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Show JSrfflwf ID J ! The h) Cross -"C, y , JfV cU ""d above all things' have fervent charity among your-cj" your-cj" V? ,j "l ' ? selves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins. $'4 i'M- U0 Peter 4-R IrfiUMl V Agonized Europe cries for vour aid. Make Christmas kf, yiM' rea11 worth while by answering generously the aR; iflJ HnA sAr Peal of the Red Cross Society. Read this stirring iWSl cle by Charles Lee Bryson WklmWi-H, th6T hVe ?XiSt?(1' S Mmt lhC Gerraaus y fitting line wore not our own American boys, the t-V,, no onSer be responsible for their starving Red Cross would be bound to do all it couM for Wf'Y?if4 yi4 fv ' ' hsHL them- But thpy are oiir own- We d0 not fully 1 t'fifyill- it The Red r0SS WOuU1 I10t be true t0 ltself realize it yet, but we will later on. From every 4iAV iwfi-f. or to the people who have founded It and city, every village, every farming community, from k.'XTlfl ? tZAf jl V1-"- are supporting it, if it did not do everything almost every family in the whole land, one or mora "S tiyS' V ijs n COuld t0 comfort aml helP these sorely- boys will help fill the lines In France and It Is s&Viit ' t3' -- 1; i-5 tried ones. The relief of human suffering for them, for your friends and mine, for your rela- ''iiMm,ii,n,m,ux isUs sole object- and u has never withheld lives and mine, that the Red Cross is working. 4 ' its hand when there was anguish to be It is going to take men and women by. the mtl- hghting line were not our own American boys, mu Red Cross would be bound to do all it couhl for them. But they are our own. We do not fully realize it yet, but we will later on. From every city, every village, every farming community, from almost every family in the whole land, one or mora boys will help fill the lines in France; and it is for them, for your friends and mine, for your relatives rela-tives and mine, that the Red Cross is working. It is going to take men and women by. the mil--- Hon, working all their spare time, and a good deal of time which they do not now think they can spare. And it is going to take hundreds of millions mil-lions of dollars all we can spare, aud maybe all we have, whether or not we think we can spare it. Belgium is crushed, Serbia is obliterated, Rou-mania Rou-mania is little more than a memory, Russia is impotent, im-potent, Italy is bearing a heavy cross, France is Immortal in spirit but growing thin. There are left chiefly the British lion and the American eagle, and the English-speaking boys who bear them aloft. If they fall, civilization is dead. There is no longer nny question that civilization is fighting for its very life. Germany has set out to force the whole world to live under the German Imperialistic plan. President Wilson, In his now-famous now-famous Bdffalo speech, said : "It is amazing to me that any group of people should suppose that any reforms planned in the interest in-terest of the people can live in the presence of Germany strong enough to undermine or overthrow over-throw them by intrigue of force. . . . Any man who supposes that the free industry and enterprise of the world can continue if the Pan-German plan is achieved and German power fastened upon the world, is as fatuous as the dreamers of Russia." There never has been any question that- the American soldier will fight to death, if need be,: wdien once he begins the job. It is the task of the American Red Cross to so supply and fortify those boys that Just as few of them as possible may be sacrificed. That is what the Red Cross has in mind when it comes to your house, or your office, or your kitchen door, or wherever you may be found, and asks you - to be one of the 15,000,000 Red Cross members to stand back of those boys in khaki. This is riot to be a money campaign. Money Is the least important matter of this moment. What is wanted is members. The Red. Cross wants these 15,000,000 men, women and children banded together to-gether in chapters, organized into committees, and trained to .the minute to do whatever is needed for the boys in France and for their families at home, and for those suffering ones who have lost everything every-thing but bare life. If the call Is for warm clothing, it wants these 15,000,000 trained to make and turn out the kind of garments needed so that they may go by train-load train-load and shipload at once. If it is for knitted goods there has already been a call for 6,000,000 knitted articles and it is almost or quite filled by ' now these 15,000,000 must be organized to get yarn and knit, or get others to knit, and deliver the goods at once. And if it is for bandages and gauze dressings and other things for the wounded, as assuredly it will be many a time, there must be a trained Red Cross membership to get them made and in the hospitals in time to save life. God help the American army ih that day if the people have not been quick to unite with the Red Cross and supply the things the wounded boys must have. And God pity you and me in the days when the hoys come back from over there such of them as come home and listen to the excuses we will try to make if we fail to keep them supplied sup-plied with everything they need in their fight for us. There will be another call for money before long. When the country gave $100,000,000 to the Red Cross war council last summer, the great men at the head of it estimated that, by careful spending, spend-ing, they could make it last six months. The next call probably will be for a larger sum, maybe may-be as much as a quarter of a million dollars. If so, the American people must give it. Every cent goes for relief work. In what he termed his' "public "pub-lic accounting," Henry P. Davison, chairman of the Red Cross war council, said in a recent speech that of every dollar given the Red Cross for relief work, about $1.02 Is spent for relief. What he meant is that not one cent goes for overhead expense, which Is cared for In another way, but that the whole fund, together with about 2 per cent interest which it accumulated while in bank, goes for relief. All that will come later, when the Red Cross needs more money to carry on its work cf mercy. What it needs now Is members 10,000,000 added add-ed to the 5,000,000 It now has. Every member should be at least of the class called ''Magazine Members." It costs $2 a year, and entitles the members to the really wonderful Red Cross Magazine Maga-zine every month, filled with news and colored pictures of what the great order Is doing all over the earth. If you are a member, renew; If not, become one when the Red Cross committee comes. It Is merely mere-ly trying to get you to help win your war and care for the unlucky who may be some of' your own family. --r liic.v nut: e-visieu, &u umi uie uermaus may r77 no longer be responsible for their starving -i to death. The Red Cross would not be true to itself or to the people who have founded it and . are supporting it, if it did not do everything it could to comfort and help these sorely- tried ones. The relief of human suffering , is its sole object, and it has never withheld oil Msgstint its hand when there was anguish to be soothed. But in this case there is another object to be attained call it selfish if you will. In backing up France, and making her people stronger to en-; en-; dure, the Red Cross is saving the lives of American Ameri-can soldiers. This was admirably expressed in the great Chicago Red Cross conference by Henry P. Davison, chairman of the Red Cross war council. "You may ask how all this work among the French people is of any help to our boys how it is saving their lives," said Mr. Davison. "I'll tell you : We ask General Pershing what he wants, and he says, 'I don't want anything, for our boys, but for God's sake buck up the French. Give them courage. Hearten them. They have been fighting for three years, and if you want to do anything for me and our boys, make the people understand that we are here, and are going to take our places in the line as soon as we can get ready.' " Then Mr. Davison went on to show the strain under which the French have lived 'for more than three years, with the German terror holding much of their land and hammering night and day at their lines to break through and take Paris. "And if that French line should break," he said, "you know what that means. There's nobody but those boys of Pershing's to stop the Germans, and, ready or not, they'll have to fill the gap. If we can help the French line to hold, we save our own boys until they are all ready to take their part." Mr. Davison pictured the weary French soldier coming out of the trenches for a ten-day rest. He is tired half to death, covered with dirt and vermin, his clothing worn. Does he go home? He has no home, perhaps. His wife and children were swept away before the German tide. His home is gone. He says, "I can live in hell in the trenches, but I don't see wdiy my family should be in hell too." But now the American Red Cross is in France. It meets the soldier when he comes from the trenches, takes him to a house prepared with your money, and he is made comfortable. He is given a bath, his clothing is cleaned and sterilized, his hair cut, his whiskers trimmed, and he sleeps for an hour maybe ten hours. Then he is taken to his family, if the Red Cross has been able to find his family. He finds his wTife and babes, or his old mother, in a house or a shelter of some kind supplied and furnished by the Red Cross. When the days of his leave are up, that soldier goes back to the trenches a new man. He knows now that America, wdth her millions and millions of fighting men, and her billions and billions of money, and the tender care of her Red Cross, are behind him. And he goes back into the war with a new determination, and says, "so long as I live, I Will fight." And so long as he holds that line, he is taking the place of some American boy who is not yet trained to take the trenches. That line must be made to hold for months yet, for General Pershing has said that if he can help it, his boys shall not go into the hard fighting before February. When they do go in, then will come the real test of the American Red Cross then will be the days of harvest, of which today is the day of sowing. sow-ing. For when the wounded begin to stream from the evacuation hospitals back to the bases, the warehouses of bandages and pads and gauze and splints and hospital garments and surgical supplies sup-plies will melt away like mist before the sun. And in that day. if the Red Cross have not a membership member-ship of something near the desired 15,000,000, trained to make and ship all these supplies in a great, never-faltering stream, the American soldier wdll be ashamed of the land for which he is fighting, fight-ing, and many will lose limb or life which could have been saved. These are not the opinions of a novice they are the convictions of men who are now at the front in France and Belgium, and who see, every day, the horrors of war wmich it is the work of the Red Cross to mitigate. It is only a few weeks since Maj. Grayson M. P. Murphy, an officer of the regular army of wide experience and great ability, now Red Cross commissioner for France, cabled his convictions on this subject. And what he said was, in substance, that unless the Red Cross immediately sent a vast supply of all manner man-ner of hospital supplies, the American army would stand in danger of disaster and disgrace. He used those words "disaster and disgrace." Few who have not been through a modern rnili-'tary rnili-'tary hospital can conceive what an enormous amount of supplies it requires. French surgeons report that it often requires an entire box of 7,000 gauze dressings for a single patient. There has been such a scarcity of dressings In France that they have been driven to use these dressings over and over, trying to boll and clean and sterilize them as well as they can, instead of throwing them away and putting on fresh ones. There has, at times, been such a dearth that wounded soldiers have had their bleeding wounds stanched with old newspapers, with the result that they have always been infected, and gangrene and lockjaw have claimed many a poor fellow who could have been saved. Terrible as it is to think of. they have at times been driven to operate in France without chloroform chloro-form or ether none was to be bad. These, no doubt, are the things which Major Murphy had in mind when be said that disaster and disgrace awaited America less the supply of surgical necessities is hastened. Even if the tails wli-- are abcut to go into the T WILL take not fewer than 15,000,-000 15,000,-000 members of the American Red Cross to take care of the sick and wounded soldiers, look after their families, and relieve the sufferings of the women and children and old men of war-trodden lands. Fifteen million members! That means 10,-000,000 10,-000,000 new members, and the Red Cross has set out to get them before I I the sun sets on Christmas day. ihey are to be known as Christmas members, these 10,000,000 new ones, and it is in the Christmas Christ-mas spirit that they are to be recruited the spirit of unselfishness, of caring for the afflicted, of alleviating suffering. While it is getting these new members, the 5,000,000 who now wear the Red Cross emblem are giving all the Christmas cheer they can to the boys in khaki. They need it. Tens of thousands of them, and it may be hundreds of thousands, are now in France with Pershing, facing the terrible Germans across the desolate waste of No Man's Land. Millions more are to go after them, and other and still other millions until the foe wdiich claims the world for Germany is willing to go home and behave as a civilized nation. They will have a cheery Christmas this year. Ivery man in France will have a little packet om "home," with the love and good wishes of the American people and that means a lot to the voting fellow who perhaps never before spent Christmas away from his home folks. It will put "l1"' spirit into him for the task ahead. The men on this side, waiting in the training -amps for their turn to go across, will also have is merry a Christmas as the Red Cross can provide. pro-vide. Christmas trees, with gifts of some kind, oearing a world of cheer and hope from the great leart of the American people, Will greet every nan in uniformwherever he may be. This Christmas will be a merry one for the vhole of the army and navy. The boys have -ot been long away from home, they have had almost none of the hardships of war, and they come to the feast with light hearts. War has taken almost no toll from them thus Car. Belgium and France, Serbia and Roumania, Great Britain and her colonies, Russia and Italy, have borne the brunt of Rightfulness and our boys have been spared. So it will be a merry Christmas for them. Next year it will be different. The pinch of privation will be felt in the land voluntary, to a great extent, but it will be felt. There will be less to eat and less to wear, and millions to be fed and clothed who no longer produce, and all the nation will save all it can to give to those who are fighting, and to those defenseless ones on the other side who have nothing. And there will be gaps in the ranks, and there will be full hospitals. There is where the Red Cross comes in wherever there Is disaster. The hospital buildings, the equipment, the surgical supplies, sup-plies, the surgeons and nurses and orderlies, the ambulances and the drivers and the stretcher shoulders of the Red Cross. It will carry it, because be-cause it has the backing of the American people ; nnd in the meantime it must carry the load of the nations which have already suffered more than three years of (rightfulness. Here are some of the things the American Red Cross is right now doing In France ; where it has spent $10,000,000. These extracts were taken from a report by the Paris headquarters to Henry P. Davison, chairman of the Red Cross war council, which raised a fund of $100,000,000 for its work : "We have just given $1,000,000 for needy sick and wounded French soldiers and their families. "Our hospital distributing service sends supplies to 3,423 French military hospitals, and is laying in a large stock for future needs. "Our surgical dressings service supplies yfcOO French hospitals, and Is preparing immense supplies sup-plies for our own armies. "We rrp operating at the front line, in co-operation with the French Red Cross, ten canteens, aud are preparing for 20 more ; and at six canteens can-teens for French soldiers at railway stations we -po serving about 30,000 men a day. "We have opened a children's refuge and hospital hos-pital at a point where several hundred children ;ve been gathered to keep them from danger of -is and sheh fire. At another point we have established a medical center and a traveling dls-. nensary to accommodate 1,200 children. "We are making arrangements on a large scale n help refugee families through the winter with lothlng, beds, shelter, and for this work the en-e en-e devastated portion of France has been divided . ,v H'-t-vjets with n resident Red Cross delegate dele-gate in each. Warehouses have been established at four points to which are shipped food, clothing, bedding, beds, household utensils and agricultural implements. "We have a large central warehouse in Paris, and distribution warehouses at important points rom the Swiss border to the sea. Two hundred mis of supplies are arriving in Paris daily, and 125 tons are shipped to branch warehouses." From other authorities word has come that the rmans are driving back into France, through Switzerland, the ragged, sick, hungry and honte-i'ss honte-i'ss women and children of the conquered districts .f France at the rate of 'MI.Mn) a month. Held in j.tiv'ly for more than three years, they are driven ' forth even from the ruins in which |