The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-05-19


~ the population of the world. drawn
together fnto new sense OF COM
naunity OF interest, new sense of
community OF purpose. a new sense
I or unity or life. an ~ "a - -. -
iIie ntart OF Italy.
The secretary of war told me an
j interesting incident the other day. lie
said when he was in Italy a memt or
/ OF the Italian government was ex-
J plainin~ To him the many reasons why
/ Italy felt near 10 the United States. He
I said, u you want to try an interest ..
/ Ing experiment go up TO any one Of
+ these troop traina and ask IN English
! how many of them have been in Amer
! lea and see what happens
He tried the experiment. He went
UP 10 troop train and he said, How
many OF you boys have been in Ameri-
car
And he said II seemed 10 him as II
half OF them sprang up; Me from
San Francisco; me from New York =
MI over. There was part OF the
heart Of America in the Italian army.
People that had been knitted TO us
hv association. who knew us. who had
lived amongst us, who had worked
shoulder TO shoulder with US and now.
friends OF America. were fghting for
their native Italy
Friendship Is the only cement that
Will ever hold the world together.
And this intimate contact OF the great
Red cross with the peoples who are
sHnerluE the terrors and deprtvations
Of his war is going TO be one OF the
greatest instrum enralitles OF friend
ship that the world ever knew. and
the center Of the heart of IL all, ir
we sustain IL properly will be this
Land that We SO dearly love.
~
has come. md duty finds a mans
soul - no kind OF work can eyer
ind il
The Duty of Service.
May / say this. The duty that
faces us all now is to serve one an
other and no man can afford to make
men amongst us who have forgotten
that II they ever saw It. Some Of
YOU arc old enough am old enough
to rem emher men who made for
tunes out OF the Civil war, and you
know how they were regarded by their
citizens. That was a war to save one
eounfry-ihis is a war to save the
world And your relation TO the Red
Cross is one OF the relations which
vii relieve YOU OF the stigma You
can't give anything to the government
cgpr t. There is a law Of congress
aEainst accepting even services with
oUt pay. The only thing that the
government will accept is a loan and
duties performed. but ii is a great
deal better 10 give than to lend or
n pay, and your great channel fer
giving is the American Ped Cross.
Down in your hearts you can't
take very much satisfaction. in the
los vr@la -. i.
government OF the United States, be-
cause the interest which you draw
will burn your pockets. IT is a com
mercial transaction and some men
have even dared TO cavil at the rate OF
interest. not knowing the incidental
commentary that constitutes upon
their attitude
Giving is Of Ones Self
But when you give, something
Of your heart, something Of your soul.
something OF yourself goes with the
gift particularly when it is given
In such form that It never can come
back by way Of direct benefit to your
self, You know there is the old cyni-
cal definition Of gratitude rs the
lively expectation OF favors to come
Well. there Is no expectation of favors
to come in this kind of giving These
things are bestowed In order that the
world may be a filter place to 1--we in.
that men may be succored that
homes may be restored. that suffer
ing may be relieved. that the face
Of the earth may have the blight of
destruction taken away from it, and
that wherever force goes there shall
go mercy and helpfulness.
And when /oul give, give abso-
lutely all that you can spare and don't
consider yourself liberal in the Civ