The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1922-11-10
SUPPOSE NOBODY CARED?

A little boy, on seeing a tree BEN
and crooked, exclaimed to his mother
"What makes that tree look so fun
n.y." swell, what do you think? p
The child pondered a moment and ther
answered, ~ guess someone must have
stepped on it when it was a little fel.
low"
To one of our counties that is for.
tunate enough to have a Red Gross
worker-I say fortunate enough, fol-
l believe the Red Cross is a great
power for good, working as it does
irrespective of race or politics OF
creed-there came to one of our Rec
Cross offices a little child, sick in
mind and body, a helpless mass OF
humanity. 1t was possible for the Red
Cross to give it the best attention
that medical skill could offer, but it
did not stop there. Careful inquiry
was made into home conditions and it
was possible to protect the brothers
and sisters and to give a helping hand
to the mother and father who had
gone down in the struggle.
Today that boy goes from his school
to a home that understands, and he
has all that love can bestow upon him.
But some day some one is going to
ask us, "What makes him look so
bent and crooked? " And we shall have
to answer, Because someone stepped
on him when he was a little fellow"
As we go on in the hum drum of
life, concerned with our w interests,
do we give enough thought to those
who have not had of the richness and
fullness of life as veto the neglect
ed, misunderstood, abused children?
What are we doing for the little folks
who have been stepped on-more than
this, what are we doing towards keep
ing others from being crushed and
trampled in the rush of our everyday
living?
There is one organization in our
midst that concerns itself with our
fellow-men-the American Red Cross.
The Red Cross has a very definite
place in Jul life. The need for it will
always exist, in good times and in
bad, for wherever there are people,
there are problems, and it will carry
on. Its ability, however, to be of the
utmost good depends entirely upon
the response and support you will give
to it, in interest and goodwill and
financial support, but most largely
in personal service. To every one of
us there comes a call to personal SER
vice. 1t is for each one of us to de-
eide whether we will answer it.
The art of working with people is
the finest of all arts-it is far from
the simplest. The American Red Cross
in taking the responsibility for help
ing to meet these human problems
which exist in every community, finds
itself brought face to face with an in
tricate work. 1t is a sense of respon-
sibility for the unfortunate or trou-
bled neighbor that impels the Red
Cross to go on helping folks into the
living of useful, normal, contented
1ives-that is the purpose of the Home
Service work.
One of the most difficult tasks in
the world is to help people in the right
way. It is in attempting to do this
that the Red Cross worker comes to
realize how much she needs skill and
experience. She is brought into con-
tact with those difficult problems of
wrong-doing, shiftlessness, feeble
mindedness, which cause the break
down OF wholesome family life, and
she must have knowledge and iudg-
ment and sympathy to work wisely
and well. That is why the Red Cross
asks skilled, experienced leadership in
the direction of it's work.
Let us not forget that four wears
ago the message of peace was sent
around the world that filled millions
OF hearts with joy. Let us not forget
that that message brought with it a
responsibility for the million boys who
were to be sent back to us manned
and hurt. The same responsibility
rests upon US today and every day
until those million men have been
cared for. The first responsibility of
the Red Cross is the disabled service
men and women.
Today there has come an imperative
cry to the Red Cross for help for the
500 900 fire refugees on the shores of
Greece. Must we turn deaf ears to
a humanitarian organization to whom
not only u neighbors but the whole
world looks when it is hungry or in
jured or sore oppressed?
There is no greater privilege, no
higher honor, than serving mankind,
and the ~watchword of the Red Cross
is II serve"
Just two kinds of people live in this
word-the folks who are and the
folks who don't care. To which class
do we belong?
Don't forget the Red Cross Roll Call !
November II to 18.
MONTANA FARM COMMUNITY
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