The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-12-20
THE RED CROSS IN THE WINDOW

| IF WE LIVED on a farm nowadays should wish
i Tor white Christmas" Do you know why? Well,
| ii you ever lived on farm you are not asking
| why When the ground is covered with snow and
the roofs OF farmhouse barn and woodshed white
blankets, and the soft and pristine purity is held forth
to view upon all the myriad fingers OF the trees then
it is good to sit by the fireplace in the living room,
with the Daily Ardmoreite or your other family Bible
in hand hearing the cracke OF the seasoned wood and
watching the sparks go up the chimney!
And the snow outside adds enchantment and en-
hancement TO the cosiness.
But this year of all years there should be white
Christmas This is much better world this Christ
| mas than it was last Christmas. The boys out OF
the trenches Yes and their being in the trenches
for four years and three months is exactly what made
this old world so much better In those long years
the boys were at deathgrips with hell with evil with
the ancient Satan that should have gotten his vital
sword-hrust centuries ago They gave him the vital
thrust at last-and now the boys out OF the
trenches
And it should and shall be merry Christmas
for most OF us here at home, particularly those who
live in farm-houses in small towns close to natures
heart, and more particularly still if it happen be
white Christmas However there is another side TO the
shield
The boys who have come out of the trenches
many, many of them-are wounded and are lying yet
in beds OF pain. Many others are sick in hospitals
For them it will not be merry Christmas, white or
of them are manned and will remain crippled. Some
will answer the final call before another Christmas
comes around. OF own boys alone there have
been 100000 wounded while the number OF the sick
has not been reported at ALL though know that it is
large
You folks who live out in the open country or in
the small towns and vilages--listen herel Can you
possibly enjoy your Christmas this year unless you
shall have done something very little thing, for the
comfort of the boys who OF the trenches but
out OF the hospitals? VIII you be happy sitting
by the fire with book or magazine newspaper, or
gazing through the window at the fairy network OF
the snow the Notwithstanding that it is to be
white Christmas, you know-unless you shall have |
given one small round dollar for the comfort of the
sick and wounded soldiers, to the starving
babes and their mothers?
The rural picture will not be complete this Christ
mast will not be altogether poetic and pleasing
unless there hangs in your window the emblem of the
Red Cross, sgnifyng that you have heard the Red
Cross Christmas roll call and answered.
"Here-and here's my doar!"
The dollar brings you a full years membership in
he grandet organization of all the world today and it
brings you the Red Cross to hang in your window and
he button bearing also the emblem wear in your
apel-and that warm, soul-satisfyng feeling to wear
II your heart
Which last by the way, is just about the best thing
our Red Cross dollar does for you.
This is Red Cross Christmas roll call week. remem-
er-and a merry Christmas to you! q