THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE 



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UNDER THREE FEAGS IN ITAEY 



The Stars and Stripes and the banner of the American Red Cross hang side by side with 

 Italy's ensign, which displays the cross of the House of Savoy, in the warehouse at Rome 

 where Red Cross supplies are stored. 



UNTIE THE GERMAN AUTOCRACY 

 SUDDENLY WENT MAD" 



Indeed, until the German autocracy 

 suddenly went mad (and it is comforting 

 to remember the ancient adage that 

 "whom the gods destroy they first make 

 mad"), it was considered by those most 

 concerned with American Red Cross that 

 its chief function would be to relieve the 

 misery incident to floods, conflagrations, 



earthquakes, famines, and similar nat- 

 ural catastrophes. 



Those who were active in raising the 

 Red Cross Endowment Fund a few years 

 ago found that their chief difficulty lay in 

 convincing the people of America that 

 there was really any need of an elabo- 

 rately organized war-relief society, for 

 war seemed a remote contingency to the 

 American people, and it was only by em- 

 phasizing the value of a permanent relief 



