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Show SECOND RED CROSS DRiYE BEGINS MONDAY Have you ever l.ii:i in No M.-.n's Land, with a shattered thiii ami a thioat that burned wiili thirst? Has your wife ever begged food for her child: en and heiself at the moss-kitchen' moss-kitchen' of a soldiers' camp? Has your little sun e.er torn his mother's heart with a plaintive cry, day after day, for food she. couldn't give him? Has your little daughter, clad in a ragged dress, her only d re-is, e.er Sbivere 1 night after night in lie ru. lied li-ed cellar of which was once Iter home? Has your city ever boe.i disiroe.l nay, powdered, bricks, stone, : ;:-bers ;:-bers and ail sj ground into Hie 1-.i:; that one scarce knew where htuet ended and building began? it ,s exawiy such Luinsing lb.it the Red Cross is organized, hcie and ia Europe, to relieve. The lied Cross asks for One Hundred Hund-red Million Dollars as the le.ist it r.eeds to carry on this work. Can you DARE you refuse to give to this work and give till the heart says stop? The work of the American- Red Cross has been the wonder and he inspiration of our Allies for the thirteen thir-teen months we have been in the war. 'Our feat of raising $1 oo.oon.oiio.oo in a week's time last year, tjuite took away the breath of our English cous- ins. Now comes the call for another Hundred Millieu, and the drive begins be-gins .Monday, May 20. Mount Pleasant's assessment is $1200.00, and it is the purpose of the local committee to raise all of this sum on Monday "go over the top" in the first charge. It is just as easy to do it in one stroke as to take a week for il and besides we can have the other days to plant potatoes. So here goes for a strong pull, and all together, for a winner subscription Monday. |