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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