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About The North Platte semi-weekly tribune. (North Platte, Neb.) 1895-1922 | View Entire Issue (June 19, 1917)
www You Who Can 3ti rw i I4DI : if BiVi-',- IU Stay at Home! illlllllilllllllllllllHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIM This message is addressed to you men who can stay ,rath'ome whiie your neighbor perhaps your brother--goes to If Xf.t" " Oil. a Kt. ;sf It is addressed to you women whose husbands and Vsons are privileged to remain with you, while your sister is in an agony of suspense over the safety of a loved one. YOU stay at homeanother goes to fight in your- de fense. YOU sleep in a warm, snusr bed--another in a 'mud sodden trench- V r,r.,f,r YOU awake to a peaceful sunrise--another to the roar ! iff shell. - " 1 1 1 YOU ride comfortably to your work another speeds in adurching truck to the firing line. YOU gaze from your window into a noisy, bustling, but peaceful street--another stares at "No ; Man's Land," peopled with the quiet dead or the writhing wounded. YOU pursue a peaceful task another is dodging death by gas, liquid fire, bomb and shrapnel. v 1 .YOU ride back home, reading your evening paper another rides, bleeding, and perhaps dying in an ambujaice v YOU dine peacefully and retire,, strong and well-but the other cannot eat, and writhes with pain under a s.ur- geon s probe. XPU sleep--another dies,- crying for "water" and -'for "mother." . ' i. . By the grace cfPgMr You have been spared the call to '"the .firing line. But You must do YOUR bit-and do it cheerfully. Help the RED CROSS and you Help win the WORLD'S FREEDOM Why the Red Cross Must Have $100,000,000 for a War Fund "Why is tho Rod Cross asking for $100,000,000 1" is nskotl by tlio pcoplo nt tho beginning of this grcnt campaign for funds. "Will not tho govornmont euro for tho sick nnd wounded soldiors nnd sailors!" Yes. But hero aro n few things tho govornmont ennnot do things which only an independent organisation like tho Hod Oross must do and which a froo and prosperous pcophj must holp to do and holp at oncol Because we are in the World's War the Red Gross is Galled on 1 To provido,i instantly, itio host tnlont in tho Inud in medicine, sanitation, transportation and wolfaro work. , No govornmont can do tills bo well as tho Rod Cross which though nndor gov ornmont supervision, is froo from tho restriction of tho so-calld "rod tapo" protection of tho oxpoudlturo of public funds. t 2 Bnso hospitals to caro for tons of thousands of sick and wounded men must bo provided nnd provided at onco. Tho govornmont looka to tho gonorous hoartcd pooplo of tlio United Statos to provide thorn. Undo Bam will oporato thorn after thoy axo established. 3 Hospital units, (moroly smallor hospitals, moro easily established) aro noodod and tho need will incronso as our men got into tho tronchos. Tho govornmont will oporato thoso, too, but wo who Btay at homo must provldo them so thoy will bo ready for instant uso whon nocded. 4 Vnst amounts of bandages, modicincs, surgical dressings, bedding, hospital wonring npparol nnd othor comforts for tlio men who fall fighting for us, must bo provided in advance of tho need. You, who do not fight on tho front, can do no noblor work than help tho , Hod Oross financo this work of mercy, Tho call for' holp is hoard, now t 'hood it. C Thousands porhaps hundreds of thousands of soldiers. nnd sailors will bo permanently disabled, fighting for your liberty yes for your vory life Until tho govornmont can arraugo to pension theso mon, somoono must boo that thoy aro not loft to suffer for tho comforts of lifo. Holp tho lied Oross do tills! 0 Tho bread winno'rs will bo tnken from thousands, perhaps millions of homos, to go to tho firing lino. Those who aro left must not bo allowed to suffer, nor to stultify thomsolvcs when thoy have jjlvon so much for tlio Flag, by accepting a grudging chnrity. Tho Hod Oross will soo that thoy do not suffer for tho nocossltles and com forts of lifo after making this groat sacrifice You aro glad to holp in this, of course 7 Destitution nnd death stalk tho devastated districts of Europo, whoro a morclloss onomy has drlvon hundreds of thousands from their homos, nnd burnod ovorything ns it marchod through a strlckon land. Tho Bod Oross is tho only Tocognizod organization which con holp thesd sufforors to kcop soul and body togothor until tho dawn of a brighter day. Your dollars will do a grand work hero so give thorn with a prayer of thanks that your homo Is stiU secure 8 Millions of innocont mon, womon and children in Belgium, Poland, Franco and other countries, have lost.nll thoy had in tho world. Tho United States must holp them back to happlnoss by providing farm implements, live Btock, and tho like, so thoy mny bo solf-supporting onco more Tlio Bod Oross is tho only capable organization for performing this splendid work of rehabilitation. It neods your support and you will givo it cheor fully. THE GOVERNMENT HAS PLENTY TO DO IN PREPARING TO FIGHT. IT IS BEHIND YOU, YOUR HOME AND YOUR LIBERITIES. THE RED OROSS, NEXT IN EFFICIENCY TO THE GOVERNMENT AND WORKING UNDER GOVERNMENT CONTROL, MUST DO THESE GREAT WORKS. IT MUST HAVE MONEY MILLIONS OF DOLLARS, YOU, WHO STAY AT HOME, WILL CHEERFULLY MAKE A SAC RIFICE TO THIS WONDERFUL CAUSE THANKING GOD THAT YOU ARE ABLE TO DO SO, AND THAT OUR SHORES HAVE BEEN SPARED THE HORRORS OF EUROPE'S CARNIVAL OF BLOOD AND DEATH. SUBSCRIBE TO THE hi minimi j Subscribe this weekDo it To-Day iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii: 11 " iiilliiiiiiiiiiiiiii Iff illinium stf i limiiii Hllil llll Illlllli 1 Iff
