Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1918-05-31
RED CROSS ACTIVITIES
Contributed by
MISS LOUISE AVER,
Secretary Olympia Chapter.

county. have made a magnificent re-
Spouse to the call of the second War
Fund campaign Far more than the
sum asked has been subscribed. This
means that there is complete conf
dence in the management of the Red
Cross.
1t makes one tremble to realize the
responsibility upon all and each of
us engaged in this work. to so con-
duct it that that confidence shall con-
tinue Once let the idea get abroad
that there is graft or great waste or
failure to meet needs in the distribu-
ton of these large sums of money.
and away goes that confidence, snap
shut the purses, the work ceases for
lack of funds, and suffering indie
scribable will follow
Let us then at any cost protect the
calumnies of others and from our
calumnies of others mad from our
own carelessness
That the work of the Red Cross so
far has been conducted with absolute
honesty and devotion there is no
question. And as to it's efficiency the
result speaks for itself. Even if we
could not take the word of the thou
sands of officials, magazine writer's,
and travellers to that effect, we have
the letters of our own boys to prove it.
One writes from Italy:
"You folks at home will never
he tho thin uc M En M q n
to these men who have no other
means of getting good warm clothing
and shoes. 1t can't be bought over
here, and they get only thirty cents
a week, and while their government
would buy, they can't get 1t. They
are brave men. and when your read
the history of their fight away up in
the snowy Alps, where they fought
with frozen feet you will be glad your
socks came here.
Il can't tell you of many things I
would like to, as war news must not
be sent by mail. The Red Cross has
a head warehouse here with over one
million of everything you can think
of for soldier and civilian, and they
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new ones opening every day. Many
large business men are here working
harder than they ever did, and for
nothing. Colonel Perkins, the head
here. is q big man from New York.
and some fine man.
II have been in France and my
heart Is wrung with pity for the Grip
pies and women in black, but you find
them brave everywhere, simply be-
cause the Red Cross has come to them
in their hour of great need and given
them the help they can understand
"You should be proud you belong
to the Red Cross and go on doing
your bit. It amt over yet. and next
winter everything that can be got
will be needed
Remember, we are not fighting
for anyone but ourselves, to save our
women and children from the horror
Of what came to Belgium. What each
one Of US does counts for little, but
the whole is a big thing"
1t Is not pleasant, nor Is 1t neces-
sary after all the Trustworthy infor-
nation We have received, to repeat
tales Of German cruelty and, treach-
cry. induced by their mistaken phil
0sophy, but every Red Cross worker
should know this one, related by the
manager of the Southwestern divi-
sion. He writes:
while I was at the British front,
scarce month ago, there occurred an
incident which illustrates what man
ner of Thing we are lighting 1t was
related to me by an English chaplain,
who was an eyewitness:
IA Tommy had fallen in No Mans
Land as the attack passed ON down
the trench. A surgeon went to his
aid; as he approached he was hailed
by German officer who was lying
wounded In a shell hole about twenty
feet away, who said in English:
Please. doctor, come tie up my
shattered leg or will bleed to
death
1.-THE British soldier said: Go
ahead. doctor, / can wait
80 the surgeon bound up the Ger
mans wound and staunched the flow
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Englishman. Hardly was his back
turned. however. when the German
drew his pistol and killed him.
Nov 1t wasn't blood lust which
caused the Hun to kill the surgeon
who had just saved his life, but It
was that horrible kultur, bred into
him for generations, which had taught
him that surgeon il worth 500 men,
because he will mend 500 men and
send them back to the fighting line.
THAT same kultur has forced our
stretcher bearers to discard the bras
sard from their left arm-that
Geneva Red Cross-which has for
generations been the signal of the
non-combatant, but which kultur con-
siders fair target. And the Hun
thus figures stretcher bearer as the
equal of IL men-when he kills One."
Southwest Is Booming.