Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1920-12-02
YOUR REQ CROSS COLLAR
Halt OF Il Works in Your Community,
Half of It in the Nation
and Overseas

II a citizen Of your city or town
joins the American Red Cross as a
S1.Oo annual member in the Fourth
Roll Call. November II to rs. what
disposition will be made of his dollar,
IN the first place one-half of II
goes to the local Red Cross Chapter
to meet local needs. It may helm nav
the salary of 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-
tions in his home town. However In
different he may be to personal risks
or however uninterested from a bust
ness point Of view there must be
somecne-wtfe, children or friends
towards whom he feels q sense OF re-
sponstbilfty. Especially must he feel
protective impulse toward all little
children. It Is not enough tina. we
should put our own house tn order. So
long as conditions p-etudtcial to
health exist in any home there is al
ways the possibility OF disease germs
being carried from that home to the
school the playground and the street
and to other homes.
The city or town officials will add
the destitute where suc+1 cases are
brought to their attention, but they
cannot hunt them out, The Red Cross,
through its Hime Service, can and
does,
The city or town officials will do
their best to see that insanitary condi-
tons are improved wherever they be
come aware of such conditions. The
Red Cross through its educational
methods, aims to prevent such condi-
tons from arising. One half OF the
citizens 800 Will help, therefore, to
bring 1t to pass that the people shall
actually put into practice the doctrine
hat an ounce of prevention Is worth a
pound Of cure.
The other half OF the citizens s1.oo
goes to the National headquarters O:
the Red Cross at Washington, to be
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 find themselves, q
that they could have foreseen It and
made provision for It. They are
wholly guiltless: as guiltess as the
children in our own New England.
Eleven million Of them are war o.
phans. The parents OF millions oI
others are quite or nearly destitute
Their own governments are too bese,
with vital economic and poiitica!
problems to look after them. In Other
words a whole generation OF children
in Central Europe Ia growing I'D in 6
state Of physical and mental neglect
Thousands o. course will die. 1t h
too late now to help them. What sor'
OF future citizens will the other.
maker Putting aside the question o.
their undescrved shfrerings. what sor'
of mon and women win be formed GU
of these millions OF mdcr- aour1shet
bodies and stunted mSudss