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Show SOUTH C- L H ahead of us the Red Cross will require the ablest possible leadership, and hospitals, where thousands of Amerimust enjoy the continued support, symcan sick and wounded are still receivIn its work ing attention. At these hospitals the pathy, and participation Red Cross supplies huts and facilities of the whole American people. It Is for the amusement and recreation of particularly fortunate that such a man the men as they become convalescent. as Dr. Livingston Farrand should have Our Army of Occupation In Germany been selected ns the permanent head War Council on Retirement An- was followed with Medical units pre- of the organization. The unstinted pared to render the same emergency fashion In which all our people gave nounces Cash and Supplies aid and supply service which wa$ the of themselves throughout the war Is primary business of the Red Cross the best assurance that our Red Cross Contributed. during hostilities. The Army Canteen will continue to receive that which will make Its work a source service along the lines of travel has and Inspiration to every Amerof pride CARRY iS WORKERS WILL ON. nnlsHJX actually Increased since ican." As for work among the French peoMr. Davison, as chairman of the Inple, now that hostilities have seased, Commission of the Ameriternational Five Big Societies in World Wide Plan. the French themselves naturally prehas undertaken to repRed can Cross, H. P. Davison Heads International fer as far as possible to provide for resent the American Red Cross id the own. It has accordingly been detheir American Red Cross Commission. extendtermined that the guiding principle of preparation of the program for ed Red Cross activities, and will spend Dr. Livingston Farrand Permanent Red Cross policy in France henceforth ' shall be to have punctilious regard to the next several months In Europe in Leader of Peace Organization. its every responsibility, but to direct consultation with other Red Cross sociits efforts primarily to assisting eties for that purpose. COUNCIL OF THE AMERWashington. (Special.) Henry P. French relief societies. The liberated THE WAR CROSS. RED ICAN and devastated regions of France have Davison as chairman issues the followP. Davison, Chairman. Henry ing statement on behalf of the War been divided by the government into small each districts, officially assigned Council of the American Red Cross : to a designated French relief organiTo the American People: zation. The War Council of the American The American Red Cross work In Red Cross appointed by President WilFrance was initiated by a commission son on May 10, 1917, to carry on the of eighteen men who landed on French shores June 13, 1917. Since then work of the American Red Cross during the war, at their request and by some 9,000 persons have been upon the rolls in France, of whom 7,000 were vote of the Central Committee, ceased actively engaged when the armistice at midnight, February 28. was An indication of the presImmediately the armistice was ent signed. scale of the'work will be obtained Council War the instituted signed studies to determine when the strict- from the fact that the services of 6,000 persons are still required. ly war work of the organization would Our American Expeditionary Force have been sufficiently matured to enhaving largely evacuated England, the reable the direction of affairs to be sumed by the permanent staff. Henry activities of the Red Cross Commission there are naturally upon a diminP. Davison, being in Paris when the armistice was signed, summoned a ishing scale period. Active operations conference there of the heads of all are still in progress in Archangel and the Red Cross Commissions in Europe Siberia. The work in Italy has been almost to canvass the situation. After conon behalf of the civilian popentirely considering all the factors it was ulation of.that country. In the critical cluded to make ' the transition on hours of Italys struggle the American March 1. The very fortunate choice through their Red Cross, sent of Dr. Livingston Farrand as the new people, a practical message of sympathy and chairman of the Central Committee, relief, for which the government and exchief and thereby the permanent of Italy have never ceased to people ecutive of the Red Cross, makes possitheir gratitude. express unble the consummation of this plan Supplies and Personnel to Near East. der the most favorable conditions. The occasion for such concentraAccounts Audited by War Department. tion of effort in Brig. Gen. Richard W. Young Italy, England, Beland Maj. Fred T. Gundry, former Detailed reports to Congress and a gium and even in France having naturadjutant, 145th artillery (First complete audit of its accounts by the ally and normally diminished, it has Utah). Maj. Gundry was recently War Department will constitute the been possible to divert supplies and transferred to another command. final record of Red Cross activity durpersonnel in large measure to the aid There are 2,000,000 Americans has been ing the war. Although it of those people in the Near East who under arms in Europe lookstill the rule to make public all expendi- have hitherto been Inaccessible to to you to help buy them the ing tures when authorized and to give denecessities of life. assistance, but whose sufferings tailed information relative 'to all work have been upon an appalling scale. undertaken, the War Council in turn- The needs of these peoples are so vast ing over its responsibilities to Dr. Far- that government alone can meet them, kkkkkkk-kkkkkkkkkkrand and his associates desire to give but the American Red Cross is making INCOME TAX PAYS a brief resume of Red Cross war time an effort to relieve immediately the FOR PUBLIC BENEFITS. activities to the American people, to more acute distress. whom the Red Cross belong, and whose An extensive group of American Viewed In Its largest and A generous contributions have made pos- workers has been dispatched to carry truest sible all that has been accomplished. sense, the payment of to needed and work vitally supplies, taxes is payment for benefits this winter in the various Balkan counDuring the past nearly twenty-onreceived or expected. Only from months the American people have tries. In order to their aca narrow and essentially, selfish given in cash and supplies to the tivities, a Balkan commission has been and shortsighted viewpoint can American Red Cross more than at established, with headquarters the individual propose to him- No value can be placed upon Rome, Italy, from which point alone self the evasion of tax liability the contributions of service which all the Balkan centers can be reached as a desirable course of action. have been given without stint and of- promptly. k Daniel C. Roper, Commission- A commission has just reached Potentimes at great sacrifice by millions er of Internal Revenue. of our people. land with doctors and nurses, medical The effort of the American Red supplies, and food for sick children A. A M k k..k Jz k tk Cross in this war has constituted by and invalids. An American Red Cross k k k of Commission has also been appointed far the largest voluntary gifts kkkkkkk-kkkkkkkkkto aid in relieving the suffering of Rus- k money, of hand ahd heart, ever conk tributed purely for the relief of hu- sian prisoners still confined in German k SQUARE DEAL FOR EVERY man suffering. Through the Red Cross prison camps. INCOME TAX PAYER An important commission is still k the heart and spirit of the whole American people have been mobilized working In Palestine. Through the k The k Washington, D. C. has been k rights of all persons now filing to take care of our own, to relieve the war special Income Tax returns are amply misery incident to the war, and also given to the Armenian and Syrian Reto reveal to the world the supreme lief Commission, which was the only k protected for k by provisions ideals of our national life. agency able to carry relief in the in- k abatements, refunds and ap- Everyone who has had any part in terior of Turkish dominions. peals, says Commissioner Dan- this war effort of the Red Cross is enRed Cross Will Continue. k lei C. Roper. No titled to congratulate himself. Red Cross effort is thus far flung. k Every person can be sure of thanks from anyone could be equal in It will continue to be so. But, 'the k a square deal. No person is ex- value to the self satisfaction everymovement represented by this work pected to pay more than his k one should feel for the part taken. has likewise assumed an intimate place k share of. tax. Ills share is de- - k Fully 8,000,000 American women have in the daily life of our people at home. k termined solely by the amount k exerted themselves in Red Cross serv- The army of workers which has been k and nature of his net Income for ice. 1918, as defined in the law. recruited and trained during the war k exAbatement petitions are dealt k demobilized. All be k our not must Adult 17,000,000 Members. Has Over with Refunds k When we entered the war the perience in the war shows clearly that k will be made in every case where k field k for service an is unlimited there American Red Cross had about 500,000 too much tax Is erroneously col- members. Today, as the result of the of the kind which can be performed k lected. Red effectiveness the with k by peculiar recent Christmas membership Roll on Is "The Income Tax be the k tasks its What Cross. future may Call, there are upwards of 17,000,000 k it is yet impossible to forecast. We k level all the way through. full paid members outside of the memknow that so long as there is an Amer- k k bers of the junior Red Cross, numberican army in the field the Red Cross kk.kk k k k k.k.k ing perhaps 9,000,000 school children will have a special function to perform. additional. could be of greater imporNothing effort chief of the Red Cross The to American Red Cross than the tance during the war has been to care for the set in motion by the five just plans in and service our to men aid our Cross societies of the world Red great army and navy wherever the Red to of extended aca program develop on be to As called assist. Cross may in of humanity. the interest tivities to this phase of the work Surgeon GenInvolves not alone efThe conception of S. U. recentthe eral Ireland Army forts to relieve human suffering, but ly said: The Red Cross has been an to prevent It; not alone a movement as as war Itself. vast the enterprise the people of an individual nation, by From the beginning it has done those to arouse all people to an but Medical which the Army Corps a sense attempt things their of responsibility for the wanted done, but could not do itself. fellow of their welfare beings throughCross in Red France endeavor "Theout the world. It is a program both has naturally been upon an exceptionIdeal and practical. Ideal in that Its ally large scale where service has Is nothing less than verbeen rendered to the American Army supreme aim on earth good will to Peace itable Frencli and to the Army and the French people as well, the latter par- men, and practical In that It seeks to take means and measures which are ticularly during the trying period efwhen the Allied World was waiting actually available and make them in without the fective meeting delay for the American Army to arise In force and power. Hospital emergency crisis which is daily recurrent In the service for our army in France has lives of ail peoples. For accomplishing (ts mission in greatly diminished, but the Red Cross the years of peace which must is still beln? called UDon for service keu upon, a large scale iri the cross gifts great base 0400,000,000 SAVE AND LEARN Young man, if want to become a leader in the worlds affairs, save a part of the salary you now earn, keep your eyes on the future and study your business. 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