The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1919-11-07
THE RED CROSS
NEEDS 5. YOUR AID.

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ture Challenge Your SuppoFt. 7. Is!
Respond Now and Make the 7.
Campaign a Success. l-f. 4.
Did you get your name. on the Z
Roll of Honor Of the Red Cross
third call-yesterday? .;l ), i
A great many Abbeville people
did, but not so many as should have
been written: there nor yet so many
as WILL be written there. &
Well, let today cure whatever
error or sin of omission you were
guilty of yesterday Do not fail your
God. and your native land in this
Igreat work. Il $;5s
In emphasizing again the import
ance of this great work we could ros
do better than. to quote q paragraph
from a recent American Red Cross
bulletin:
During the Swar the American
people contributed nearly ,foar huns 6
dred million dollars to war activities
through the Red Cross, but milliors
of people gave, in addition, them
selves in loving labor, and the value
of this conservation can NOT Be com-
puted in figures. Labor is NOT com-
modify, least of all that labor which
is prompted by devotion TO cause,
Money given by the American people
and administered By, American busi-
ness genius has made the Red Cross
a stupendous business ,orsanization, :
but the loyal enlistment Of the people
themselves has made it spiritual
force difficult to parallel in The. his
tory of organized endeavor.p =
At no time in its splendid and
divinely blessed history has the Amer
lean Red Cross been more necessary
to the American people, or the Amer
ican people to the Red Cross, than at,
the present. IA -,
To be certain that this proposition
is incontrovertible, we need only con-
suit the sacred card Of the society in
its ringing appeal for membership for
the year 1920.
It tells us that there are $4,000
of our soldier boys in American hos
|pitals, who are paying the price Of
their devoted service to flag, liberty
land humanity,and their part Of the
cost Of winning the war, and who
must not be neglected or forgotten
Inow that they and their dead and
living comrades have won it for US.
Thousands of families and children Of
our soldiers, after struggling along
on allowances of from fifteen to thir-
/ ty dollars a month, must not now be
left to the tender mercies Of morgan
lied and casual charity. Our Abbeville
chapter alone during the present
year has had hundreds of calls for
help -
Many of our boys still are doing
military duty in foreign lands. Are
they to be cut off from the inspiration
the comforts, nursing and consolation
they have enjoyed at the hands Of
the American Red Gross, "The Great
est Mother in the World?"
But the Red Cross mission goes
beyond its appropriate and necessary
activities in war. or the immediate
effecs of war. Sometimes there are
unexpected catastrophes that shock
the nation-the recent awful hurri-
cane in the Gulf Of Mexico, for ex-
ample that swept towns, villages and
country over a wide area in coastal
Texas. What would stricken Corpus
Christi have done without the Red
Cross? It alone had the organizations,
ready supplies and trained expert
workers to meet such q situation.
Within few hours from the first
telegraphic notice Of the calamity,
tents and other emergency requisites,
and staff Of surgeons and
nurses with medical supplies and hos
pistal equipment were on their way
to the scene.