Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1918-04-19
HUMANTTTS OPPORTUNITY
VhV the Great Red Cross Needs
Funds.
LITTLE CHILDREN CRY FOR HELP
Woman Witness Of the Horrors Of
German Frishtfulness Lays the
Story Before Christian America
MESSAGE that compeis Attention.

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Story Before Christian America
Message that compeIs Attention.
]. A. Marion. Esq. who Is to have
general charge of the Red Cross drive
to be made in York next month. at
tended the recent state conference In
Columbia. and by request, has pre-
pared for The Enquirer the following
story OF the proceedings:
Pursuant to a call sent out from
headquarters Of the southern division
Of the Red Cross in Atlanta, a confer
ence was held in Columbia on April 9.
at which representatives Of practically
all of the chapters in the state were
present. The primary purpose Of the
meeting was to outline plans for the
second war fund campaign which Is
to be held May 2O-27. The meeting
was held In the rooms Of the Colum-
bia Chamber OF Commerce.
Mr. Mucke Wamboldt, campaign
director for the southern division. was
the principal speaker at the morning
session, and in q thoroughly practical
and business like way. he set forth
the plans to be followed and methods
of organization In the various local
bodies in raising their pro rata part
of the $1OO,0OO,O00, the total sum to
be raised In the campaign. His re-
marks were very helpful and suggest
i've to those who will have charge OF
the local work; but as they were prs
marily intended for this purpose. 1t
would not be of great interest to set
them forth in detail.
Mr.. Wamboldt did give the impress
sion, however, of being thoroughly
wide awake and a progressive business
man, and that he was applying sane
business principles to the manage
ment of this, the greatest service
league for humanity that the world
has ever known. One statement that
he made calling particular attention to
the fact that every cent that Is to be
raised in the coming campaign Is to
be used for war relief work, and that
no part of it Is to be spent In salaries,
expenses, etc.
Mr.. Wamboldt was followed by
Herbert v. Carson, director in charge
of the speakers bureau, who briefly
outlined the need of speakers to pre-
sent the needs to the people. He told
of tho type OF speakers desired, OF the
method in which the cause should be
presented to the people. Mr.. Carson
Is the young pastor Of a large and
progressive church in Knoxville. Tenn,
and Is devoting all of his splendid
ability and energy to Red Cross work.
without wltifesa a aR,t -
from the organization, his church
bearing all his expenses.
Mr.. j. w. Miner, Jr., director OF the
bureau of publicity. next spoke. and
explained the advertising plans of the
campaign.
While these three addresses were
business like and practical In every
detail, all of great advantage to those
in attendance, the real inspiration OF
the meeting, and the real thing that
showed the deep and true meaning OF
Il all, was the address Of DR.. Esther
e. Lovejoy at luncheon which all the
representatives attended at the Jefer-
son hotel.
DR.. Lovejoy is q physician who
several months ago returned from
Greece where she had been engaged
ever since the beginning Of the war In
relief work. Her story, told in plain
and direct way. and yet with all the
earnestness and fire Of one who had
seen and learned first hand of un-
speakable horrors, brought home to her
hearers in O most vivid way, the utter
inhumanity and barbarity OF the
Huns. This term" she said. "is not
mine but that OF the kaiser himself
who first pronounced 1t to his troops
and held it up as a model they should
follow"
DIR. Lovejoy said that for several
months she had been located In the
town of Evian, literally now the gate
way to France, and located on Lake
Geneva on the French side. 1t was
through this town that the broken
debris of humanity that has been
rejected by German military machine
as useless for military purposes, found
their way and groped their way back
into their native country. For. said
the speaker, the method Germany mad
in dealing with the inhabitants OF the
French provinces which they had
oyerrun, and now have under subjec-
ton, has been literally wedding out
or culling process. OF course inhabi-
tants, all the boys over IA and all
girls over 16 are retained-the boys to
be kept from becoming soldiers OF
France. the girls to become the in
voluntary mothers Of a race OF bar
barians who were destroying their ma
tive land. All women with one child
under three years Of age were also
retained because 1t being well known
that most of the children born In this
territory for the last three years have
been Of German paternity. In the
conquered towns one Of the standing
orders Of the Germans was that no
doors were to be locked against the
troops, and as a consequence Of this
there was no right on earth that had
not been violated at the hands Of the
Huns, and there was nothing sacred
that they had not besmirched and
stained. All of the old men. old wo-
men, children under II, women with
several children were sent back into
France as being useless for military
purposes, and for the French to feed
and to support. It was these weary
lines of refugees who day after day
in unending procession poured down
through the little town Of Evian-
broken, miserable driftwood of war.
Thousands Of orphans, children who
had forgotten how to play, furtive-
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