Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1918-05-23

ing Is the American ReQ Gross.
Down in your hearts you can't
take very much satisfaction, in the
last analysis, in lending money to the
government of the United States be-
cause the interest you draw will burn
your pockets; it is commercial
transaction, and some men have even
dared to cavil at the rate of interest,
not knowing the incidental commen-
tary that constitutes upon their atti-
tude
But when you give, something of
your heart, something of your soul,
something of yourself goes with the
gift, particularly when it is given in
such form that it never can come
self. You know there is the old Gym
ical definition Of gratitude, as the
lively expectation Of favors to come"
No FayOrs to Come.
"Well, there is no expectation of
favors to come in this kind of CIV
ing. These things are bestowed in
order that the world may be filter
place to live In, that men may be
succored; that homes may be restor-
ed; that suffering may be relieved;
that the face of the earth may have
the blight of destruction taken away
from it, and that. t.wherever force goes,
there shall go mercy and helpfulness.
And when you give, give abso-
lutely all that you can spare, and
don't consider yourself liberal in the
giving. If you give with self-adula-
tion you are not giving at all, you
are giving to your own vanity, but If
you give until it hurts, then your
heart blood goes into it.
Scope International.
"And think what we have here;
we call it the American Red Cross,
but it is merely branch of a great
International organization which is
not only recognized by the statutes of
each of the civilized governments of
the world, but is recognized by inter-
national agreement and treaty as the
recognized and accepted instrument
tality of mercy and succor. And one
of the deepest stains that rests on the
reputation of the German army is
that they have not respected the Red
Cross. -
'That goes to the root of the mat
ter. They have not respected the in
they themselves par
ticipated in setting up as the thing
which no man was to touch, because
1t was the expression of common hu-
manity.
Emblem of Christianity.
eve are members, by being men,
bers of the American Red Cross, of
q great fraternity and comradeship
which extends allover the world, and
this cross that these women bore to-
day is an emblem of Christianity it,
self.
Tribute to Women.
"It fills my Imagination to think
of the women all over the country
who are busy tonight and every night
and every day doing the work of
the Red Cross, busy with a great
eagerness to find out the most serv-
tceable thing to do, busy with a for
getfulness of all the old frivolities of
their social relationships, ready to
curtail the duties of the household in
order that they may contribute to
this common work that all their
hearts are engaged in, and in doing
which their hearts become acquaint-
ed with each other.
Into One Family.
when you think of this you real
ize how the people of the United
States are being drawn together into
a great intimate family whose heart
Is being used for the service of the
soldiers not only, but for the service
of civilians, where they /suffer and
are lost in a maze of distresses and
Aberty's Servants.
"And you have this noble picture
of justice and mercy as the two serv-
ants of Liberty
For only where men are free do
they think the thoughts of comrade-
ship; only where they are free do
they think the thoughts Of sympathy;
only where they are free are they
helpful; only, where they are
free do they realize their dependence
on one another and their comrade-
ship in common interest and COM
mon necessity.
Story Of Indian.
"I heardd story told the other day
that was ridiculous. tut is worth
because it contains the
germ of truth.
An Indian was enlisted in the
army. He returned to the reservation
ON a furlough.
y "He was asked what he thought of
1 t. He said: Not much good; too
much salute; not much shoot. Then
he was asked Are you going .back?'
Yes
Reply Of Indian. &, 81
well. do you know what you are
fighting for? Yes, me know; fight to
make whole damn world Democratic
party :, = 5l.!
He evidently had misunder Stood
some innocent sentence OF my own.
But after all, although there is no
party purpose In 1t, he got It right
as far as the world party to make
the whole world democratic in the
sense Of community Of interest and Of
purpose, and if you could read some
Of the touching dispatches which
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