The Parisian. (Paris, Tenn.) 1907-1962, 1918-05-24
LARGE SUM GIVEN RED CROSS
By PATRIOTS Of HENRY COUNTY

ttic WoISI SldCkeTS are HOI CHOSc WnC
don't want to wear the uniform-bu
those who hang onto their dirty dol
lars,
Uhere are some very good thing:
going to come out of this war. II
will make US more of a unit. Ger.
many, with it's 80 millions was a unit
we with our 100 millions had as many
different ideas.
"The whole world will become q
brotherhood There will be nc
foreign missions.
Religion will mean more to the
masses than it ever did before The
soldiers realize that they want it to
tie to-to hold to. War will make
Christians out of them-and many
more.
"This war will teach us thrift
we have been such spendthrifts. God
have mercy on the dirty little souls
of those who have complained of the
restrictions. Some people are so
small that if fly were to rest on
their nose it could put one hind leg
III one eye and the other hind leg in
the other eye.
"Well learn lessons of service and
sacrifice, learning to serve with in
convenient Devotion
"There are no Red Cross salaries,
and those who say that much of the
money they give to the Red Cross is
used for red tape, only use it as an
excuse to throw a shadow behind
which to hide. Every dollar goes to
war relief!
"The atrocities perpetrated
against women and girls by Germans
is greater than we know or can real
ize. No doubt one of the first COM
mands Gen. Pershing will give to
our boys as they march to Berlin
will be, conduct yourselves as gem
tlemen! Some one has said, there is
one thing worse than anything else
for man when he is DID, and that
is' to have lived a useless life, ard
the worst thing to happen to won.-
an is to become the mother of hun,
and a grandmother of a generation
of them
Empey was right when he said
that the man who has nothing TO do
but give money has a cinch.
Speaking to you boys who will
leave this week, | want to warn you
against impure living. To see a hos
pital ward full of those whose legs
are off, eyes put out or those who
have been gased is pitiful to say the
least-but ward full of boys suf-
fering from impure living is the most
deplorable. The only way to meet
the many temptations you are sure
to face is to pray and keep close
to God-who will guide you. When
upon your couches of illness and in
the operating room you can think
back to the Henry county Red Cross
drives for funds providing the hos
pitfalls, doctors and nurses.
$2ll5 Pledged.
The G. H. S. then sang Were Co
ing to Hang the Kaiser on a Sour
Apple Tree" while pledge cards were
passed through the audience, and in
a very few minutes $2115 was
pledged. Grove school girls pledged
$40, but easily made up 500 Tues
day morning.
Chairman Johnsonius says, "there
is no over the top in anything until
we hang the kaiser on the sour apple
tree"
Every l.. & N. shop man pledged
one days wages, making themselves
100 per cent patriotic, which helps
our men to Berlin just that much.
Colored Women Do Part.
About ten colored women who
could not give money insisted upon
doing something to aid the cause, so
Mr.. Johnsonius suggested that they
decorate the tabernacle, which they
did beautifully and for which they
were rewarded with Red Cross emb-
lens,