Hammond Times, Volume 6, Number 24, Hammond, Lake County, 23 June 1917 — Page 3

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1 exrfkledfto hold membership in It. The Amerieava Ked Cross), while purely a volactor -OTgan&satioa, ia officially designated kr the) jTPwtrnment to supply the work of the iray and navy medical corps, and to fficJatly receiTe and distribute on behalf f the rotes went all moneys and supplies required to rehere communities overwhelmed by disaster, and to co-operate through its base hospitals and other military unit a, with the army 'and navy.

Tba maettnery-ef the Society interlock closely with that, of the rorerammt The President of, the Society is the President of the Unitad States its Treasurer is the Federal Comptroller of Cuiieucy; the War Department audits its accounts; the Surgeon General of the United States Medical Carps and am Admiral of the Navy head its committees'on military! and naval relief.

In time of war the) government takea rrr the equipment and personnel organed by fbe Society, and every physician, enrsa and. officer oa its roll is automatically giveu proper military rank. So, you see it is not a mere incidental piece of relief .machinery which the American Red Cross ia building.

Twenty-five movable base hospitals, each ef them capable of providing for the needs ot an army division of twenty thousand men, have been organized during the past twelve months. Five have been provided for the Navy. The equipment for these hospitals, costing something like thirtyone thousand dollars each, has been provided and stored in orderly fashion, where it is instantly available. The trained personnel, consisting of 261 surgeons, pharmacists, dentists, nurses, assistant nurses, stretcher bearers, orderlies, clerks, hos?ital cooks, carpenters, etc. has been drawn rom the strongest hospitals and Red Cross Chapters in twenty-five of our great American cities, and, for a period of two years, is pledged to respond to the calf of ths government for active field service.

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V HEN a greaf sorrow befalls a household the bonds of relationship grow

stronger. In the brilliant revival of half-forgotten memories, joys and griefs of early life stand forth on the screen of memory, to remind us of the close ties of family. And so it is with our nation in this time

when our big American family is gathered in council. 1$ We count the cost, but we dare not shrink while we remember our traditions. Some will suffer physical agony, and no one of us may hope to escape untouched by sorrow. Hardly do we wish for such immunity. With the time for sacrifice at hand, suffering in forms which in normal times we dread will almost be welcomed. And yet there are limits beyond which it has not been granted to humanity to endure. Lest those limits be reached we seek now to prepare in ways which later opportunity may not offer. 1$ Friend and foe will find the men in whom the nation reposes its trust have not been wanting in the will and the courage to do their appointed tasks on field and sea. Nor shall those men find that the men and women with whom they place their hope for solace when they fall, shall have done less than their utmost to prepare for their tasks. To many a stout loyal heart the call of humanity and of country will be more peremptory than the sighs of those dependent upon them. Regardless of the fact that our Government seeks to absolve from risk of battle many of those who leave dependents, is there a man worthy of the Great Call of Country to whom some one does not, at least occasionally, look with confidence for some sort of necessary aid? J Here in - there may be many too young or too old or too weak to fight their own or their nation's battles, who will feel most heavily the merciless thrust depriving them of fond protection. f Whatever else we may be doing to help our country, and whatever else we may be willing and waiting to do, let us not lose this opportunity to help along the work of the Red Cross. J Let us realize that every penny contributed to it will ease the throb of pain in some human breast, somewhere, some time, in war or peace. J Let us not stop our contributions at one dollar if we can give one dollar and Qne cent, nor at two dollars if we can give ten, nor at twenty-five dollars if we may, in fairness to ourselves, make it one hundred dollars.

I T"he men and women of-tHr 3r and of America to whose wisdom we look for guidance in affairs of State, in affairs of religion, in affairs of science, in affairs of business, and in affairs of all other human activity, unite in saying; "This is a worthy cause," and if you and I need more authoritative endorsement, it is not lacking. To have faith we must have hope, to have hope we must have charity, and it has been said: The greatest of these is charity

J There is no charitymore practical than the work of The American Red

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The American Red Cross is desfgnat4 to take charge, under supervision of the Medical Corps, of all patients turned over to it in what we know as the second zone the zone of the military base. Here, in the great base - hospitals organized and equipped by the people in times of peace, the wounded soldier and sailor meet for the first time what is comparable to a regular hospital establishment. Here he receives expert surgical attention and the best care and nursing that a grateful people can provide. Letters from his dear ones at home are received and read to him here, and his letters home are written for him by clerks provided in the hospital. Here be stays until wall enough to be) transported to one of the great general hospitals commandeered by the government, back many miles from the) war front, or until he is discharged to his home. Let tts build our machinery now com mensurate with our other resources. No organization holding a membership of two or three hundred thousand can truly reflect the generous impulses of our people. Japan has more than two million member enrolled in her Red Cross. May there not be a vital connection between this fact and the fighting fitness of her armies and navies in her r scent war? Germany had, at the outbreak of the war, nearly a million and a half members in her Red Cross, Does this not partially explain the fact that her military and civilian population have been cared for. as no other nation ia Europe has been cared for in this terrible war? Austria's Red1 Cross, with a membership of 383,000, broke down in the early stages of the war; her machinery was not adequate. While men died oa the battlefield and ia her hospitals, aba had ta stop, aa God grant we may not bo compelled to stop, to patch her machinery, to expand it, and to bring into being what every nation should have before the call to the flag goea out.

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For tha purpose of providing: for the relief work of the American Red Cross to be administered by the War Council appointed by the President of the United States, and in consideration of the subscriptions of others. I promise to pay to the American Bed Crosa War Fund, William O. McAdoo, Treasurer, .'. Dollars payable aa follows: ona-fourth July 1, 117: one-fourth Aug-ust 1. 1817; one-fourth September 1. 1817; th balance October 1. 197, or as follows:

If contributor la not a member of tha Red Crosa and desires to havo $1.00 of this contribution used as dues for Annual Membership, please so Indicate bn this card. Tes or No........

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