Lebanon Daily Reporter, Volume 25, Number 226, Lebanon, Boone County, 20 June 1917 — Page 5

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Will the Red Cross number you among its contributors? Will the legions that go forth to battle know that you arc with them in heart and spirit? Will the work of saving lives and giving the simplest comforts to the dejected millions in war-torn France, Servia and Russia be carried a little farther with some of YOUR money? Do you know what the Red Cross means? What it stands for? What it does? Have you ever been in a flooded area, where mad, murky waters swirled around the housetops, and have you ever seen people battling desperately for life after the breaking of a dam or a levee, or the sudden inundation of a countryside? Have you seen poor mwtals huddled arid hopeless knowing not which way to turn, having blind faith that help would come? Have you ever been in a region desolated by forest fire, with only the blackened and charred fragments of buildings mocking the thought of home? Have you ever been in a famine-swept or plague-ridden country, where the breath of death penetrated everywhere? Have you ever been on a battle front and seen the grim business of war? Have you any conception of how war has dredged the very last thing worth living for out of the lives of the people of northern France no homes, no growing fields, no trees, no food, no clothing? Put yourself in the place of stricken peoples. Think of their utter desperation, when every orderly process of life is wrenched and broken. Think how gatefully they receive even the crudest and simplest means of existence. . Imagine yourself in the plight of any one of these. Across the muddy waters or the burnt area comes the flag of the Red Cross symbol of MAN'S HUMANITY TO

MAN. Your heart would leap with gladness at the sight of it. The Red Cross has succored countless thousands in times of deperate extremity. The Red Cross is nothing but the collective people doing a fraternal turn, when some portion of humanity demands it. The Red Cross is a democracy of hearts. It 13 the visible expression of men's finer natures rushing to the relief of the stricken. Make YOURSELF a part of the Red Cross. Give of your means, according to your ability. This is the week. The need is here. It beckons you in the young man of fine stature and teeming life, proud in their possession of their badge of service THEIR COUNTRY'S UNIFORM. They are going out to war. The Red Cross ameliorates the terrifying parts of war. It assuages pain. It gives soldiers and civilians in stricken countries the simple but indispensable things of living. It protects armies from the scourges of insanitation. The Red Cross puts Human Science on the line of battle. It insures proper surgical and medical treatment, in addition to that supplied by' the government, for every soldier. It puts trained physicians and nurses in charge of Our Boys. Here, then, is the call of Brotherhood the duty of man to man. The task set out for the Red Cross requires $100,000,000. This is the week in which it must be collected. DO YOUR BIT BIG. You are not giving money away. You are not making a donation. You arc expressing your service in the most available thing you have yonr material wealth. You are helping the country and the men that are helping you.

"DO YOUR BIT" COUPON AMERICAN RED CROSS Boone County Indiana Chapter Date Pli-a.-e enroll my name us a subscriber to the American Red Cross. 1 enclose the sum of therefor. Name Home address City and Stale .' Mail all chwka pnvablc to American Hrd Crow and -nd to BOONE COUNTY INDIANA CHAITEK, Lebanon

The Red Cross makes the Golden Rule operative in another wag. Give to the Red Cro Do Your Bit Big!

The Boone County Indiana Chapter

AMERICAN

VIRG1L-BUNTIN, Secretary.

LEBANON. INDIANA

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B. F. COOMBS, Chairman.

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