THE BEEVARD NEWS, BREVARD, N. C.
Friday, May 17, I9I8
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What does it mean to you to know that your
American Red Cross:
Is supportinji 50,000 I roncli childrei;.
Si'iuls supplies to .<,42.^ FrtMicIi military hospitals.
l*!ovi(Jos 2,0(V,) I'roncli hospitals wifi; sJirijicai tlrossiiio^s.
Is operating thirty canteens at the front hne.
Is operatluij: six other eanteens af I reach railway juiictions, scrvinfj; .‘.(>,000 French
soldiers a day.
Operates a movable h.ospital in four units, acconiniodiitini; s,OilOi nn'r..
Is operatinj^ a children’s refiij^e in one part of the war zoEie; ancl in another a medical
center, and travelinj;dispensary, both ca;nihle of acconiniodatin*^ niore than 2.00(1 children.
lias opened a IoiijlI ciiain of warehouses stocked with hospital supplies, food, soldiers
comforts, tobacco, blankels., etc., all the way from the seaboartl to the Swiss frontier.
Has warehouse capacity for 10O,OCM> tons.
Has 400 motor cars and operates 7 i-'ara;jies, maiiinj.^^ alJ repair?.
Had shipped 46 treij^ht car loatls of assorted supplies to Italy from I'rance w ithin two
weeks after it bej;an operatinjx in the former country.
Had ;• hatterv of motor ambulances at the Pia\ e front four i!ays after the I ’nitcd States
declared war on Austria.
Has t‘stab!isl:ed .S hospitals iri l-.n^land and operates a w’orksliop for hospit-il supplies
employin'^ 2,00i) women.
.\nd t!:at 12'),(MM) cases of supplies have been received at the Paris head(|uarters of tfie
.\nu rican Red Ooss froir. your various chapters scattered tl'.rou^h<uit the United States.
What does all this mean to you? And that is
but a fraction of the work your Red Cross has done
and is doing. It means that without this ceaseless,
heroic work of ths American Red Cross we could
never win this war.
Without your Red Cross quick, vital help to
keep Italy in the fight for Liberty would not have
been possible.
Without your Red Cross thousands of French
soldiers now gallantly fighting for you at the front
would have died of wounds, exposure and lack of
food.
And great and wonderful as has been the v/ork
of the American Red Cross in the past, still greater
and more wonderful must it be in the future—for
now YOUR boy is in the fight.
Your Red Cross cannot neglect France, Eng
land, Italy Serbia, Roumania and little Belgium. It
must give them all constantly increasing help, for
the men of these countries have been fighting our
battles.
But now we must all redouble our efforts and
sacrifice for our Red Cross because millions moth
ers’ sons are going to carry the stars and stripes to
the greatest victory God has ever given to men
fighting for honor and liberty.
With the help of your Red Cross your boy
will win.
THIS PAGE CONTRIBUTED BY
PISGAH FOREST, N. C.