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The daily morning oasis., 1918-05-15
Smith Serves the Red Cross.
Bv T. ]. EDMONDs.

lecting either compensation or insur.
ance.
Nv.
A member Of the women's uniformed
corps drove us In her machine out to a
camp where there are 10000 men.
Here we met the Red Cross Home
Service man. We didn't take his time
we just watched him. One moment
ne was helping man to fll out dupli.
cate allotment blanks; the next he
was arguing the merits of insuring tn
the limit; the next he was wiring a
Home Service Section to visit a mans
family; next he was going with boy
who had received tragic telegram
from home to see the commanding Off.
Ger about leave Of absense: then he
was speeding on his way a poor fellow
discharged because of permanent in.
jury; then we saw him talking to a
soldier and girl wife at the hostess
house; and as the shadows fell he was
closeted with worried chap, who was
telling him about an impending mort
gage foreclosure and an expected baby,
v.
Later the same evening we saw hin
stand up in the Liberty theater and,
his eyes glowing with the service pic
ture in his own mind and his voice
ringing with the conviction of his own
enthusiasm. tell thousand young fel-
lows what Home Service Is. He paint
ed homes made happier by Home Serv-
ice-told of friends for fighters .fami-
lies found by the Red Cross-pictured
devoted Home Service workers fight
ng the cOuntry's battles this side the
renches. When he ended some fellow
struck up "Keep the Home Fires Burn
ng."
We were silent for long while on
the way home, Smith and l. Finally
Smith broke out:
"Can | do it? The sort of thing
camp service, you call it? Why, that's
where l want to beat the point of
first contact with those living prob
lens. Pershing was right when he
said, The thing most needful to the
American fighting forces overseas Is
anything and everything that will con-
tribute to the morale of the men In
service
"HOme Service see it now
means morale. When can 60 to
work.
The daily morning oasis., 1918-05-15
YOUR HUNDRED
MILLION DOLLARS
WAR FUND Committee
TELLS HOW IT WAS
SPENT.
No Part of 1t, Says John D. Ryan,
Went for Any Expenses of
the Organization.

John D. Ryan, vice chairman Of the
War Council, recently discussed the
disbursements Of the first 100000, 900
of the necessity for further funds.
He announced that the week set apart
for the drive is May 20 to o.
I'VE have collected $105, ,0OO,"
said Mr.. Ryan. "We have allowed
refunds to chapters-as you know,
chapters are entitled to retain 25 per
cent. of the collections covered by the
chapter. They have not In all cases
availed themselves of the 25 per cent,
but we have allowed $17,OO6,121 on
this account. We have appropriated
to date S77,721,918 and we have avail
able for appropriation on March l
$1O,371,217, with the addition Of $3,-
100000 we know to be perfectly good
when called upon
"The appropriations have been
made to the different countries as fol-
lows: France, s30,936 1903; Belgium,
81, ,O86 131; Italy, $3.5SS, 1926; Russia,
81 PAS, ,S45; Rumania, $2,676,368; Ser.
via, $875,180; Great Britain, $685.
75O, including $1,0O0,O00 that was ap-
propriated by the War Council to the
British War Relief, and for other for
eign relief work, $3,576,30O.
"FOr relief work for prisoners we
have expended $343,304, and this
work is only beginning. These appro-
priations have been made to care for
the prisoners that we feared might be
taken. We also spent for equipment
and expenses Of Red Cross personnel
sent abroad $113,SO0; for army base
hospitals in the United States, $54,-
600; for navy base hospitals In the
United States, $4,000; for medical
and hospital work In the United
States. $531 900; for sanitary service
in camps in this country. $403, 1000; for
camp service In the United States,
Sc, 451, $50, and miscellaneous In the
United States, $1,11S,74S. We have
funds restricted as to use by the
donorse amounting to $2.52O,4O9, and
we have as working capital for the
purchase of supplies for resale to
chapters or for shipment to France
of $15,OO0,OOO. We have working cash
advances for France and the United
States of $4,2S6,OO0.
people say we use 80 cents to
spend a dollar. The expenses Of the
Red Cross today are well within the
amount of money provided by men,
bership fees. No part of the $1O5, 5,OOO,-
900 that we got Is spent for carrying
on the work"
The daily morning oasis., 1918-05-15

"Well," said Smith as he walked
into nv office, "Pve wound up all my
business interests" ).
"What for?" l said as I rose to
greet the man had known in my
home city years beforeJ
$50 could offer myself If I'm worth
having I've got to get into the game.
Anything useful and9 human. I'm
ready for marching orders"
"Worth having?" I echoed. you've
dropped like a GOd-send. We've got
the biggest man-sizedTejob you ever
tions. You're going straight with the
Home Service. Something useful and
human? Why, in week this thing
will be gripping you so, that you'll eat
and sleep it"
The Home Service. Section Of a big
Red Cross chapter was in session. As
Smith and arrived they were discuss
ing the problem of soldiers wife and
six children found living in two tene-
ment rooms in building that rad been
condemned because of leaky roof,
mouldy floor and lack of fire protection.
They had sold most of their furniture
piece by piece for current living ex-
penses The children had no change Of
clothing. There was no income and, be-
cause of the mothers condition, no pos
sibility of one, except the expected allot-
ment and allowance, which even when
it came would not entirely meet the cost
of living in the city. The Home Service
worker had given generous sum of
money to meet the urgent needs, and
now the committee was planning to
rent better quarters, move the fami
ly, secure medical and nursing atten
tion for the woman, outfit them all
with clothing and furniture and keep
regularly in touch with the family.
III.
In Smiths next case the Home Serv-
Ice Section and the tuberculosis society
had arranged hospital care for man
discharged because of tuberculosis
contracted "in the, line Of duty"
Some attorney had told him he would
get compensation for him on fifty-fif-
ty basis, but the lawyer member of the
Home Service Section helped him fiji
out the proper form which the Red
Cross office supplied and assured him
that no discharged soldier or soldiers
beneficiary should ever pay for COL
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CalebRogersDoe
ABit of Figgerin'
Bv JOSEPH C. LINCOLN
OF the Viojlantes.

Red Cross women with hot coffee and
sandwiches, a-makin' him comfortable,
doin the little kind things you and his
mother are just longin' to do this min
ute.
"When Christmas come who saw
that the bundles from home got to
him? Who gave him things-candy
and smokes and such-on its own &C
count? The Red Cross, that's who !
And when he had the bad cold and
fever who supplied the nurse that did
more than anybody else to fight the
pneumonia off? The Red Cross, Dan !;
nobody else.
"And when he's on the ship goin'
across, when he's marchin' through
France on his way to them trenches
we read so much about, when at last
he's in those trenches-who's lOokin'
out for him every minute of the time?
Who's mOtherin' and fatherin' him,
same as you and your wife would give
all this wide world to be able to dor
Why, the Red Cross. just the Red Cross.
"And when he goes over the top to
get his first real punch at the KaiSer's
gang of pirates, suppose he gets bull
let through him somewheres. 1t can
just as likely be him or my Sam as
anybody else's boy, remember that.
He's lyin' out there in No Mans Land,
and it's night and cold and wet, and
he's in pain, awful pain, and"-
Mr.. Griggs INTERRUPTED.
"For mercy sakes, don't, Caleb!" he
pleaded. 81 can't bear to think of it"
"Then you ought to. Twill do you
good to think just little. For pretty
soon who comes crawlin' along through
the hell fire to him and gives him wa
ter-and morphine, if he needs it-and
binds up his wounds and carries him
back to. the place where the doctors
are? And whose doctors are they that
gives him the very best treatment
that's possible, and whose hospital
does he go to afterwards, and whose
doctors and nurses take such good
care of him there? Putin 1t all to-
gether, who makes Jim Griggs a well
man again and makes 1t possible for
his father and mother and sisters to
lay eyes on him once more2 Nobody
on this earth but the Red Cross. And
God bless it, say
What Is Your Son Worth to You?
"And now you wonder why a man no
richer than I am is givin' hundred
dollars to a society that's doin' all that
and a million times more for my boy.
Look here, Dan Griggs. How much Is
your son worth to you? If you could
save his life by doin' 1t wouldn't you
sell the farm and the stock and your
house and the last shirt on your back
Wouldn't you give him the last cent
you had If he needed 1t to save himself
from torture and death? Well, the
Red Cross is doin' everything humans
can do to save him from those things,
and it's warmin' him and cOmfOrtin'
him and keepin' him well and happy
besides And what it's doin' for him
It's doin' for every one of the soldiers
In the fields or the trainin' camps, the
hospitals-even in the German pris-
ons. And 1t needs money-and you
grudge givin' It."
Mr.. Griggs shook his head.
mo, / DON'T" he said. 81 guess
can spare a hundred, too-for the
| bows Sake1
The daily morning oasis., 1918-05-15

Caleb Rogers was seated at the little
desk behind the counter Of his "gen-
eral store" at Rogers Corners. His
check book was open before him, and
he was tapping his front teeth with
the end Of q penholder and apparently
considering deeply. Daniel Griggs,
who owns the big farm half mile up
the road. entered the store and stood
for a moment regarding its proprietor
with an amused smile.
sWell, Caleb" he observed. you
look and act more like Rockefeller
every day you live. l presume likely
you're Hggerin' whether you'll Invest
this months income In more Standard
lie or use It to buy your wife another
diamond collarf"
Mr.. Rogers smiled also. but he was
serious enough q moment later.
.Dan," he said. 81 tell you what
was figgerin'. was iggerin' whether
/ hadn't better make the check was
goin' to give the Red Cross folks a
hundred instead Of fifty
Griggs' mouth opened in astonsh-
ment
What About Jim Griegs7
~You give a hundred dollars to the
Red Cross. Caleb Rogers he demand
ed. sYoul Are you crazyf You sar-
tainIy amt worth any more money
than am, and was calculatin' to give
about ten--not more'n fifteen anyway.
The Red Cross Is a mighty fine thing
know that well enough. But If you'll
tell me why folks no richer than you
and me should give"--
Caleb's foot, which had been resting
over one corner of the desk, came to
the floor with a bang He straighten-
ed. leaned forward and shook his fore
finger earnestly at his visitor.
.Tell your he repeated. "Yes, Dan
0riggs, will tell you. I'll tell you be-
cause you've got boy, same as have,
up here at the big camp, and it won't
be many weeks. or even days. afore
they're both over on t'other side of the
Big pona fightin' the most cussed,
cruel, INSCRIPTIONS gang OF thieves
and murderers thatsever rigged up in
uniforms and killed women and babies
for fun. Oh, Of course you know all
that, you'll say. You know your son
has enlisted and ID goin' to war, to
battle, to run his chance along with
the rest Of beln' killed or wounded or
taken prisoner You know 1t, yes, in a
general way you do. Such things, the
woundin' and all that, happen to other
boys every day, but it's amazin' how
slow fellers like you and me are to re-
alize that they're just as likely to hap
pea to that one boy we set SO much
store BY. It's what I've just been try
Ia to realize, Dan. I've been sittin'
here thinkin' it out.
take my own bOy-or take yours,
to fetch 1t right home-take your Jim.
Him left here and he went OF to camp
to be trained. And 1t was colder than
the northeast corner Of an ice chest up
in that camp, and he no sooner landed
thar than he realized he hadn't got the
heavy sweater he'd ought to have.
His mother would have knit 1t, but
'tweuld have taken time, and he'd have
pretty nigh froxe waitin'. So the Red
Cross gave 1t to him, along with
wristers and a comfort kit. On the
way up to camp wherever that troop
train he was on stopped there was
The daily morning oasis., 1918-05-15
I Am the Red Cross
HENRY PAYSON DOWST
with Acknowledgements to Robert H Davis avg
author of II Am the Printing Press y


l am the Symbol Of the pity of God.
burgeon upon the Haunting banner of victory and the
dropping guidon of defeat.
the token of peace in the midst of battle gentle
shining through the sombre mists of hate
1 chevron the sleeve of mercy, an honor mark
set high upon the brow of compassion.
the color of blood spilled for democracy the form of
Christ's tree of agony, and my followers at need,
cruelty themselves to make men live ~.
carry the hope of life into the red pits of DEATH and
dying soldier salutes and smiles he goes to
touch the hand of God Almighty.
stand for the organized love of mankind the coordinat
ed impulses of young and old to do good, the sacred
efficiency Of human service.
mark the flag under which modified the forces of
industry and finance, of church and school, of
capital, of labor of genius and of sinew.
am Civilizations Godspeed to those who defend her.
am the message from home
am the Symbol Of the pity of God.
/ AM THE RED CROSS.
The daily morning oasis., 1918-05-15
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k toGxt to sag to y0v that no !
other organization since the !
soorld began has eper done such !
k great constructive t1ork aoith the !
k efficiency, dispatch and under ,
standing, often under adverse !
k circumstances, that has been !
done by the American Red Cross !
k IN Frdnce.-GeneraI Pershtng. !
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1918-10-29

ed from . bill never legally presente-
ed to the county and let t6e-matter
just drop there.
sixty-five dollars is not much for
Cache County to lose, but who can
tell in this good county how many
sixty-five dollars have gone the
wrong way. The County Commits
sioners did not discover this thing
and 1t never would have been dis
covered but for the good tax payers
out in Cove who have noticed their
tax notices climb in the last few
years.
1t is said we should not blame the
acts of the present County Commits
sioners on the Democratic, party be-
cause they are not running the
same commissioners again and they
ho'O nv oPPAoNOu thcit
ton. Well, 1t is some signs of re-
pentence possibly to I'll to refuse to
indorse such an administration. But
we need come Guarantee" of such
repentance and we need the Court
House Bunch and the Democratic
party of Cache County put on the
shelf on probation for while as
a guarantee of good faith.
Mr.. Taxpayer, you only have your
self to blame II you are going to let
the Democratic party of Cache coun-
ty convince you that they are not
responsible for the last Democratic
administration Of this county and
the one way for you to show you
are not convinced is to VOTE and
vote the whole, Court House Bunch
ont OF once.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1918-10-29
MAKE THEM PAY

z 1t is a fundamental principle of life
that people ought to pay for the damage
they do. If this penalty is not exact ID
upon them, it encourages them to 20 on
and commit other outrages.
Hence in considering German peace
offers, it is absolutely necessary to hold
them down to principle Of compensation
for the damage they have done. They
have ruthlessly and brutally laid waste
and sacked the fair cities and fields of
France, Belgium, Serbia, Roumania and
Poland. They have gained no military
advantage thereby. They wilfully broke
the laws Of war in doing it. Their only
purpose was to try to bulldoze the world
Unto submission by making themselves as
frightful and beastly as possible.
, The trouble with the Germans is that
up to now they have always made war
paying business proposition. Make war
pay for war, has been their motto. BY
jumping on other nations treacherously
and unawares, they always expected to
make war on the soil of their foes. so that
the Germans home country should new
er sustain any damage. Then they ex-
pect the costs of the war to be made up
by the levying of indemnities, and by
stealing of valuable territory. They
made the war of 1870 with France pay by
crushing indemnity, and by stealing the
enormously valuable iron mines and 9TH
er resources of Alsace Lorraine.
Now if we Insist that Germany pay
the damages she has done it will get it
through the thick and bony heads Of the
Huns that the time when war could be
made to pay as national industry has
gone by The damage she has commit
ted in the way Of wicked destruction of
life she can never pay for iii cash, though
she will pay for them in the hatred of
mankind she has excited But at least
she must pay her physical bills, or we
have lost the war.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1918-10-29
MIR. AsQUITH's "PEACE TERMS.

To various leaders in each. of the Al
lied countries may be ascribed the deli
very of particularly apt and memorable
definition of Allied war aims. Probably
Mr.. Wilson has been more often quoted
in this connection than any other states.
man, because for more than year past
he has been in sense regarded as the
spokesman of all the allies. But Mr..
Lloyd George has also numerous striking
utterances on the subject to his credit,
and so has M. Clemenceau, as we'll as his
predecessors in the premiership of
France. AS specimen Of concise and ell
oquent statement, however. nothing has
yet been delivered that surpasses the fol-
lowing dictum from a speech by Mr.. As
quith, leader Of the Liberal party in
Great Britain:
We shall never sheathe the sword
until Belgium RECEIVERS in full meas
ure all, and more than all, that she
has sacrificed; until France is ade-
quately secured against the menace
of aggression; until the rights Of the
smaller nationalities Of Europe are
placed upon an unassaiable fOunda-
ton; and until the military domina-
ton Of Prussia is wholly and final
ly destroyed"
When it is remembered that the speech
from which this declaration is quoted
was delivered in the very first month of
the war, it will have to be admitted that
the distinguished British statesman fore
saw the end from the beginning with
most remarkable accuracy and clearness
and framed his forecast in a phrase that
has not been uttered nor in fact very
greatly altered during the four fearful,
blazing, purifying years. The utterance
represented then, as it does still today,
the soul and substance Of the Allied
cause.-Deseret News
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1918-10-29
THE FALL CLEANUP

Cleanup Day has become a recog-
nized institution in many places. But it
usually comes in the spring. Then it is
that peoples thoughts turn to out door
work. The renewal of vegetation and
the axhilaration of the spring time re-
vive interest in garden pursuits. It is
with zest and thoroughness that the
householder takes hold to clean up his
grounds.
The same people are apt to lose en-
thusiasm when it comes to the fall. The
time has passed for planning garden tri-
umphs, and cleaning up seems like paying
for dead horse. So weedy growths are
often allowed to remain, and the remains
of flowers and vegetables disfigure the,
ground.
Many people think that Of rubbish is
kept in their back yards it does no harm.
They will clean their front wards scrup-
ulously, but let the back yard become an
eye sore visible on all the adjoining land
But the maintenance Of rubbish is
contagious example If one man keeps
ash heaps and tin cans and piles of de-
cayed plants and disorderly litter his
neighbors catch the slovenly spirit. Soon
the neighhorhood becomes a dirty and
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1918-10-29
THE LOGAN REPUBLICAN,

frowsy suburb, from which possible res
idents turn away with dislike
So let US al get out on some Of these
pleasant fall days, and give our grounds
another going over as thorough as they
had in the spring. Better still, we should
have kept litter from accommodating all
the summer, SO that now there will be
nothing to remove. But there are plenty
Of us who have good days work to do
before Cur homes are dressed up for the
inspection Of the neighbors until the next
garden season.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1918-10-29
UNITED WAR WORK CAMPAIGN

When the real history Of this war
shall be written, one OF the brightest
chapters will recount the service rend-
cred to mankind engaged in the struggle
by the thousands Of God loving men and
women who did not fight, did not furnish
the sinews of war, but rather minister
ed to the soldiers andtheircivilian CO.
hOrts.
If the war did not accomplish any
thing else than demonstrate the good
that is in right thinking men and women.
itwould not have have been in vairl.. Ser
vice is the greatest thing in the world to-
a-~-. He who servesin thecauseof righ-
sness, on the side of the Allies, is
ing God. And this war, while it is
sod's war, is war in which Cor is
served, for the forces Of righteous
II, are doing Gods work in overcom-
fn he forces Of might, or the forces of
evll. And it is being demonstrated that
right makes might, for whereas, the Ger
mans, with their superior training and
equipment, set out to conquer the world,
they have not conquered and will not. And
the forces of right, undismayed by first
defeats, knowing that God is on their
side, are today the forces of might.
1t must be source Of satisfaction to
all real Christians to contemplate the
work that is being done in this war by
the Young Womens Christian Associa-
ton. AS important as the man with the
gun or the woman in the munitions fac
tory who is making the stuff to fill the
gun, is the Y. w. C. A. war worker. The
man in the trenches and the woman in
the munitions plant form the backbone
of the war machine, but the worker, the
one who goes about ministering to the
worker, and allaying his pain and CON-
forting his spirit, is it's soul.
In this work Of doing good, this godly
task, the horizon blue uniform of the war
workers of the Young Women's Chris
tian Association is seen everywhere, in
the United States and over there With
courage born Of the knowledge that God
is with them, is their protection, these
war workers are in the trenches, in the
huts and hospitals, in the hostess houses
and munitions works, ninistering to
those who need their ministration like
the angels Of mercy that they are.