The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-14

To Red Cross Christmas
Roll Call Workers.
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no exceptions. It sumnonds very man woman, and child in the country to con
every Red Cross ship Of mercy speed with every Red Cross train Of relief that
s" You ~ workers Si in the Organization a know " all about this. But you know it 50 vel,
X R ns It it e9 s., e "a YOU YOU s % er Rs d#Hng the the T Ren 1 Can fS ~~k spa enlist the sr people @d1 IN oar
ssss n this great army at 4r' last" an" all kind. Of aid tell ''s" some q s1s'
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Vi R. Red Gross rrs For mFt terrible Die calamity sd IN. may sr Goms to g us all II The fm mGnss s ws tht
feeling Of oneness with the organization that at our a mn on .d the G other Inside side ha I've had had
You remember what Mrs Margaret LANG. canteen Worker in France told
about t Sur sgs who fs can nm ut of Of tbs ho epmsns wi w6'a h qsr mo esss, btvesn them. she
said, land sometimes they did not have anything They would hang back behind
me fight back the et tears The a only E' way we could get hem to take what they need
fs sss s ssah home was r F aaE Imasa i Es s55r D ATTITUDE sSs r ~ll a change pp @ and Il they s%T would W
say, Why res my mother or my lister gives t. he Red Cross And hV they
Oh, we ae pr'ud, we Americans. We do not want something for nothing
and with all pride and dignity Insure ourselves Of our help in time of ad
IA Tsn them. to- that this Christmas Roll .s Call g gives every very me me the thee chance T to be be
Joining ths Red Gross now nd psying a dollar the. Syd become ss as actively 81 engaged aged
they vo9d Do i they had NOR heads am hands s.. :, -. 49,. 49,. : +,u
seem old to YOU How thsw women Of this nation, like our first colonial mothers
6@pss se' isf y yan' f He~ s naPStsseoo@e' ,~aes s snti H9et seo d sspphs fo Countries s2ss
dming the sam time while men ad womn giving heir lime for nothing, went
With those dollars to se that they we're sed in the way they were most needed.
And don't forget to tell non1nembers that the American Red Gross sent medi
cines and anaetheics t the hospitals of France when they were almost unget
table so that or boys IN the Allies might have some relief from the torment
of their wounds and a chance at ultimate recovery.
Tell them this service will continue long after the var is ended. In thes sad
dened unu of the world the Red Gross must carry N. Here in Keokuk the
Red Gross has orders to lend all possible aid to Flu victims, and in of never
Gross memberships
There are 50 ANY things to tell. thatit is hard to pick out what But each
worker will know. For the letters that have come from the boys "overh here
the I'M AM from cover there on the fields have benf full OF the reasons. III
if my further testimony is needed, ask it of IN mother boy who isI mp1s-
ond thnd those cruel lines where food was scarce even for the enemy army,
and who got his twenty pounds of biscuits pork and beans, cocoa and other good
wholesome things, every week
The proofs are at hand everywhere The reasons are manifest Everyone
should become a member of the widest, best and hottest Crusade the world has
ever known. And it should be easy for even the east eloquent to pUvet that mem
berhfp in the Red Cross should be roreu universal than taxes; as UNIVERSAL as the
public school, public opinion OF or public government by all for all