The Press., 1918-12-12
WORK OF THE RED
 CROSS MUST 60 ON
End of Actual Warfare Does Not Mean the organlzatIon's Usefulness 10 Past.

Is Past.
 On the western front the guns are silent today. The U-bOats are grow ins barnacles in an English port. King Albert has come to his own again. The Boys" viii soon start heading for home. Tho war as done, although it will be . long time before all are back.
 Does this mean that the Red Cross shall take on it's uniform now, fold up It's sheets and towels, roll up it's bandages, and fold it's hands? NeverI The Red Cross has just begun It's work. Long after peace has been de- clarad, long after the Kaiser lies mouldering in his grave, the Red Cross will be marching on! It will halt only when men and women no longer know suffering, war, accident, flood, fire, tOrna loas, ill-health, woe. For the Red Cross has opened mems eyes, and they will not allow u to stop.
 It is not 100 much to say that the Red Cross is the greatest single agent in the world today to prevent another such horrible wRr as we have Just passed through. That's why the Aed Cross is going straight ahead why # must not. can not, stop!
 What can the Red Cross do to Drs" vent other wars, what can it do for immediate relief now7 Look at Eu' rope! In Poland not child alive ua- der seven years of age! No crops. no work. no food! What ktnd of citizens Wul the babies now to be born make if some one, some organization, does not step in and give them decent chance? Where the babies are un- fed, untaught, there grows a race that knows not law nor order, that turns to fighting and to throat cutting as the natural thing. And then anoth- CT war. The Red Cross will see to IT that these babies get fair start tow ard decent citizenship. It is for them l that the Red Cross will not stop.
 In Belgium men sit and gaze at heaps of stones. Here Is map "hosS house is gone, his three children aeau' his wife dead somewhere in Germ&pE after worse than death. The man can not find even the borders of his own property. He is bitter-he would like to kill-and he has nothing to eat or to wear, To him the Red Cross comes; for him it finds food and cloth ing and shelter, and work-and he will go again about his life. It Is for such as he that the Red Cross can not cease its work.
 In France, children who were caught in the horrible days of 1914 have forgotten where they lived, who i their fathers and mothers were, who they are themselves. They still live in terror of those days. For them the Red Cross is going on. In Italy, in Russia, in Servia, children are naked and starving. In northern Italy q woman was found dripping blood from her own wrist into cup of wa ter with which to feed her baby. The child had had nothing else for at1 days! The Red Cross found her. and is going to find others like her, for we are only beginning to See what poverty, what waste, the war has made. It is to make these unfortu- nate people safe for tie world that the Red Cross must work with great ST zeal than ever ! But nearer home. In Boston wo- man was found whose husband had been fighting for your flag and nina in France. Her landlord had turned i her out of his house, she had fled | with her three children to cellar 1 and in that cellar her twin babies were born. One died And when the ! Red Cross found her, able to speak only two or three words of English overlooked by the government in the terrible rush of business, she had kept her dead baby for a week wrapped in an old newspaper. But help in time of war is not aii Far from it! It is only step from the temporary relief to wounds and hunger in the war of guns to the permanent help in the war to live in peace. The world Is eagerly turning 1 to the Red Cross to make it healthy i and strong and happy in the broades' meaning of those words, And until disease is forever gone the Red Cross | cannot cease its work,
 Remember Hnifax-what might l that awful disaster not have become without the help of the Red Cross Remember the T. 519 people killed 1 the 201, ,S3S people injured, in train ao- | cidents in this country in the year ending December G1, 1916, But for the Red Cross many of the 201. .S5S might 1 have died, Accidents are with us yet fires will sweep our cities, explosions | will blow up munitions plants, cpl demics like the influenza will carry l off their eighty thousand victims, ti' dal waves will sweep ln aseupon Que beo the other daX-1and then in the thiokast of the horror the world will look for and find-the love ei the Great Mother, the unspeakable comfort of the Red Cross.
 Two great thoughts are in the mind of the Red Cross, It aims at temper | ary relief from pain and sickness and heaFtache. It also aims at creating
 that background of love and kind
 nass and friendship without whlct
 war will sweep us again and again
 but with which we shall in time havt
 world of peace and safety. Ane
 shall the Red Cress lay aside itI
 werk, then3 Neverl The giving mus
 eeAtiAue as long as God gives to you
 the leving must ee on as long as hu
 naAAity lives, Whatever else maj
 paRa. the Red Cross is alive forever
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