Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 75, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 December 1918 — BISHOP JOHN J. O’CONNOR TELLS OF RED CROSS APPEAL [ARTICLE]

BISHOP JOHN J. O’CONNOR TELLS OF RED CROSS APPEAL

Bishop John J. O’Connor of Newark thus expresses his approval of the Red Cross Christmas roll call: “A citizen of the United States can offer no valid excuse for failure to enroll himself in the American Red Crosg Society. An organization whose one great principle is humanity has the right to call all men to Its standard. The Red Cross appeals to the common human in us. It alms at giving fine words, like sympathy and pity and mercy, some practical value. The world has waited a long time for an organization which could give to vague feelings of sympathy wide, practical application. The American Red Cross fulfills every requirement of a broadly humanitarian association. It accepts only universally admitted principles. It limits Its operations to no particular class. It sides with no party. It asks of its members but two things—that they have pity on suffering wherever found and that they have the will to relieve misfortune. "" “The appeal of the Red Cross for an Increased membership should be Insfriutly heeded. The man who fails to heed this call places himself outside the pale. He does not feel with his native land. He Is not one with his kind. Here is our opportunity to join in a work which gives to religion and It* teaching present vajug. Place your

names on tne runs oi me American Red Cross.”