The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1918-12-09
WORK or The RED
Cross MUST GO ON
Esd 81 Actual Warfare Dsss Net
near the 0rSAnGaatieHs Usefulness
ID East

On the ives. EN- front the guns are
sitsnt today. The U.boats are groT
ing HaTp4eIes in III English port King
q Albert has come 10 his own again.
Tns Boys" will soon start heading
for hoEae The war isgdone. although
* Win be long time before all are
kgek M
Does this mean that the Red Gross
shAA tSke OF its uniform now. fold up
1 tFE Eheets and towels, roll up it's
3 panGSges. and fold its hands? Never
1'Ee RED Cross has just begun its
work, Long after peace has been de-
3 elarec tl0ng after the Kaiser lies
1 snauLdeFng in his grave, the Red
Cross viii be marching on! 1t will
8 halt only when men and women no
4 tdnser Know suffering. war. accident.
EQod ere, tornadoes, ill-heslth. woe
q For the Ned Cross has opened mems
xyes and they will not allow it to
a stop. E
IT ts NOT 100 much to say that the Red
8 Cross is the greatest single agent in
s the world today to prevent another
q such horrible war as we have just
8 passed through. That's why the Red
Sa'oss ia going straight ahead, why it
nu4t not, can not, stop!
s. EWhatScAh the Red Cross do to pre-
a yeHt other wars, what can it do for
ilEtned relief nov? Look at Eu-
rope Iii Poland not child alive I'M
der seven years OF age! No crops, no
Il work. no food! What kind OF citizens
q will the. babies now to be born make
nissOgaS one, some organization. does
rot step in and give them decent
chance 3 Where the babies are IN
fed, untaNght, there grows race that
Knows not law nor order, that turns
! TO- lighting and to throat cutting as
s. the natural thing And then anOth
D sr war The Red Cross will see to it
4 that thaek babies get a fair start tow
Il ara decent citizenship, 1t III for them
j tAat the Red Cross will not stop.
In belgium men sit and gaze at
heaps ~ stones Here is man whose
house IL gone. his three children dead.
his wife dead somewhere III Germany
after worse than death. The man can
not ind even the borders of his own
propertX n He is bitter he would like
80 XIII ZAnd he has nothing to eat or
10. wear TO him the Red Cross
comes #ea Ii i'm it finds food and cloth
Ing aud Shelter, AMI w0rk--and' he
viii 80 gain about his life. It is for
ench as he that the Red Cross can
not cease its work.
SIN France. children who were
caught - the horrible days of 1914
have forgotten whefe they lived, who
their fathers and mothers sere. who
they are themselves They still live
IN terror OF those days For them the
Red Gross is COINS on ], In Italy, in
HusAaa, in SerYia, children are naked
ead starving In. northern Italy a
woman was found dripping blood
from her own wrist into a cup of wa
ter with which TO feed her baby. The
ehila had had nothing else for six
days! The Red Cross found her
ara is going TO find others like her,
for we are only beginning to see what
poverty. what waste, the war has
made 1t is to make these unfortu-
nate people Safe fur the world that
the n Ell Cross must work with great
81 zeal than ever.
b But nearer home. In Boston wo-
fsaAG was found whose husband had
! D0NA lighting sfof ysur hag and mlue
in France. Her landlord had turned
3 her out OF Ills hoase, size had fed
with her three cAildren TO cellar,
and in that celIac her twin babies
were born. One Gfed! And when the
Red Cross found her, able TO speak
OILY two or three words Of English,
s. Overlooked by The government in the
terrible rush OF business, she had
I Kept herr dead baby for "a week.
wrapped in an old newspaper.
But help in time OF war Is not all
Far from it. 1t is only step from
the Temporary relief 10 wounds and
munger In the wSr of guns to the
permanent help in the war 10 live in
peace ashe world is eagerly turning
to the Red Cross ID make ii healthy
aud strong aud hsRpy in the broadcast
meaning OF these words. And until
disease is tCreyef svne the Red Cross
cannot cease its NY5fk,
HemeIhberf y FRI lax what might
that 4wflsf dis&sssr not hare become
Without FAe help II the Red Gross 7
Remember the 10 a49 people killed,
tie 201. 8SS people .Alnred, in train ac-
eiaents ins this' ciiantry inIhe year
ending useelnsers$i asia Bat for the
Red Cross many OF the 2ol,sss might
have died. Accidents are with us yet;
nFes Will sweep eI: cities. explosions
viii blow up mutations. plants. cpl
deMies like the. iatuenza win carry
GR their eighty tia5tSsana victims, IL
q gal waves Win sweep in as upon Que
bee the ether d. and then in the
4 tfieksst or the n3-rcr the world
viii look for AT, fiRd--tAe love OF
B me Great Mothei the uRspeakaeie
comfort sOf the Re; Cross
Two great Thoughts are in the MIND
q of the Red Cross Il aims 81 temper
AIRY rsiieflf from pair, zud sickness and
AesrJschS H. also aims al creating
thSt background CT love and Kind
llsss and friendship without which
War will sweep us again and again.
nAt with which we shall in Time have
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