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...years, of laborious and intensive preparation. For many of us that period is now becoming a matter of weeks; it concerns us all the more, therefore, to take care that all of the work which we do shall be our best and nothing else. The spectacular deeds of the battlefield are indeed an inspiration to equal achievement on our part, but it is also true that but few ever blundered into heroism. To most men it comes as a result of the ability to think quickly and act intelligently. Our work in the S. A. T. C. and the Naval...
...Every battlefield of France speaks eloquent testimony of the merciful work of the Red Cross. If the voice of the American Expeditionary Force could be heard there would be no doubt concerning the response of the United States to the second war fund campaign. The terrors of battle are decreased and the horrors it entails are minimized by this greatest of relief agencies. No support which the American people give to it will be misconceived or misdirected...
...offensive is now raging are not only pitted with the shell-holes and lined with the trenches of the great Somme battle of 1916, but are underlaid with the relics of a score of other conflicts fought for their possession. Julius Caesar led his legions across the the present battlefield in B.C. 57, while in pursuit of the Nervii. The Franks wrested the region from the Romans and the Northmen in turn from the Franks, sacking St. Quentin in 883 A.D. Picardy was devastated in the Hundred Years' War between France and England, and the armies of the Emperor Charles...
...many--no less eager to go over there than those who have been accepted--have been compelled to stay at home. To these I offer this suggestion: There are forms of service other than that on the battlefield, on the sea or under it or in the air. At this time the most important form of auxiliary service I believe to be co-operation with the American Red Cross. Such co-operation can be effected best through membership; and all those who by reason of sex, age or physical disability, are prevented from going to the front are being urged...
...Having been privileged to visit the British Y. M. C. A. work at the very front, we were taken in the afternoon on the 20th to the old battlefield of B--.We now got our first impression of the real thing, because never before have I seen such devastation. Absolutely not a tree was left standing, and hardly was there a square yard of ground which had not been churned up by a shell. Yet amid all this we were driving on a road equal to any of our state roads, and which is typical of all the roads which...