MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, fEDFORD, OREGOX, WEDNESDAY. MAT IS, 1918
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"A great net of mercy drawn through
an ocean oj unspeakable pain'
Women of America!
' What's the worth of one baby's life?
The time has come when you must put a money
value on it.
So much Red Cross money available, so many
babies restored.
A little less Red Cross money available, so many
babies lost by default.
It's as plain as that.
When vou made that first Red Cross investment
'you had a fairly clear idea that there, wasplenty to.be
done and that the Red Cross would make every dollar
' of money and every minute of tim.e count.
But have you now a clear picture of what price
somebody will have to pay for one delayed dollar or a
hundred dollars withheld ?
You can't read a casual page of Red Cross reports
from anywhere "over there" without, endangering the
coolness of your decision as to "how much."
Suppose you had found "another use" for your
Red. Cross money a while ago and a corresponding
part of the piece of work described below went undone:
, "Gas bombs were being used.. 750 children suddenly
thrust upon the Prefect's hand. Twenty-one of the children
were infants under one year and the remainder were under
eight years herded together in an old' barracks, dirty, prac
tically unfurnished, and with no sanitary appliances. Sick
children were crowded in with the well and skin disease and
vermin abounded. Within two days the Red Cross workers
! had cleaned all the children, provided new barracks, pro
vided medical care and nurses for the babies, secured suitable
food and classified all the refugees to prevent the separation
of members of the same family."
Was that money well spent ?
Were those babies worth while ? Well, how much
were they worth, per baby ?
They are the future of . France the hope and
pledge of civilization. We are in their debt for what
their fathers and mothers have paid already in hunger,
in cold, in mutilation, in slavery. '
We shall pay up, too. Your first instalment was
there in time now how much ?
Every cent of every dollargreceivcd for the Red Cross War Fund goes for War Relief ;
The American Red llross Is the largest and
most efficient organization Tor the relief of Buf
fering that the world has ever seen.
It Is made up almost ontlrely of volunteer
workers, the higher executives bolng without
exception men accustomed to large affairs, who
are In almost all cases giving their services
without pay.
It Is supported almost entirely by Us mem
bership foes and by voluntary contributions.
It Is today bringing relief to suffering hu
' manity both military ami civil, in every war
torn allied country.
It plans tomorrow to. help In tho work of res
toration thruout tbo world.
It feeds and clothes entlro populations in
times of great calamity.
It Is there to help your soldier boy In Ills
time of need.
With Its thousands of workers, Its tremen
dous stores and smooth-running transporta
tion facilities ItB is serving as America's ad
vance guard and thus helping to win the war.
Congress authorizes it
President Wilson heads It.
The War Department audits Its accounts.
Your- Army, your Nflvy, and your Allies on
thuslactlcally endorse It.
Twenty-two million Americans have Joined
It.
Contributed to the Red Cross
by
Jackson County Business Men's Association
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