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Across The Seas They Call < - • / r ACROSS the seas from every war-torn nation in the Auicd • . r . . ■ ■ 1 • / • ■ -a. cause there comes the call fbr Red Cross help. ‘ ./' • : -y / * •; • * It comes from soldiers who have grimly faced the gleaming bayonet tleel and poison gas and screaming shells, and who now • / * %' s'~~ ' lie with parching throats and throbbing wounds. /X It comes from soldiers sick with fever, pneumonia, tubercu losis. X .X / N. It comes from soldiers crippled, mutilated, blinded, who can no longer fight and must be taught and trained for useful occtipa- tions. It cpmes from the underfed, shivering, helpless prisoners in X N ’' • the German prison camps. It comes from little children, orphaned, homeless, slowly / starving day by day, by tens and tens of thousands. N. t # . ® / ' *■ It comes from mothers in the pillaged zones of war whose X 7 '• v * .v • hearts and souls have been made numb with horror. N. From all these millions < f suffering^human beings there comes across the seas the call for help—rhelp that because of the fright- ful burdens placed‘upon our Allies cannot be given unless ii be ( provided by the American Red Cross. ’ ' ’ ’ . X N ' • J Another hundred million X needed to “carry on.” f.: X> / What will America’s answer be? X"-. *"** • * "x * Ever> cent of every/dollar received for the lied Cross—War Fund goes for War Relief. . . X y/ The American K«tl Cross is the laiM**t anti It feeds :md cloth*** tn^K p«>pulation* in most el!l( , i*>nt ornani' zation for the relief of. times ot ureal calamity. siitletinu that itie World has e>er seen. It is there to-help yoor soldier boy in his It is'made up almost entirely of volunteer time of need. - / workers, the higher executives heinu without With its thousjtod* of workers Us t remend- exception men accustomed to large affairs, who' *c,ou<* stores and smooth running transp*;rtrtion .re in almost all cases Kivinft their services facilities, it is $er\int: as America's adxanc- without pay. » .uard and thus helpini: to win the war. It is supported entirely by its membership Congress authorizes it. fees and by voluntary contributions President Wilson heads it. It Is today brimiina relief to sufTei inXbu- The ,AVar Department audits its accounts inanity, both military and civil, in every Wa. * Your Army, your Navy and vour Allies en torn allied country. thusiastically endorse it. It plsnir tomorrow to help in the work o* Twenty-two million Americans have join restoration throughput the world. -ed it. ^ « ' ** • - X X. ,