Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1918-03-08
fflcial Paper OF the City and the County
Issued on Friday of Each Week
RED CROSS AUCTION SATURDAY,
MARCH 16, 10 A. nj.

M ~ 1As NAs
We need 100000. Ten thousand
dollars for the Red Cross work in
the part of Howard county OF which
the Cresco chapter has charge. We
need it right now.
This seems like large sum. We
have over 200 boys from this county
in the service If we were to prepare
to take care of only 200 patients how
much would $4,000 allow for each
one? Only $50 piece. You go to
the hospital and see how long ii
takes you to use up $50 worth OF
supplies. That's right at home. TIC
this add what it costs to transport
all these supplies over 5000 miles
and then take as patients soldiers who
have no hospital clothes whatever ex-
cept what we provide them.
Can you see that we really need
twice ten thousand dollars right now?
And should we help only our own?
No one else? Who taught your chris
itanity if that's your view?
Just now, besides trying to pre-
pare for our boys in case they are
wounded, which they surely will be,
there are over 1000 hospitals in
France alone that cry to us for sup
plies. And our Red Cross represent
tatives abroad have promised them
from us that they would be supplied.
Can we fail our trust?
Have you given so that it hurts
If you have want your name and
the sum total of all you are worth
and of all you have given. Your name
ought to be printed in all our papers
and you ought to be given free trip
to the state fair.
Are you still turning over that
FOOLS thought: This is the rich mans
war, or All the Red Cross stuff our
boys have to buy at highest prices,
or All people urging Red Cross work
make fine living and a large per-
centage Of profits on that and the
sale of liberty bonds or war savings
stamps? Then get 1t out of your sys-
TEN, or get out of the country. You
are at least an undesirable citizen.
Don't bring shame upon your neigh
borhood by acting thus. Pip
Every home in this county must
and will come to the rescue. Every
father and mother must and will
feel: My son is in the hospital, I
must provide we'll for him. He shall,
as far as I am concerned, have the
best of care the Red Cross can give
him for me. Let us give goods to the
value of one hundred dollars for every
home in our district.
We can not afford to be slackers,
crooks, cut Threats. We are too en-
lightened to fall in the class with
savages through the lack of patriot
ism, and willing sacrifice.
We must not let lukewarm, perhaps
alien neighbors spread the microbe
of dissention. Down with the tral-
tor to his country. Show your COL
ors. Do your full duty toward your
country in it's time of need. If you
don't, take the consequences and live
the rest of your days despised by
your fellowmen.
The trouble with you, you wither-
ed soul, is that you do not read any
thing except some Of the dry rot pro-
duction of perfidious Prussianism.
Would that some of your American
neighbors would take this over to you
and read it for you. Don't try to be
an American by playing the hypo-
critic. It won't work.
Now come across. Every time you
do not support the work of the Amer
lean government you help linden
burgism to capture some Iowa boy
sent to defend you and your rights.
Every time you fail to back up the
Red Cross in it's work of relief, res
cue and restoration you, you help
the Kaiser cut the throat of one
of our dear Howard county boys. Dol
you dare do this and hope to get
away with it and still expect us and
your neighbors to even tolerate you,
leave you alone, yes, let you prosper?
When are you to awake? When will
you open your eyes to see that this
is also your war; your life, your
honor and that of your wife and
your sisters and cousins
hangs in the fire?
When will you awake? When will
you see your own impending doom
which already is hanging over every
man, woman and child, who acts in
different to his country's call. You
are no Stacker, you are a cut throat
and a crook. If you don't reform
your ways, the sooner you take yours,
hat is only your dispicable character
md d;connaar tho heffer Take that