THE ZEBULON RECORD
V olume XXIV. Number 4.
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The American Red Cross did a magnificent job in World War 11. It took care of the needs of our soldiers in hospitals, in rest
camps, in combat, in enemy prisons. It aided the civilian population of war ravaged countries. By virtue of its affiliation with
the armed forces it performed charities that our sectarian bodies could not. But its job is not yet completed. The Red Cross
will never finish its job as long as help is needed in time of fire, storm, wreck or explosion. Its job will not be completed until no
American serviceman lies in a hospital. The Red Cross must be vigilant, and it is. If a tornado should strike the community of
Zebulon tomorrow, the American Red Cross would be here, helping to alleviate the suffering caused by the storm.
This year the American Red Cross is undertaking its first peacetime drive
since 1941 the first since the ending of the state of emergency by President
Truman. We have an opportunity to make the Red Cross carry its splendid
wartime program over to civil life and we also have the opportunity to cur
tail that program by our refusal to give to the scarlet symbol.
The quota for Zebulon has been set at SI4OO. Chairman Ralph Talton says
that at present this quota is far from being reached despite the good work of
the various workers in Wakefield, Hopkins Cross Roads, and our other com
munities. The booths in the bank and the drug store are, he says, doing some
good, but contributions are not nearly so liberal as has been the case in years
past.
The Red Cross program goes on funds permitting in war or peace.
Its workers are busy following such disasters as the recent Los Angeles explo
sion and the railway accidents in Pennsylvania. Here in Wake County when a
farm family lost their home by fire in 1946, the Red Cross stepped in and pro
vided shelter and food for the stricken ones until they could recuperate their
loss -- efficiently, too, for the cost of this act of mercy amounted to only two
hundred dollars! •
Seme few citizens protest that the cause is not a worthy one; that they
have been told by servicemen that the service done by the Red Cross during
war was of slight import; that scandal pervaded many of the activities of
WE CANNOT AFFORD NOT TO GIVE
Zebulon, N. C., Friday, March 7, 1947
the unit. The rest of the community can listen to these few, or they can listen
to:
The paratrooper from Zebulon who was hit in his stomach by shrapnel
while making a combat jump over Belgium. He was carried to safety by a Red
Cross worker.
The engineer from Zebulon whose familv was helped out of grave trouble
while he was fighting the war in the South Pacific.
The airman from Zebulon whose Christmas in a New Hebrjdes hospital
was brightened by gifts of cigarettes and books from the Red Cross.
The infantryman from Zebulon who went two weeks without tobacco on
Noemfoor. The Red Cross gave him cigarettes.
The former prisoner of war from this community who would have starved
in a German camp had it not been for packages of Red Cross .food.
(These cases and several more, from time of both war and peace are
on He in the Record office. In most cases the persons concerned have consent
ed for us to give you their names, if you wish them.)
We are morally bound to support our local Red Cross only slightly*less
than our local churches. With most of us the question resolves itself into one
of being able to afford NOT to contribute! We have until next Tuesday,
March 11, to make our contributions; let’s go over the top!
Theo. Davis Sons, Telephone 2561