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Show Bill illO til Itl BIG RED CROSS DRIVE Hingham Churches Met iii Joint Session at Canyon Hall Sunday ' Evening to Launch Red Cross Campaign Large Crowd AttendedNumber of Prominent Speakers Present Enter- ' ! taining Program Carried Out With Good Effect. The churches of IBingham held union services In Canyon hall Sunday and the meeting was devoted to 'the big Red Cross drive. Judge John C. Green was chairman of the meeting; which was opened by the singing by the choir and audience of the "Star Spangled Banner." The Invocation was by Rev. T. J. Tramen. The first address was hy Judge Green, who gave a clear and comprehensive compre-hensive talk on the work of the Rod Cross. He was followed oy Kev. Father Diss, a native of France, who talked most Interestingly on the section sec-tion of the country where the great battle is now raging. Then followed a' song by the choir and another by Mrs. L. L. White. The chief speaker of the evening was Hon, Frank Holman of the Salt Lake bar, who delivered a strong, impressive im-pressive and scholarly address on the-Ued the-Ued Cross work and a thrilling sketch of Teutonic history. In developing his subject he told of the founding Of the Red Cross and what gave rise to its formation into an organization and how it received its name. With reference refer-ence to its history It sprang into life-ddring life-ddring the Crimean war in 1854 when Florence Nightingale organized a little lit-tle band of workers to administer to " the wounded soldiers on the field of battle. The results (were so good that the Incident later attracted International Interna-tional attention. A conference was held in Switzerland and when the organization or-ganization was effected its name was suggested by the flag of that country, which is a red field with a white cross. The colors of the flag were reversed for the organization, making it a white ; .Held with a red cross. He then elucl- ; dated at length on the history of the German imperial family, showing that , It had always been devoted to militarism, militar-ism, and as it grew In strength It never hesitated to conquer, subdue and annex an-nex a smaller neighbor. In speaking , of what has been termed the stupidity of German diplomacy, he said that the military leaders' were not inclinod to bothsr with this matter as they expected ex-pected to conquer Uie world, and did not care to allow diplomats to interfere with their military plans. He spoke for more th.in an hour, and the audience audi-ence was highly pleased with the ad-i ad-i dret-s. This was followed by musical selections selec-tions and the benediction was pronounced pro-nounced by iBishop Wright |