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Show I "THE STUDENT AND THE RED CROSS" I V J (By Mary Whlttier, Ogden High School. Given at Orpheum Theater, Tuesday Evening.) The Red Cross is the token of one of the greatest humanitarian movements j of modern fitnef. It has invaded the Held of education. It has grown into the complex machine which is great in v.ar nnd e en prea.er in peace fo-j fo-j day it nerds the support of Anier'ea more than ever before Do you know that there are 30, COO soldiers in the hospitals of our coun-trv coun-trv whom th Red Cross Is serving9 Do you know thit approximately 300,000 soldiers' and sailors' families are being I aided .-arh month by the Red Crces I II home service'' Ik. ou rea'ize that thill thi-ll ! Ked Cross commissions are operating, le anions tin- sufferers of t went v throe 4 i countries? Then, too, aou must re-i re-i member that 40,000 soldiers keeping v'gil on th Mexican border arc not be-1 be-1 , mj? forgotten by (he Red Cross. Then, I too, the Junior Red Cross is undertak-tag undertak-tag the alleviation of Buffering among hundreds of thousands of European children. As the Red Cro-s has ever attemDt X J 10 ,ut a practical need in a practi- Ktl way, it Is now appealing to every i ,Uspn 'o contribute to the welfare of I & a country and his community. It is "cn to the school bov and rlrl as r well as to the soldier, to help in these problems. Twenty-two million scb' ol children trained in the permanent duties du-ties of good citizenship have a chance to apply their activity through the Red Cross organizations, Utah has ever been a slate that has helped to place the Red Cross on the "map " The mountain division has always al-ways been among the leaders in the past The division La teeming with red paint All we need is enough hearts and enough dollars .o make Ogden i'd that there may not be a blot on the map of the mountain division We are appealing to you therefore to do your part Tn the doing you will bind yourself to those who are serving serv-ing their country; you will prove your loyalty to its aims, and further, the Red Cross spirit, the spirit which u jra in the words of Jolm H. Flnla) "I go wherever men may dare, I go wherever woman's care, And love may live: Wherever Strength and sk'll can bring, Surcease to human buffering, Or solace give." |