The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-01-19
Continued from page II
Work Of the Red Cross

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just one thing to stop it with. and
that is Pershing's army, prepared or
unprepared. And SO submit that that
is the way in which your Red Cross is
directly saving the lives of your Amer
lean boys.
| We believe, also, that we are d.
rectly contributing to the shortening
of this war. We are working all over
France and now also in Italy. 1 do
not know whether you love Italy as /
do, but when you read the news of
the 28th and 10Th of October your
heart must have bled to conceive of
Germany going across Italy, having in
mind Serbia, Rumania and Belgium
1t was too terrible.
Russia.
The news from Russia has been de-
pressing. The time has arrived when
we may get and will get bad news,
| but find that news only distressing,
never discouraging. When we get
news of that kind from now on it
can have only one effect, and that is to
lead us to put our feet a little more
| firmly on the ground, our shoulders a
little further back, and take about two
more bitches in the belt and say,
| well, that is the hill we have got to
go up; we will go up that one because
We are going to win this war" And
| encouragement never helped anybody
up any kind of a hill.
Not very long ago a representative
of the queen of Rumania sent in a
card, and within two weeks your Red
Cross commission went to the queen
and said to her: 'The American PEG.
pie have sent us. We understand your
situation and we have brought several
carloads of things most needed"
Along with the supplies went four.
teen doctors and twelve nurses. The,
queen of Runania thanked the entire
American nation for the assistance it
had rendered in Rumania's hour of
Suffering.
Then there was Russia. When we
sent, our commission we had Russia's
address, and DR.. Billings went to a
man whose name was Kerensky He
Isaid to Mr.. Kerensky: "The Ameri-
can people sent us here. We have
such and such materials with us.
What is the best thing we can do for
Russian" Mr.. Kerensky replied: IF
you want to help Russia feed the ba-
bies of the Russian soldiers" DR..
Billings cabled for 100000 tins of
milk We have sent 100000 tins
and are sending the balance. We are
sending them to our representative,
who is still in Petrograd and is going
| to remain there.
/ have never been in Russia, but /
have an idea that I know something
about it. think they are in the po-
sition of having their boss gone away,
and they are riding around on the
cars. would not trust one of them
| FIVE minutes in the pantry, if there
was any jam there, if i didn't want
them to get it. They would get it all
over everything, including the door
knob, but that's all they could do. /
don't believe there is any more design
or righteousness in a Russian peasant
than in a child of six years old, and
have not believed the man lives today
/ who can either put them in or out of
the war. i may be wrong about that,
but certainly this is no time to go
back on Russia or to give her up un.
til she is lost.
After the War.
Icould go around the circle of /, 900
miles and quote you instance after
instance of Red Cross works But I
want to come back to this country for
a moment There is not a man or
woman here who will ever outliye this
war or the effects of it, and there is
not nlan or woman here who has not
some circle of friends.
Let us look forward few months
don't know how many. can see
that circle gathered in the parlor or.
! in the shop, 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 legs, and
they will be talking about one or two.
who are not there. Now / ask you
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 boys
while they were in hell for you and
me. / will tell you what part they
are going to take. They are going