The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-10-23
People Haze
GiUen 1926, 900 Through
Red Gross, DnUiSOn Says

and battered provinces Of Franc
stated, %not long since, that though
France chad long known of America
| greatness, strength and enterprise
it remained for the American Rel
Cross in this war to reveal America!
heart.
TN this country, at this moment
| the workers aof the Red Cros!
! through it's chapters. are helping tt
add to the comfort and health of the
! millions of our soldiers in 102 camps
| and cantonments, as we'll as of those
| travelling on railroad trains or en-
| barking on ships for duty overseas
THE Home Service of the Red
Cross. with its now more than 49,
900 workers, Is extending its minis
stra tions Of sympathy and counsel
each month to upwards of 100000
families left behind by soldiers at the
front-a number ever growing with
the increase of our men under arms,
But of course, the heart Of the
Red Cross and its money and atten-
ton always move toward and focus
themselves in Europe. Nothing is
withheld that can be given over
there to supplement the efforts of
our army. and navy caring for our
own boys. Our satisfaction is the
result, which. we are assured by
Secretary Baker, General Pershing,
General Ireland and all our leaders,
is of inestimable value and of indis-
pensable Importance. "=s
BY the first of January, your Red
Cross will have working in France
upwards of 5,000&Americans-a Wv
id contrast to the little group of
eighteen men and women, which, as
the first Red Cross Commission to
France. sailed about June 1, 1917, to
initiate our efforts in. Europe.
t'Under your Commission to
France the work has been carefully
organized, facilities have been pro-
vided. and effective efforts made to
so cooperate with the army as to
carry out the determination of the
American people, and especially Of
the members of the Red Cross, that
our boys lover there" shall lack for
nothing which may add to. their
safety, comforts and happiness.
Your Red Cross now has active,
operating commissions in France, in
England, in Italy, in Belgium, in
Switzerland. in Palestine and in
Greece. Pou have sent a shipioad of
relief supplies and a group of de-
voted workers to northern Russia;
you have dispatched a commission
to work behind our armies in eastern
Siberia; you have sent special rep
resentatives to Denmark. to Serbia
and to the Island of MADEIRA.
Your Red Cross is thus extending
relief to the armies and navies of
our allies. We are told by those
best informed in the countries of
our allies that the efforts of the He'd
Cross to aid the soldiers and to sus-
tain the morale of the civilian popu-
lations left at home, especially in
France and Italy, have constituted a
very real factor in winning the war.
what the Red Cross may be call-
ed upon to do in the further. course
of the war or with the coming of
victory, peace and reconstruction, it
would be idle to attempt to prophe-
sy. But your great organization in
We truth, "the modified heart and
spirit of the whole American peo-
ple,' has shown itself equal to any
call. ready to respond to any emer-
gency. We cannot but believe that
this wonderful spirit which service
in and for the Red Cross has evoked
in this war. is destined to become in
our national life an element of per-
manent value.
Eat Christmas time we shall ask
the whole American people to an
SWer the Red Cross Christmas Roll
call. 1t will constitute an unique APP
peal to every man. woman and child
in this great land of ours to be-
come enrolled in our army of mercy.
If is the hope of the War Council
that this Christmas membership roll
call shall constitute a reconsecra-
ton of the whole American people.
inspiring reassertion to mankind
that in this hour of world tragedy,
not to conquer but to serve is Amer
ica's supreme aim"