Alma record., 1918-12-19
RED CROSS ISLIKE
A SHIP OF RESCUE.
Always Travels in Troubled
Waters and Answers Every
Cry OF Distress.
REST OF WORLD IS TOO BrsY
Christmas Roll Call Gives Every one
a Chance to Take Part IN
Rebuilding Our Broken
World.

The American Red Cross Is perhaps
like nothing so much as a stanch and
Ioyal ship in storm. II goes It's way
with senses tuned TO catch any cry Tor
help. And when that cry comes. II
drives instantly and without fear
straight 10 the place OF distress. In
flood and fire and disaster. just as the
ship braves the perils Of tumbling
seas and hazardous rescue work. And,
again, like the ship. II STANDS BN
till those endangered are helped 10
safety.
Meanwhile the rest of the world.
busy with its own problems. hurries
home during these times Of storm and
stress. and draws down the blinds.
At least that is the way IL has been
in the past. But now comes the Christ
mas Roll Call And IL Is a privilege,
not "A pest II has NO preferences. IL
plays no favorites. II makes no eX-
ceptions. Ii summons every man.
woman and child in the country. II
holds out 10 each one the blessed OPP
portunty 20 ride on every Red cross
ship OF mercy. 70 speed with every
/ Red Cross train of relief that encir-
cles the earth on their errands OF
mercy.
The only way for anyone To- escape
the possibility of some time having 20
accept CHARITY from the Red Cross
is 20 become ONE with the Red Cross.
For terrible calamity may come 10 us
an The money wealth of the Belgians
WAS as nothing when they were stripped
of clothing and food. AM that i"'l
ing of oneness with the organization
that our men on the other side have
had during The war was not merely %
great. but was the GREATEST, factor
I'm enabling the Red Cross 10 give the
efficient aid that it did.
Let us remember what NJ. Mar
garet Iaing. canteen worker in France,
told about our boys who came out ~
the hospitals without money.
"Sometimes they would be- able to
make up "A few cents between them.
She said. and sometimes they did no'
have ANYTHING They wuuld bang Doc
hind those who could pay. and ,hcy
would look AZ the food 80 wisttull
that il made one fight back ilc tears
The only way we could get them &C.
take what they needed and Craved wa
by saying You know. hoys this wa'
an paid ior 10y your own people a'
home Then immediately their atu
tudc would change and they Woui'
say: Why. ycs my mother or my Sis
Ter gives to the Red Cross And ther
how they would pitch in
We are proud we Americans. We
do not want something FOR nothing
And here j. our glorious opporiunit'
To- take the rest of our nation 10y th'
hand. and with all pride and dignity in
sure ourselves of our own help in time
~ adversely.
This Christmas Roll Call gives every
one n chance 10 be "nOllar Nah.
And most ~ uS can be one right "a
home. For hy Joining the Red Cros
now and paying the dollar We become
as actively engaged In the great wor'
as II we were giving all OF our time
toit. We are merely making our dol
lar substitute for those Of us who arr
too busy to give all OF our time 90 tn
Red Cross.
Some ~ the great achievements -
tie Red Cross have been told over an
over. until the facts may seem old q
YOU. But on this occasion they ar'
worth telling again. We should no
forget, for instance, how the womel
, OF this nation, like our first Co,onia
, mothers. turned suddenly into grea
manufacturers and made garments ant
o supplies worth so. .OO0,On last year
E Nor let us forget how SlllO0,OOO wa
q sent into the devastated countries dur
ing the time while men and women
giving their time for nothing. wen
with those dollars TO see that the.
were used In the way they were mos
needed. And the American Red Cros
sent medicines and anesthetics 10 tn
HOSPITALS of France when they wer
almost unobtainable, so that our boy
and their allies might have some re
lief from the torment Of their woundi
> and chance AT ultimate recovery.
Th.r, are so many things 20 tel
that II Is impossible TO spread IN
whole story In this limited space. Bu
each worker will know. For the LEI
ters that have come from the boys !
the camps over here" and from th
fields "over there" have been full q
the reasons. Ask the mother of an
hoy who was imprisoned behind IN
/. cruel lines where food was scarce eve
for the enemy army. but who got hl
90 pounds of biscuits, pork and hean'
cocoa and other good, whnlesom
things, every week.
The roofs are M hand everywher'
o The reasons are manifest Everyon
C should become a member ~ the wide~
2 best an6 hoiiest crusade 'hs "'""'