The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1918-01-09
Red Cross Notes
Have you Answered the call?"
By MRS. LON DICKEY


week OF the chapters work since the
close OF the holidays, and just exactly
e women have put in from one to
three hours each in the work room
IN the library bui1ding?.
And that those women represen,
the loyal and patriotic element Of our
proud little city? You have no,
meant to be disloyal to your country
out your remarks concerning the
work of the Red Cross are being quo
ted, and the fight you. are putting up
to restore the city to its former social
regime is being keenly felt by the
faithful few who are standing back OF
the work.
True, we all remember with pleas
ure the days gone by, but times are
different now, and our women, as
well as Our men, are called upon to
help win this great war, and because
we do not hear the roar Of the guns,
nor look upon the forms of those who
have died for u.s. is no reason why
We should not do Fitzgerald's part
IN the great work of the American
Red Cross.
More than 800 new members have
come into our chapters, large per-
tage women who are qualified to do
! some work in this noble cause. and
our vice-president, Mrs. Holtzendorff
is giving almost her entire time to
the planning of the work. And day
after day we are failing her She has
an alphabetical arrangement for us
whereby we know the one day of
each week that we are expected to
be IN our place in the work room at
O'Clock p. m, or as nearly that hour
as possible. We are urged not to
wait for our chairman to telephone
US. Many of US are without tele
phones, many of us are new and have
not been communicated with. but if
you are member of the Red Cross.
and are able to knit, sew. or cut gar
ments, you are expected to report for
active service
NOW, 1t rests with you Unlike our
men, we are without military discip-
line, but our obligations to our coun-
try are Just as great We are 'the
army behind the army" and our
ranks are "slimy with slackers."
VIII you not answer the call from
your vice-president, Mrs. Holtzen-
dortf. who needs you at our work
room?
Read and ponder over this bit of
verse by an unnamed writer in the
Atlanta Georgian:
In little while your boy may be
Somewhere in France"
You won't know where. You'll onlv
I he. Al. c..
line, side by side with your neighbor's
BOY he will be fighting on toward
that goal that must be reached before
the war is done.
And here at home
You'll wait and pray that he'll come
back, and God grant that he may.
And God grant, too, that when he
does he'll come with shoulders back
and head erect. And in his eyes the
light, that comes into the eyes OF
those IN whom there is no fear tina,
future days, or months, or wears.
May point to them and say
He heard and answered not"
And while he's gone, unless you're
brave beyond the strength of human
kind
You'll dream of him and wake,
And IN those hours, the darkest lust
as morning breaks.
| You'll take the hand that soothed his
brow i'll babyhood. and hold it tight
And wonder how it goes with him
and where he is when morning
breaks on
That same day Somewhere in
/ France"
And then, if you have done your BIZ
back home while he is over there
II you have sent across the seas a
Red Cross nurse and what she needs
A surgeon to hold back the life
that looks down where the valley lies
And shadows Turk,
lhere'll come that light into your
eyes, and you will know
No one may point to you and saw.
He heard, and answered not"
The alphabetical list for the week
Just finished is taken from the regis
ter, as follows: Mesdames ]. c. Bush
Crenshaw, Cecilia Davis, Marv l.
Drew, {. f. Emory, C. A. Fretweil
+ N Grady. !. c. Glover. Roland
Griffin. A. K. Hall. H. B. Tsler. John
Justice, {. "A. Johnson. r C. Johnson,
q. A. Jolley. Tom Hendricks, L,
keim, Marcus Luke, N. N. Little
field. L. Kennedy, J. NJ. Massey, ID.
/. Perry, Partridge, A. ]. Roush. W.
X. Skinner, l.. A. Turner. Claude VIII
son. and Billy Walden, (Mrs. Taylor,
OF Ohio, visitor)
| This list does not include the spec-
ial cutting committees, who are saw
ing the chapter little more than
$3.50 on each dozen hospital gar
ments by waving the use of the cut
ting machines used at headquarters
This list includes Mesdames w. R.
Bowen, Lon Dickey w. D. Dor
miney, Arthur Day, G.. B. Frey. lin
Mayes, and recently added, Mes
danes L. Kennedy, J. c. Glover. and
Tom Hendricks.
Nor does il, include the faithful Sill
pervisors and chairmen who are Mes
DANES Cora Wilson. Wadlev Garbutt
Lula Bowen Shepherd G. f. Kicker,
Supervisors. and Mesdames VIII
ADAMS, /. ] Dickey. Helen Maldoon,
5. /, Smith, and S G. Pryor Ir.. dav
chairmen.
+ There are. also, large number OF
| members knittinu and NJ 60