Life — December 27, 1917 — page 37: what you’re looking at

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Officers | of the British, French and Allied Armies and Navies were well acquainted with the superior durability of Fownes Cape gloves, before the War. Since then they have used “Capes” in even larger quantities, InAmerica FownesCapes areof unfair to the subscribers to Red Cross work and as perilous to the interests of our soldiers at the front. It matters not what one’s idea may be about medical re- search work, the fact is certain to become Prominent soon, that a large proportion of the subscribers to the Red Cross will refuse to renew their subscriptions when further funds are needed because of this misappropriation, and as a consequence the good work which the Red Cross could do for the soldiers will be greatly ham- pered. For my part, I shall continue to contribute, through chosen channels, all I can afford for the relief and comfort of all the soldiers, but I shall not contribute again to the Red Cross if it carries out this project. Yours truly, (Signed) W. B. Harxison, Vice-President. Nov. 20, 1917. It is safe to say that Mr. Harrison ex- presses the feelings of many thousand contributors to the Red Cross. The Editors of “1. The little Bhaki-snatcher, with the entrenching toi, has just consummated a surprise attack onthe Hand some Officer, ~ He has already missed four trains backtocamp, Probably ke will be court-martialled inthe morning, But what of that? He is learning about life in the big city from a woman who knows its every phase—its arity sports, dancss, fashions, and gaicties; its modernist painters, its futurist composers, the tendencies of literature, th: sensations of the movies, the whimsicalities of humorist, tht problems of the war,tie idiaciesof high society, and the new Callet silhouette, A woman, is short, wh? that’s all you need heeps up with the times by reading |__to know about a GLOVE. VANITY FAIR —— ” BP Vanity Fair the same high Service standard —and are also washable. Civilians, Army and Navy Officers, if its a Money for Torture (A letter in the Christian Science Monitor) Martin Ecan, Assistant Chairman, Red Cross War Committee, Red Cross Headquarters, Washington, D. C, Dear Sir: I have just read in the press your let- ter to Mr. Rosemonde Wright, president of the Anti-Vivisection Society in Los Angeles, in which you admit that the Red Cross has appropriated one hundred thousand dollars of the recent contribu- tions taken for war purposes to a body of physicians who will use this fund in so- called medical research work. The St. Louis Cattle Loan Company, of which I am vice-president and largest stockholder, contributed, at my suggestion, six hun- dred dollars to the American Red Cross War Fund. We would certainly not con- tribute one cent to the cruel torture of animals such as we know this proposed medical work to involve. 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