Lubec High School - Quoddy Light Yearbook (Lubec, ME)

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THE QUODDY LIGHT of the battlefield hfe H1 slster stop a b1t for a talk H'1ts good to ave somebody to say a word to H Ive seen some sxghts I'll not soon forget There are those black Gurkhas a fine lot of men they are H'I was ln the trenches wlth em November fifth The Germans ltnowed It was our bonfire day but we dldn t get fireworks 'J hey Just gave us ell all day long H I saw saw some terrl ble slghts when the shell burst an some o the poor beggars were It H I've ad my feet froze but there s some wot's wuss These Gurkhas they d Just smrle when were wounded When we was sent for h ammunttlon H Ive h actually them carrying a box on thelr heads a rifle m each hand They're never 'mppy when they h a nt fightm they back seen w1th At Belgrade the llttle Red Cross umt firing lme they have wltnessed the takmg ot the Cl y by the Austrlans and its reoccu patron hv the Serblans About forty elght hours after the first troops entered the c1ty the endless chaln of wounded men began to arr1ve Wounded men are everywhere thousands of them Startmng then' day at six Ill the mormng the surgeons and nurs es dress wounds all day postpomng opera t1ons unt1l nrght About n1ne 1n the even mg they begm operatmg and work unt1l mornmg Halls floors ever place a man can be put all are full The beds m the wards are placed s1de by srde and all one can see rs a mass of suffermg humamty One day there comes to the Amcrxcan Red Cross from the Rockefeller Comm1ss1on ln Europe a cable mto whxch was compressed a tale of national woe Typhus overshad C125 ows everythmg else Here was a great field for work one full of danger and call mg for rare courage In this hour of trou ble the Red Cross turned to R1chard P Strorg He left h1s professorship at Har vard to go to the front and wxth h1m v ent a corps of splendxd men physlcrans C1131 cal experts and san1tar1ans Through them thrs terrxble scourge that had already slam 104 Serblan doctors thousands of her peo ple and great numbers of Austrlan prxson ers was checked Though but a few years have passed smce the reblrth of the Amer1can Red Cross as a natxonal organ1zat1on it has brought help and cc-nsolatlon on to a hundred fields of human m1sery and distress Today ln war smitten Europe, mtroubled Mexlco 1n flood swept Chma, 1n the Ladrones lt IS axdmg helpless v1ct1ms of man s wrath and of nature s destructxve forces Not alone does the 1nd1v1dual profit by thls ald but whole communxtxes are rescued from the despondency that follows a great d1saster Nor are 1ts serv1ces for humamty l1m1ted by war and dxsaster Into the daxly hfe 1ts capable organ1zat1on for usefulness In the work of the first ard department hes far reaching results 1n the condxttons of the wage earner the famxly and the producer of labor By the 1nstruct1on for women m elementary hyglene the mothers of the nation have become of untold a1d mn mam tatnmg the physxcal health of our people From Greenland's xcy mountaxns to In dxa s coral strands ' these devoted men and women have journeyed to mmxster to the sick and wounded They have endured hardshxps and fatxgue have faced hunger and d1sease and some have lard down thexr l1ves in the serv1ce They have known nexther race nor rellgxous farth but only the Red Cross creed Neutrallty Human y Mlldred Lake , ' . ' 17 ll 1 - . - . , . , . 5 . y - u 7 ' . A -1 I u . . - a l . Y , . . , 1 A n 1 a , . B - , - ' ' w ' . . . 1 , - . A I C - 4. . l ! Y . 1 - n' 1 l . I i Y ' I U , I ' 0 u 1 Y . . . . ' . 7 ' ' Y i u K ' . . 1 , . I - . . . ,. v 9 ,, - 11 - - . - - - 1 L u j . . . . ' , 9 ' V of doctors and nurses were actually on the - - - ' ' , u at c 1 - ' . . ' . . . . 5 n ' - Y ' L , ' ' 1 I ' 1 . - ' u n u . . . . U . u I ' , , - - 1 1 0 I 1 . I . F . . 1 ' ' 9 -. ' u - o I o ' 1 ' , - l lt .

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THE OUODDY LIGHT wrth nts own officers and members The socxety has connected mth lt certam other organlzatxons such as Amerlcan lNurses Assocxatxon and the Needlework Gulld whrch are responsrble for spec1al asslstance Let us turn trom the past to the present and dv ell for a whxle wlth our Red Cross frxends rn the present war In the south eastern part of Europe hes the group of small countrles that for a long tlme had threatened the peace ofthe entxre contx nent The act of a Serblan fanatrc rn the assasxnatlon of the helr to the Austrlan throne brought matters to a cr1s1s launch mg Europe 1nto the greatest and most terrlble war of hxstory AJo1nt meetlng of the Red Cross Internatlonal and War Rehef Board was held and here lt was de crded to offer to each country the ard of our Red Cross soclety The splendxd offer was accepted w1th much appreclatxon and gratltude by all wxth the exceptlon of Bel grum, wh1ch at th rt tune desxred only sup plxes and dxd not ask for other servlce un t1l the sprlng of 1915 Japan later de cl1ned any ass1s ance as her own great Red Cross orgamzatron was able to meet all demands upon xt and Italv when lt entered 1nto the conflxct asked ftr only certam supphes Plans xy ere 1mmed1ately made to secure funds and supplres and make ready the personnel Day and nxght factorxes work ed to provrde absorbent cotton, bandages and anaesthet1cs The sudden demand for such artrcles came from forexgn govern ments as well as our Red Cross and with factorles adapted only to normal condl tlons It was not easy to fill the orders that overwhelmed the manufacturers The re hef Board rssued an appeal calllng atten tion to the contrxbutrons sent by the Euro pean Red Cross SOCICIIGS durxng our war wrth Spam and askmg for generous re sponse to enable our Red Cross to do 1ts duty Havmg secured the requrred supplxes and a shlp the little company began the1r long voyage It was not clean there were no baths for the nurses and the presence of rats 1n the staterooms compelled many to sleep on deck It was all 1n the dav s work ' and nexther the drrector Dr Ryan who had known the horrors of Mexican rev olutxons nor Mrss Gladwln the SUDPFVIS mg nurse who had seen war ln the Far East uttered a protest Th1S Splflt man rfested by the entrre party gave prom1se ofthe splend1d SGYVICC they were later to pertorm Lxfe on board was not to be an rdle ex lstence but a busy one of practrce for fu ture work The surgeons were drllled m the employment of field army equ1pment The nurses were d1v1ded 1nto many classes and certain hours of the day set asxde for lessons and prfmctlce Lessons rn the met TIC system and rn languages were a part of thelr studres Adoptmg the European cus tom the nurses dropped the formal use of the last name and took the klnder one of sister ' Arr1v1ng 1n the war zone llfe became one busy day wxth rare moments of lelsure But should such a moment occur, varxous war storxes were poured 1nto the ears of the slsters By repeatmg one told by S15 ter Helen we may glean a l ttle knowledge C119 v ,Q '. . . . ' . . Q , . , . Y N, . . . Y - , t . - . . I . . . Q . - ' 1 . V . . . . . . , n ' I - A' . . . . u . , I Q . . - ' , . . 1 Q y - n - . . . , - , - , ' I ' ' 1 ' 1 ' v n . , - - z c - . - ' . . . - ,I . . . ' c . . 6 . . . L , I- v .v ' ' ' n - ' . . . . . , . ' s v . . u . 2 9 . . Y , . . - - 1 - . - . . A g r 4 1 ' I

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