| Show KATHLEEN NORRIS We All Are of American Blood HOPE THE NURSE won't tell I Johnny I hope on her cheerful friendly visit this morning she won't sit next to his high hospital bed and say to him something like it's too But out of It means your I know You're you're weak and you need that warm red blood running through your restoring that generous heart of yours that hungry to life and there's no They aren't getting back there in well-fed So they can't send you see You can't fake All of us nurses and doctors and staff and your fellow soldiers God knows we'd give it if we could I But we and America Isn't sending and so maybe you'd better use your failing strength to write Mother that you aren't so that she remember that you loved her loved Dad and home and Sis and I hope she won't do you know that there are about 37 million strong healthy American men and women who could send you your if they You came out here to protect You could go home again if they They They ought to be in outside the blood only too humbly grateful that in your magnificent veins some of their own loyalty and love of America could be No Waking we're short of and that means we have to let you slip away into the sleep from which there's no Of course they Of course they praise you ai the other Of course they feel that they are one hundred per cent behind our noble the poor kids who have been sent through no will or fault of their to the out of plasma hell of They read they they But when it comes to the personal sacrifice of the few minutes it takes to ship life itself to these same they They think Instantly and comfortably that some one else is attending to all I hope no nurse says this to a dying It would be adding insult to the injury of But it would be Now if I have any influence over the younger women anu the men who have been reading this column of mine for almost 20 I am going to ask those men and women to discuss the blood banks of the American Red Cross I ask them to not you suppose does or Joe Mason do that I ask every separate man and woman to take this and instead of looking about for some-ore else who might suitably contribute to the blood sj immediate arrangements to go there I ask you to discuss to say at some dinner table when next you dine out you done Have Hasn't anyone of us here ever sent life itself to the boys who are risk-ii j theirs for Save Ourselves Shame From the richness of our lives here at home we could settle this all-important thing in 24 We could save ourselves the shame of ever hearing our hospital services again plead patiently for this help to the lives of our They never should have been obliged to do I hope the time is coming when the men and women we meet in daily contact will report as casually on their individual share of this as If it were taxes or gas I hope when any girl sees the man of her heart cutting Into a fat stet in a luxurious with soft music she will not be afraid to ask contribute regularly to the blood don't More than We surely want our boys to know that their their restoration to full health and strength is of vital importance to An overwhelming response to the demand for plasma would be perhaps as striking a way as we could find to assure them that our hearts an- theirs are beating |
