Evening journal., 1919-10-03
SAYS WAR is NOT OVER;
WANTS RED CROSS READY
FOR CONFLICT OR PEACE

knows what may come next We hop
cur guns. now rustng, may continue {
rust but II the League Of Nation
should prove 10 be only another scra
Of paper. we want 20 be prepared" de
clared Or. Thomas r. Green. director o
The national speakers bureau Of tn
Red Cross, in a dramatic Grafton befor
the public conference held by Delawar
Chapter yesterday, at the afternoon ses
sion
The great gathering. which repre
sented nearly every town in the State
looked up from its notes and its refugee
knitting, in startled fashion as DIR
Green hurled amazing facts at them
The delegates or auxillarles spoke ou
IN meeting asking for copies OF DR.
Green's speech TO spread brohdcas
through Delaware towns. The speool
IS given in full in The Evening Jour
nal
Charles Scott. Jr.. director OF tho
Pennsylvanla-Dela division. pre.
sided at the afternoon session. but re-
marked that the department officers
came 10 Delaware TO learn rather than
to teach.
Henry p. Scott can tell you moro in
a day about running a campaign than /
could IN a year, he explained.
Samuel l.. Laciar, OF the editorial
staff Of the Philadelphia Ledger. apd
divisional director OF publicity. gave
the local Red Cross wor6ers some prac-
teal suggestions on publicity for the
thlrd r0ll-call campaign, IN regard 10
cards IN street cars, cooperation with
local merchants In store wnGpw Red
Cross features and newspaper aivcrtjs-
ing. lie told them TO put the emphasis
on live, local news connected viii The
campaign He also referred 10 The help
or returned soldiers as one Of ;he best
ways Of promoting the membership
campaign
Mrs. Joseph Bancroft. director OF the
local bureau OF hygiene and nursing.
spoke Of classes TO be organized along
these lines In lower Delaware next |
week. Mrs. Bancroft and Miss Mary
A. Moran, director of classes, will orgdn- +,
ne Glasses In Mfllsb0ro. Frankford. and |
Selbyville on Monday and Tuesday.
Dr. Green's Address in part was as
Follows, after ne told OF the sterling |
accomplishments Of the Red Cross dur
ing the war:
But the war work Is nearly over.
There remains the new chapter OF work
Vt homo. 70 was Americas good fortune
MAT coming into the war last she
should have suffered least. It is almost
miracle that out OF her vast multi
ude OF men she should have lost from
III oauses bearly seventy-elght thous-
md. And yet that Is a depletion OF our 7,
NATIONAL resources that money can
lever value or treasure replace. 10 Is
rot so much our exhaustion by deaths
vast as the number is. II Is not so
much our exhaustion IN treasure that
'auses MS TO stand bewlldered at the
iuty that lies before us. II is the fact
hat The giving OF that life and the
spending Of that treasure disclosed the
existence OF certain conditions that
must be removed II America is 90 build
herself into the dimensions that her
iesiiny demands.
In yiow OF facts as they exist, ~
would be an absolute crime II an r.
anlzation like the Red Cross should
ot so on. OF course ! know there are
eople who say-"there are other or
we'll calculated 10 carry on :
ne work OF reconstruction and reha- I,
should the Red Cross =
ltrude where Government theory has 4
ready created possible machinery for .
accomplishment? =
THAT is true. True that we have the n
Of the United States as an n
,solute technical basis Of all rights n
I'd privileges that we have the IA
atute Law OF The States as the foun- n
luons Of ethics and morals but that n
'es not preclude the necessity for the r,
listing OF churches and schools and a.
stltutions which shall be the local nj
Id dynamic Interpreters Of the spirit
the Constitution and the substance n
the statute Law. There are plenty In
theories in this American life OF ours o.,
ne Government constructs plenty OF III
gh-geared machinery to put them into in
'eration. The great difflculty. alas. is I'M
as our experience has so vivldly n,
oved-that nine-tenihs Of the dynamic In
ssibility Of Governmental theory Is sr
lsted In mere theorizng. We get no M
rther than merely having the wheels ce
round and that once done, every mn
dy stands In stupid awe Of the mech
ism and forgets all about the product co
at should ensue. an
For myself ! am absolutely enthus- m,
tic, about the proposed Public Health m,
ogram Of the American Red Cross. n co
IS nation Is ever going TO meet It's nil
hculties. solve its problems, raise Iis M
ais. II will be by an insistance upon Nm
old-tlme~ morality OF the ancient ws
eeks-A sound mind in sound an
ay.' Here IS the problem and its ella
,kground: on
on January I. 1917. three months he hi,
e we entered the war, the entire pub Inc
debt OF The United States OF Amer ho
was Si.i32639 1851. i That was an da,
rage Of sii32 for every man, woman nm
child In the United States. Today sor
national debt-which has not vet 81
ched its limit. but Is still Increasing %,
o9O,OO000O-an average Of fac
osO for every man, woman and n ,
Id in the United States A FIRST mort mo
e on ten per cent. Of our total pos can
sion. Just 70 pay the interest on lhe
{ Indebtedness will cost us one bill has
dollars every twelve months. and i'm
spite Of internal revenue and inten- Inc
domestic taxation the Chairman Of ain
Committee on Appropriations In tho slo,
Use OF Representatives announced b
terday that we would face for the lido
rent fiscal year a deficit Of three bill Geo
S Of dollars. Arr
I Is apparent at once to even the and
It thoughtless observer that TO carry lonl
stupendous burden. and to handle abl,
any satisfactory solution. will re- of
e the united strenfth and effort tom
Nlsor Of sturdy and willie populs- nail