Photograph from Brown Brothers 



AN AMERICAN AMBULANCE ROLLING THROUGH A RUINED TOWN IN ERANCE 



The locomotive engineers of one of our great Western railway systems have asked their 

 general manager to deduct from their wages during the period of the war a voluntary con- 

 tribution of fifty cents a month. There are 450,000 men in the train service, and that would 

 mean a substantial contribution to the Red Cross. 



hyphen, but it behooves us, as a free, lib- 

 erty-loving people, to get over that sus- 

 picion, to dispel from our hearts rancor 

 and hatred, because the fire of American- 

 ism has fused that hyphen in an incred- 

 ibly short time, and we must assume that 

 the German-American today is one with 

 us, and that free America, with all its 

 citizenship, is going in whole-heartedly, 

 with money and with men, to fight for a 

 free world. 



NO TIME TO COUNT THE COST 



What is that going to cost us? We 

 must not count the cost, though that cost 

 will be terrific. It has already over- 

 whelmed the nations of Europe. The 

 blood and the travail of Europe thus far, 

 terrible as it has been, may be justified 

 by the birth of a great nation, the United 

 States of Russia, and I pray God de- 

 voutly that the last stages of this war, 

 terrible as they are going to be, awful as 



will be the cost, may be justified by the 

 birth of another great nation, the United 

 States of Germany ! 



It devolves upon this great organiza- 

 tion, the American Red Cross, first to 

 heal the suffering of the combatants, first 

 to look after our soldiers and to help the 

 soldiers of our allies. 



But after that, do not let us forget our 

 duty to the innocent victims in this war, 

 because after this war the nations that 

 have been belligerents and engaged in the 

 war are going to be so seriously crippled 

 that they will have to give all their 

 strength to recuperation. They cannot 

 give to their people. 



It is going to devolve upon this nation 

 to go in there, remembering our duty, re- 

 membering the fate of Belgium and Po- 

 land, to resuscitate those people and give 

 them hope and prove to them that there 

 is a God in Heaven, and that liberty is 

 worth any price ! 



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