The states-graphic. (Brownsville, Tenn.) 1???-1984, 1918-05-24

OF not, the answer is @No." But if a
wounded German or wounded Turk
fell within their lines they would be
treated just as tenderly and just as
carefully as an American boy.
When you see the Red Cross any
where, you know that it means help
ing somebody who has been hurt, or is
sick, or has trouble in his family.
A French soldier Of the devastated
region, after being in the war zone
four months, comes out for his ten
days leave. His clothes are covered
with vermin and torn; his shoes are
out of repair, and his spirits are low.
He came out to go to his home, but he
had no home; his home had been swept
from the earth as clean as a floor, and
his mother, jxife and children had
gone he knew not where.
That Frenchman came out of that
trench and he was met by your REQ
Cross representative and he was Ia
ken to structure you have arranged;
his clothes were taken off of him aud
sterilized and mended. He was then
taken to a structure, temporary in
character, which you had built for him,
and within that structure he found his
mother, wife and children, whom you
have found for him. He found them
provided with food, with clothing
and with fuel. He spends his holi-
day. When he goes back to the trench
es he stands there a moment and says
"Thank God, the Americans are here
to take care of the members of my
family; they have found me and they
will provide for them. / now hav,
something to live for, and something to
fight for, and will fight as long as !
live"
When that man takes his place there
have you ever thought he takes the
place of one of our boys? If there is
any break in that line, there is just
one thing to stop it with, and that is
Pershing's army, and in that way the
Red Cross is directly saving the lives
of our American boys.
Let us look forward few months,
/ can see that circle gathered in the
parlor, and there will be one there with
one eye or no eyes, one there with one
arm, or no arm; one there with one
leg, or no leg, and they will be talking
labout dear ones buried in the sacred
lsoil of immortal France. Now, i ask
lyou, what part in that conversation is
the man or woman going to take who
has not done everything in his or her
power all the time for those bys while
they were in hell for you and for me ?
] will tell you the part you are going
to take. You are going to take 10
part. You are going to be a stranger
in a strange land. The time is here
when you are being measured not by
money, not by name, not by family,
but by service to your country.
The person who harbors a thought
of self-interest in this crisis has a
small, craven soul. He is putting his
convenience above his country's ne
cessity. He is traitor to his God,
his country and to himself.
\ Wasted lands, famished cities and
slaughtered armies are not all that Is
contained in the "purple testament of
bleeding war!" Every soldier is con-
nected with others, as all of you, by
dear ties of kindred, love and friend
ship. To him there is perhaps an aged
mother, who fondly hoped to lean her
bending years on his more youthful
form; perhaps a wife, whose life is
just entwined inseparably with him;
perhaps sisters and brothers. Tell me,
We who feel the bitterness of parting
With dear friends, you who have no
close relations there; will you let this
soldier gasp out his life with no friend
near, while the scowl of Kaiserism
darkens all he holds?
The Red Cross is calling upon you
to respond to the noblest feelings you
cherish. Love of home; love of
truth; love of friends; love Of every
thing that lifts man above the ami
nal. They are calling upon you to
support this Mother of the Allied Ar
mics, The American Red Cross.
DR.. 7. B. KING.