The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1921-11-10
AMERICAN RED CROSS
Executive s.eretary's Rspcst for the
Year Ending S~pt. I. 1871


Executive sceretarys Rsprst for the
Year Ending Scpt. I. 1871
In compliance With the request Of
your chapter officials. YOUR secretary
IL submit ting the following report
for publication. Bv wav Of introduc-
tion. NAV ask are YOU not grateful
and proud that you have not permit.
ted vour A. r. G. CHARTER to ae.
mbb''izef Our task Is varieA, but
a. Rcd Cross we must ADMIT TIT
~ur Obligation is &~st # all to our
ex-serv'ce men. With Frank Persons
I world like 20 saw: Il regard myself
rs YOUR representative. not If the
m"rev that v~u give. but If the pur-
nose that Won have IN Give of youv
svmrathv and kind-ess I, those dis
ab'ed ren and their families. whom
von desi~e IN reach WITH tat with
comes from vour heart whether thew
he in their hov~es or wa der'ng il
searrh Of health or endowment"
Aosin ] ouote from his aad-ess a.
the National A. r. c. C-nvent'or:
NV friends I do rot believe tAat II
sh"u'd ever be~ssid If the Red Crrss
that the man who ca-ries ALWAYS the
marks Of his sacrifice and service
shsll he de~ied the svmpathv and
helriBe hand If YOU ard vour friends
and mine IN this great Red Cr~ss "
And you. fellow workers. do not stop
with your service to our ex-servi..e
men. tho thew are orr fist obliga-
ron. but with the real spirit Of the
Red Cross are extending your eff
Fo-As t. civilian families in a similar
ministry. mothering all the needy ones
Of our communitv.
Thi-tv-six soldiers per month have
sought the assistance of YOUR secre.
tarv and consider e debt of graf
tude and love we owe them to strive
1 In the Srir't Of cu- Master to met
their needs. II matters not how varied.
Their gratitude ard appreciation ex-
pressed for personal interest aid
service Is most general and in some
/, instances moves one tn tnars. Manv
If them too. sick and weak to give
real thinking to arvthi-g are called
upon bv the Government to furnish
very difficult napers in order tn con-
meet their disability with military
se-vice. then their dependerca on the
Ped Cross stirs ore IN their best for
them. The white and the back alike
among our ex-service men bring
their problems to the Red Cross
Some are perhaps not deserving, but
The percentage. believe. is not great
er than the blirded and hypocrites in
"nr churches. With many Of them
their heroic endurance Of disease
~nntracted in service has so extended
into time that to connect their dis
shifty with their military service
rs hard. Some specific instances may
be Of interest to you.
I A colored man of our territory
stalwart. honest and industrious, do.
scribed by his EMPLOYER with the
words: II never worked bette,
had" returned from the service
broken in heath, but attempted t.
work at different jobs in different 10,
calities until consulting an U. s. p
H. doctor, he was pronounced hope
lessly III with tuberculosis and 8
heart complication. At this stag,
YOUR secretary entered upon her tasl
IN this case. and could YOU see tina,
file Of letters and telecrams, yor
could better appreciate the success
If the task. Decentralization wa.
first secured and when at one tim,
while in hospital he received discour
aeing news as to an award of com
pensation, he replied to his inform
ant: II will not give IL up unit
Miss English does" Then with hi.
shaky hand and swimming brain from
weakness he wrote me. How happy
was TO, soon after, wire him Al
award had been made. He, with sew
eral others in our chapter territory
have In the past year yielded to the
dread disease, tuberculosis, and wht
among US would not have preferred
q glorious death on the battle field
to the supreme sacrifice in this form
after having endured in the line Of
duty.
One other instance will suffice. As
looked into the face a few weeks
ago Of one who still bore the marks
Of a fine physique. tho breathing was
laborious and death imminent from
7. B., I was moved. as I seldom am,
as ! talked to him on eternity. How
! did long for Christ and heaven to
be real to him. not just a doctrine
nor q theory. cannot put in
eo1d prsnt hss axuv.aS,so.. - .nr~on..