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A New Year’s ResolveThe midnight hour will usher in the new year—a year of promise; of opportunity and of service.Let j our first resolve for 1919 be to join the Red Cross. On Friday a house to house canvass of the city is to be made for memberships in the great order of mercy and relief. Be prepared to enroll yourself and your dependents upon the roster of this greatest fraternity in the world.One hundred per cent is the goal of the local chapter. Itis hoped to enroll everj' man, woman and child in the countj’in this great army of service.All you need is a heart and a dollar. Make America’s answer to the world cry for aid an unanimous one.Amid plenty let v'our heart turn to those who are in want. Try to visualize the suffering, the misery and the destitution of the millions who are reliant upon the generosity of the people of America for their very existance.“Help us or we perish” is the heart rending cry of millions of impoverished starving, diseased men, women and children; left destitute bj' the grim tragedy of war.The new year may be an even more terrible one, than that which is passing unless the victims of the carnage of the past are succored.It is \’ou»* duty and privelege to aid in the great work of relief which has been undertaken bj' the American Red Cross on behalf of the less fortunate of j’our brothers.Show that your heart has been enlisted by this worthycause..Join the Red Cross. Meet the roll call with the spirit of the boys who brought peace and victory.
Newspaper Details
Muscatine Journal and News Tribune
Muscatine, Iowa, US
Tue, Dec 31, 1918
Page 5
Full Page
Clipped by
Musser P.
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