Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1918-05-24
NO LIMIT SET ON EFFORT OF AMERICANS
SAYS WILSON IN PLEA FOR RED GROSS


Of the Italian government was explain |
ing TO him che many reasons why Italy /
felt near to the United States. He
said: If you want to try an inter. |
esting experiment go up 10 any one
OF these troop trains and ask in En- !
gliSh how many Of them have been In
America and see what happens He
tried the experiment. He went up to
a troop train and said, How many of
you boys have been In American and
he said 1t seemed TO him as II half OF
them sprang up. Me from San Fran
cisco; me from New York. all over.
Love America.
There was part OF the heart OF
America In the Italian army. People
that had been knitted to us by asso-
citation, who knew US, who had lived
amongst va, who had worked shoulder
10 shoulder with us, and now friends
of America, were lighting for their ma
tive Italy.
Friendship Is the only cement that
viii ever hold the world together, Ana
this intimate contact of the great Red
Cross with the peoples who are suf-
fering the terrors and deprivations OF
this war Is going to be one or the
greatest Instrumentallties OF friend
ship that the world ever knew and the
center of the heart of IL all, II we
sustain Ii will be land that we so
dearly love.
"My friends. great day OF duty
has come, and duty finds a mans soul
as no kind OF work can ever find It.
Rape Profiteers.
May l say this1 The duty that
faces us all now is to serve one an
other and no man can afford TO make
fortune out of this war. There are
men amongst us who have forgotten
that, IL they ever saw 1t. Some OF you
are old enough am old enough 70
remember men who made fortunes out
OF the Civil war and you know how
they were regarded by their fellow
citizens. That was war to save one
cOuntry-this Is war to save the
world. And your relation to the Red
Cross Is one OF the relations which
will relieve you of the stigma. You
can't give anything to the government
of the United States-lt won't accept
1t. There is a law Of congress against
accepting even services without pay.
| The only thing that the government
will accept Is loan and duties per
| formed, but 1t is a great deal better
10 give than to lend or pay, and your
great channel for giving is the Ameri-
! can Red Cross. Down In your hearts
| you can't take very much satisfaction
In the last analysis, In lending money
l to the government Of the United
States because the interest which you
draw will burn your pockets. 1t is a
commercial transaction, and some men
have even dared to cayil at the rate
of interest, not knowing the inciden-
tai commentary that that constitutes
upon their attitude.
Giving 4 Pleasure.
"But when you give. something Of
your heart, something Of your soul.
something of yourself goes with the
gift, particularly when II is given in
such form that II never can come back
by way of direct benefit to yourself.
You know there is the old cynical def
milton of gratitude as "the lively ex-
pectatlon of fayors to come Well.
there IS no expectation of favors 10
come in this kind OF giving. These
things are bestowed In order that the
world may be a filter place to live In,
that men may be succored; that homes
may be restored; that suffering may
be relieved; that the face OF the earth
may have the blight OF destruction
taken away from 1t, and that wherever
force goes, there shall go mercy and
helpfulness.
Until IL Hurts.
"And when you give, give abso-
lutely all that you can spare, and don't
consider yourself liberal I'm the giving.
If you give with self adultation. you
are not giving at all; you are giving to
your own vanity, but II You give until
it hurts, then your heart blood goes
into 1t.
"And think what we have here,
We call 1t the American Red Cross
but 1t Is merely q branch Of great
international organization, which Il
not only recognized by the statutes
OF each of the civilized governments
Of the world, but 1t Is recognized and
accepted fundamentally Of mercy
and succor. And one of the deepest
stains that rests upon the reputation
, OF the German army Is that they
have not respected the Red Gross.
THAT goes to the root OF the mat
ter. They have not respected the
fundamentally they themselves par
ticlpated In setting up as the THING
which no man was TO touch because
It was the expression OF common
humanity. We are members, by be
Ing members of the American Rec
Cross, of a great fraternity and com
radeship. which extends all over tbs
world, and this cross which these
ladies bore today Is an emblem o.
Christianity Itself.
Workers Praised.
1T fills my imagination. ladies and
gentlemen, TO think of the women al
over this country who are busy to
night and are busy every night ant
every day doing the work OF the Ret
Cross: busy with great eagernesi
! to find out the most serviceabie' thtni
to do: busy with a f0rgetfuiness D
all the old frivoIlties of their socia
relationships; ready to eurtail th'
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