The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1918-04-21
EVERY DOLLAR
ACCOMPLISHEs
SOME PURPOSE
Hundred and One WAYS
Money Donated to Red
Cross Helps Mitigate
Suffering of Soldiers.

Each dollar you gave the Red Crosa
may have provided meals for eight
| Sammecs at II Red Cross cAnteen In
France 1t may have been used to help
a crippled or wounded poilu or 10 eli.
| tablish the Independence OF French
family left destitute by the ravages Of
the Germans 1t may have aided in the
support OF the needy family Of some
soldier or sailor. II may have been
| spent In an American training camp,
with our forces abroad, In France, In
| Italy, Armenia, Belgium. Serbia, or.
| In fact, any place In the whole world
| with the exception of the territory con-
trolled by the central powers. There
are a hundred and one other uses to
which 1t might have been put.
What Our Money Has Done.
OF course, the first and supreme oh
1ect Of the Red Cross IL tho care IT
| the army and navy. With our own
| forces. ~ base hospitals have been out.
I ntted ana maintained, six 1T these are
| already In Europe. Twenty dispeJH.
| saries have been established and dem
tai ambulance liz maintained In the Wnf
zone. There IL n factory under the a..
rcction of the Red Cross for manufac.
turing artificial limbs and casualty
service which gathers information con-
corning the wounded ana missing.
| But II Is not necessary for any YAM
ltee to be III or wounded in order to re-
ccivc the benefits of the Red Cross serv-
ice. II provides them baths. games. food
and tobacco. Ten earlteens serving hot
food are maintained back Of the firinc
line, each capable of giving 1000 por-t
] .i,,tl Fl..,, Au Vanxn M
leave or IL being transferred II has rest
rooms and hot food at the important
railway ccnters for him.
Looks After Famiiiss.
one of the greatest military aids Of
the Red Cross IL IN insurinK the sup
port of the families of the soldiers. This
proves one OF the great factors IN
maintaining the morale of the forces.
Nothing 80 takes the heart out OF thu
soldier as the realization that his tam
} lily Is suffering at home.
Better than nine-tenths of tho money
given the Red Cross Is spent In Francs
, In caring for the wounded and refu-
gees and In teaching tho crippled that
they may become self supporting.
There are 100000 French wounded
and crippled, and refugees are coming
In at the rate Of 900 daily. The Red
Cross must meet these with human
=, help always.
Supports French Destitute.
Then there liz the work OF civilian
| relief. which In so necessary when ono
realizes that the whole brunt OF this
;. war is falling upon France and that II
our work Is to he done. VIC must do our
share to maintain her courage ana
= morale. The work OF conserving thu
French populat ton la carried on through
specialized efforts In the care OF In
J fanis and tho re- education Of the Grip
o pied and blind.
, The Red Cross cannot rehablitAte
towns, but |, must give aid In secur
" ing Il fresh start for those who hav
q bccn left destitute by the Germna In
= vaders. 1t must give clothing, cookins,
utensils, garden tools and livestock g.
# those to whom the retrcating German
have left only hunger. disease and dc
II spair This is the moro necessary ~
q view Of the fact that In many dts
q tricts the children outnumbcr the me-
a by five to one. There are 10000 chtl
. dren which the Red Cross has picked
. up In ravagcd districts. Often iaefs
:, drifting waits, sometimes so frightened
- lthat they cannot speak for days ant
-, have forgotten " no they are. They an
diseased, hungry and forlorn. The RAf
Cross; provides homes and medical ali
for these
d Fighting White Plague. 4~
y Today the Red Cross is fighting tn
IF greatest battle of the war and that bat
~ tie Is not with tho Hun but with TIN
~ tuberculosis peril Among the rffu
- gees, weak from exposure and lack Q
food. among the populations of the dew
~ astated districts, and among thOs
prisoners who have been in GermA,
!" prison camps or in German factorie
III until they are no lnoser men. but ar
SIX mere wrecks and arc fortunate enOug
re to be exchanged through Switzerland
or among these people tho White Ilagu
&: is rampant II is the work OF the iso
10 Cross to segrcgite these people,
e. strengthen them and To provide tn
mt right conditions in order that they ma
ce have q chance to recover.
1t. In order to relieve the congestion {
Il the railways. truck lines are main
ed tanned. Hundreds of the Fed Croe
cn trucks are kept plying between hosp
tale. canteens. chidren's shelters IN
supply stations. Another line OF truch
is maintained across Switzerland to
" used in bringing refugees and 81
on changed prisoners from Germany.
ng Quickness eli decision was neceseay
he during the drive on the Italian frot
IA last fall. Supplies worth $4s77l,Sl
he and many workers were rushed
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