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Show The Red Cross Needs You One thousand, nine hundred and forty-one years ago, Jesus, Son of God, gave His life to save the souls of men. Today, your brothers and my brothers, our American men and boys are giving their lives to free the souls of men. This great nation, our America, has worked night and day to. furnish war supplies, food, ammunition, battleships, tanks, airplanes, the past two years for the ravaged war torn countries coun-tries of Europe. Now today, we, the Americans Ameri-cans who have given so freely, so generously of our wealth and sympathies we are faced with a similar fate of the countries which have been trampled beneath the feet of bar-barious bar-barious warlords. President-Woodrow Wilson in his Flag Day speech on May 7, 1915, before the entry of the United States in World War number one, said this of the flag of our America: "The lines of red are lines of blood nobly and unselfishly shed by men who loved the liberty of their fellowmen more than they loved their own lives and fortunes. God forbid for-bid that we should have to use the blood of America to freshen the color of the flag. But if it should ever be necessary, that flag will be colored once more and in being colored will be glorified and purified." The time has come when the blood of American Am-erican men and women must be shed to freshmen freshm-en those symbolic stripes of our nation's flag. American lives have already been sacrificed so that "government of the people, by the peo- , pie, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth." We have dug deeply in our pockets for the Red Cross before. We have dug deeply in our pockets for Community Chest drives, for Salvation Sal-vation Army drives, and drivtes for other mercy organizations. Now, we are asked to raise an enormous fund. Money to buy bandages band-ages to stop the flow of blood of dying soldiers' sol-diers' wounds; money to buy the food to fill the stomachs of starving children; money to build hospitals, first aid stations, war shelters; shel-ters; money to save the lives of American citizens. We can give now. Give, give, give till it hurts. This money is for us, for you and me, your brothers and my brothers, and our American patriots who are giving their homes, their families, their blood, their lives so that we may enjoy a blue sky unmarred by the sight of enemy aircraft ready to drop their deadly cargo. Don't visualize just any man on the battlefield. battle-field. Look there and see your brother, your father groveling in the muck of war, bleeding from a dozen wounds, groaning, crying, cursing curs-ing the tyrants who have caused this state prevalent in the world today. If, as our leaders say, this is to be a long, hard war, you who are students now, will be soldiers then. It may be you on the battlefield battle-field crying, groaning in a living death. You'll need the Red Cross then! The Red Cross needs you now! Money is such a small sacrifice to make to save human lives. |