The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1919-12-11
VAN KEUREN GIVES
FINE DESCRIPTION
OF THE RED CROSS
WORK OVERSEAS
Large Audience Heard Him
Tuesday Night at M. e.
Church Despite the Bad
Weather.

Rev. Floyd Van Keuren, former rec
tor of Christ Episcopal church here
delivered most interesting and in
structive address at the First Metho
dist church at s o'clock Tuesday night
on the work of the American RED
Cross in France, to whose staff he
was attached during the war with
Germany.
Despite the terrifcally cold weather
fairly large assemblage was present
TO hear him. That they braved a
temperature of degrees below zero
TO go TO the church to listen TO him is
eloquent testimony to the esteem in
which Rev. Van Keuren is held by
The people OF the community. He ex-
pressed the utmost appreciation at
their coming under such trying con
ditions.
Fo lowing the rendition of selec-
tion on the pipe organ by Miss Bessie
McQaown and number of vocal
solos by the Peerless Male Quartet.
all OF which were accorded deserved
applause, the speaher of the evening
was presented to the audience by the
Rev. Guy Il. konkel of the Methodist
Episcopal church, in graceful, pleas
ing and complimentary manner
Rev. Van keuren confined himself
very largely to the work of the Red
Cross in caring for the refugees OF
Northern France and Belgium, al
though he adverted to the pleasure ,it
gave him 10 be in Canon City again
and to the patriotic activities of the
people here in helping to win the war
for humanity by their contributions
of money and labor for the support
of the boys in Khaki ad the civilian
population in the fighting zones.
Rev Van Keuren stated that he
would not attempt to describe the
work done by the Red Cross Cor the
soldiers in the trenches, as nat, he
said, had been done b. ex-service men
who had returned from abroad. He
dec ared that the work of the Amer
lean Red Cross in France was marvel.
GUS and that it was one of the mon
umental achievements OF the ages.
Without it, he declared. the sufferin:
of the civilian inhabitants in France
and BelgiGm would have been unbeap
able. He told of the poverty. desti
tuition and trials of the million and
quarter of refugees from the battle
SCARED territories of Northern France
who were driven from their homes by
the German armies and scattered
broadcast over the land by the bar
barities and inhumanities of the in
vaders. He told of the efforts of the
Red Cross to provide them with the
necessities of lie, and of its efforts
to inspire the warriors of France with
renewed determination to win the vic
tory over their enemies by caring for
their dependents at home. 1t was a
wonderful picture he drew and its de-
1ineation thrilled his auditors with
pride that they had participated to
some extent in an indirect way with
the great enterprise having for its
purpose the relief of suffering hu-
manity abroad.
Rev Van Keuren said that what
ever OF mistakes were made by the
Red Cross workers in France were of
the head. rather than OF the heart, and
that their efforts had accomplished
untold good for b'lrdened and strick-
en- people. The mistakes OF the Y. NJ
c. A, he declared, arose in the same
way. The latter, he asserted. under
took too much and its partial failure
to propo rly function was due in a very
large measure to its excessive bur
dens. The errors OF the Y. NJ c. A.,
he stated. were infnitIsmal when COM
pared with the maenificence OF its hu-
manitarian benevolences.
In concluding his address Rev. Mr.
Van Keuren admonished his hearers
to beware of any Influences that tend
TO estrange them from the fraternity
and good win that has been estab-
lished b. the war between America.
England and France. These three
nations, he declared, We're the hope
OF Christian civilization and OF man
kind. re warned his audience to
spurn German propaganda wherever
found. II is. be asserted. the most
insidgous aud pernicious thing IN the
world, aud VIII lead TO other wars
more awful IN their consequences than
the one throGeh whlch the wcrid hag
just passed unless a check is pr
upon IL. lie closed by saying "Be
ware OF Germany. She 3 not c ushed
nor has her military power for ma
tional ACKNOWLEDGMENT been destroyed
She VII get ms vel. unless we look out
We mast rrepare 70 defend ourselves
by an aGeguate military and nava
defense. but what constitutes ade