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'
our guns, now rusting, may continue e
rust, but II the League Of Nations
SHOULD prove TO be only another SCRAP
Of paper, we want 20 be prepared" de-
clared DR.. Thomas r. Green. director OF
the national speakers bureau OF the
Red Cross, In dramatic Oration before
the public conference held by Delaware
Chapter yesterday, at the afternoon ses-
sion
The great gathering. which repre-
s,nted nearly every town IN the Slnte
looked up from lis notes and its refugeC
knitting. in startled fashion as Dr.
Green hurled amazing facts at them
The delegates OF auxillaries spoke out
In meeting asking for copies Of Dr.
Green's speech TO spread broadcast
through Delaware towns. The speech
is given in full in The Evening Jour
nal.
Charles Scott, Jr., director Of The
Observation-Disclosures division, pre-
sided at the afternoon session. but re-
marked that the department officers
came TO Delaware TO learn rather than
TO teach.
Henry p. Scott can tell you moro IN
a day about running campaign than
could in year, he explained
Samuel L. Laclar. OF the editorial
STAFF Of the Philadephq Ledger, and
divisional director OF publicity, gave
the local Red Cross wOrScrs some prac-
tical suggestions on publicity for the
third roll-cail campaign, IL regard TO
cards In street cars, cooperation with
local merchants IN store window lied
Cross features and newspaper alyoy;is-
Ing. lie told them TO put the emphasis
on live, local news connected with the
campaign He also referred 10 Tie help
Of 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 aud Miss Mary
A. Moran, director OF clases, will orlnn-
he classes in Millsboro, 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.
fhere remains the new chapter OF work
2t home. 10 was Americas good fortune
That coming into the war last. she
should have suffered least. II Is almost
q miracle that out OF her vast multi
tude Of men she should have lost from
all causes bearly seventy-eight thous-
and. And yet that is a depletion Of our
national resources that money can
never value or treasure replace. II Is
not so much our exhaustion by deaths
vast as the number is. II is not so
much our exhaustion in treasure that
causes MS 10 stand bewildered at the
duty that lies before us. II Is the fact
that the giving OF that life and the
spending OF that treasure disclosed the
existence OF certain conditions that
must be removed II America Is 20 build
herself into the dimensions that her
desliny demands.
In view OF facts as they exist. u |
would be an absolute crime il an r /
sanitation like the Red Cross should I
not go on, or course ! know there are
people who say-"there are other or
well calculated 10 carry on
he work OF reconstruction and reha-
'ilitati0n-why should the Red Cross
ntrude where Government theory has
lready created possible machinery for
accomplishment?
THAT is true True that we have the
constitution Of The United States as an
bsOlute technical basis OF all rights
nd privileges-True that we have the /
iatute Law Of The States as the foun-
ations Of ethics and morals; but that
0es not preclude the necessity for the I
xisting OF churches and schools and
lstitutlons which shall be the local {
nd dynamic interpreters Of the spirit
I the Coqstltution and the substance (
the Statute Law. There are plenty /
theories in this American life Of ours. r
he Government constructs plenty OF d
igh-geared machinery 90 put them into 4
peration The great difilculty, alas. Is I
as our experience has so vividly In
roved-ihat nine-tenths Of the dynamic i
ossibility OF Governmental theory is :
asted In mere theorizlng. We get no / n
lrther than merely having the wheels =
} round, and that once done, every n
ldy stands IN stupid awe OF the mech
lism and forgets all about the product r
Iat should ensue. a
FOR myself, ] am absolutely enthus- n
site about the proposed Public Health n
'ogrsm Of the American Red Cross. II g
us nation is ever going 10 meet It's n
flcultes solve its problems, raise ITS n
eals, II viii be by an insistance upon ri
e old-time morality Of the ancient "
reeks-'A sound mind in a sound a
ldy.' Here is the problem. and its G
"On January 4. 1917. three months be- b
re we entered the war, the entire pub h
: debt Of the United States OF Amer n
a was 1882, ,639. 1851. That was an a
'erage Of siL32 for every man, woman n
I'd child In the United States. Today $,
IT national debt-which has not yet
ached Its limit. but Is still increasing z
is S26, ,0000 000-an average OF II;
$500 for every man. woman and II
lid in the United States A first mort m
ge on ten per cent OF our total pos e;
ssion. Just TO pay the interest on u
at indebtedness will cost us one bill HI
IN dollars every twelve months. and n
spite Of internal revenue and inten- n
We domestic taxation the Chairman OF al
e Committee on Appropriations in the 81
luse OF Representatives announced IL
sterday that we would face for the a
rrent fiscal year dencit Of three bill G,
ms Of dollars. A
ut IS apparent at once TO even the al
ost thoughtless observer that to carry Ia
is stupendous burden. and to handle Al
In any satisfactory solution. Will re- al
lire the united strenfth and effort ktc
ID vigor OF sturdy and virlle popula- D,