The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-12-10
THE ROLE CALL.


and December 23rd it is hoped that every man
an woman in Escambia county will be enrolled
as a member Of the American Red Cross. DR..
Davidson, in recent announcement, has said
that the American Red Cross is at this time IN
a most fourishing condition, and the fund which
will be raised through the Christmas Roll Call
will be sufficient to pay all expenses OF the ma
tional organization for the coming year.
It is little thing to do for one of the greatest
agencies for good that the world has ever known
The Red Cross is not only agency for the re-
lief of human suffering. It is wonderfully or
ganized body, with the greatest men of the ma
tons affairs at its head. The president of the
United States is the president of the Red Cross
and on it's executive board are the brainest and
most successful business men and the most con-
secrated humanitarians in the country.
No one in Pensacola needs to be told what the
work of the Red Cross is or what it has done.
Of all the good things that have sprung from the
murk and blood of the war wrecked world, none
has been SO potent, none powerful, none so
marvellous in possibilities for good as the great
Red Cross organization, which has become in
deed the sbulwark against evil and the fortress
against danger"
It's ministrations have followed the soldier
from the moment he has left his own doorstep
until he has gone across into the Valley of the
Shadow of Death, or until he has come back
from battle all-conquering
But this is only an infinitesimal part of what
the Red Cross has accomplished. It has been
the Mother of the World, it's strong and gentle
arms have been EMBODIED about those left at
home as well as those who have gone abroad,
and many soldier has gone out to battle and
won his victor's cross because Of that other
flaming of crimson that he knew the
insignia of protection for his dear ones at home.
The military relief and the civilian relief COM
mittees of the Red Cross have done some won
derful work in this war. They have stood back
of the man the firing line and they have put
courage into his heart and comfort into his
home.
The Red Cross has not done any trumpeting
about its work. It has not proclaimed it's chart
ties from the house top. Indeed, it has done no
charity work.
For the Red Cross has not looked upon it's
good deeds as charity, but instead has played
the part of handmade to the government. Where
allotments were delayed, where funds ran low
where there was sorrow and suffering induced
on account of the havoc of the war. The Red
Cross has gone out to aid and to succor and
protect, not in the spirit of charity but with
that broad brotherly love that knew not creed |
nor color.
NO one IN PENSACOLA needs to be told of the |
work that the Red Cross did in the Emergency
Relief work during the influenza epidemic that |
swept this country. That work will go down in |
history. It has already been recorded in the ma
tional annals of the Red Cross and published in |
the Red Cross Bulletin as an example for other
cities to follow.
The work of the woman's division of the Red |
Cross has been cited both in Washington and at |
of the southeastern division for |
its splendid work. The canteen corps of the Red |
Cross has received national recogniztion in let
tiers and Bulletin reports.
If ever in all the history of the nation, the |
state, the county the city there has been an |
organization which has given itself to devoted, /
unselfish, consecrated work for others, it has
been the American Red Cross.
In the week to come the Red Cross will not |
make solicitation for large sums of money, but |
instead will try to distribute this solicitation in
such way that each may do a small part, thus
raising the fund needed for carrying on the
work of the Red Cross.
1t is believed by those who are in touch with
world conditions today, that the work of the
Red Cross is just begun. For it is organized pri-
marily for humanitarian work, and it's need is no
less great in time of peace than in time of war.
1t is confidently stated that the work of the
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