Atlanta semi-weekly journal., 1918-02-05
For Heroes. Present and Past.

Whoever reveres the memory. of the Souths
departed heroes and honors the spirit of those
now fighting in freedoms cause will be keenIy in
terested in the plan of the Georgia division Of the
United Daughters of the Confederacy to- endow in
an American military hospital in France a memo
rial bed, named for that beloved and knightly
Georgian-John B. Gordon. AS benefcent and
urgently needed service as well as a tribute to
heroism past and present, this undertaking merits
instant and generous support. The bed is to be
instituted and maintained in what is known as
American Military Hospital, No. 1, at Paris. Es-
tablished in September, 1914, by Americans in
sympathy with France this hospital rendered
to the United States Government upon
trance into the war, and accepted. Now under
American Red Cross supervision, its physicians
and provided for by the Government,
but its running expenses are still met by the
philanthropy Of its founders and friends; and
upon that source, depends also the enlargement
of its facilities.
Those facilities must be enlarged, frequently
and literally, if the rapidly increasing needs
for hospital service IN France to be met. Our
own troops are on the firing line and Immediately
behind the front-tens of thousands of Dixie boys
amongst them. Their number is increasing
tinually; this year. there is reason to expect it
will reach or pass million Hence the great and
imperative need of military hospital facilites and
hence the timely and patriotic undertaking of the
Daughters of the Confederacy. Each State diViS-
ion of the U. D. C's has resolved to establish and
endow bed in this hospital has also the gen.
eral U. D. c. organization. Above each of these
beds will be placed a bronze plaque, inscribed with
the name of some illustrious Confederate soldier
and indicating, too, the donors The Georgia
Daughters OF the Confederacy have decided, with
fine appropriateness to dedicate their donation to
General Gordon.
The privilege of having part, however mod
est, in this patriotic and humane work is one to
be coveted. Each contributor will be serving
America and mankind, and will be serving in the
name of Georgia and the South. Every dollar
given will enter into a mission of mercy and heal
ing, will allay suffering that otherwise would be
uncomfortable and reclaim lives that otherwise
would be lost. Georg:ans have responded hber-
ally to a number of war-relief causes, all of them
urgent and highly deserving. But previous ap-
peal has struck home to their hearts so directly
and so keenIy We feel sure that in every county
and every town of the State men and women will
count it privilege to aid this broadly American.
and the same time peculiarly Southern,
deavor The fund to be raised is comparatively
small. Six hundred dollars will endow military
hospital bed. maintaining it for a year. This
should be speedily forthcoming and then should
be doubled and trebled.
The Daughters of the Confederacy have fixed
upon May the twelfth the day upon which to
present Georgias endowed bed 1t is hoped, there
fore, that contributions will be made promptly.
Miss Alice Baxter, 81 East Fourth street. Atlanta.
who is director of relief for the Georgia d.vis
ion OF the United Daughters of the Confederacy,
VIII receive aid acknowledge subscriptions