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ONE HUNDRED MERCIFUL MILUONS
By HERBERT KAUFMAN
- Contributed by Arthur William Brown.
t WAT 1HE BED CROSS HAS TAKEN
TO DEFEAT Til ITER'S
GAME
000 Ragged, Sick and Homeless People
Daily Dumped at Evian.
e first onslaught of the Huns,
the French were able to with
their invasion, the Kaiser se
a goodly section of France.
the captured cities and Tillages
aired many thousands of French-
e to all the rules of Teutonic
pcy, the noble German worked
arved these French close to the
of death, then saw to it that an
sive number of them "caught"
ulosis and finally sent these poor
back to burden France.
Ju taken the Kaiser from two to
years to suck the healthy blood
pe veins of these sturdy rural
but now he Is sending them
t the rate of about 1,000 a day.
aiaer never announces these
shipments. He simply dumps them in
Evian, on the French-Swiss border.
If it were not for the American Red
Cross the task of caring for these
starved, ragged, sick, homeless, ter
rorized men, women and children
would be more than the French govern
ment could handle. But our American
Red Cross is making heroic efforts to
defeat the Kaiser's aim to fill France
with consumptives. Trained Red Cross
workers are at the receiving station at
Evian. They first separate those
showing signs of tuberculosis from
those who are only starving or have
some other disease.
It is just like the tender care ef
our Red Cross to give particular at
tention to the babies and children to
whom the kindly Kaiser has fed con
sumptive germs. We have a hospital
of 30 beds for children In Evian. These
are reserved for the children who are
too ill to take farther. Then our Red
Cross has a convalescent hospital out
side the town and yet another in a
nearby village. It also keeps six am
bulances busy transporting sick wom
en and children. Yet even then, the
strain upon our workers Is so great
that for eight long months one Ameri
can nurse has had to look after 120
beds.
We, through our American Red
Cross, are doing great things toward
defeating the Kaiser in his efforts to,
turn France into a graveyard, but we
have just started, and our duty de
mands that we work fast and without
ceasing.
MCE GONE
m Kills Sentiment as
achine Makes Socks
in 25 Minutes.
By RUTH DUNBAR.
I snowy white your fingers look
e scarlet wool!" was the
speech of grandfather when
Paying suit to grandmother,
history is correct never al.
Nttle things like love and court-
ustract her mind on minute
w knitting.
modern young man is robbed of
wminity to make these Drettv
for the wool is no longer
but khaki. Worse yet, the
SitS before a cnlrt. ha1 ma.
Ilud Srtnds oft socks in. as many
p s it takes hours to knit them.
f 13 WQat efficiency does to ro-
?e various Red Cross workrooms
I ew York flnnnfTr nanfa
Clseventy.five sock machines.
these are in
It Oft -ei "'C UlUUCt wu
f.ftThlrty-elghth street and
f mat have been ordered are held
Pfc conditions. Here lnstruc
C toe me of the machine to
r workers.
Ion v palr of socks can be
tnrtri 8 11Ke a cross between
ie and a pile driver. The
Tf QS 11 thT& the arm and
JlZ ine threader. The body
"V.U1IIP Iff n 1 .
ittfc ; a irtie oi neeaies
, e ends like crnrhot hnnto
t Le'5 also flra mo . i
tip f1 ""e uu me sock
Pins- t aeveu logemer and
- una Dottom knitted
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machines in the Red
"OrkrnnTv, it. .
. u"ius mere ara mux..
I DV m.i ti-ia.ujf
7t 6 individuals or groups
L .at home and dnnou -
or wIelC:0SS- a mily
Jub t:;' i0ur or nve women
i t0eeUl8r aad buy a machine.
My husband enlisted over a year
ago. Shortly after he went away our
twelve-year-old boy had the measles.
After his recovery his school teacher
complained about his conduct. At
heme he was nervous and irritable.
When I called at the Red Cross to find
ut how I could secure an increase in
allowance because of our newly born
babe I told them of my trouble with
Harry. On their advice I took him to
an oculist, who said glasses were need
ed immediately because of the -weak
ened condition of the eyes following
measles. He no longer causes trouble
at home or at school.
"WHAT HOUE SERVICE
HAS DONE FOR LIE"
T. R. TO GET SHELL
THAT HIT HIS SON
Captain Roosevelt, Who Was in Hos
pital, Lauds Red Cross.
Capt. Archibald Roosevelt, who re
cently was injured and nursed back to
health In a Red Cross hospital, in
speaking of the Red Cross work, Is re
ported as having said : "
The Red Cross is doing everything
iDossible for us. I cannot say too much
In appreciation of their efforts, which
make us feel as iz we were oacic noxne.
It is a srreat comfort to us fellows in
hospitals, and if pur folks coid see
th ro v we are beinsr taken care of
they would stop worrying."
The Red Cross chaplain in this par
ticular hospital happens to be Doctor
Billings of Groton, Mass., who taught
nantiiin Roosevelt at the Groton
schooL The Red Cross shopping serv
ice in the hospital , has been commis
sioned by Captain Roosevelt to obtain
a new uniform for him to replace the
one which was torn to pieces when he
was wounded by fragments of a Ger
man shell.
The piece of shrapnel vfhich wound
ed Captain Roosevelt will be present
ed to Captain Roosevelt's father, Col.
Theodore Roosevelt.
URSESPRETTY
Red Cross Hospital Uniform
Most Becoming in His
tory of World.
In a recent news letter from the
front the war correspondent of the
Philadelphia North. American helps to
explain the song, "I'm in Love With a
Beautiful Nurse."
"There are 62 Red Cross nurses at
this place," says the dispatch. "They
are cheerful, obedient, brave and com
petent. And those who weren't pretty
to begin with became so the moment
they donned the uniform that is the
most becoming in all the long history
of costumes devised for the mystifica
tion and beguiling of men.
"In the officers' ward was a colonel
with bronchitis. Tve seen them In the
Philippines, and I've seen them in Chi
na,' he told me. 1 suppose I've seen
about all the existing types, but I nev
er yet saw one that wasn't pretty in
side of 24 hours.'
"He reminded me of an Irish Tom
my, who, so his major told me, woke
up in a hospital in 1916 and, seeing the
nurses in the ward, exclaimed, 'May
the howly Virgin bless us, but the an
gels have come down to the Sommel' "
Hundreds of Red Cross nurses, how
ever, are doing work abroad in which
their looks are less eagerly considered.
Finding and caring for war orphaned
babies, fighting tuberculosis, re-establishing
homes in shell wrecked villages
these are some of the big tasks of
mercy which, thanks to American con
tributions, the Red Cross sets for its
nurses.
There are 13 divisions of the Red
Cross in the United States. There is
a complete organization at each divi
sion, with a great warehouse for the
collection and shipment of all kinds of
Bed Cross supplies.
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NE Hundred Millions for the Red Cross and not one
penny of it for red tape.
The mightiest charity, the noblest and broadest
volunteer movement of history.
The .Red Cross shares no enmities, serves no flag but its
own. It is God's agent, His healing, merciful will the
answer of twenty ever-gentler centuries to red barbapsm.
Twelve million orphan children are wandering about
Europe twelve million frightened little boys and terrorized
little girls, sent adrift to sob alone and perish in the wastes
to live like swine and die like curs, unless magnificent
America ransoms them from death and worse.
How many of your pitying dollars will search the deso
lations and save them for Tomorrow's works ?
The Red Cross needs another Hundred Million, to glean ,
the battle areas for this precious seed before it rots in mind
and body before grief and horror and disease and unre
straint irrevocably blight them.
One Hundred Millions to prevent famine and stifle pesti
lence, to stamp out hideous fevers, to check an earth-wide
wave of tuberculosis, to destroy shuddering filths where
verminous plagues feed and breed and threaten all the uni
verse. One Hundred Millions to found hospitals and build rest
stations, to send nurses to the Front and refugees back, to
forward surgical units and furnish artificial limbs, to buy
medicines and operating instruments, to re-educate the muti
lated and show the blind where Hope still shines.
One Hundred Millions to maintain communication with
detention camps, to provide war prisoners with food and
decencies, to take messages out and bring letters in, to
negotiate comforts and privileges for the captured, to buy
blankets for them and clothes and books and tobacco.
One Hundred Millions for No Man's Land for stretchers
and ambulances, for anesthesia and bandages and anti
sep tics; to train nurses and orderlies, to outfit and transport
skilled specialists, to make sure that a dear one shall have a
clean, sweet cot and a sweet, clean girl from home beside it.
. - One Hundred Millions to keep the world sound and
wholesome, while the armies of Justice hold it safe.
1 Am the Red Cross
HENRY PAYSON DOWST
(With acknowledgments to Robert H. Davis,
author of "I Am the Printing Press.")
I am the Symbol of the pity of God.
I burgeon upon the flaunting banner of victory and the
drooping guidon of defeat.
I am the token of peace in the midst of battle, of gentle
ness shining through the sombre mists of hate.
I am a chevron on the sleeve of mercy, an honor mark
set high upon the brow of compassion. -
I am the color of blood spilled for democracy, the form of
Christ's tree of agony, and my followers, at need,
crucify themselves to make men live, y
I carry the hope of life into the red pits of death, and a
: dying soldier salutes me and smiles, as he goes to
touch the hand of God Almighty.
J. stand for the organized love of mankind, the co-ordinated
-impulses of young and old to do good, the sacred
efficiency of human service.
I mark the flag under which are mobilized the forces of
industry and finance, of church and school, of
capital, of labor of genius and of sinew.
I am Civilization's Godspeed to those who defend her; I
am the message from home.
I am the Symbol of the pity of God.
I AM THE RED CROSS.
7SO Chadreix Herded
Iri DirtyDaapidated
Typical Red Grocs
f An official of a French city that was
being filled ;vrith gas -bombs by the
Germans " found himself confronted
with the problem of looking after 750
children. He telegraphed the Ameri
can Red Cross In Paris for help. Fif
teen trained workers were rushed to
the relief of these children.
Here Is what the Red Cross workers
found: Twenty-one tiny babies under
one year old and 729 children under
eight years. They were herded in an
old, dirty, unfurnished buildingv with
out a suggestion of sanitary conven
ience. It was the best and safest the
French official could find at such a
moment, but you would not think It fit
for a dog.
And here is what the American Red
Cross workers did in two days: They
thoroughly cleaned and transferred to
new buildings outside the city the en
tire 750 children. Red Cross doctors
attended the sick ; nurses were secured
for the babies. Suitable food, was pro
vided for all, and they, were so classi
fied as to provide against the separa
tion of families; also an organization
for the permanent care of these chil
dren, including their education, was
started and has since been put into
operation.
So much for the 750. But how about
the thousands upon thousands of oth
ers. Right now the little children oi
France ara at your doors crying for
food, shelter, protection against Ger
man brutality and dying as they cry.
Consumption Four Ikes LIcre
Deadly Than Bombs and
Machine Guns.
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Pierre Hamp, a French medical ax
thority, estimates that of the 38,000,
000 people of all ages stiU living in!
France 4,000,000 must die of tubercu
losis. The war will have killed about
1,000,000. This means that man with
all of his Inventiveness is far less effi
cient than Nature as a man killer.
There have been over 400,000 new
cases of consumption in France since
the war began. This Is why, despite
the number of new hospitals, 'there Is
still not sufficient space available for,
tuberculosis cases. ,
The Question of Pensions. '
Of course first consideration is ae
corded to the ever popular wounded
men. Therein lies the tragedy of the
consumptive soldier. With the new.
cases coming In dally from . th
trenches the consumptives are not
as helpless as the wounded mea.
When discharged from the army the
severely wounded are allowed a peni
slon by the government The con
sumptlves, however, receive no allow
ance unless they can prove that thelf,
Illness is entirely due to their service!
in the army. This is not an easy thins
to do, and consequently comparatively,
few consumptives receive govern
mental assistance.
Until the American Red Cross began:
to extend Its aid the plight of most of
these men was often pitiful. When!
discharged from the hospital they are
given certain Instructions which would
eventually bring them back to health
But conditions are hard. They are
usually unable to earn much and so do!
not get proper or even sufficient nour
ishment. Very often they are in no!
condition to look after themselves, still
less to safeguard the health of oth
ers. To meet this difficulty local com
mittees have been formed to look after
the discharged patients and see that
they do not pass on their disease td
members' of their families. The task!
Is weU nigh hopeless. Even if proper
living quarters are to be had sanita
tion and hygiene cannot be taught
overnight They sleep in air tight
rooms, kiss their babies, drink out of
the same cups and use the same towels
as the rest of their families.
In spite of these appalling difficult
ties, however, the rapid spread of thi
disease must simply must be check
ed. Even to attempt this would be ant
Impossibility without the tremendous
facilities and aid of the American Red
Cross. No other agency could con
celvably face, much less hope to ao
compllsh. such a task.
HOT DRINKS FOR
TIRED FIGHTERS
The Red Cross Rolling
i Canteen.
In six months the American Red
Cross supplied a million French pollus
with hot coffee, tea, chocolate, bouillon
at the time they needed it most just
as they were entering the communica
tion trenches for a tour of duty under,
boche fire or coming out tired and
worn, after their grueling vigil. If
you were dragging the tlredest pair
pffeet In France through the mud,
and if you were greeted by a cheery;
voice and a steaming pint of beef tea,
wouldn't it be a grand and glorious
feelln'? Oh, boy!w . . -
Now, this is the work of the "roth
Ing canteen," and some day a dpling
will sing "the story f the tank
tanks of broth and bouillon Chat the
Red Cross "Special Front Line Serf
ice" trundles up to the lines. The
Military Sanitary Service supplies the
wagons and utensils. The Red Cross
unit does the work. It supplies these
hot drinks at a cost of 50 francs ($10
per thousand men, a cent apiece I -
Think of that the penny your little
girl sends the Red Cross can buy a biz
hot cheering drink, a good natured
greeting, for s ighting -man who des
perately needs Just that I One penny t
; Red Cross Rolling Canteens to the
number of 15 are now behind the lines
In continuous service. Their crews
are exposed to shell fire and often
have to put on gas masks.
Eugene Hale, brother yof United
States Senator Hale, served -six
months with a rolling canteen In
France, and he says:
"While the men are glad to have the
hot drinks, their chief satisfaction con
sists In the snse this service gives
them of a friend being there with a
helping hand In a critical hour."
And now the American army has
asked the Red Cross to maintain this
front line service directly In touch
with tts medical relief stations near
est the Yankee front and this the Red
Cross Is eager to do. '
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