts of sympathy; only where
they are free are they mutually help
full; only where they are free do
they realize their dependence upon
in common interest and common ne
cessity.
Il heard story told the other day
that was ridiculous, but it is WORTH
repeating because it contains the
germ of truth An Indian was en-
listed in the RAINY. He returned to
the reservation on a furlough. He
was asked what he thought of it. He
said, Not much good; too much sao
lutte; not much shoot Then he WAS
asked, Are you going back?' Yes.
Well, do you know what You are
fighting for? Yes, me know; fight
to make whole damn world safe for
Democratic party
"He had evidently misunderstood
some innocent sentence of my own.
But after all, although there is no
party purpose in it, he got it right as
for as the word party to make the
whole world democratic in the sense
of community of interest and Of pur-
pose, and if you ladies and gentlemen
could read some of the touching dis
patches which come through official
channels, for even through these
channels there come voices Of human
ity that are infinitely pathetic, If you
could catch some of these voices that
speak the utter longing of oppressed
and helpless peoples all over the
world to hear something like the bat
tie hymn of the republic, to hear the
feet of the great hosts of liberty go
ing to set them free, to set their
minds free, set their lives free, set
their children free, you would know