The Sentinel=record., 1918-07-24
THY NEIGHDOR'S SON

l We need workers at the Red Cross
 headquarters and we need them bad Fly; conscientious, intelligent women llwho will pledge a certain number of hours each week and can be depend
 ed upon 10 give them. Is it pos sible, in view of the news from the
 battlefield. that this call will be ig-
 nored The time for frivolties is
 gone; the time of sitting down in sell
 fish indulgence is past. The time
 has come when every American
 who has one atom of true patriotism and womanliness will cheerfully take
 hold of her end of the stretcher and
 lift her part of the burden. What right has any woman to carelessly shift this responsibility to the shoulders of others? How dare she expect to be protected at the ex- pense of someone elses son or some one else's work. This war is the biggest thing that has happened in the world since the creation of man. and how anybody-man, woman or child-can be content to keep out Of 1t, take no part, be it ever so little, is hard to understand
 But there are those who are leav - ing 1t entirely out, and pursuing the l even tenor of their lives as though there were no demands upon them | whatsoever. Let every thinking per son ask himself, not what the gov ernment is doing, what the Red Cross is doing, but what am I, individually doing to help our army in France | fight the enemies of civilization? Be | honest with yourself, cast aside all petty excuses, and have the grace to hang your head in shame if you are doing nothing.
 | In the battle wrecked portions of France. the sandy soil is soaked with | blood and whose blood is 1t? Not | that of our allies only, but that of our own boys-and our neighbor's S sons-those dear lads who have been | raised in our midst, and who have gone forth perhaps not expecting to return. Each day now the river of blood runs swifter and the dead are ] piled higher, and the wounded are being taken to the rear And do we here in American refuse what little we are asked for in the way of re- lieving the sufferingf fof our own and our neighbor's sons? Are there any who want to go on record as taking no interest in the sacrifice of her neighbor's son?
 Were it not so vital matter and
 were the need not so urgent, it would Il be really ridiculous, the character oi the various excuses that have beer given by those who were asked tC
 help at the Red Cross headquarters , One woman said she was too val.
 uable person to do work that any.
 body could do. One said she had he 1, church societies. one had her clui
 and settlement work that must bt
 kept up. Some were too nervous ant
 some too feebe-and one said sh,
 didn't intend to allow this horrit war to interfere with her pleasure
 Nh! think of grown women resortinl
 to such trivial excuses in the face O
 this world emergency
 Take them one by one-suppos, every soldier refused to fight if h, couldn't be general. This one s, valuable could by her presence en courage those of us less gifted. Th' ] Social Uplitter" and the Ladies Alder" could help uplift the fallei and give first aid to the wounded | and this pitiful one who isn't goini to have her pleasure interfered wit when frail women lover there" ar, | stumbling under burdens that onll beasts should carry and starving lit | tie children are holding out emaci. ated hands to Us and weakly crying ] for bread-not have her pleasure in. terfered with God help such as she' Those too feeble to sit up all day unless ii be at card tabel or in ar | automobile and those too nervous tC do any useful thing, we shall have tC excuse. consoling ourselves with the thought that they probably would be of no real service anyway
 Sometimes the work is tedious and uninteresting, and sometimes the days are long and very warm, and sometimes the whirr of the sewing machine the buzz of electric fans and the huns of voices are very tir- ing, and the workers get discouraged Aith so much to do and so few to do it. But never yet have we fallen behind with one quota assigned; nor have we yet asked that it be less ened. The Hot Springs unit is going to send to headquarters every bit of work requested. If some of us work every day and part of the night. But it could all be made so easy if each one would do just little and there would then be no aching backs and tired brains.
 There are many college girls at home now and they could form a class for one morning or afternoon 2 week Each one has some good