Show KATHLEEN ILEEN NORRIS We All AH Are of American Blood I I T T HOPE THE NURSE wont won't tell I 1 Johnny Bates I II I hope on her cheerful friendly visit this morning she wont won't sit next to his high hospital bed and say to him something like this Johnny its it's too bad But were we're out of ot plasma It means your life honey I know that Youre You're white youre you're weak now and you need I that warm red blood running through your veins restoring that generous heart of yours yours that that young hungry heart to life lite and strength But theres there's no more They arent aren't getting it back there in busy rosy well fed America So they cant can't send it you see that You cant can't fake blood All of ot us here nurses and doctors and staff and your fellow soldiers God knows wed we'd give it If we could But we cant can't and America Isn't sending it and so maybe you'd better use your failing falling strength to write Mother that you arent aren't so sowell sowell sowell well that she must remember that you loved her always loved Dad and home and Sis and Fuzz I hope she wont won't say Johnnie do you know that there are about 37 million strong healthy American men and women who could send you your life lie if they would You came out here to protect protect pro pro- them You could go home again if if they cared They dont They ought to be in line outside the blood banks only too humbly grateful grateful grateful grate grate- ful that in your magnificent veins some of their own loyalty and love of America could be poured No Waking But were we're short of ot plasma and that means we have to let you ou slip away into the sleep from which theres there's no waking Talk Of course they talk Of Ot course they praise you ai as the theother theother other boys Of course they feel that they are one hundred per cent behind behind behind be be- hind our noble troops the poor kids who have been sent out through no will or fault of t own to the I ft were we're out of oj plasma hell of ot battle They read headlines they fear they rejoice lament But when It comes to the personal sacrifice sacrifice sacrifice sac sac- of just the few minutes it takes to ship itself to these same soldiers they yawn They think instantly and comfortably that some one one else is attending to all that I hope ro no nurse says this to a dying bo boy It would be adding in insult insult in- in sult suIt to the injury of war But it would be true Now if it I have any influence over the younger women and the men who have been reading this column of mine for almost 20 years I am going to ask those men and arid women to discuss the blood banks of the American Red Cross today I ask them to say Could we not who you suppose does it Jim or Jpe Mason do that once I ask every separate man and woman to take this personally and instead of looking about for someone someone someone some some- one else who might suitably contribute contribute contribute con con- tribute to the blood bank make immediate arrangements to go gothere gothere gothere there himself I ask you to discuss it to say at some dinner table when next you dine out Have you done doneit it Margaret Have you Edward Hasn't anyone of us here ever sent life lite itself itsel to the boys who are risk- risk I. I Ir theirs for ours Save Ourselves Shame From the richness of our lives here at home we could settle this important all-important thing in 24 hours We could save ourselves the shame of ever hearing our hospital servIces services services ices again plead patiently for this help to the lives of ot our men They never should have been obliged to todo todo todo do so I hope the time tune is coming when the men and women we meet in hi daily contact will report as casually on their individual share of this responsibility as if il It were taxes or gas bill I hope when any girl sees the man of her heart cutting cutting cutting cut cut- ting into a fat ste stes ste In a warm lu luxurious urious restaurant with soft music playing she will not be afraid to ask boldly You contribute contrib contrIb- ute regularly to the blood bank dont don't you Ralph More than that We surely want our boys to know that their welfare welfare wel wel- fare their restoration to full health and strength is of vital importance to us An overwhelming response to the demand for tor plasma would be perhaps as striking a way as we could find to assure them that our hearts an theirs are beating to to to- gether |