Bisbee daily review., 1918-10-13
BUSINESS OR RED CROSS:
 WHICH SHALL IT BE?

Charlie Mitchell of Kansas. visitcl his old friend the newspaper ma1 a lew days last week. MiIcEen used Go live in Arizona. In the gccd. old day; he used to work and win and play and plan with such men as Robert bae and Tom Hughes in the oll Moreno camp. He's quite a man back in To peka town now, is Mitchell, bu, it IS the delight and joy of his bls,.warn heart to come to ATiZCua once a yecr and watch the sunset tint the desert gray with gold and gain strength from the hills and meet old friends again. Arizona never had 9 son, past CT pres ent. more loyal than this Kansas man or one who sings her praises ci place and people with sweeter voice sincere
 But on this visit to his old mountain ranges the brave and cneerlul Mitchell was in a serious and thought1ll mood most of the time. Sitting late In the night time on tEe newspaper Mau s front porch in Warren he lpe- cd his heart to his old friend. l. was the war. Mitchell is too old anu Jco fat to fight But he has a fighter heart. He wants to do something. He wants 70 make some real sacrifice for the war in addition to what he regards as the mere form and duty oi giv.Eg to the Red Cross and buying Liberty bonds. T want to DO something real and worth while in this war" declared Mitchell. and if I don't I know I will feel bad about il and cheap and un- .fI sf nF r1rK 1fF- [ want to give up something besides Just mere words and the money make out side of living expenses and pleasures Now l have a chance to go and do some real Red Cross work for the gov crnment If [ take it l will have 10 give up the beginning of the harvest of fifteen years of the hardest kind Of work. ! will have to let 8 dC-en 1--- portant things under way in our bUsi- ness fly like loose ends in the wind and whip themselves to pieces; not, you understand, because no one is ca pablo Of taking them up, but becausc no one knows about them like ' do; started them myself and have carried them on as hobbies or petpTc5scts up to this time. 1 shall have to leave my wife and a comfortable home. | shaii have to travel and endure haIdshlps, and you know ] am just getting over nervous breakdown and have had Co be careful as an invalid unde. the doctors orders.
 Viewed in comparison with what the boys in the trenches must give up and do. this is 9 mere nothing al all. But then ! am no longer 9 young man. and the glory of the trenches, as well as their hardship and danger, can never be mine. l am at the mile post that marks middle age and my work and my business have been my very life for many years past. And so I have puttered around and held this excuse and that and the other be- fore my eyes and dodeea and shutfled and argued with myself until l am ashamed I cannot afford to 50 and do this work. either from a financial CT a physical point of view; therefore I ought to do it.
 Take the cases Of your Jimmy Douglas and w.. H./Brophy and John Greenway who gave up much greater tNtuSa lAtA T l'A uoA.AAat- AAt " NAtA@ day. Only a few hours ago [ talkeG with one of your bis men down here and he told me that he often walked up in the night and fought the silent battle with himself on what he ought to do; on the question. could he do more: should he do more. lie was moved to his depths regarding his duty in this war. It is a great prob lem. Some men can do more m civil or industrial life to win the war than they can iH camp or battle; some can help more in Jne Red Cross. And every real man is thinking these days about what he can do best and the most he can do for his country and he is seeking that place and that work
 "I am goiu- to Washington next week and tell them to send me as a Rcd Crcss missionary Co Ea eaten by vannibal chief"
 And Mitchell smiled Co hide his earnestness and his emotions
 The newspaper man was more