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The Trouble With ...
The trouble with blood is that, when it’s needed, it is always -■'■peeded immediately and often in n large quantities.
The trouble with disaster,- a sickness or accidents, is that they strike anywhere, anytime, and without warning. If our town or our neighbors were so stricken, most of us wouldn’t hesitate a moment in offering our blood for relief of sickness or injury.
But the trouble with us is that, until sickness, accidents or disaster strikes, we don’t feel too urgently the need for giving blood. We do not realize that the blood we Would receive in emergencies Wouldn't all be blood donated on. the spot—though some of it might be—but blood donated earlier, many miles away, by people like us, in towns like ours, who did - recognize the need for reserve supplies of blood.
Chances are that these people donated their blood—a pint per. person, which they really didn’t miss—during the visit of the Red Cross Bloodmobile, to their communities. In many cases, that Bloodmobile visit is the only, chance they have to give blood.
The Bloodmobile will be in Sperryville on Friday, October 29, with its headquarters in the Reynolds Memorial Baptist Church. You cam make an appointment by contacting the county chairman, Mrs. t). D. Miller.
Don’t wait until another Hurricane Hazel roars through the country, carving a bloody path of disaster ; don’t wait any longer— for every 20 seconds there is a hospital patient in the United States, receiving a blood transfusion supplied by fellow Americans^ through this Red Cross service. He is depending on you “not waiting.”
The Bloodmobile will be there. The trained doctors and nurses will be there. And the need will
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