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THE BEE: OMAHAi MONDAY, MAY 20, 1918.
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Help the Red Cross Save That Soldier Boy
in a mud-coated, blood-drenched trench an American soldier lies
wounded will YOU let him die?
in the wake of a charge, a gas-stricken youth lies gasping for breath
will YOU refuse him aid?
a mother with quivering lips and tearful eyes looks mutely at the war:
tumbled ruins of her home and turns for aid will YOU refuse her plea?
a.little child tugs at that mother's skirts and cries piteously for food
will YOU decline to help feed this baby?
Will YOU Refuse to Help?
iWill YOU let those boys die there on the field of honor?
Will YOU turn your back to the outstretched arms of that mother!
Will YOU deny food; to pass the lips of that little child?
Will YOU Oh, will YOU?
NO! NO! A4housand times, NO!
Yt)U are going to give giveand give again to the Red Cross
s Your Bed Cross Dollars will save those soldier boys.
Your Bed Cross Dollars will ease the pain in that shell-torn body and sooth the suffering
in those gas-tortured lungs. 1
Your Red Cross Dollars will, help that homeless mother restore Her home they will feed
her hungry, baby.
How? By Giving to the Red Cross War Fund
The Bed Cross Needs it now $100,000,000 and next week it will ask you to give.
sort to the great work of saving
beat Storm of Terror" which is
Rumania.
Your Financial Support Is Needed
Now the Bed Cross asks for your financial support. It needs yourhelp to do that work in Europe you
told it to do when you became a member.
Your dollars are as necessary to the Red Cross as those of anyone else.
Give until your conscience says stop. The boys over there are giving until they die.
Last winder you joined the Red Cross. You gave your moral supi
lives, feeding the hungry and providing a "Harbor of Mercy in the 0
sweeping the fields and hills of France, Belgium, Italy, Russia, Serbia and
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Headquarters Red Cross War Fund Drive
Keeline Bldg., 17th and Harney Stg. "
Special Announcements
' Representatives of the Women's Com
mittee of lb Red Cross War Fund will
be on hand Tuesday between. 11 A. M.
and 2 P. M. at the Trisco Lunch, $14
South Fifteenth street All receipt be
' tween those hours will be donated to the
Red Cross War Fund.
Is your window poster, "We Hear
You Calling Us" opt Ton set one tor
your home or your place of business
when you donate. If It lsnt posted the
. solicitors will continue to call until the
poster is'up.
The Omaha Musicians' association met
last week, fire days before the drive
started. Somebody suggested the Red
Cross1 War Fund and every one of the
sixty-three members present subscribed.
(Hope they meet again this week.)
The Gate City Bowling league finished
the season with 37 In its treasury. Now
the Red Cross has the money. They gave
-their all.
J. D. Dose handed the Red Cross 130
the other day. The money came from
the rental of some land for canteen
purposes. The Red Cross now has the
land and the money. This la co-opera
tion ana emciency combined.
J. M. Lamb of Williams, Neb., came to
Omaha and enlisted. He had an auto
truck he couldnt use any more so he
gave It to the Red Cross. To finish the
Job up properly he added $100 la cash.
His money wasnt enough to give.' He Is
also giving himself. Let that sink m.
Employes of the Jerpe Commission
company reported a 100 per cent sub
scription to the Red Cross War Fund
Saturday.
W. H. Creary notified the Red Cross
that he had a fine mountain wagon that
he has donated to the War Fund. The
wagon will be auctioned oft and the
money goes to help the boys "over there."
The Brown Block is the first building
to donate to the War Fund. Mrs. C. H.
Brown submitted a subscription of $200
Saturday on behalf of the building. This
was in addition to her personal donation
and those submitted by business firms
having offices in the block.
A patriotic song service will be held
' this evening at 8:30 o'clock in front of
the World-Herald building. Mr. O'Neill
and Miss Allen will be in charge of the
Ringing by those who attend and the girls
of the Luana club Boy Scouts Fife and
Drum Corps, also. ,
YOU don't have to, endure the Horrors
of the trenches.
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YOU don't have to hear the cries of the
wounded.
YOU don't Hare to : hear the death
groans of the dying. '
YOU don't have to serve food to the
starving war orphans.
YOU don't, have to carry the' shell-torn
bodies back from No Man's Land.
YOU don't have to crawl through the
tangles of barbed wire and bring back all
that remains of a young soldier that some
day. his mother, may -see her boy laid to
rest "over here" ' ,
But You Can Help the
Red Cross Do It
Why the Red Cross Must Have
$100,000,Q00foraWarFund
Remember, this is not a Red Cross Membership
Campaign.
It is a money-raising campaign for a $100,000,000 War
Fund.
The campaign starts this morning, May 20, and closes
Monday, May 27.
Omaha's quota is $200,000.
Your contribution may be paid in- four installments
July 1, August 1, September 1 and October 1.
The money is needed to provide more field hospitals, more
base hospitals, more ambulances, more surgeons, more nurses,
more stretcher-bearers, more bandages, more instruments, more
medicine, more food, and to maintain those hospitals and rest
stations and relief posts which have already been established.
It will be used in Belguim, France, Italy, England, Serbia,
Greece, Armenia, the United States in fact, everywhere that
the ravages of war may be felt.
What This $100,000,000 War Fund Does
It will be expended:
to rescue the wounded and dying and recover the dead.
-Mo provide many of the comforts of home to the men in
the trenches.
to help the families of those left at home, struggling to keep"
body and soul together while the breadwinner is protecting
you and yours from the savagery of the enemy.
to support the invalid soldier while he ' awaits his pension
grant.
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to provide food and comforts to those of our boys who may
fall into the hands of the enemy and become prisoners of
war.
Give Ypur Money Now
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Red Gross War Fund
OmahaCampaign Headquarters 17th and Harney Streets ,
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