The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1918-11-14

Red Cross and its money and atten-
tion always move toward and focus
themselves in Europe where the
American Red Cross, as truly "the
greatest mother in the world" is
seeking to draw "a vast net of
mercy through an ocean of unspeak-
able 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.
BY the first of January, your Red
Cross will have working in France
upwards of 5000 Americans vivid
contrast to the little group of
eighteen men and women which, as
the first Red Cross Commission to
France, sailed about June /, 1917, to
initiate our efforts in Europe.
Under your Commission to France
the work has been carefully organ
lied, facilities have been provided,
and effective efforts made to so CO.
operate with the Army as to carry
out the determination of the Amer
lean people, and especially of the
members of the Red Cross, that our
boys lover there" shall lack for
F.. nothing which may add to their
safety, comfort and happiness.
Your Red Cross now has active,
operating commissions in France, in
England, In Italy, in Belgium, in
| Switzerland, in Palestine and in
Greece. You have sent shipload of
relief supplies and group of de-
voted workers to northern Russia /,
you have despatched a commission to
work behind our armies in eastern
Siberia; you have sent special rep
resentatives to Denmark, to Serbia
and to the Island of Madeira.
Your Red Cross Is thus extending
irelief to he armies and navies of our
! Allies; and you are carrying prac.
tical message Of hope and relief tc
the friendly peoples of afflicted Eu
Irope and Asia.
Indeed, we are told by those besi
Uniformed in the countries of cul
Allies that the efforts of your Red
Cross to aid tho soldiers and to
sustain the morale Of the civilian
populations left at home, especially In
France and Italy, have constituted q
very real factor in winning the war.
The veil has already begun to lift.
The detection of Bulgaria, which
by the time this message can be
read, may have been followed by
events still more portentous. may
point the way to yet greater Red
Cross opportunity and obligation.
"The cry from Macedonia" to come
and help will probably prove one Of
the most appealing messages to
which the world has ever listened.
What the Red Cross may be called
upon to do in the further course of
the war, or with the coming of
victory, peace and reconstruction, il
would be idle to attempt to prophesy,
But your great organization, in
very truth "the modified heart and
spirit of the whole American people,
has shown itself equal to any call,
ready to respond to any emergency.
The American Red Cross has be-
come not so much an organization as
great movement, seeking to em6cdy
in organized form the spirit of ser
vice, the spirit of sacrifice in short,
all that is best and highest in the
ideals and aspirations of our country.
Indeed we cannot but believe that
this wonderful spirit which service
in and for the Red Cross has evoked
in this war; is destined to become in
our sational lift an element of per-
manent value.
At Christmas time we shall ask the
whole American people to answer the
Red Cross Christmas roll call. It
will constitute an unique appeal to
every man, woman and child in this
great land of ours to become enrolled
in our army of mercy.
It is the hone of the War Council