. The Red Cross in peace and war. ; and if it had been provided withmoney and material, it would have been able to render much greater services, andwould not, to the same extent, have been a victim either to its inexperience or toits precipitation. The preliminary study of ways and means would have left tracesof something more systematic and would have prevented much waste and manyfalse calculations. Voluntary action will be so much more efficacious when it shallhave preorganized. At a meeting of the different German relief committees heldat Berlin, on the tenth of July, 1S64, Baron Tinti, of
. The Red Cross in peace and war. ; and if it had been provided withmoney and material, it would have been able to render much greater services, andwould not, to the same extent, have been a victim either to its inexperience or toits precipitation. The preliminary study of ways and means would have left tracesof something more systematic and would have prevented much waste and manyfalse calculations. Voluntary action will be so much more efficacious when it shallhave preorganized. At a meeting of the different German relief committees heldat Berlin, on the tenth of July, 1S64, Baron Tinti, of Vienna, strongly insisted onthis truth, and the Committee of Schwerin did the same in its report of our generosity shall be less ignorant, it will know where and in what wayit can be useful ; we shall economize our means ; we shall multiply our gifts by thegood employment that we shall make of them, and by the direction that will begiven to the public desire. Bis dat, qui cito dat. He who gives opportunely give» A GROUP OF AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS MEMBERS.
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