Red Cross Christmas Drive Aims Fifteen Million Members
The piece urges a nationwide Red Cross Christmas campaign to enlist 15 million members and asks each household to display a candle with a Red Cross Service Flag on Christmas Eve. It links personal sacrifice to wartime care, noting doctors nurses and ambulances in Europe, and emphasizes the symbolic bridge between Christmas joy and relief for wounded troops.
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Red Cross and Sacrifice Amid War Fronts
The passage reflects on grievous injuries and the sanctity of life in wartime. It honors the Red Cross nursing and soldiers, urges a 10,000,000 member campaign, and commemorates US troops fallen in France, naming Private Enright Private Greshow and Private Hay.
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Red Cross Christmas Appeal Urges Help for Soldiers
A Red Cross Christmas message emphasizes shared humanity beyond ranks and calls all readers to join the Red Cross. It highlights mothers at home, furloughed officers, and the need to ship gifts and aid to servicemen and their families.
President Wilson Urges Red Cross Christmas Drive
President Wilson asks all Americans to join the American Red Cross during the week ending Christmas Eve. He says the Red Cross carries Christmas good will to soldiers at home and abroad and to peoples in suffering lands, and that participation expresses national duty and faith.
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