Every member of the Red Cross who reads the several short reports from
Turkey in this number of the RED CROSS MAGAZINE must be stirred by a
deep sense of pride in the great work of humanity which is being carried
on by the Constantinople Chapter of the American Red Cross. In the
dreadful cholera camp of San-Stefano, in the hospitals filled with sick
and wounded soldiers in Constantinople, among the starving refugees,
children, women and old men, in Salonica and Asia Minor, the story is the
same. Brave men and women giving of their time and strength and skill,
disregarding danger and hardship and forgetful of their own personal
affairs, are making a record of effective accomplishment under extreme
difficulties in that foreign country which should touch the deepest
springs of American patriotism. Slight, indeed, as compared to this
splendid service is our duty and privilege of giving something of our
abundance wherewith to sustain these efforts.