Vilas County news. [volume], December 19, 1917, Big Woods Lake Region Edition, Image 11

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llffl EUROPE
HEEDS OUR HELP
American Red Cross Answering
Appeal on Wonderful Scale
—Finest Peace Work
in History.
Now Red Cross Asks You and
Me to Do Our Part for
Those “Over There” —
So We Must Join.
In war-torn Europe today there are
millions of mothers and babies at the
point of death from actual starvation.
Winter is at hand. Yet they are rag
ged and homeless. They are diseased
—tuberculosis, dysentery, skin affec
tions, fevers are ravaging them. They
are widowed and orphaned and broken
with grief.
In order to protect America and save
the liberties for which the allies have
boon battling three years, our own
lads are over there now, fighting and
dying so that you and I and our wives
and our daughters and babies may not
•offer unspeakable cruelties at the
hands of enemy savages.
Now then: The people of America,
through their Red Cross, have under
taken to right the hideous wrongs the
Teutons have done to noncombatants
in Europe, so far as it is possible to do
s °- It means building thousands of
homes, providing food, clothing and
care for millions, conducting hundreds
hospitals on a large scale and thou
s®nds of medical dispensaries. It is
he biggest peace job the world has
ev ?r seen.
But that isn’t all—not by a long shot.
The American Red Cross has a colos
war labor to perform. It must es
■‘h'.lsb and operate hundreds of large
■•••itary hospitals of various kinds for
’" r own armies and those of our al-
It must provide necessities and
waforts for the fighting men and for
‘ e noble women who are nursing the
' inded. In short, it must do every-
Possible to take some of the
«rse out of war.
This work is already well under
Our Red Cress is helping all
9 stricken people on a great scale.
,J P, r Cross must not fall down
the job. You and I are responsi
-lif? ov the success of the enterprise,
course we can't go over there, and
-'-tually build houses and feed
hungry and clothe the naked and
• s ’ elc Eu t we can bacfc up
great machine already in the field
»2'l at work.
can we do—you and I?
k. el ; °f all we must be mem
1E? S ' f R°d Cross. At this wrlt
af or S ai iization needs millions
of us on its muster rolls. We
IrZo ttle army at home support
-Jc amiy in the field —both peace
cha arn '* e - At home here we form
rs an d circles that furnish cloth
hospital supplies for soldiers
Drorts iVillflns in Eur °P e - We “ust
ly, ‘ e funds. We must show direct,
',' e ' P ers <*nal interest in what the
n ross held organization is doing,
knit and sew and save and
On Sea and Land
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“But it is our business to see to it that the
history of the rest of the world is no long
er left to its, the German government's,,
handling. Democracy must be safeguarded.
niE VILAS COUNTY NEWS, EAGLE RIVER, WIS.
COME ACROSS—ITS YOUR DUTY
Remember Horrors of War-Torn Europe and
Think of Safety and Comfort Here-
Then Join the Red Cross.
The good people of this community once more com
memorate the nativity of the Christ Child with merry-mak
ing and gifts.
Ours Is a prosperous community. None of us is likely to
suffer this winter for want of food, clothing or shelter, though
filgh prices and certain forced economies will make us real
ize the United States is at war thousands of miles away. A
few of us who have given our boys to the nation may lose
them. But generally speaking, we shall feel perfectly
secure, and when we stop to think about it, we shall thank
God more or less heartily for his blessings.
Over In France, which has a total population of about 35,-
000,000, probably 3,000,000 are In the army fighting off the
Invader. About 3,000,000 more—mostly women and children
—are absolutely down and out. They are a part of the In
habitants of the great industrial district devastated by the
German savages. Now these people are homeless, hungry,
naked and sick. At least half of them have tuberculosis,
with scarcely a fighting chance for life. The whole of France
Is making unheard of sacrifices to save the nation.
Poor little Belgium is a wreck—a dying wreck. Her
small army has been practically exterminated. Her boys
and old men have been shot down in cold blood by the
kaiser's heroes. Her daughters have baen dragged into
slavery worse than death. Her babies have been impaled
on bayonets and nailed to barn doorc by playful Teutonic
soldiers. About all that is left of Belgium is her deathless
spirit.
And Serbia. Serbia Is now but a name In history. A
nation become a slaughter pen and charnel house. A people
wiped clean off the earth.
What has been said of France applies equally to Italy,
Roumania and Russian Poland.
Edrope has been a hell of suffering and grief for three
years. What have the last three years meant to the United
States? Prosperity and peace.
Today all stricken Europe is uttering that age-old lamen
tation, "Out of the depths, Oh Lord, have I cried unto Thee;
Lord hear my voice.” And the American Red Cross is the
Instrument through which Providence is answering the prayer.
The Red Cross is “over there” now, performing a labor of
mercy and paying a debt of fellowship on a scale never before
known. But It must have your help and mine in order to
carry on its vast enterprise in the name of humanity. So
ths organization Is campaigning the nation for 15,000,000
members.
Every man, woman and child In this community ought
to belong to the Red Cross. The membership fee Is SI.OO.
Another dollar brings the member the Red Cross Magazine
for a year.
Every SI.OO or $2.00 membership helps Just so much to
back up our American boys In khaki—helps Just so much to
take the frightful curse from the Ilves of millions of home
less, starving, freezing, diseased mothers and babies in dev
astated France, Serbia, Belgium, Poland and Roumania.
The finest Christmas gift you can make Is a Red Cross
membership. Don't fail to come across by Christmas eve!
High Relish of Disgust.
Amongst the various assumptions of
character which hypocrisy has taught,
and men have practiced, there is none
that raises a higher relish of disgust
than to see disappointed inveteracy
twisting itself by the most visible
falsehoods into an appearance of piety
it has no pretentions to.—Thomas
Paine.
Art Value.
Raffleton— “Art and business have
nothing in common." Mildby “Oh, I
don’t know about that The value of
a painting, like the value of a check,
depends a great deal on whose nam
is at the bottom of it.
Swordmakers Rewarded.
Many of the kings of Spain accorded
to the finest swordmakers of Toledo
certain privileges, such as exemption
from certain imposts and duties ap
pertaining to the sale of swords, the
purchase of iron and steel and other
primary material.
A Toast.
At a stag party the following toast
was given : Woman —the morning star
of infancy, the day star of manhood,
and the evening star of old age. Bless
our stars —and may they always be
kept at a telescopic distance. —Boston
Transcript
TO FATHERS
When You Join the Red Cross
and Give Your Mite, You Help
Our Soldiers in Europe and
Feed Starving Babies.
Fathers: Suppose that three years
ago a powerful and savage enemy had
invaded our nation suddenly and you
had been called into the army to de
fend the country. Suppose that our
county had been captured by the in
vader; your home burned, your wife
and half-grown daughter carried away
into slavery worse than death and your
son mutilated and put to work behind
the enemy lines.
You think such things couldn’t hap
pen to you and your family? Well,
just those horrors were visited upon
thousands of fathers in France and
Belgium by the kaiser’s savages. It
has been revealed to us during the last
■few months by the secret service that
the Huns were plotting an invasion
of the United States through Mexico.
But for a fair destiny those horrors
would have been ours, because the kai
ser aims to dominate the world and
spread over the earth his brand of love
and fellowship called “kultur.”
■ The American Red Cross has been
called upon to relieve suffering “over
ithere” and to restore as far as possible
devastated sections of allied territory.
It is now on the job. The Red Cross
ts conducting thousands of hospitals in
France for American and allied sol
diers, and running ambulance lines
and comfort stations innumerable.
Yet the organization cannot do
enough because it hasn’t half enough
members back home here to support
the vast w r ork there. So now r it is con
ducting a campaign to get fifteen mil
lion members by Christmas eve. It is
an honor to belong to the Red Cross.
If you aren’t already wearing the little
button, enroll at once. The member
ship costs just SI.OO a year. An.dher
dollar brings you the Red ’ mga
' zine for twelve months.
Suffering Europe. ; J , the
•.''Omer, ’’nd ohili’i ••’■ •■■ i.elp.
Finding the Ship at Sea.
When the captain wishes to find the
position of his ship he makes a num
ber of determinations of the altitude
of the sun with his sextant, bringing
its reflection down until it grazes the
horizon. The sun’s place in the sky
is continually changing, and every al
titude means a corresponding local
time. He notes the difference between
his time and the time of the port he
left, or that of Greenwich, and he has
his longitude. By a slightly different
manipulation the same figures he
finds his latitude. A skillful person
can locate a ship within a quarter of
a mile of its true position.
What the Draftsman Does.
Generally speaking, a draftsman, or
draughtsman, is one who draws plans
from instructions given him. A me
chanical draftsman is an assistant to a
mechanical engineer, and he draws the
plans of the engineer’s proposed
works. If he is a mechanical engineer
it will be plans of machines, bridges,
etc. An architect plans buildings, and
his draftsman, from instructions fur
nished him, draws the plans. The
draftsman is largely a copyist. He
creates nothing, but he gives expres
sion to the ideas of his superior.
deems Henry Was Conjured.
“Mars John,” excikdiy exclaimed
Aunt Tildy, as she pantingly rushed
Into a fire engine Imuse, ‘’please, suh,
phonograph to de ear cleaners’ sem
porium and notify Dan’l to emergrate
home diurgently kaze Jeems Henry
sho’ done bin conjured ! Doctor Cut
ter done already distracted two blood
vultures from his ’pendercitis, an’ I
lef’ him now prezaminatin’ de chile’s
autebelum fur de germans ob de
neuropluraonia, which es he’s disin
fected with, dey gotter quarantimes—
but I ice-coldiated quarantimes —but I
b’lieve its conjuration i” —Richmond
Times-Dispatch.
Believe in “Safety First.”
It is no uncommon thing for large
corporations to spend $25,000 a year
just for salaries and office expense of
a safety department. Generally, there
are a number of inspectors who spend
their entire time going from one point
to another, watching for danger spots
either in the location of machinery or
in the constantly shifting piles of
supplies.
A Cheerful Face.
There is no greater every-day virtue
than cheerfulness. This quality in
man among rnen is like sunshine to the
day, or gentle renewing moisture to
parched herbs. The light of a cheer
ful face diffuses itself, and communi
cates the happy spirit that inspires it
The sourest temper must sweeten in
the atmosphere of continuous good
humor.
Valuab'c Skins.
The most expensive fur is that of
the black fox of Knnischatka, the skin
of which, when dressed, becomes a
very attractive blue. A single skin is
worth as much as £2OO. A coat worn
by the ex-czar, lined with the fur of
the black fox, cost £2,000. —Sheffield
Furrier.