Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1918-12-18
WORK or THE RED
CROSS MUST GO ON
End Of Actual Warfare Does Not
Mean the orasnixatisn's Usefulness
10 Past

On the western front the guns are
silent today. The Uboats are grow
ing barnaclts in an English port King
Albert has come to his own again
The Boys III soon start heading
for horne. The war Is done, althougi
II will be long time before all a.
back.
Does this mean that the Red Cros
shall lake OF It's uniform now. fold VI
It's sheets ard towels. roll up It's
ssndages. and fold rs hcnas? Newer
The ked Cross has Just begun IL
work. Long after peace has been de-
clared. long after the Kaiser lie
Wondering in his grave. the Rrd
Cross will be marching on II wi
halt only when IN and women
longer knaw suffering. war. aeciden
flood. FIRE, tornadoes, iil-haai.h, VIC.
For the Red Cross has opened men
eyes, and they will not allow ii Il
stop.
1t is not TOO much TO say that the Rec
Cross Is the greatest single agent /.
the word day TO prevent another
such hor.iise ar as we have Just
passed through That's wh. the Red
Cross is going straight ahead, why il
must not. can not, stop,
What can the Red Cross do TO PR
vent other wars. what can IL do TO
immediate relief now Look at En-
rope, In Poland not child alive un-
der seven years OF age! No crops. no
work. no foodi What kind Of citizen
win the babies now to be born max,
Ii some one. some organization, does
no, step in and give them decen'
chance? Where the babies are ns
fed, untsrght. there grows a race thai
knows not law nor order. that turns
ie fighting and to throat cutting a.
the natural thing. And then anoth
or war The Red Cross will see to il
that these babies get fair start tow
ard decent citizenship. II 10 for Their
that 'he Red Cross will not stop.
In Belgium mon SIT and gaze at
heaps OF stones Here Is man hoS'
house is gone. his th-ee children dead
his lie dead somewhere in German.
after worse than death. The man car
not find even the borders OF his o~i
property He is bitier-he would lik
to kIll-snd he Ia. nothing TO eat a
TO wear To him the Red Cro$
comes: for him /, hnds food and cloth
ing and shelter, and work-and
will 20 again about his life. II IL 70
such q. he thai the Red CroaS cal
not cease ITS work.
In France, ehifdrm who we're
eanshi in the horrible days 81 1914
have forgotten where they lived. who
their fathers and mothers we're, who
they are themselves They etiii live
In terror Of those days. For them The
Red Cross is going on. In italy, IN
Russia, in Servia. children are naked
md starving. In northern Italy q
woman Vas found dripping blood
nom her own wrist into . cup Of VA
ter With which To feed her baby. This
: child had had nothing else for siz
lays. The Red Cross found her
and 10 going 10 8nd others like her
FOR We are only beginning to see what
ppNC4 W. what N&oSrs Ahc W&s ms
; made. IL Ia 10 make these unfortu-
nate people safe for the world thai
the Red Cross must work with great
Or seal than ever.
But nearer home. la Boston . 70
man was found whose husband had
been nghtinE for your nss and mine
in Franco. Her landlord had turned
her out Of his house. she had nsd
with her three children to . cellar
and In that cellar her twin babies
were born. One died! And when the
Red Cross found her, able to speax
only two or three words of English
overlooked By The government In the
terrible rush of business. she had
kept her dead baby for q week
vrapped In an old Newspaper
But help in lime OF war IL not all
Far from IL. II is only q step from
the temporary elief to wounds and
hunger in the war of guns to the
permanent help In the war to live in
peace. The world 10 eagerly turning
10 the Red Cross to make II healthy
and strong and happy in the broadest
meaning OF those words. And until
disease Ia forever gone the Red Cross
cannot cease its work
Remember Halifax-vhat might
that awful disaster not have become
Without the help of the Red Cross /?
Remember the 1o.51s people killed.
the 2ol ,3s3 people injured. in train ac-
dents in this country in the year
ending December 81. 1915. But for the
Red Cross many of the 2ol ,3ss might
have died. Accidents are with US yet;
nres win sweep our cities. explosions
viii blow up munitions plants. cpl
denies like the influenza viii carry
on their eighty thousand Victims. IT,
axl waves win sweep In as upon Que
tec the other day-and then in the
thickest OF the horror the world
win look for-and fnd-the love OF
the Great Mother. the unspeakAble
can.fcvf of the RcH rrooa