The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1918-03-06
Red Cross Notes
Lest We Forget"
BY MRS. LON DIcKEY

The Red Cross funds are running
low. The work can scarcely be car
ried on through the month of March
without additional funds. With the
exception of faithful few, scarcely
enough workers can be secured to
carry on the work, so numerous are
the meetings of various organizations
throughout the city which demand
both the spare time and energy of the
women who should give their time to
winning the war. And the war goes
on.
IAN American wounded soldier, a
youth scarcely l8 years of age, from
near Savannah, lying on bed of suf-
fering in a hospital in France, told
war correspondent tale of thrills
and horror" says the Macon Tele-
graph. "In conclusion he told him
this:
1--WE sure got to hand it to those
men with the Red Cross on their
arms. They all worked like dogs in
that hell out there. They seemed to
have but one idea--to do their duty
and apparently cared nothing for
their own lives while doing it."
Oh, if we could only have that "but
one idea-to do our duty" and make
record in our town that would live
through future days and months and
years" forget everything but how to
help win this war! Where would our
little organization be if we should
lose!
Right from France comes this let
ter to Mrs. G. w. Harrington, of sos
West Suwanee street, from a beloved
relative, Mrs. Louise William Spald-
ing, who went from Asheville, N. c.,
as Red Cross nurse, from which we
extract the following:
Dearest Sister:-Your special de-
livery letter came to me in New York
just before sailed. I did not have
time to read it until our ship pulled
out of the harbor, and as I read the
last few lines, looking from my cabin
window l could see that wonderfully
inspiring Statue of Liberty, with its
torch held so high in the air, and it
seemed like light shining in dark
place, SO heavy were our hearts as
we bid last farewell to the Land of
the Free :.
THE cases we have only stay with
us long enough to regain sufficient
strength to go on into the cities to
finish recuperating Of course, we
keep all that we have room for until
they feel able to take the journey. To
render this help to the unfortunate,
to me, is divine, and our American
boys are so anxious to be served by
their home nurses. They come in
homesick for some loved one in
America, and they are so appreciative
and so anxious for news from the
| Lana Oh the FREE.
"And Sister Katie, if you have a
voice in your home Red Cross meet
ings, mention the fact that you have
heard from someone who knows, that
one of the best tonics they can pre-
pare for the boys across the sea is
scrap books. Make them with cloth
pages, and fill them with pretty girls
and comical pictures and home
scenes. The boys lie in bed and look
at them for hours. 1t rests their
minds from their pain, and their eyes
from the hospital wallis, and they
have wonderful conversations over
the pictures. Don't forget this. /.
"We don't have much time to write.
I'm writing this fine because cannot
get any paper. I'm wondering if my
next letter will not come to you on
wrapping paper" lovingly, yours,
Louise"
Dear reader, can you see your duty,
does it make it any clearer to you,
reading these things right from the
spot that seems too far away to
trouble U.S."
And this from patient of this
same Red Cross nurse, written from
his home in Little Rock, Ark:
MRS. Harrington, Dear Madam
The letter enclose herewith is from
our Angel of Mercy" as we boys
called her in France, and l want to
say that she is all of that and more,
too. No praise can be too much for
this noble little woman. / was one
of the boys who was lucky enough to