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Plain Dealer. 16dt-3*BOYS OF WARD An1.i-trD. S. HOSPITALstesLigThiPa.BuPi?Eh INTERESTING STORY TOLD BY YANK SENT TO THE REDCROSSr-r-1ie._■a*.k-'roidwMORAL STANDARDS! Christmas Roll Call Must Go Over The Top—All Up To ThePeople.“The Red Cross puts the soul in y' soldiers,” judging from a manu-steCalt;golt;FrCoPrHeYeShBuDr.jj script that has just been received from the London headquarter.sirliceJyst as one little example of what often happens in hospitals over therestlt;LaStbeand here at home where wounded sol-! Y.diers are convalescing with the care of the Red Cross physicians andnsn.t3nurses is the case of the boys in ward “A” of the U. S. Base Hospital No. 37 at Dartford, England. These boys, most of them Yanks, held a mass meeting the other day, just to get together and talk things over. The recent election, the armistice, the is, | coming peace conference, the satis-t. (factory conditions of everything and 3* j everybody around the hospital where they were quartered all received their full share of the conversations, many of which became quite lively and heated before the meeting was over.Chief among the topics was the American Red Cross and suddenly one of the Yanks had an inspiration and hobbling across the room on his crutches, for he had lost a leg at Chateau-Thierry, he procured penciland paper and began to write a few hasty notes. Suddenly he arose and passed the note to Sergeant Walter Sturgis of Oakland, California, who read the following aloud to the bunch who passed upon it unanimously and then submitted it to the first Red Cross nurse who happened through the ward This was the note:“We, the boys of Ward “A” appreciate fully the work done by your wonderful organization in giving us a helping hand whenever and wherever needed*Thanking you a thousandfold, believe us to be,Sincerely yours,“The Boys of Ward “A”U. S. Base Hospital No. 37, Dartford.The above example is only one of the thousands and thousands of cases which come before the public and before the Red Cross at all times to prove that the boys appreciate to the fullest extent all that is done for them and are not unappreciative aspersons not instructed otherwise are apt to think.With the Red Cross Christmas Roll Call now in full swing these little) anecdotes should only serve as another incentive to urge tl^ose who have not already done so to enroll in the Red Cross to help our boys and the suffering people of European countries. The drive must go over and people must lend their full support, otherwise the Red Cross cannotmeet the requirements which will beexacted of it during the next few years to come. If you have not joined yet, do so at once. Do not delay for one hour for that hour’s delay might mean the loss of some soldier s life aL a later period because of lack of funds and care to hel; him battle against the glorious but merciless deaths which will come to many evenPiMHstGU2.GB1G
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Wabash Daily Plain Dealer
Wabash, Indiana, US
Wed, Dec 18, 1918
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