The Republican journal., 1919-10-02

uscu lor tAe hed cross purposes.
| This Is plan which unites for the
first time in the history of the coun.
try all these various organizations
movements.
1T would be idle for me to say
how is chapter to handle this par
tlcular point. It remains for each
particular chapter to decide how best
it can act. Any chapter can act.
There are communities where proba-
bly, the best way to handle it would
be to erect a building, a Red Cross
building, and that building should be
the center of activity. One thing they
must realize, and that is that the
only reason for the Red Cross exis-
tence is to be of service in the COM
mun1ty in which it is, and if it can
not be of service itself then to serve
by active cooperation with the organi.
cations in a community,
A Survey Of Conditions.
ITO outline the working out of this
health center idea, we will touch
first on the activities of the Red Cross.
1t is going to make a survey of condi-
lions to see whether a Red Cross or.
ganization is desirable thing. ANY
careful survey is going to cover the
points In that community that are not
now covered by the organization. and
there Is going to be call for more Of
the devoted service that was rem.
dered by the women of the country
during the war, in the rehabilitation
of the world and the building up of
the vitality of the nation, more call
than before the war.
! Now, why is this the sort of prob
lem that We feel ought to be attacked
before all others? It is because the
problem that is left after this war is
the greatest problem that the world
has known, it is the problem of it's
vitality. The war; as you know. has
left us in state of national and in
ternat1onal bewilderment in kind of
economic and social revolution we
see it all around u.s. What does it
mean. 1t means that there is ne
cesslty for our adjustment that there
was want and necessity for adjust
ment before the war; but that this
problem has been increased since the
war.
Don't let us deceive ourselves that
We can solve this problem by legis-
latlon, that we can solve the economic
problem that this country is facing
by any simple legislation or by a sim
pie adjustment of this or that relation
between groups. There are certain
fundamental obligations that have got
to be faced. The world has got to
produce and there has got to be econ
omy There has got to be increased
production, there has got to be more
work, there have got to be things done.
they must be done by us because we
have not suffered by this war what
tn various countries of Europe have.
but these cannot be accomplished be-
cause the vitality does not exist. The
solution cannot be reached until the
vitality Slapped by the war has been
renewed and rehabilitation is on it's
way. And rehabili alton is impossible
without realization of the world
that the rehabilitation of the vitality
OF the world is its really great prob
lem. This is the problem which must
be solved before our economic and
social problem can be solved.
THAT is the reason why there is
no condition today that compares in
Importance and in demand for solu.
ton, such as this problem which
have been outlining There is no
problem to which the Red Cross can
devote its energy and which YOU
as citizens, can devote your personal
energy, as essential as this condition
OF our country and nation, and that
is the problem which the Red Cross
proposes to devote Itself to in tho
future
There are certain steps that must
be taken, and there is no wisdom in
existence that can tell in detail lust
now these stel can be taken. The
next step that must be taken in this
movement forward for human and
American welfare will be these health
movements. The next step will he
prepared and will be taken. and if
you Will stop to think you will see
that there is possibility that a great
er movement will be undertaken nv
the Red Cross than has ever bean
taken by any organization in the his