Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1918-10-23
ey or in material values, net total
of at least 100000.

This outpouring of generosity in
material things has been accompanied
by. a spontaneity in the giving, by
an enthusiasm and devotion in the
doing, which, after all, are greater
and bigger than could be anything
measured in terms Of time or dollars.
It has been because of this spirit
which has pervaded all American Red
Gross effort in this war that thefaged
governor of one of the stricken and
battered provinces of France stated,
not long since, that, though France
had long known Americas greatness
of strength and enterprise. it re-
NAMED for the American Red Cross
in this war to reveal Americas heart.
In this country, at this moment,
the workers of the Red Cross. through
its chapters, are helping to add to
the comfort and health of the mil
lions of our soldiers in 1O2 camps
and cantonments, as we'll as of those
travelling on railroad trains or en-
barking on ships for duty overseas.
The Home Service of the Red
Cross, with it's now more than 10000
workers, is extending its ministra-
tions of sympathy and counsel each
month to upwards of 100000 fami-
lies left behind by soldiers at the
front-a number ever growing with
the increase of our men under arms.
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But of course, the heart OF the
Red Cross and its money and atten-
ton always move toward and focus
themselves in Europe where the Am
erican Red Cross, as truly "the great
est mother in the world is seeking
to draw "a vast net of mercy through
an ocean of unspeakable pain"
Nothing is withheld that can be
given over there to supplement the
efforts of our Army and Navy in car
ing for our own boys. The Red Cross
does not pretend to do the work OF
the Medical Corps of the Army or
the Navy; its purpose is to help and
to supplement.
Nor does the Red Cross seek to
glorify what it does or those who do
it: our satisfaction is in the result,
which, we are assured by Secretary
Baker, General Pershing, General
Ireland and all our leaders, is of in
estimable value and of indispensable
Importance.
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By the first of January, your Red
Cross will have working in France
upwards of 5000 Americans-a Wv
id contrast to the little group of
eighteen men and women which, as
the first Red Cross Commission to
France, sailed about June l, 1917,
to initiate our efforts in Europe.
Under your Commission to France
the work has been carefully organi-
zed, facilities have been provided,
and effective efforts made to so CO.
operate with the Army as to carry
out the determination of the Ameri-
can people, and especially of the mem
bers of the Red Cross, that our boys
over there shall lack nothing which
may add to their safety, comfort and
happiness.
Your Red Gross now has active,
operating commissions in France, in
England, i'm Italy, in Belgium, IN
Switzerland. in Palestine and in
Greece. You have sent shipload OF
relief supplies and group of devot-
ed workers to Northern Russia; you
have dispatched a commission to
work behind our armies in eastern
Siberia; you have sent special repre-
sentatives to Denmark, to Serbia and
to the Island of Madeira.
Your Red Cross is thus extending
relief to the armies and navies of our
Allies; and you are carrying a prac-
tical message of hope and relief to
the friendly peoples of afflicted Eu-
rope and Asia.
Indeed, we are told by those best
informed in the countries of our AL
lies that the efforts of your Red
Cross to aid the soldiers and to sus-
tain the morale of the civilian pop
ulations left at home, especially in
France and Italy, have constituted
very real factor in winning the
war
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The veil has begun to lift.
The detection Of Bulgaria, which
by the time this message can be
read, may have been followed by