Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, May 21, 1918, Page 9

“A great net-of mercy drewn through 6% ocean of unspeakable pain’ AVE you ever lain i in Ne Mans La;nd, with a shattered thigh and a threat that bm'aedwrth. thirst ? ; Has your wife ever begged food for her children " and herself at the mess-kitchen of a soldiers’ camp? | Has yeur little son ever torn his mether’s heart with a plaintive ery, day after day, for food she couldn’t give him? Has your little daughter, clad in a ragged dress, her only dress, ever shivered night after night in the ruined cellar of what was once her home? Has your city ever been destroyed—nay, pow- dered, bricks, stone, timbers and all so ground into the dust that one scarce knew where street ended and building began? It is exactly such suffering that the Red Cross is organized, here and in Europe, to relieve, The Red Cross asks for One Hundred Million Dollars as the least it needs to carry on this work. Can you--dare you--refuse to give to this work---and give till the heart says stop? Every cent of every doaar received for the Rcd Cms War Fund goes for Wa'r Relzef e The American Red Cross is the largest and most efficient organization for the relief of suffering that the great ealamity. It feeds and clothes entire populations in times of World has ever seen. It is there to help your seldier boy in his time o It is made up almost entirely of volunteer workers, need. ; being With its thousands of workers, its tremendous stores and smooth running transportation facilities it is serving as America’s advance gua.rd-—lM L\Ik It is sapported entirely by its membership fees and Jeltne o p o e L by vulnn\n-y contributions. Co today bringing relief to suffering humenity, The War Department audits its accounts. both mmu.rr and civil, in every War tca ailied country. Your Army, your Navy and your Allies enthusle It plins tomorrow to help in the werk of restora- astically endorse it. _ tion throughout’ the world. Twenty-twe million Americans have joined it. giving their services without pay. CONTRIBUTED TO THE RED CROSS BY Shetucket Coal & Wood Co. &R Moy Cri: Greeneville Grain Co. The Edward Chappell Co, Chas. Slosberg & Son John O. Peckham John A. Morgan & Sons - Norwich Grain and Feed Co, H.F. & A J. Dawley -