| Show GROWTH clOTIl no OP 01 Jg RED BED HEI CROSS Out of the cOI contention which so narrowly nar ear ll threatened to wreck wree the fled Rec Ted Cross CrOM organization when Miss Clara Clma f titon iT-titon and her critics were ere engaged In dispute has come a Red fled Cross society vastly a ty broader and mote helpful to hu hui i 1 Ul than that old oM society could coul i pos possibly sibly Ibl bo ho It I Is no longer longel l confined to towal towar war wal and the results of war var Wa It I has reached ched out oct oven even evel beyond the tIme limit of or Christendom und and has tal taken eim up 11 for or lt re relief re- re Her lief the starving children of f far Japan JUlan Thousands of theta them are arc said aid to be lie rut suf fering for fO food Iod Many have starved A condition exists exist in m inome ome provinces like Ilk of India a few years year s ago Failure of the rice crop rl ha has suddenly smitten them with wih devastation And nl the lie worn worn- ei J of tho the Red nee co Cross have hao carried foo foni foo io LII t the time hungry hungT The Society of or the Red fled Ted Cross CIOS has hm been heon In existence In Europe for Cor fort forty ears cars and In the Unie United States tates thirty Its It aim was vas to ameliorate the tile condition of oC the tho sick and wounded soldiers at the time of any war or any disaster so sobro bro great groat lt as am aF to bo ie termed national The TIme of the lie principle h began In 1869 1859 during the battle hate of Henry Dunant a Swiss gentleman was vas present at tt the tho battle hatie anti the scenes of if that h he hc witnessed hl his Itis recognition of r the Ut need of such an organization on He lie presented his views before the Swiss S I Society of or Public Utility and a convention con D was In I 1 ISO Si I. I 81 Sixteen Sixteen Six Six- called ll to met meet at Berl Berne f teen governments 1 were nt represented including all al li of Furo Europe excepting nUin Ru Bus nU- sin un in A code coie of or articles was adopted pro providing for fOI the thc protection of hos- hos and people le healing be le Insignia o of if the Red ned Cross Cros and ant for a R proper care 0 or i woun wounded ell enemies and of or prisoners prisoner ncr Countries that ar are at nt peace ma may send relief parties farts to belligerent armies without Incurring the hostI hostility of o C l I hOI her Succor Js s extended to foes a awell o on n well ell el as friend And they have grown b beyond the original plan since the lie effect ef of- oct of good deeds is alwn always to a wider and ard still sti wider wiler circle In the United States the Re Red fled Cro Cross J has extended Its Us efforts to giving first aid to wounded In factories and mines A Al At t lan many centers of industry branches of tIme the central society have havo o ha been l planted plant Plant- lant- lant ed cd and the good good work vork Is carried to the homes of at the soldiers of or peace as well wella wel a a a- ato to the tho victims of war |
