Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-11-14
Work of Great Charitable Or
ganization Pictured to Mass
Meeting Sunday Afternoon
Live Wire Dunnack Main
Speaker-Pleasing Program
BY Augusta Symphony Or
chestra

The work of the Red Cross il more
important today then when the Amer
lean army landed in France and for
the enrolment of it's 5000 900 MEM
bers and their increase to the great
est possible number. the American
Red Cross has set itself to the task
and many others pertinent to the
great need OF making the Roll Call a
big success and putting it over by a
wide margin We're forcefully demon
strated in the Illustrated lecture Civ
en- by Hon. Henry E. Dunnack at a
big mass meeting of Augusta citizens
held at $3.50 Sunday afternoon at the
Colonial theater.
This meeting held under the aus
pieces Of the Augusta Red Cross Chap
ter called forth an unusually large
audience, and at 2 o'clock before the
doors were opened. the street outside
of the theater was lined with people.
Every seat in the large auditorium
was taken and there was standing
room only when the slides were
shown on the screen. In addition to
the illustrated lecture. the audience
was favored within a musical treat in
a splendid program Of selections Civ
en- by the Augusta Symphony Orches-
ira. Ernest r. Hill. director.
To-day and Tomorrow" was the IT,
tie OF the Red Cross lecture, which
graphically described the work which
must be done today and stretches out
into tomorrow. The stereopticon
views showing in color scenes at
home and overseas were supplement-
cd with. a very interesting address,.
given by Mr.. Dunnack. which was
given enthusiastic applause. Mr..
DunnacE spoke in part as follows:
The world has learned by stern ex-
perience that while 1t was easy to
destroy, it is an incalculable task to
thought to realize that even here at
home we are by no means through
with war. it takes an absolute effort
of the mind to realize anything re-
garding the condition Of the rest Of
the world.
Nothing IS more significant Of the
condition of things at home and
abroad than the nsistent call for the
continued activity of the American
Red Cross.
In the midst of the appalling con-
ditions of Central and Fla stern Europe
there has arisen cail which the
American Red Cross can not disre-
gard.
In Poland there are $4,000 war or
phans, and twice that number in
serious need of food and clothing and
medical help. Ninety-four per cent.
OF all the Polish children are tuber-
cular Starvation and exposure have
| left a terrible heritage in shrunken
bodies. twisted and distorted limbs
and crooked spines.
In Austria and Hungary there are
probably a million children, a large
part of them war orphans with no
| one to care for them or minister to
their necessity.
Throughout the Balkans the dis
tress is just as great. In Serbia,
+ Montenegro and Albania more than
half the living children are orphans
with absolutely no one to provide for
them. Literally the permanency Of
the civilization of Eastern Europe is
at stake.
| The greatest challenge just now
+ to the people of America. through the
chapters of the American Red Cross,
is to furnish clothing for these des-
titnte. ragged, naked, unprotected
children.
BY far the greatest duty and the
greatest obligation that the Ameri-
can Red Cross faces today at home
| is the problem OF our disa bled serv-
| ice men. There are $500 men un-
| der treatment in government and
| private hospitals This number has
! increased eightfOld since 1919 and
will probably continue to grow for
at least several years to come. While
these men are under treatment the
American Red Cross maintains the
service to which the men became
! accust omed during the war. Ten
millions a year is spent in aid of
disabled service men and their fam
lilies.
Distinctive among its peace-time
activities is the Red Cross Nursing
Service. which is laboring to remove
the stigma that among the civilized
nations of the world We are far from
being the first in the measure Of
care that we take for the health and
! happiness of our people.
| Disaster relief has been an impor-
tant and outstanding feature of Red
| Cross work ever since the organiza-
| ton has been in existence. AS one
never knows where disaster is likely
! to strike. instant readiness must be
the watchword of those who attempt
! to cope with a horror whose unex-
pcctedness is its chief terror-wit-
ness the recent Pueblo food and the
| Georgia cyclone.
| Thus up and down the land and
/ to the ends of the earth. the Ameri-
can Red Cross finds still wide de-
mand for it's labor. 1t asks you to
| let your life tell somehow for the
general good: to give 4 little part
! Of YOU to the service OF mankind.
Augustus quota to be raised in
the Red Cross Roll Call is $4,000,
and Mr.. Dunnac!1 predicted that
with the interest that is being shown
the campaign here will go over the
| top with flying colors and that prob
ably $4,000 or more will be raised
here. comfortable margin Of 5000
over the amount called for.
"Red Cross at Work"
| Following a selection by the AL
gusta symphony Orchestra, 4 NOV
ing picture entitled 1.-THE Red Cross
at Work" was shown. this de picting