Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 January 1919 — WHAT CAN WE DO? [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

WHAT CAN WE DO?

The work finbe donw tn the rtTonstructlon of dkA-ftstated countries is a;uiallinr—ur woulil be—if the—war that devastated them had not also so augmented ihe strength and reof the Jted Cross thitt it can undertake any task of mercy. In ev--1 cry direction •almost, its help is needed. The ending of the 'War has not lessened the lii'efl for foreign relief work the task uLJCcmisuaicLtoiL, is going to be a long one. But if American people stand by the Bed Cross, ■ and the best American talent and exJicuti.ve ability eotitiniies to be dedieated to it, Wr may live with the coiiiforrhTg .assurance that America is doi ittg its great pa:rt to nileviare Ipiniair misery. I’mier the stress of the.waf a working organization has been built up. having.the benefit of experience behind it. amUiFTnowredge of the best way of doing things. ' Now That utl have such, an efficient organization, it may be depended upon to do the reli<»f ; work" nF- hrmne and' T rixi s t b<‘ done. The character <>tjhe work

will change somewhat as time passes. Just noW^i>eopTffs = TO ::: 3^pCTMe are being relieved. In the south of “Europe, Serbia, the region south of the Danube, Armenia...starvation and disease face populations despoiled of their homes and industries, and reduced by thousands upon thousands of victims of the war. Their immediate r<<|uirements of food, medicine and shelter must be taken care of and soHie-prmmioW’-nra+le to educate their youth in agriculture and other means <>f support. And this is only one cor- "' r 1,1 Ihp earththat cries for succor at. the hands of the Red Cross. In the Holy Land,■ as a result of the war, one-third of the population of Lebanon ’died of disease and hunger. Things will 4IQt--h£lagain-_as 7 /tliey wore hefnro tha great war. We shall help more those people of other countries. I.ess fortunate than ours, who aFe/not able to help themselves, and those at home whose fate is hard. The Red t'rosMr.is shown .what it Ctin do in a great emergency—the tasks beTore" 1t ~|pngthotr. and* They itre "great undertakings.