Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-11-13
MUST NOT ALLOW
WELFARE WORK To.
LAG BEHIND NOW
Signing of Arn1iStice Has Not
Put an End to Activities Of
Organizations Keeping Up
Morale at the Fronts,

Following is the four minute adj
dress of Judge r. p. Barnes, which he
will be unable to deliver in the thea
tiers this week on account OF the quar-
antine:
when in August of 1914 the Ger
man nations and their allies declared
war upon the rest Of humanity, some
BODY cared. for England, the greatest
practical democracy on the race OF
the earth excepting only France ana
the United States, threw all her FORCES
into the defense of the freedom OF
the peoples, and the individual spirit
of American citizenship furnished oy
enlistment through Canadian military
forces and foreign legions, more than
100. 900 men. Somebody cared.
When on April 6, 1917, the United
States awoke from its national apa-
thy and entered the war we framed
armed and shipped TO the battieflelds
more than 100000 fighters, some
body cared again; and in the mean
time we had by civic, voluntary CO.
operation--never before witnessed by
the civilized world--saved our food
stuffs at home and fed the starving
nations of Europe. Somebody cared
again.
When the health and welfare OF
our fighting boys became an issue;
when the nursing of an American
wounded soldier became necessity;
when the care of our boys and men,
who had stood for days unrelieved
in muddy trenches under the shock
and stress of shells, and gas and liq-
uid fire, became duty, the Ameri-
can people responded by voluntary
subscriptions of literal millions for
the Red Cross service, the Y. NJ. c. A.,
the knights of Columbus and other
charitable purposes, somebody cared.
when the cry came for more arms
limitations of Liberty Loans bore no
relation to the liberality of an aroused
and generous people. Somebody cared.
when the draft for men invaded
our homes our young men stood up
and were appraised and counted and
their fathers and mothers applauded
while they wept Somebody cared.
I'm New Mexico we never tired and
never stopped. The Fourth Liberty
Loan was greatly subscribed The
percentages have not yet been made
public rs to the different states but
on the Third Liberty Loan thirty-nine
states stood lower in the percentage
of subscriptions as compared to the
percentage of allotment, than did New
Mexico, and only eight states of the
union, stood above it in mere finan-
cial liberality. Somebody cared.
when the armistice was declared.
the lariat. the hammer, the saw, the
clerks apron, and the bookkeeper's
pen, were dropped, as by common
consent, and a universal rejoicing
showed that somebody cared.
The war is over and we look for
ward to greeting our own again, but
it will be not less than twelve months
before our soldiers can tie released
and ns-shipped to our own shores.
In the meantime, the camp. the bivou-
ac. and army organization must be
preserved, both as measures of ma
tional safety and as aids to depend
ent, impoverished and starving Euro
pean nations. Our 100000 of men
a abroad must be cured of wounds and
disease, nursed through convalesc-
ence, lured back to sanity from the
miasmas of shell shock and nervous
breakdown. and preserved and heart
ened through their long period of
waiting. Somebody cares.
The national call Is for $4,000
for charita Bile, nursing and necessary
recreational aid during the period of
semi-peace upon which we are about
to enter. Somebody must care or the
forces of reconstruction will be weak
ened and the morale of many an
American boy undermined, If we re-
fuse this duty. Somebody cares, and
in such cases means EV-
cry BODY, and that means you.
t'You who have done your duty so
before must not fail now
to show that somebody cares"