The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-05-20
PARADE OPENS
CAMPAIGN FOR
THEnEDCROss
Inspiring Spectacle Brought
Opening of Local Drive
to Thousands.
ARMY AND NAVY
MADE UP. UNITS
At Conclusion Of Shortened
March, Speakers Address
COncourse of Hearers.

Fensacoia may nave naQ lar80r page
ants, but none more inspiring than tina
wonderful Red Cross parade Of Sunday
which in way that no words GOULD
possibly convey, carried the message OF
the Red Cross of thousands OF peopld
in Pensacola yesterday afternoon.
Headed by detachments from the army
and the navy, with the artillery and
navy bands, and the Deep Water City
band playing national airs, and dec
GRATED float symbolic of the Red Cross
with its posters and Red Cross emblems
upon which were seated the speakers
and members of the Red Cross cam
pajgn committee-the Red Cross page
ant moved up Palafox street from Gar
den to Wright, a wonderfully beautiful
spectacle. those representing the He'd
Cross wearing the white uniform, with
red caps, and others making up the
Red Cross flag wearing white with
white caps, and the Red Cross insignia.
The Pensacola chapter OF the Red
Cross was followed by the Junior Red
Cross club, some of them tiny nttle
tots. and all keeping step with the pro-
cession with such alertness as to prove
them soldiers Of the cross, indeed.
Then came members of the Patriotic
League, wearing white, with white ana
blue caps, the whole presenting an in
spring scene such as has not before
been presented by any parade, no mat
ter how large or pretentious.
Throughout the parade the Red Cross
was presented as the central idea, about
which the entire pageantry was ar
ranged with the motive keeping this
one idea before the people and inn
pressing the message OF the Red Cross
service upon the public mind, and this
too, was the theme of each of the
speakers, who addressed large CROWD
from the improvised stand on the cor
ner or Garden and Palafox at the close
of the parade.
The speakers were introduced by ]. e
ID. Yonge, chairman OF the Sneakers
Bureau. Mr.. Yonge referred briefly to
the records OF the two DISTINGUISHED
representative who We're to speak in
the interest of the Red Cross, and then
called attention to the drive, to the
success of which they had dedicated
their efforts. Speaking of the first
drive, at which time one hundred mil
lion dollars was raised for Red Cross
work, he said that at the opening OF
that first drive many people said. ..It
can't be done" But that this time sy-
erybody says: 1T can be done"
Now the time has come, at least In
Pensacola" he said, when everybody
is ready to do what is needed. Tell
them what you want and thdy wfll do
it, Mr.. Yonge then introduced Field
Worker d. d. Harman, who with Cor
poral Campbell OF Canada, is making a.
tour of the southern states In the inter-
est Of the Red Cross drive
After expressing his qualification at
The opportunity offered him TO co-oper
ate with Pensacola in the great drive,
and appealing to the patriotism of the
people and the love they bear the men
who are going to the front 10 fight for
freedom, he pointed out to them how
ike mothers love is the work Of
the Red Cross. How IT surrounds the
boy who enters the service Of his coun
try from the hour that he enlists until
ne time that he returns to his mother
country again. whether he comes back
wounded and incapacitated for future
service, whether it be In the hour OF
iefeat or OF victory. Next to the love
Df God and Home, native lana and
mothers comes the Red Cross to a man
yho serves al the front or who takes
ais place in the training camp in this
country, to fit himself for service.
To-day the people OF this country are
United in common purpose. under
he same flag-your flag and our flag.
IS not enough to ssy that we love
hat flag-it is not enough to say that
We are patriotic. we must demonstrate
'ur patriotism and show IL to he one
hundred per cent loyaltv-for that is
ne only kind that counts today.
There is only one standard. and that
$ the standard OF the front line. II
ioes not make any difference where
'au' are, whether YOU are on the battle
ronf or in the home trench Iine-you
must be ready to sacrifice. If you are
lof at the front, through the Red Cross
iou can do your work. you can serve
our country efficiently. The Red Crosa
'as 2sipo.oo0 adult members. and the