Evening journal., 1918-02-16
SATURDAY. FEBRUARY 10, 1918.
RED cnnss TEAMIynnK.

~ ELAwARE Chapter Of the Rcd Cross has adopted for
~ Its slogan the following forcefu lines written by
Rudyard Kpllngs
Il amt the guns or armament.
Nor funds that heypcan pay.
But the close cooperation
That makes them win the day;
II amt the ndi, ldua
Nor the army whole
But the lastn' teamwork
OF every bloomin' soul
Those words Il is teamwork that has enabled
the Red Cross OF Delaware to do the magnificent work
II already has done.
1t teamwork that enabling 1t do the magnificent
work that 1t is doing loday.
And II is teamwork that win be the handspring Of any
thing Of value that It may achieve in the future.
Its officials its members believe teamwork They
know lis value They utilizing It, With what good
effect they doing has been shown in concrete and
coldblooded FORM by figures Those figures do not and
cannoi however, express the love- sympathy sefsacr-
ce sefdenal and patriotism which undcry and stimu-
late the work Imagination alone conjure those ee-
ments before the minds eye.
There 2i branches OF the Red Cross in city
There nfy branches in state All Of them are
working hard they to produce surgical dress
ings hospital supplies and kn ted goods That work has
been going since last September. It win continue to
the end of the war.
The headquarters Of that great work In Delaware
in the old City Hall in Wilmington That old City Hall
has the civic and patriotic heart Of municipality
for longer than century. In it General Lafayette
guest There too the Of Lafayette entertained
That old City Hall the cradle Of Free Masonry in Del
aware II looked benignantly upon the heroes who
marched away TO play their respective parts in the War
Of 1912; the Mexican War. the War Of the Rebellion, the
Spanish War; the Mexican border troubles and
the present great war all It has figured in the
most important our municipal happenings and IL
serving State headquarters OF and the clearing house
for the greatest enterprise undertaken in COM
monwealth for the ameloraton Of horror the saw
ing Of human life and the mitigation Of human suffering
It is toward old building that the eyes Of all Red
Cross workers should look with today It is
the heart OF their movement There and they making
glorious chapters in State and national history.
And yet only few short months ago, certain men
who can see in independence Hail. Carpenter Hail. Faneuil
Hail. the Lincoln Log Cabin Fraunces Tavern, the Betsy
Ross House, Old Swedes Church. the Historical Society
Building kindred structures nothing except second
hand stones and bricks scrap lumber and waste mortar
were urging seriously that old City Hall be wrecked and
scrapped 10 the end that retail store. moving picture
theatre something OF that sort might occupy the site
In the CONFLICT between public sentiment and unsenti
mental practically public sentiment won II that were
not true Red Cross Of Delaware would not be
where It is today stirring the warmest and best impulses
OF our people and pouring into the backgrounds OF Eu
rope constant stream Of pain-assuagng and lfe-sus
tanning supplies for the Of both friend and foe.
Through the old City Hall The Red Cross Of Delaware
once more revealed the paramount Importance OF
continuance Of its existence, and through the Red Cross
the old CT Hall has revealed the paramount
Importance Of its preserN alton and restoration.