The Caledonian-record. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1920-current, 1920-11-15
YOUR RED CROSS COLLAR
Half of 1t Works in Your Community.
Half Of 1t in the Nation
and Overseas

II citizen of your city or town
joins the American Red Cross as
S1,G0 annual member in the Fourth
Roll Nall, November II to %. what
disposition will be made of his dollar
In the first place one half OF It
goes to the local Red Cross Chaptor
to meet local needs. II may help pay
the salary of a Public Health Nurse.
the preparation Of emergency aid. the
cost of lessons IN home hygiene and
care Of the sick, the mitigation Of
distress Of the unfortunate or any one
Of number OF expertly conducted &c
tivities designed for the relief OF the
individual or the welfare Of the com
munity. Whatever it may be-. the
work that the half dollar does will be
OF benefit to the place from which it
came.
No citizen can afford to preserve an
attitude of aloofness toward Condi-
different he may be to personal risks
or however unintorested from a bust
ness point Of view there must be
sOmeone--wife. children or friends
towards whom he feels a sense OF re
sponsibility. Especially must he feel
protective impulse toward all little
children. II is not enough that we
should put our own house in order. so
long as conditions preiudicial -
health exist in any home there IA al
ways the possibility Of disease germs
being carried from that home TO tho
school the playground and tho street
and to other homes.
The city or town officials will aid
the destitute where such cases are
brought to their attention. but they
cannot hunt them out The Red Cross,
through its Hme Service, can and
does.
The city or town officials viii do
their best to see that in8anitary cOndi-
tions arc improved wherever they be
come aware of such conditions. The
lieu ' lUoS III OuSu Ito t'lutstJlOl VI
methods, aims to prevent such condl-
tions from arising One half Of tEr
citizens 800 will help, therefore. 10
bring it to pass that the people shall
actually put into practice tho doctrine
hat an ounce Of prevention is worth a
pound of cure.
The other half OF the citizens sl.00
goes to the National headquarters o.
the Red Cross at Washington to he
used partly for national relief WORK
and partly for relief work abroad.
The Red Cross foreign activities
are being rapidly narrowed down to
relief work among the suffering chill
dren No one can say that those
children are to blame for the situa-
ton in which they fin themselves or
that they could have foreseen IL and
made provision for It. They are
wholly guiltless; as guiltless as the
children in our own New England.
Eleven million Of them are war or
phana. The parents Of millions Of
others are quite or nearly destitute.
Their own governments are too heS"t
with vital economic and political
problems to look after them. In other
words a whole generation Of children
in Central Europe is growing M in
state Of physical and mental neeler
Thousands 0: course will die. H. is
loo late now to help them What sort
OF future citizens will tho others
make Putting aside the question OF
their undeserved sufferings. what sort
of men and women will be formed out
Of these millions OF undcr-nourishe1
bodies and siurtod minds?