Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1918-03-06
High school Notes.

High school Notes. I'm
The Manual Training boys have near
~ completed their work in the GYM
nasium. az #5@
th ghe S'sh d 5fheel girls are practieing
! The high school literary club viii
| give a program Thursday afternoon
After q short program they will elect
| new officers .'-5 r. zsEs 49,.
Elna Hanson is absent from school
on account of being needed at home
Sammy Porten is absent from school
last week. H. s. 90, . :.
! The Freshman class had a vocabulary
match in Latin on Tuesday. Myrtle
to stand and they both missed the same
| word. - <.". t@--<
=, Helmer Pearson arrived late to school
Monday. He had been at home spend
| ing the week end. - -as.l. = e.
! observation-disclosures
The following prize essay on the
American Red Cross was written nv
Arthur Frykholm, sixth grade, Alvar-
a6s 90 G?nSG,,dated sfho4ls and read at
sary, February 22, 1918: go
The American Red Cross.
Long years ago the poor and home
| less wounded soldiers, and all disaster
stricken persons had to suffer untold
|
| were left worse than animals because,
| animals could at least lick some of the
dirt off. but these poor men were help
in relieving this awful condition was
Florence Nightingale, who was con-
vlnced that the way wounded men were
death: filth and suffering to change this
| condition, she even gave up her fine
life in London for the life Of a nurse
| and had to suffer much.
! Long let the people honor Florence
! Nightingale.
Now Henri Durant, Swiss, took hold
where Florence Nightingale stopped
and me- in his campaign, wrote book
he had witnessed called the Souvenir rtit
of Solferino", which awakened people
to the terror and pity of war and many
s Tel in line, and they fight on never to
| Lodges the Red Cross
Henri Durant called meeting of
fourteen nations at Geneva, Switzer-
J motto: Humanity and Neutrality"
They also agreed to work for the good
of the whole world: It certainly cor
thine, enemies and them that prosecute
thee. This is true now as Germans
are said to be guilty of shooting Red
Now turn to a great campagner of
the Red Cross. Dorothea Dix, who saw
the way in which the wounded were
and filthy the prisoners were. She was
| in the Civil War, and her name de-
| Cross.
Mother Bickerdyke comes next and
she was ranked above General Sher-
man in the Civil War and I guess she
must must nave o been next to Florence Night
-, But Clara Burton is more important
than the rest for one thing. she was a
nurse IN the Civil War, and belonged
| Commission.
She saw. on going abroad that, the
BED Gross was even better than the
Sanitary Commission and she got the
| or VOW in 1882.
pr Now ny you may ne ask as; why has this
the mark of a Red Cross. on a white
held:' Let me tell you, it is because of
honor to the flag of Switzerland which
| The purpose of the Red Cross u.s. in
short to ease pain, suffering and to
prevent Pre- @it sufef f goz may add that since
seventy--fye calls to the Red Cross 0t to
assist at floods, earthquakes and other
sm liz ~ ACCIDENTS e s; The Red Cross as
| of the Halifax disaster.
-, Mr.. Woodrow Wilson is president of
the the KHd cGoS sa as well as President of
srted 'e June a'f Rea Gross A wSeh ys
Watne organized She is our Chairnfan'
Miss Tharaldson has the junk depart
Peterson; sewing, and Mr. Phillips, The
Manual Training. Miss Watne also has
the job Of keeping the thing going. : It
$685. coef not t eos cost more than twenty five
honor or being Junior Red Cross
member.
This Junior Red Cross teaches the
! town to save and this is good for ali.
| 1t teaches the children to save and
| work hard, and most important, it
dde eye. a patriotic spirit for every
patriotic. saving. and thrifty.
Inc progress is great. so great. that
ne new members are coming in continual
Philips, who has charge Of the ' Manuai i
I 1naj,t has made a big sled With, a
on each side. There are many boys
volunteering each day to pull this Sled
and this shows. progress.
Red Cross by Sailing and ' packi ing
papers. etc. and doing other things
that that help. I can also boost for the Red
Out of school l can collect papers,
bones: rags, old iron and much other
Junk" that nobody wants except the
r. Red , Gross. I can a also knit. At home !
not leave my other work. undone since
al Of the time cannot be spent in work !
ing lOI the ReO cross. 20
1t makes little difference whether we
live in the city or country. we can boost
for the Red Cross anyway.
The opinion about the Red Cross is
mostly very, friendly, but of course be-
ing very large organization it has to
have, some enemies, however this is
based on some foolish pro-German idea
and should be rooted out before it gets
too good a hold.
There is reason to like this hard
working. we11-meaning, good set of
people who work, sometimes. day and
into the world world Of health and
happiness.
We hope that God and the Angels
will smile on the Red Cross and that it
may prosper and grow in the world a
renowned thing, and that there shall
remain no nation that shall not swear
to be true to God and to His dauntless
helper, the Red Cross.
Oh! You Red Cross workers do not
stop your glorious work before eternity
opens for all people and you shall no
longer be needed to witness so much
suffering.
FORWARD FOREVER. D..