Bisbee daily review., 1918-05-19
MERCIFUL DOLLARS

Ou VIII DC CollcO Oll lO SlNC, lO eSoiol eiiS mightiest charity, the noblest and broadest volunteer movement in history.
 Red Cross dollars are merciful dollars. They are not the dollars which draw inter est in silver; their interest is written in al leviated suffering.
 Red Cross dollars do not buy material and tangible effects for you; their purchase is the satisfaction of aiding the wounded, clothing the orphan, filling the stomach of victims of Prussian devastation in France and Belgium.
 Red Cross dollars expended bring you nothing save the knowledge that you have brought happiness, comfort, ease or assistance to someone in greater distress than yourself.
 Red Cross dollars are merciful dollars, sharing no enmities and recognizing no enemies, serving no flag but their own.
 Red Cross dollars have the wings of Mercury They fly to the very darkest corners of the war zone.
 Red Cross dollars have the soul of the Savior They search out and ransom the helpless that they may administer to them.
 Red Cross dollars have the heart of the Virgin Mary They give to the world that the world may be saved.
 One hundred millions for the Red Cross, and no better time could have been select ed for opening this drive It opens with our boys at the battle fronts, massed to meet another sort of drive-to face shells and schrapnel, leaden hail of German ma chine guns, poison gas, liquid fire, and 0E the desperate effort of the Hun to smash the line, cut railways and reach the coast.
 These boys will hold their part of the line, and they expect you to hold your line here at home You have to face only mild and gentle Red Cross solicitor on your peaceful street Yours is an easy task
 One hundred million merciful dollars for the Red Cross-for No Mans Land-for stretchers and ambulances, for anesthesia and bandages and antiseptics; to train nurses and orderlies, to outfit and trans port skilled specialists to make sure that a dear one shall have a clean, sweet cot, and sweet clean girl from home beside it
 One hundred million merciful dollars to maintain communications with detention camps, to provide war prisoners with food and decencies, to negotiate comforts and privileges for them, to buy blankets, clothes and books and tobacco.
 One hundred million merciful dollars to erect hospitals, to build rest stations, to send nurses to the front and rescue refugees, to forward surgical units, to min ister to the maimed to buy medicines and operating instruments.
 One hundred million merciful dollars to re-make the battle torn victim, to buy arti- hcial limbs, to give trades to those whose injuries have handicapped them, and to show the blind where Hope still shines
 One hundred million merciful dollars to save from the lives of swine and the deaths of CUTS twelve millions of orphaned chi- dren, wandering about Europe, frightened, terrorized set adrift by. .Prussian frightful- ness to sob alone and to look to the mag nificent America for rescue
 One hundred million merciful dollars to stifle pestilence, to stamp out levers, to check the career of the white plague, to de- stroy dank filths and verminous diseases.
 One hundred million merciful dollarsI What of your merciful dollars?
 The time has come to give. You have purchased Liberty Bonds and War Savings Stamps. That was an investment, not gift. Now you are called on to give, where your merciful dollars will be in the hands of business men, where they will see ac~ tive service soon, and where they will be spent for the greatest return in good ac- complished.
 As this drive starts, the boys on the oth- CT side are holding their line
 Will you hold yours? Will you give of merciful dollars2