Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1918-12-06
work Of The RED
Cross MUST co ON
End Of Actual Warfare Does Not
Mean the Organizations Usefulness
ls Past.

Ing barnacles in an English port. King
Albert has come to his own again.
The Boys will soon start heading
for home. The war is done, although
1t will be a long time before all are
back.
Does this mean that the Red Cross
shall take off its uniform now, fold up
its sheets and towels, roll up its
bandages, and fold it's hands? Never!
The Red Cross has just begun its
work. Long after peace has been de-
clared, long after the Kaiser lies
Wondering in his grave, the Red
Cross will be marching on! 1t will
halt only when men and women no
longer know suffering, war, accident,
flood, fire, tornadoes, ill-health, woe.
For the Red Cross has opened mems
eyes, and they will not allow 1t to
stop.
1t is not too much to say that the Red
Cross is the greatest single agent in
the world today to prevent another
such horrible war as we have Just
passed through That's why the Red
Cross is going straight ahead, why it
must not, can not, stop!
What can the Red Cross do to pre-
vent other wars, what can it do for
immediate relief now? Look at Eu-
rope! In Poland not a child alive I'M
der seven years of age! No crops, no
work, no food! What kind of citizens
will the babies now to be born make
if some one, some organization, does
not step in and give them a decent
chance? Where the babies are n
fed, untaught, there grows a race that
knows not law nor order, that turns
to fighting and to throat-cutting as
the natural thing. And then anoth-
er war. The Red Cross will see to it
that these babies get a fair start tow
ard decent citizenship. 1t is for them
that the Red Cross will not stop.
In Belgium men sit and gaze at
heaps OF stones. Here Is a mar whose
house is gone, his three children dead,
his wife dead somewhere in Germany
after worse than death. The man can
not find even the borders Of his own
property. He is bitter-he would like
to kill-and he has nothing to eat or
to wear. To him the Red Cross
comes; for him it finds food and cloth
ing and shelter, and work-and he
will go again about his life. 1t is for
such as he that the Red Cross can
not cease its work.
In France, children who were
caught in the horrible days of 1914
have forgotten where they lived, who
their fathers and mothers we're, who
they are themselves. They still live
in terror of those days. For them the
Red Cross is going on. In Italy, in
Russia, in Servia, children are naked
and starving. In northern Italy a
woman was found dripping blood
from her own wrist into a cup of wa
ter with which to feed her baby. The
child had had nothing else for six
days! The Red Cross found her
and is going to find others like her,
for we are only beginning to see what
poverty, what waste, the wal has
made. 1t Is to make these unfortu-
nate people safe for the world that
the Red Cross must work with great
zeal than ever.
But nearer home. In Boston a wo-
man was found whose husband had
been fighting for your flag and mine
in France. Her landlord had turned
her out of his house, she had fed
with her three children to a cellar,
and in that cellar her twin babies
were born. One died! And when the
Red Cross found her, able to speak
only two or three words of English,
overlooked by the government in the
terrible rush Of business, she had
kept her dead baby for a week,
wrapped In an old newspaper.
But help in time Of war is not all.
Far from It'll 1t is only a step from
the temporary relief to wounds and
hunger in the war of guns to the
permanent help in the war to live In
peace. The world is eagerly turning
to the Red Cross to make it healthy
and strong and happy in the broadcast
meaning Of those words. And until
disease is forever gone the Red Cross
cease its work.
Remember Halifax-what might
awful disaster not have become
without the help of the Red Cross?
the 1858 people killed,
the 01,333 people injured, In train ac-
cidents in this country ip the year
December 81, 1915. But for the
Red Cross many of the 201 1893 might
have died. Accidents are with us yet;
fires will sweep cities, explosions
will blow up munitions plants. cpl
like the influenza will carry
of their eighty thousand victims, IT,
dial waves will sweep in as upon Que
bee the other day-and then In the
thickest of the horror the world
win look for--and fnd-the love Of
the Great Mother, the u~nspeakable
Of the Red Cross.
Two great thoughts are in the mind