St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1919-03-08

vitality needed supplies, and to work
this winter in the various Balkan coun-
tries. In order to coordinate their ac-
tivities, Balkan commission has been
established, with headquarters at
Rome, Italy, from which point alone
all the Balkan centers can be reached
promptly.
"a commission has just reached Po-
land with doctors and nurses, medical
supplies, and food for sick children
and invalids. An American Red Cross
Commission has also been appointed
to aid in relieving the suffering of Rus
sian prisoners still confined in German
prison camps.
"An important commission is still
working in Palestine. Through the
war special cooperation has been
given to the Armenian and Syrian Re
lief Commission, which was the only
| agency able to carry relief in the in
| terror of Turkish dominions.
Red Cross Will Continue.
Red Cross effort is thus far flung.
| 1t will continue to be so. But the
movement represented by this work
I has likewise assumed an intimate place
in the daily life Of our people at home.
| The army Of workers which has been
recruited and trained during the war
| must not be demobilized. All our ex-
| perience in the war shows clearly that
I there Is an unlimited field for service
Of the kind which can be performed
| with peculiar effectiveness by the Red
Cross. What it's future tasks may be
it is vet impossible to forecast. We
know that so long as there is an Amer
lean army in the field the Red Cross
will have special function to perform.
Nothing could be Of greater impor-
lance to the American Red Cross than
the plans just set in motion by the five
great Red Cross societies of the world
to develop a program of extended ac-
tiyities in the interest of humanity.
The conception involves not alone eff
forts to relieve human suffering, but
to prevent it; not alone movement
by the people of an individual nation,
but an attempt to arouse all people to
q sense of their responsibility for the
welfare of their fellow beings through
out the world. 1t is program both
ideal and practical. Ideal in that its
supreme aim is nothing less than YER
i table peace on earth good will to
men," and practical in that it seeks to
take means and measures which are
actually available and make them eff,
fective in meeting without delay the
| crisis which is daily recurrent in the
| lives of all peoples.
"For accomplishing it's mission in
1 the years of peace which must lie
1 ahead of US the Red Cross will require
the ablest possible leadership, and
must enjoy the continued support, sym
patty, and participation in its work
of the whole American people. It is
! particularly fortunate that such a mar
1 as DR.. Livingston Farrand should have
been selected as the permanent heaG
4 of the organization. The unstinteG
l fashion in which all our people gave
of themselves throughout the war is
the best assurance that our Red Gross
will continue TO receive that co-opera
| ton which will make its work a source
of pride and inspiration to every Amer
ican.'
Mr.. Dawson, as chairman of the In
! ternational Commission of the Ameri
} | can Red Cross, has undertaken to rep
resent the American Red Cross in thu
preparation of the program for extend
ed Red Cross activities, and will spent
: the next several months in Europe II
) consultation with other Red Cross soci
{ cites for that purpose.
. THE WAR COUNCIL OF THE AMER
' ICAN RED CROSS.
: Henry P. Dawson. Chairman
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