AMERICA'S WOMEN JOINED
i IN ANTHEM OF SERVICE
Millions of Red Cross Workers Do Multitude
of Little Things at Home Which Enable
Our Boys to Do Great Tilings in France.
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BY SELF DENIALS Books, Stationery
; Under tlie banner of t lie lied Crow
Amertcun women iiro working In
liimieN, ilnirrbi-, clulm, ii luiuli, h1ioin,
theutem, fiictiirlei, lioillul ami In
IlioumiiiiU of lted Oroi work-room.
Thn Iiuiii of evlii imii'blni', I lie
wlilii of mimllu lorn loHirunite Klrlim,
tin riitliiMtit of volunteer typewrit
em, Urn purr of boiling kettle In can
teen, Hit) ruiulilliig of aiilomobllf of
Hid Motor Corn, I he Kofi click of knlt
lliili needle lu lonely uililn lintl furiu
holme, all tlend Into a frciit anlbein
of nervlce.
About 8,0o0,0u0 women woiklliK
tliroiiKll Ked Cro Cliiiilem ami
brunette am making with lliulr IiiiikIn
relief Kii pl 1-H luriilnil UreHNlnj,
knitted urll'lo. hnapltul and refugee
KHrniflilM or working ar volunteer,
milijert to nny cull duy or night, nt SOU
rullrond lntlon throughout tbe conn
try und at tho port of emlinrkiitlon, or
nerving In volunteer Motor Corp.
Truly hero la an unity with hiiinierx
hiiuiiei i of a red crow on a wblto Held.
Kor the period up to tho llrst of July,
HUH, Aiiierlnin lted Ciomh Clmpti-r,
through their work-room, hud produc
ed UU.7JS.lirr kurglcul ilreKHlngH, 10,
knitted artlelev, 10,7W),4l bo
plliil gtirmeiil and other hohpltnl up
pile und refugee gunm-nt, milking t
totul of IKM.'.'W.fCW urtldea of 1111 extl
iniited uggregnte value. ( f at leuat (14,
OUO.OtX). Ijint uprlng during the ited Cruwi
war fund drive, when tbouwiuil of wo
men worker lu cllle In every tuto
formed lliulr great iiymliolle proeea
loin, tbowj who looked on law them
in the reprenentiitlve of nil our Amer
ican women working In this war, and
heard In "Tho Hnttlit Hymn of tho lto
puhllc," to viblcll they inarched, the
varied loundf of ull their eager labor.
The llilug they made, which tar
ried a menage of love from I tic women
of Oil country, quite apart from their
great money vulue, went from their
work-room on great adventure. They
have gone Into front line trenche, to
euieigeney boKpltiil In foreign vllluge
und Into I lie moot modern operating
room. They have wrapped lout and
frightened children In warmth and
thcllcred aged refugee from the cold.
They liuve gono overwn Into itruuge
und mid pluee, Into Ituxula and (Ser
bia and I'liloatliin and Ituly and
Kruni'o. They have gone Into our own
huge runlonment for our own young
koldler.
The Department of Numlng of the
.American lted Cro 1 the great re
crullliig agency of the United Slates
Army and Navy Nurao Corp. By the
II rut of October It bad annlgned over
1S.IJU0 graduate iiurne to active mili
tary nervlce at home and abroad. It
ha provided over 700 nunte for the
Federal Public Health Service and the
lted Crow Town and Country Numlng
Service, which co-operutea with the
local health bourda In the communities
which It HITVC.
Tho ttatginent of Hie Home Service
of (be American lted Cro to all of
our fighting men that It I prepared to
help lu any emergency that may arlae
In their home help In legal way,
medical way, buMlne way, friend
Hhlp way would uot be pomlble with
out tho vision and the active co-operation
of thousand of American women.
III every division of the Red Cross,
from count to const and from Cunadu
to Mexico, they have own thl service
u the elementul right due from the
Ameticuil pooplo 1o their defender.
BEST CHRISTMAS GIFT.
. What finer Chrltiua gift could the
Amerlciiu pwplu give to a stricken
world than tho announcement on
ClirlHlmii Eve that (lie entire nation
has answered the lted Cros Clu-latina
Itoll Cull. It would signify to the
j MONEY NOT THE OBJECT,
Our obligation m our own soldier
and sullors and tho privilege of minis
tering to tho sink and wounded, of
feeding tbo hungry, hoiwlng tiio homo,
less soil rebiillillue the wusle plnceii of
(inr rMmles ijn t;n ivi! Ci en.
slarvlng, sick and homeless that our
humanity doe not depend uiwn the
excitement of war. but that nelirbborli
nes Is just as strong In u lu time
of (H'uce. A tinanlmouH respouse will
li cur leu the whole world.
tiro AHierliin people m (Tie suniiort of
tbo Ued Crows spirit now as never be
fore. The money to bo raised la mem
bemlilp dues Is secondary. It Is the
plrlluul pluwo that is Important, for
It will show tho suffering people of
I ho world that the Aniurlcnu neoole
will sue them through Uielr experience
to the very end.
Next
Wednesday
you will receive gifts for your home and
your business; gifts to wear and gifts to
eat. But I am sending you a different
gift a gift in fifty -two parts, each
. of which I am sure you will enjoy. It
is a year's subscription for
lEe COUNTRY
GENTLEMAN
EveryThursday all during 1919, it will
- come to talk ovor with you the week's
Progress in agr iculture the problems
facing every r.ian who grows food, from
barley to beef , from cabbages to cotton.
There is still time for
YOU to write a note like
this to tho&e farmer
friends whose gifts you
have not yet bought.
Then give me their
names, with $1 for each,
and I'll start the sub
scriptions to cover all
1919. ,This"plan makes
it easy for you to please
them. And if you are not
receivingTHE COUNTRY
Gentleman, giveyour
self a subscription for
Christmas I and you'll
thank me for making the
suggestion.
There's No Better Gift for a Dollar
Call me today J
MftS.E.R.OSTROM
Monmouth Phone 3613
& As authorlwd lubKtlpllon representative of
CniirfiyCsntf ieniOTi; JneWies'Howe Journal 11!MiirdyFwmWlW
Generous Doing Without in
America Supplied Food
to Europe.
Export from this country since It
entered the war have kept starvation
from Allied Europe and have main
tained the health and strength of those
who have been bearing the brunt of
our battles, so thut they could bold
out to victory. Now that hostilities
have ceased we must assume the add
ed burden of keeping starvation from
Increusliif It toll upon the millions
who buvs been liberated from tho
I'rwwluii yoke. Famine would undo
the work which ha been accomplished
In freeing the world for democracy. No
table government can be established
and maintained by a nation harassed
by hunger. A starving people turns
to rioting and anarchy. Food bus
given strength and courage to the na
tions fighting for democracy; It must
now give the nations strength mid
tranquillity to re-establish themselves
In freedom and democracy.
Without our help It would have been
absolutely Impossible for the Allies to
niaintuln a living ration. Since our
entry Into the war we have been con
tributing largely to the support of one
hundred and twenty million people
whose normal food supplies have been
cat off, whose production bus fallen
almost to the vanishing point, whose
field have been devastated by Ger
many. The food exported from the
United States In the past year has
been sufficient to supply the complete
ration of twenty-two million people.
It Is hard to grasp the magnitude
and significance of the assistance
which bag been lent the Allies by the
patriotic, voluntary service of the
American people. The food we sent
abroad lust year would have been suf
ficient to feed one-fifth of our popula
tion. And this was done In spite of
the fact that we entered the year with
short crops. Our surplus wag practi
cally nothing. An overwhelming pro
portion of the food that left this coun
try lust year was saved out of the nor
mal home consumption of our own
people.
In spite of dlftk'ultlc met In Inter
nal transportation and shortage of
ocean tonnage our food exports last
year amounted to a figure that a few
years ago would have been unbelieva
ble. Even the most optimistic element
of our population faced with anxious
consternation the prospect which
opened before us with the beginning
of the 1017 harvest year.
The American people have not been
compelled to save. They have been
nppeuled to on the basis of humanity
and of patriotism. Tbey have re
sponded volunturlly.
WHAT HOME SERVICE MEANS.
So many questions are constantly
coming lo the Home Service Section of
the lied Cross that a few words ns to
Its objects mny not come amiss. The
Home Service Section alms to serve
the folks ut home, to bring them
nearer to the man In the field, and to
bring him nearer to the ones at home.
Sometimes It niouus helping lo
straighten out a financial tangle, some
Mines help In tho training of the chll
tlren, sometimes Jidng a big brother to
a young lad who needs n bit of friend.
ly counsel, or advising a young wife
who may be worried about the comlug
due of t lie mortgage and what her
rlglils under the law may be.
Then, too, there are sometimes de
lays In the mnlls or lost letters, and
sometimes delays In the allotment, or
errors in the amount which should be
furthcoming. These problems and
many others are being straightened
out by the Home Service Section, with
out charge to the families, and with
an cillcleitcy which Is dally growing
more valuable. More than 300,000
culls have been answered.
For those who are worried because
of the non-arrival of letters a cable Is
sent inquiring about the man's wel
fare. In fact the Home Service Section Is
living np to Its name it Is really the
service of those at home It Is trvlns
to be the father, brother or husband
to those left behind.
FRENCH AUTHORITIES ACCLAIM
, WORK OF AMERICAN RED
n CROSS.
Dr. Chflssnigne of the French Mili
tary Sanitary Service and M. Goyon
lu recent addresses paid warm tribute
to the work of the Amciican Red Cross
In tlie war, and M. Autrand, prefect of
the Department of the Seine, praised
the personal efforts of Red Cross
workers.
"Your task Is not ended," said M.
Autrand. "Our friends and our bene
factors now nre more than ever indis
pensable to us. Our task Is immense.
Help us. We have known how to vuu
qulsli ; we will know bojv to organize
ourselves lu victory," ,
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