The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-09
EVERY PERSON
SHOULD KNOW
k..kuk People Interested In the
roundation Principles Of Red
cross Movement in
This City.
|y1rs INTO EVERYTHING
!. Very Practical Organization
which Really Does Things and
is Not Merely coIIec-
tIon Of Names.

;. advance of the thorough cam
ton to be made in Keokuk and
a,,hern Lee county next week to re-
ssw every one of the 5000 member
us,ns IN the Keokuk chapter of the
su.I- Cross. people are talking about
what the Red Cross is actually worth,
anyhow.
.,oniicant movements and organiza-
ions Of this twentieth century" said
Pow, DR.. Ezra Butler Newcomb, in a
conversation about the Red Cross re-
Gently. ],
camnaign of next week, heard of the
discriminating, not to say critical.
nraise of the Red Cross by the minis
fer and asked him to write her what
he thinks about it. She received the
following letter in reply:
II Plays No Favorites.
Nv Dear Mrs. Sage: You ask for
word from me as to the warrant
for the appeal of the Red Cross for
membership and all other hearty sup
port. -
/ wish | might say it SO emphati-
caly that every man, woman and
child in Lee county might be COM
PEELED to listen.
The Red Cross is one of the
greatest and most significant move
ments and organizations of this TWEEN
tieth christian century. 1t puts into
vital and practical activity the great
christian principles Of universal
motherhood and effective charity, in
its truest sense of love.
It disregards all lines of cleavage
between individuals and nations. and
simply asks where is the need, and
how it can be met. 1t does not play
any favorites in it's ministries of as
sistance The one test of it's duty,
and the one opportunity of it's SER
vice, As the question of real need.
It Belongs to Everybody.
1t breaks down all class distinc-
tons, and calls on all sorts of people
to do the one necessary work for the
help of needy humanity.
1t invites to its membership and
its fellowship of service the rich and
the poor; the weak and the strong;
the well-known and the little-known;
the giver of large gifts and the widow
with her two mites; the old and the
young; everybody is invited to join
this brotherhood of loving deeds.
1t has proved beyond any question
its practical value, and it's prudent
administration in the handling of all
funds committed to it's stewardship.
No faint of extravaganza or graft is
on its hands.
We who want to help in any world
emergency can find no other agent SO
well fitted and so trustworthy, to
carry our gifts in the right way and
to the right place.
Its Work Only Begun.
The close of the war does not mean
the end of the work of the Red
Cross. Conditions growing out of
the war may easily make an even
larger demand on the Red Cross.
Other worthy and effective organiza-
lions have assisted, and will con-
tinue to assist in the work to be
done with and for our fighting men.
The Red Cross is the only practical
agency for doing much of the special
work which will follow the war, and
help to meet the needs of the hungry,
ourdened, dying people of the suffer
ing nations, appealing to America
and the Red Cross for the preserva-
ton Of life in it's simplest terms of
food and care.
So, hope that the men and women
and children of Keokuk and Lee
county will respond with whole
hearted unanimity to the member
snip drive" now being initiated, thus
doing little thing to aid the blessed
work of the Red Cross.
Sincerely yours,
E. B. NEWCOMB,
1t Will Die Unless Renewed.