The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1918-05-17

Mississippi has been asked to contribute
three hundred and fifty thousand dollars
to- the American Red Cross fund for war
work in Europe.
the glory of the great cause for which it
VIII be used.
Mississippi should not stop at $3.50, 900.
The forces now being organized for the
campaign ought to keep right on until
a half million dollars, or more. has been
RAISED
We are getting a new and Illuminating
conception of war and giving in these re-
cent months. We are beginning to realize
the nobility of sacrifice. the joy of giving.
We are getting a better conception of our
individual duty, and the personal part each
man must play if the world is to remain a
decent place to live in.
As the date for the opening of the Red
Cross campaign approaches. we should be-
gin to make a personal inventory. to take
stock Of ourselves. SO to speak, and wake up
to the fact that our puny little possessions
Will become the veriest trash unless the
great principles for which our boys are
fighting are sustained by force of arms on
the bloody battlehelds of Europe.
After all. what we have and hold is ours
only by the grace of God; that we are
merely the temporary custodians or trus-
tees of the dollars we cherish. and the man
portion of those dollars when both God md
the nation are calling are untrue to the
trust reposed in them by the Great Ruler
OF the universe and the government whose
glorious liberties they have enjoyed? =
The boys of Mississippi have gone to the
by the thousands. and they will
keep on going as the weeks and months
pass by. Many of these boys will be lost
in battle. Their red blood will stain the
fair fields of France and Flanders. That
we cannot help. Boys that we love will be
drowned beneath the surging pillows of the
broad Atlantic-martyrs to the cowardly
German submarines. That, too. we cannot
help. The living wastage of war will soon
begin to return to us in all its CHASTITY hor-
ror; the wounded, the manned, the crippled
and the blind. victims all of the savagery Of
the Hun. That. too. is but the price we
pay because in our ignorance and our IN
nocence we allowed a nest of maniacs to
hatch into the world, brought into exist
ence by a scrofous maniac who dreams of
world dominion, a bloody brute and s~cientiz-
ed butcher whose word to his subjects is
law, and who has already enslaved more than
loo. O0O, 600 peace-loving people. .
What have you done in the past, and,
what are you doing now. to check the on.
ward march of the Butcher of Berlin, to.
his determination to also make the
100000 600 people of these United States
his subjects and to crown US with shame
and dishonor? ,
You can help. you should help, you must
help. If you cannot shoulder a rife. you,
can help by giving. We must give, give, give,
III SLInt or aSkdnce- we must give
of our lives when our lives are needed. We
must give of our comforts and our lux
uries. We must give of our love, our de-
votion. We must give of our service.
But the all-impcrtant thing right now
is to give of our ~moneyAgive with an open
hand to every war call and patriotic pur-
pose. Just now the call comes from the Red
Cross, and for this glorious work we must
give with open purse and unstinted hands.
Will you cling to your paltry dollars
few strips of crisp paper, when by doing
80 you will cause the dishonor of your
the ravishment of your sister,
he murder of your mother, the slaughter
If your brother, the shooting of your dear
I'D father against a wall, as has beeen
lone countless thousands Of times in France, |
n Belgium. in Remania. in Armenia-wher-
'ver and whenever the Hun has set his bru-j
al foot? - /
Money is good only when backed by a ma