Show HE RED CROSS CHOSS OX ON TRIAL If I the Red Cross Cros people have committed com coin mUted the acts with wIh which the they are arc areo areso so o strongly accused in San Francisco the they have done dono more harm to humanity humanity human human- ity Iy than an nn army can do If I the they have been guilty of selling soo goods s and ancl provisions provisions provisions pro pro- pro pro- visions contributed bu ted for 01 or tho earthquake sufferers rs diverting the tho money to their thol own us USes uses while needy persons are denied assistance the they have descended descend descend- ed Cl to a depth of or infamy which can not bo le expressed in words words It I Is not the first time a shadow has ha fallen falen on the Red Cross Cross Started Inthe Inthe in inthe the splendor of woman's womans sacrifice Inthe in inthe inthe the holiness of a devotion which reeked not of danger and rose to the sublimity sublimity ity Iy of an answer to humanity's appeal the Red ned Cross has done much uch for the suffering and the desolate In battle batte battie bat bat- tie tle te In hospital In famine lands lands they hey have worked with a singleness of purpose purpose pur pur- pose poe and a success of result which have won the admiration of tho the world I And then they have stained that fair record with wih some somo of tho the meanest things that are arc found in the category of money moncy grabbing This latest charge is of the sort which one might expect of the ghetto denizens denizens' the kind of or graft graC that men have como come to regard as typical of or the levee wards in a great city lt Food Food Food- particularly flour sent Hour sent to San Fraucisco Francisco Frncisco Frau Fran Frn- Frn cisco for the support of the needy was turned over ovel to the thc Red C Cress 11 S as was ner nearly all al c cf of the the relief fund after ater tho the work vork had hac been reduced to a n system And now time the fled Cross I IB is r l with wih having ha sold oll the tho flour Hom nn and the clothing retaining tho the cash and turnIng turnIng turn- turn Ing lug away hundreds who ho are arc ar in ln actual need Theft b by a man under ordinary circumstances cir clr- cir cir- is a trivial thing It U may mean a s sudden yielding to temptation tho the recurrence of a tendency chargeable charge chargo- able ible ible to birth or it i may bo be the tho plain dishonesty of oC a thief It I does docs not not great greaty disturb tho the flow now of or humanity's currents toward that better day when all al men will wi do right because It t Is best to do right But this organization is placed on a pedestal It I has challenged chal chaP tho the attention of the tie the world It I I has assumed to bo be superior to the frailties of mankind and Jar far above temptation The charges charses now ar made mado with wih such evident verity make one lose loso faith In th tho ho best that had been con con- If I the tho Red Cross Cros people can lie llo and steal thero there really seems really realy seems vcr very little littie use or value In reputation No war could inflict the damage on the time world a proving provinE of these these charges will bring No pe pestilence that mows down wi thousands can so 80 deeply wound crea crea- tion ton Better Beter war var and famine than the established proof that there here is no honor among men And if l tim the Roil Red Cross Cros' Cros is Js become a band of or grafters grafter shall faith bo ho safe |