The Devils Lake world and inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1915-1920, 1918-04-24
If Anyone Aske Yon
WHAT THE RED CROSS HAS
DONE WITH THE MONEY
YOU GAVE.
Tell Them.

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Tell Them
FOR OUR OWN FORCE, it has
Quilted and maintains forty-eight
Base Hospitals, Of which six have al
ready gone to Europe.
Taken over the task of caring fol
the needy families of all soldiers and
sailors absent on service.
Maintains ten Canteens at the front
for III returning from the firing
line "a canteen can keep 1926 gallons
of drink at the boiling point at a time,
Four thousand portions of hot coffee,
tea, coca, lemonade, and soup a be
served by a canteen in a day.
Has established twenty DISPENSE
ries in the American war zone.
Maintains a Dental Ambulance in
France.
Maintains a Casualty Service, fol-
gathering information for wounded
and missing.
Maintains Factory for artificial
limbs, and plants for making nitrous
oxide gas for operating purposes.
Has twelve Rest Stations at import
ant railroad centers.
IN FRANCE-( Remember that Fran
ce is bearing the brunt of the war
tragedy, and her courage and morals
must be kept up until We are ready tc
play our full part in the s%truggle.)
1t has
Established warehouses with sup
plies in every port of entry, and one
of 100000 cubic feet capacity in
Paris.
Has purchased and supply Station
in France, Switzerland, Great Britain,
Spain and Portugal las well as in the
U. 81 for buying all kinds of meter
ials necessary to rebuild civilization
ranging all the way from sawmM out
fits, portable engines and gas tractors
to bales of flannel and absorbent cot
ton.
In supplying Hospital necessities to
3,617 hospitals ia 1856 towns.
Is using 500 cars land has arranged
for 400 more) in making this distribu-
ton.
Has appropriated 100000 francs
for the relief of sick and wounded
French soldiers and their families.
Mote:
There are 1906, 900 French wounded
or crippled. Refugees coming in
from desolated districts number 1000
a .day-haggard, hungry, helpless. The
Red Cross meets them with the human
hand.
Is supporting 10000 children-hild
rem who are picked up in ravaged dis
tricts, often mere drifting waits, with
no one left to whom they can turn,
sometimes so frightened that they can
not speak for days and have forgotten
who they are, diseased, hungry, for
llorn. The Red Cross gives them medi-
cal aid and homes.
Maintains. a Motor Bus line across
Switzerland from the German frontier
to transport refugees and exchanged
prisoners.
Fight tuberculosis on a scale never
dreamed Of before.
Helps to rebuild destroyed towns
and to prepare fields once fertile but
now desolate for crops to come
american portable house are used.
IN TTALY-A,771,9 800 worth Of sup.
plies and many workers were rushed
in after the recent Italian military dis.
aster. Hospital supplies, food for The
hungry, forty-eight carloads Of it, mot
tor ambulances, shelters for homeless
women and children, condensed mill
for babies, soup kitchens for refugee.
workshops for people who had lost
everything, etc., etc.
IN ARMENIA-$300,O 900 a month ha.
been appropriated. 100000 Armen'
ians are facing death. From one town
alone came q call to house 10000 ia,
therless children.
IN BELGIUM-t has taken over thu
relief work where practically tn
whole nation is in dire need.
i'm SERBIA, in RUSSIA, in ROU,
MANIA, ALL OVER THE WORLD
wherever there is human suffering
there goes the Red Cross with tn,
hands of mercy.
The entire overhead expense incur
red to accomplish all these things hal
been a fraction Of one per cent.