Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-11-12

beast, and brought him 10 an Inn,
and took care Of him. And on the
morrow when he departed, he took
out two pence, and gave them 10
the host, and said unto him, take
care Of him and whatever thou
spendest more when l. come again
will repay thee. Now which of
these three, thinkest thou was
neighbor unto him that fell among
thieves.-Luke x: 1895.
Jesus was talking to a certain
lawyer" who had asked Him what
he should do to inherit eternal life.
The Great Teacher had referred
him to the law: Thou shalt love
the Lord, thy God with all thy
heart, and with all thy soul and
with all thy strength and with all
thy mind, and thy neighbor as thy
SELF" and the lawyer interposed
with a technical question as to who
was his neighbor. The answer is
given in the text.
The Red Cross is the Good Sa-
marian of all the world. Every
man and woman and child in dire
distress is it's neighbor though they
live in distant China, or in Europe
or Africa, or the United States OF
America. The Red Cross is ready
to pour oil and wine into the
wounds of those who have fallen
among thieves in devastating war
or who arc the victims Of famine
and p%estilence, or Of storms, floods,
or other natural disasters. Some
times we hear some carping crltl-
cism of the Red Cross because it
is not more technical in its defini-
ton of who is its neighbor. There
are lawyers in these days, or rather
men of technical mind, who would
limit the law of the Master Teach
er that we should love our neghbor
as ourself and as we love God, to
those of our own country and
neighborhood. The Good Sarnarl-
tan who rescued the man OF the
country between Jerusalem and
Jericho, was not even a Jew. He
was a foreigner in that country
and of a despised and hated race at
Jerusalem. The Red Cross knows
no creed and no nationality. The
title to its service lies not in the
LANGUAGE or the color of the Skin
of those it helps, but in the need
Of the victim of disaster. 1t does
not even ask if they were to blame
for the disaster that has befaller
them. 1t only asks how great Is
the need of the victim.
The Red Cross is an information
al organization, but the American
Red Cross is the richest Of all ths
various organizations which use
the name. In fact it is almost the
only one that has the great mean;
at hand needed to meet a grea'
emergency. Therefore all th'
world stretches out its hand to ths
American Red Cross when dlsas
fer a~ssaiIs some section of tht
world and the need is greater thar
local means can handle. And ucf
appeals almost always finds tht
American Red Cross able and will
ing to help the work of mercy te
the wounded and helpless. It i:
the Good Samaritan Of all tn,
world.
We are saying these things to
day because the annual roll call o
the American Red Cross is o.
over the United States. The fund
which make it efficient are Target,
raised through this annual roll cal
Every one is asked to become
member. It costs only a dollar t
become a member of the America
Red Cross. IF every man, woma
and child responded to the roll ca
SO that the whole population of tn
United States enrolled, it woul
give a hundred million dollars
and that would be a sum If
adequate to meet the giganti
needs Of a suffering world in ord
nary years. It takes a vast sum {
money to feed millions as is some
times necessary in the face of
great national disaster, and nc
only feed them but transport thel
to a place of safety, to house thel
) and clothe them and save thel