The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1918-11-23
FOR ALL HUMANITY"
SHOWN BEFORE 1900
Red Cross Picture Enthusiastically
Received ut -Armory-Dr. pcITy's
Lecture Fitting Climax to Meeting

For All Humanity, the Red Cros.
, picture, shown at the ArmOry las
night before at least 1000 people
was one of the most appealing pie
lures ever flashed on the screen il
this city. The story. which was
filmed in the Norma Talmadge Stu
dio, at New York, dealt with Mr.. a0C
Mrs Morgan and their baby, "BoDs.
The father, unable to bear The thou
ght that he was staying home, While
the country was calling for yolun-
| teers TO help crush the powers who
We're numbering women and children
leaves his family and enters the ser
vice.
1t is not long before he needs d
isweater, and he is told that the Red
Cross will furnish him with one.
From then he appeals to this organi-
zation whenever in need of a friend.
When the Wife writes that Bobs is
i'll, and she has not the money 10
leah a physician, Private Morgan con
fides in Red Cross worker at camp,
who teIegraphs the director of the
Home Service Branch to visit Mrs.
Morgan in her home and see that the
baby receives medical attention.
The picture then changes TO the
| overseas work OF the Red Cross, and
these pictures were taken under fire
and We're actual scenes of the fight
ing in France. They showed how the
Red Cross cantcen workers met the
soldiers at the trains. furnishing
thesm with coffee, like mother used
to make" Then the screen carried
the audience to the storehcuses of
Naples and Paris, where the vast sup
plies made by millions of American
| women, are sent for distribution. The
dangerous WORK OF the ambulance
drivers, stretcher bearers and faith
ful nurses, Watching over the WOun-
ded while the enemy planes shelled
the hospital, did not pass unnoticed.
The picture ended with showing the
Red Cross, which caused an outburst
OF great applause.
Following the photoplay. Dr. Fred
erick \. Perry. a member of the War
! Council Of the \. r. c., delivered one
OF the strongest. addresses presented
in Cambridge ut any war meeting.
uGd before he lad finished it was
plainly evident that the message had
! sunk deep into the hearts of the au-
dience. He started by telling a few
amusing stories TO the children, who
occupied the front seats, and as Inem-
beYs Of the Junior Red Cross display
ed a keen interest in the happenings
OF the evening. In this way Dr.. Per
ry won their hearts and they became
deeply interested in the lecture.
Then the speaker launched out in
to an explanation of just how far
the dollars, given to the greatest hu
name society in the world, went to-
ward healing the wounded, caring
for the discouraged soldiers, provid-
ing food and clothing for refugees,
and a hundred ways in which the
Red Cross is serving not only Ameri-
ca, but every nation in the world,
with the exception of the Huns, who,
INSTEAD of welcoming the Red Cross,
have turned their wrath upon the or
ganization.
DR.. Perry spoke of the odd way in
which England had pictured our men.
He said that when the nation heard
that American soldiers would soon
be on their soil, they immediately
formed all sorts of ways to entertain
the boys. From many of our wild
West movies, they had gotten the i'm
preston that our SammieS drank,
walked the streets with pistols at
their sides, and it was even whis-
pered that our army would be dress
ed like cowboys. with visions OF all
this" the speaker went on, the
whisky element built a saloon twice
the size OF this Armory within six
feet. of one of the American camps,
and filled it with everything 20 drink.
And 1 saw those brave, resolute
American soldiers boycott that place
in such short time that it absolute
ly went out Of business"
when the Germans were only a
comparatively short distance from
Paris, General Pershing stepped in
and with the firmness for which he
is noted, said, For Gods sake. buck
up, France Torn asunder as the
nation was, it was hard thing for
her to do. With her men killed and
her towns in ruins, she had little en-
enlargement to go on. But here
the American Red Cross stepped in.
French hospitals, the ones which
had missed being shelled, were in a
dreadful condition. The cots and
tresses saturated thru and thru, and
there was no clean linen in which tC
dress the suffering soldiers. After
having been wounded and discharg-
ed from service, the men were sent
home to their loved ones in dirty,
ragged clothes.
The Red Cross grasped this sit
uatiCn, and went into France, estab-
fishing over 5000 hospitals. With q
corps of American nurses and doe
tors, who had not been through fou1
years of sickening war, and decent,
respectable places for fighters to be
taken to after they had met the Hun
with clean clothes and food for wo,
men and children who had lost theil
homes, with reunion of families
which had not been known since the
first attack began, France took new
lease on life And on Christmas Day
last year, when thousands of AmerF
can troops marched through The
streets of Paris, the men actually