The Glenwood post., 1918-12-07
THE RED CROSS WILL CARRY ON


the assurance of permanent world
peace and democracy, it must be real
| lied that the work of the American
Red Cross is only begun. As the soul
of the nation organized for service, rec
ognized by the government as a part
of itself, its work must go on. With
miraculous speed the government trans
ported overseas an army of more than
two million men, and vast stores of
food, clothing, munitions and other ne
cessities. These men cannot be re-
turned to this country with the speed
with which they were taken abroad.
Besides, many of them must be kept in
service there for long time to come.
We have also thousands of wounded
disabled, and convalescent soldiers: as
long as they need nursing and cheers,
the Red Cross must carry on.
In those allied countries which have
been ravished by Hun hordes, the very
machinery of life has been left shat
tered and disorganized natural re
sources have been exhausted, homes de
stroyed and fields torn up. Until orr
last man is brought home, until the
normal condition of peace is restored,
,, until the blight which has laid nearly
all Europe waste is removed, the Red
Cross will sustain, heal and cheer.
The Red Cross is founded upon the
ideal which has been the heritage OF
our nation-the inspiration of our his
tory-the ideal which our country en-
tered the war to vindicate. 1t is the
"Greatest Mother in the World'' b.
| cause it is the embodiment of mercy,
and mercy is the test of brotherhood,
just as brotherhood is the test of dem
ocracy.
- Not for ourselves, but for all hut
manity,' was the solemn challenge
that brought us to arms. Now that
America has attained that righteous
peace that shall bring to all men the
right to ''life, liberty and the pursuit
of happiness, the Red Cross, as the
practical prophet of that peace, cannot
and will not abandon the human wreck
age strewn along the world devastat-
ed highways and byways.
Until redeemed and rcbuilded worli
rejoices in the justice, the righteous
ness and the lasting peace of self
governed and self-governing democracy
there will not be surcease of loving
ministration by the Red Cross.
| So long as the distressed children of
men have need, it will feed the hun
CRY, clothe the naked, care for the
| sick, shelter the homeless.
The work of the Red Cross is not
finished. 1t is only begun.
, Here is a story sent to the American
Red Cross from Paris by Miss Margaret
l.. Farrand, daughter of President Far
rand of the State University of Colo
rado at Boulder. This will be especially
interesting to Coloradoans who know
President Farrand and his family:
Starving in Paris
They stopped us on the Rue de
Rivoli because they saw our Red Cross
uniforms, tall, thin private and \
middle-sized one. They wanted 70
know if there was any place in Paris
where the Red Cross fed soldiers. They
had landed in the city that morning.
and they hadn t cent in their pock-
cts. OF course, they didn't speak a
word of French and, of course, they
didn't know a thing about Paris. The
only thing they did know was that they
were to take train at $3.50 that even
ing from the same station at which
they had come in. They had been wan.
dering about the cilE al dnv, it was
2 O'Clock in the afternoon, and they
were pretty well starved They wsntcl
"A square meal more than anything else
in the world, and they wanted some
kind of food to take with them on
their long journey that night. Did the
Red Cross do anything for soldiers whr
were up tree like thaty
But, of course" we began, "that ;.
what the Red Cross is for. There ar!
canteens at most of the stations tina,
will feed you with pleasure. The best
one for you to go to is" but w
didn' Z get any further. The matter wa.
taken out Of our hands and effectively
settled by corporal with bandagei
head, who had overheard our converse