The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-12-05
WORK OF THE RED
CROSS MUST GO ON
End of Actual Warfare Does Net
Mean the Organizations Usefulness
Is- Past

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Ion the western: front the guns are
silent today. The Eboats are grow
ing barnacies in an English port. King
Albert has come to his. own again.
The Boys will soon start heading
for home. The war is done, although
If will he a long time before all are
back. ..t.sv
Does this mean that the Red Cross
shall take off it's uniform now, fold up
its sheets and towels, roll up its
bandages. and fold its hands? Never!
The Red Cross has just begun its
work. Long after peace has been de-
clarad, long after the Kaiser lies
Wondering in his grave, the Red
Cross will be marching on! 1t viii
halt only when men and women no
| longer know suffering, war, accident,
flood, fire. tornadoes, ill-health, woe.
| For the Red Cross has opened mems
eyes, and they will not allow it TO
stop.
i 1t is not too much to say that the Red
| Cross is the greatest single agent in
! the world today 10 prevent another
such horrible war. as, we have just
passed through. That's why the Red
| Cross is going straight ahead, why it
must not, can not, stopi
What can the Red Cross do TO pre-
vent other wars, what can it do for
immediate relief now? Look at Eu-
rope In Poland not a child alive un-
der seven years of age, No crops, no
work no food! What kind Of citizens
viii the babies now 10 be born make
If some one, some organization, does
not step in and give them decent
chance? Where The babies are I'M
fed, untaught, there grows a race that
!; knows not law nor order, that turns
10 fighting and to throat-Cutting as
the natural thing. And then anoth-
or war The Red Cross will see to it
that these babies get fair start tow
ard decent citizenship. 1t is for them
that the Red Cross will not stop.
In Belgium men sit and gaze al
heaps OF stones. Here is man whose
! house is gone, his three children dead
his wife dead somewhere in Germany
: after worse than death. The man can
not find even the borders of his owr
property He is bitter-he would like
TO kill-and he has nothing to eat OF
: to wear. To him the, Red eros:
comes; for him. ii finds food and cloth
ing and shelter, and work-and hi
will go again about his life. Ii is fol
d.
= not cease its work.
In France. children who were
! caught in the. horrible days of 1871
have forgotten where they lived wht
their fathers and mothers were, VIII
: they are themselves. They still liy'
in terror of those days For them tn
Red Cross is going on. In Italy, il
e Russia. in Servia, children are make
= and starving In northern Italy
f woman was found dripping bloc
: from her own wrist into cup of wa
i ter with which to feed her baby. Tn
), child had had nothing else for 81
; days, The Red Cross found her
b, and is going to find others like he
II for we are only beginning to see wha
G, poverty, what waste, the war ha
Id made. II is to make these unfortu
p. nate people safe for the world this
y the Red Cross must work with great
* er zeal than ever.
- But nearer home. In Boston a We
MAJ was found whose husband ha
= been 6ghting for your flag and min
y in France. Her landlord had turne
u her out of his house, she had fi5
s. with her three children to celia
l.. and in that cellar her twin babit
tf we're born. One died! And when II
~ Red Cross found her, able to spea
n only two or three words OF Englis
no overlooked by the government in II
MS terrible rush of BUSINESS, she hs
If kept her dead baby for a wee
=, wrapped in an old newspaper.
- But help in time of war is not a
~ Far from il, II is only step fro
i the temporary relief to wounds al
Il. | hunger in the wsr OF guns to 4
tt permanent help il the war to live
,u peace. The world is eagerly turnil
oo TO the Red Cross to make il health
- and strong and happy in the broade
IL meaning of those words. And I'M
re- disease is forever gone the Red Gro
re- cannot cease its work
n Remember Halifax-what mig
u that awful disaster not have beeor
without the help II the Red Cros
Remember the 1G,ol9 people kille
the POI S33 people injured, in train a
I'n cidents in this country in the We
no ending December 81. 1916. But for /
Ire Red Cross many OF the 201.S32 mig
have died. Accidents are with US ye
al fires VIII sweep our cities, explosio
- will blow up munitions plants, el
II denies like the Influenza will car
off their .sighty thousand victims.
dal waves viii, swcep'in as upon o.
bee the other DAY and then in !
thickest of The ho.ror the VOL
: will look fer-eeand Gnd--the love
tiie Great Mother. the unspeakal
j, comfort Of the Rcd Cross.