OUTFITTING 1,000 HOSPITAL BEDS
Bellamy, Francis R.
Outfitting 1,000 Hospital Beds Br FRANCIS R. BELLAMY. OUT of the ever changing death struggle on the plains of Pic-ardy, with its promise of victory, its spectre of defeat, one thing stands forth...
...In Paris, civilians lie crushed beneath the ruins caused by air raids and bombardment, while the railway stations are crowded with the fleeing refugees from Northern France...
...So far as military relief is concerned, the same efficiency is observable...
...To those of us who are left behind, these facts have become vital...
...Only this time there is a difference...
...Behind the bloodstained battle lines, misery is again on the road...
...the bird cage and the improvised cradle make their appearance on the muddy roads...
...In three hours recently, all the splints, accessories, instruments and surgical dressings required for a hospital of one thousand beds were assembled and dispatched from Paris...
...OUT of the ever changing death struggle on the plains of Pic-ardy, with its promise of victory, its spectre of defeat, one thing stands forth unchangeable day by day—the duty of the Red Cross...
...America is in the war at last—a hundred thousand strong...
...the trains are loaded with the wounded...
...As in nineteen fourteen, the refugees—old men, women, and children —carry the helpless on shutters...
...A single illustration, indeed, can demonstrate the difference between nineteen fourteen and nineteen eighteen where the wounded sol-dipr i» concerned...
...Our duty is plain...
...It might be nineteen fourteen over again...
Vol. 10 • May 1918 • No. 5
