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Show HANSEN PRAISES RED CROSS The American Red Cross is neither wet nor dry, neither Democrat nor Republican, Socialist, Prohibitionist, or de-nominationalist. de-nominationalist. It knows no color lines. It is bound by no social strata. It stands ready to help flood sufferers, people whose homes have been ravaged by fire and storms. It binds up the wounds of those that have been ravaged by war or disease, by famine or calamity. Its angels of mercy hover over our wounded boys on foreign battle fields and they cool the fevered brow of loved ones back here at home. It helps white an dblack, Jew and Gentile, Protestant and Catholic, believer and infidel. When holocaust comes or calamity falls and help is needed the Red Cross will go into the home of a drunkard as quickly as into the home of a preacher; it will extend a helping hand to the wayward girl or prodigal boy the same as it will to an honored citizen. citi-zen. It must be kept forever free from politics. It must never become the tool or slave of petty, selfish, greedy interests. |
