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Show Tan editorial by j m FLORENCE DA VIES M 9h A DEBT OF HONOR. EV Five yoars ago. you might hace HKL thought you could get along without Ba a diamond pendant or a Jeweled ring. P or even a platinum pin, but there was Kt one little celluloid button that you fit-couldn fit-couldn t and wouldn't be without and MS", that was the tiny circle of white with jB" Its cross of red which marked you as flgjC a member of the world s great army R: of mercy. But how quickly do the years pass Kt the old fine Ideals and resolu- M i Hons fade Bp Then, to have suggested an arpu- Kf mnt to convince you that you wantod K j to belong to this great world organlza- Kk tlon would h.i'.'o been to have offored mskr, ! you an Insult, for the poorest work-I work-I man or the frailest woman who could Vft learn the dollar with which to Join. counted it an honor to belong to the Bj3 Red Cross ana disgrace to be among 8K,. the few who didn't care. mtF ' But next month tho thousands who have forgotten their fine spirit of mb.- servlce of these few years ago ari KM 1 going to be asked to renew their EtJ pledge of hopefulness to those who IgV' need The Red Cross is the one army that never signs an armistice, for c en W though wars may cease, disasters i-wava i-wava threaten But not for anathr generation will the disaster of war cease, iii spite of armistice and pear", congress. There will always be with e 11 in.- tokens of those who suf- 'V fered or died In the war. and to them the suffering of war is as Immediate 'I and as cruel as when we were flock- lng Into the R .1 Cross work rooms h- the thousands to work for the wound- H ed l rue It Is that the tumult, and the I shoutlne; cease, but the suffering of H many thousands goes right on. H It la for these, the families of sol- H d(ers left needy by the war. that the I Red Cross Is asking our renewed sup- ; ' port next month. Surely w are wininc: to b as mer- I ciful in peai e as In war and not one I of us should let laziness or lndiffer- H ence stand In the way of our making l this merely nominal contribution to I the world's need. |