Show P 1 INVEST IN HUMANITY HUMANITY Ji J d 1 r r- r J 1 i L rr h r B By y JOHN JpHN OLIVER LA GORCE GORGE E J 1 J Associate Editor National Geographic Magazine Ir J H i SUFFER Little Children to co come e unto me me der declared de- de e no r l J t Glared the compassionate Christ But never since He dwelt welt in flesh upon the earth t tC have there hee been so ma many y CI Little ittle C Children ildren in need eed of f l- l compassion as now I f There ere are the Little e Childr Children m who ho have gone to tor r France Trance for you and me and for foJ Christendom and by f J. J Y gong going ha have v given their all Can you you do less Shall Shall 4 2 y you u keep from your boy or your neighbors neighbor's s boy that thatis v l ch is symbolic of the Compassionate One by negI neg- neg neg- neg l the call of the Red Gross Cross Mother e I j t. t ing j- j f. f k Then there are the unco uncounted Little Childr Children n J. I i i ii of f our allies who have fallen wounded and and- ill in ih de de- iii J of their home fires Who but the Red Cross I Mother can an know the suffering the anguish of the fl torn shell h torn ll-torn thirst thirst stricken l en soldier w who o lieu lies upon the I fr i iA j ghostly bed of No Mans Man's Land Will you deny him t the life-giving life cup cup j Think also of the Little Children of devastated i h lands Some are are Little Children in size and tender t i years years years Others aias alas aias are mature in stature and age w i but none the less Little Children in their helpless helpless- ss o ri hess their ness their abject need Can we in our plenty withhold with- with hold from them th the bare bread of existence Can Can r we we- westill still our inner voice with the thought t that at others P will bear our burden w when en in our heart we must must Q know that th there re ar are no others 0 i 1 t The Red Cross dross helps no one who does not need 1 help a hu hundred dred times more than we need the mon money f Therefore let us give give until we feel it Jt give until t 1 r rt it pinches Th Then n and only then we shall kno know that f f ft t to 5 we we ve have a e indeed offered the he Little Children hildren of the f 1 t war t the tender compassion of a natIo nation |