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Show RED CROSS SAVES SOLDIERS Organization Acts on Theory That It Is Better to Heal Wounded Fighter Fight-er Than to Pension His Family. Long ago some one remarked that an, ounce of taffy is worth a ton of epl-taphy. epl-taphy. A 10-cent bunch of violets to the Living outweighs a $50 funeral wreath for the dead. That's the motto of the Red Cross, says a writer in the Philadelphia Ledger. It is much cheaper to soothe and heal a wounded soldier than to pension his family. Erecting monuments at Gettysburg and Valley Forge is well enough fifty or a hundred years after the events, but a dollar for the stricken soldier equals a hundred dollars in marble over his body. Bed Cress money Is an Insurance policy. What does it insure against? Philadelphia's $3,000,000 will surely preserve scores of lives. So it insures against death itself, which is something some-thing an ordinary Insurance policy does not do. Wipe out Philadelphia's hospital and how many more persons will di every year? Doctors tell me the number num-ber would be many hundred. Deprive the battle front of hospital facilities and the death rate will Jump enormously. So your Red Cross dollar Is out upon a practical errand not a sentimental, sissy journey. It is certain to be invested In the life of a liberty soldier, which Is good enough Investment for me. |