Evening journal., 1918-05-20
MONDAY, MAY 20, 1918.
ron YOUR BOY AND EvERYBODYs BOY.

ron YOUR BOY AND EvERYBODYs BOY
n HERE lies the field of American boy
He is stricken and bleeding. without the saving
grace OF ordinary extraordinary care, he may die!
He may be Delaware hoy! lie may be Maine
bOy He may be a California boyl He may be a Michigan
bOyl He may be a Texas boy!
No matter whence he comes, HE Is YOUR BOYl He
may be of no blood relation to you. You may never
have even heard his sim, he is your boy. The
Almighty America the Herculean task Of saving
civilization and the opportunities for human progress
aud happiness. BY law, you took this hoy from his
college from his successes in business or from
his young wife the of his mother and placed
him this shot-tOm foreign field to nght TO die II
necessary, for you.
Remember these things DelaWareans now that the
Red Cross has opened its campaign for SiOOOOOOOO aud
asked to contribute S5OOOOO or one two
hundredth part Of IT. to the 'front.' Go over the
top Put in the hands of Red Cross tho only weapon
that will enable IL TO prosecute an effective defensive
against Death and Anguish, and Heart Break and
Siutlation and Misery!
You have said TO that hoy who is in The battle zone
that he shall give up and loved ones; that he shall
travel miles through death infested seas;
that he shall risk bayone bomb poison gas and machine
bullet and guns SHE'LL that his blood and life
are yours; so you and your children may he free
and happy. He your boy, IS not the murdcrous
Hun but you who leave him lying there aaspina bleed
ing slowly to death, struggling for his life, appealing
for aid
And while the life blood okes out, while the chances
Of 0angrene with mutIaon, perhaps total blindness
increase, HIS HOPE LIES IN YOU
Really the responsibility for the continuance Of all
This awful slaughter and the ability to end It lie not
with the boy behind the gun but with the American
men and women behind the vision of Freedom for AL
Forever"
And any hoy lying in she battlefield is surely yours
You cannot succor your boy; the Red Cross can
The Red Cross is not charity organization II Is an
important virle warfare II is the spirit Of nm
selfish, impartial service. II is devotion and love en-
oaited against suffering, cruelty merclessness and
rshtiul need II organized samaritanism that knows
no color, creed condition. II is aIirulsm unarned
nairaid, braving Che Of the most ferocous mos,
brutal of enemies. II is life for the sar,no salvation
or the BLEEDING hope for The fallen It's nan floats above
he stars and Stripes because il is the aorious emblem
u all humanity.
AND, LIKE THAT BOY, THE RED cross Is YoIRs,
little while ago you subscribed for some Liberty
Bonds If you wealthy ii didni bother YOU much
II not maybe you had 10 pinch some Injuries or
perhaps borrow for time You did IL throuoh
patriotic motives. Good You were also paid for IT,
There is return to you of four and one-quorter
per cent profit your money. That profit does not
tant patriotism, but just the it is ser-n-
lerrst There's money-pront in what you've done
The appeal of the Red Cross in behalf Of any boy.
lying all and bloody out there contains no induce
Of return in interest coupons The Rcd Cross sim
ply says: Your boy is suffering unto death and we can
and him with your money
II boy sick in his comfortable bed al home
how would pay for medicine, nurses and doctors,
Would you ont money for him with any Thought
Of profit? Would you expect bearing coupons
YOU paid the bills? MOI You'd save your boy be-
rauSe he yours
That boy wriihng on the bloody battlefield is YOURS
Who put him there? YOU
What viii save hime YOUR MONEY IN THE RED
CROSS FUND.