RED CROSS WORK
Annual Meetings Listen to Re-
port Made by Organiza-
tion’s War Council.
ONE-FOURTH OF COUNTRY’S
POPULATION IS ENROLLED.
Estimated That Approximately Eight
Million Women Are Engaged in Can
teen Work and the Production of
Relief Supplies—Vast Sums Ex.
pended.
—— ——
Red Cross chapters throughout the
country held their annual meetings
October 28, at which the following
message from the War Council was
read:
To the Chapters of the American Red
Cross:
r
The War Council sends greetings to
the of the American Red
(‘ross on the occasion of their ann
meetings for 1918.
With these greetings go congratula
chapters
ual
tions on the great work of the chapters
during the year and, 1
things, on the wonderful spirit of sac
rifice and which
vaded that work.
The strength of the Red Cross rests |
upon {ts chapters. They are its bone
and They supply funtls,
they supply its men and women, they
supply its enthusiasm. Let then,
review together Red Cross stor)
of the past year.
Some idea of the size to which your
Red Cross family has grown may be
gathered from the following facts:
On May 1, 1917, just before the ap-
pointment of the War Council, the
American Red Cross had 486,194 mem
bers working through 562 chapters.
On July 31, 1018,
numbered 20,643,102
besides 8.000 (00
Junior Red
past above a
patriotism has per
sinew, its
us,
the
the
annual
members
organization
members
of
enrollment
the
Cross total
a
the population
of
the United
Rince the be
f the chapter
rt}
i
ur
over one fo of |
States,
gluning of the war you
0 s have co-operated with
the War Council In conducting two war |
fund drives
in addition to the campaign on
of the Junior Red Cross.
The total i date |
from the first war fund have smounted
more thi £115.000000, The sub-
scriptions t the war fund
smounted to upwards of $176 000, 0X)
From membership dues the
tions have amounted to approximately
£24 500 (0x)
Splendid Work Done by Women.
To the foreging must that
very large contribution materi:
ond time
and one membership drive
behalf |
actual collections to
to ia
0 second
collec
be added
of
or
given nillions of
pital and refugee
wdrk. and the other activiti
ters have
It is e
8,000 (0)
been called upon to per
approxima
aged in
» production of
chapters
400,120 refu
7.123.621
10,784
10.1
192.7
A tot
estimated
£44,000. 00%)
These
product of women
hosg
8 hands, and
same
than co
factories
toker infinitely more
th
the
nireed
preci
iid have been output
or machi These
going to the
pitals, to he
and eapr
in the field,
from the w
nes
ing room of the hos
imeless or needy refugees,
ing comfort to our own boys
convey a message of love
omen of this country entire
attaching to their handiwork.
Money Spent in Work.
By the terms under which the first
led Cross war fund the
chapters were entitled to retain 25 per
was raised,
home service work, to purchase ma
terials to be utilized in chapter produc.
tion and otherwise to meet the numer
ous calls made upon them. The chap
£20000000, As a matter of fact, their
actual retentions amounted to
about £22 0060 000,
Out of collections from annual mem
berships, the chapters have
about £11.000 000
From this total sum, therefore, of $33.-
000,000 retained by the chapters, they
have met all the oftentimes very heavy
tion have provided for use by national
headquarters products valued, ne
stated at upwards of $44,000) -
000,
The chapters have in effect returned
to the War Council, not alone the £33.
000,000 retained of the war fund
membership but, in value of
actual product, an additional contribu
ahove,
out
dues
i
WHY RED CROSS IS LOVED.
Saving Life of Italian Soldier's Wife
Incident of the Work.
His wife had been very ill, and was
sent by the American Red Cross to re-
cuperate in one of its couniry Summer
homes, unknown to “Gigl"” who
wns doing © his country's work In
the trenches, This is the way he ex-
presses himself when he learns what
has been done: .
“Most illustrious officers of the Red
|
ton of nt least $11,000,000,
It will thus
the eighteen
that
months which
elapsed since the United Sintes
tered the war, the American people
will have either paid in or pledged to
the American Red Cross for is
of relief throughout the
money or in material value
total of at least $325,000,000
Revealed America's Heart.
of this
American
that the ages
stricken
France
been seen during
have
en
|
work
in
net
worl Id,
5 H
It
which has pervaded
Cross effort this
of of
provinces
becuse
all
war
the
of state
not long since that, though France ha
long kpown of greatness
strength and enterprise, it remained
for the American Rea vos In this wa
has been spirit
Ree
in
governor
battered
one
America's
to reveal America's heart,
In this country, at this moment, the
workers of the Red Cross, through Its |
chapters, are helping tg add to the |
comfort and health 5 thg millions of |
our soldlers in 102 Eamps and canton.
ments, ag well as of those traveling on
rullroad trains or embarking on ships
for duty overseas,
The home service of the Red Cross,
with its now more than 40,000 workers,
is extending its ministrations of
pathy and counsel each month to up
wards 100), 006) left behind
hy at the # number
ever growing with the increase of our
under arms,
But, of course, the heart of the Red
Cross and
sym
of families
soldiers front
men
its money and attention al
ways move toward and focus them
in Europe where the
Red Cross,
selves American
as truly “the greatest moth
er In the world,” Is seeking to draw “a
vast net of mercy through an ocean of
unspeakable pain.” |
Red Cross Worth Recognized.
Nothing is ithheld that
given there to supplement
efforts of our army and
for our own boys
to
nl corps of the
w
he
the
cnn
over
navy in caring
The Red Cross does
the work of the
army or the navy ;
not pretend do
medi
its purpose is to help and to supple
ment,
Nor
glorify what
HM:
which
1
MIKET,
does the to
it
our satisfaction
; in Fran
and a group of
northern Russia ;
e of Hope.
¥ 1 $
thus ext
in very
nd spirit
a
shown itself
CINETEENI
All Best and Highest.
erican Red Cross |
respond to any
Spirit of
The Ameri as becom
as a great
body in organ
the
movement
zed form of service
enirit
pirit of
best and highest In
pirations of our country
Indeed cannot but that
this wonderful epirit which service in
and for the Red Cross has evoked In}
this war, is destined to become out |
national life an element of permanent |
value :
At Christmas time we shall ask
whole American people to answer the |
It will |
every
we believe
in
the |
Red Cross Christmas roll call
unique appeal
man, and child
land of ours to become enrolled in our |
army of mercy. i
It is the hope of the War Council |
that membership roi! |
1 reconsecration i
to
this
constitute a
woman in great |
this Christmas
eall shall constitute~a
of the whole American people, an in
aspiring reassertion to maakind that in
this hour of world tragedy, not to ¢on
quer but to serve is America’s supreme
aim,
THE WAR COUNCIL OF THE AMER
ICAN RED CROSS.
Henry FP. Davison, Chairman,
Washington, D. C., Oct. 10, 1018,
ross:
“I feel that it my duty to
you how thankful I feel for your kind-
wife. When 1 got a let
ter from her, In her own handwriting.
telling me how your good people had
picked her up and earried her off to
is
to my
day, well—F just cried tears of joy,
and am not a bit ashamed of them!
We Italians have a good friend In
American. 1 salute you with gratitude
and esteem, Adieu!”
HUNS DRIVEN BAG
Flee From Belgian Coast and
Take Refuge in Antwerp.
Haig's Armies Capture Douai And Lille
And Naval Forces Occupy Ostend
~—Anglo-American Forces Hit
South Of Le Cateau,
miles
io
London —Over a front of 40
from the North in Belgium,
Iie, in Northern France, the Ger-
mans are in general retreat before thé
Belgian, and Bri
Likewise, my Is
to concede defeat t
ments
cans
attacks
between
Sea,
tish armies
being
yw retrograde
French
the ent forced
move
before the British and Ameri
under
the
southeast of Camb
of the F
the Olse
Laon,
i
in
Sarre
pocket
Rivers
French
and
rench
and
and by
by the
ampuagne
Ww] strong atlacks
Americans in Ci
along the Meuse River
Nowhere, however the
disorder In
steps are being
the swift
British
glan
Belalans further
and
enemy
landers
reason of
drive
t Lille, ju
and
a
border,
€ns
ritory
fleet epough
entire pocket
River and the
fine with its right
werp
Ostend, one
10 compel
and face intern
1
betwe en
Fen recon
bases the
Brug 4
th
Roulers
ing towar
Be
rela
on
©
the
gains have been rec
Tha greatest res
svar, is still being
efforts of the Fren
hampagne
River
js essential to stay
treat by the Ge
Belg
French in
ing hard
Germans
hold this
own hands
the French
made further
avd
ana
*
where the holdin
the wi
frontier
are still fight
Bethel, but
thus far able to
important in their
North of Grande Pre both
Americans have
progress over the dif
cult ground. Especially severe have
been the hardships suffer by the
Americang in encompassing the nat
ural fortifications and the attacks bs
hordes of enemy machine gunners
Before Americans Germans
are giving ground only inch by inch
um
to capture the
have been
position
and the
ed
the the
HUN OFFICERS THIEVES.
French Arrest Five Who Ordered Sol.
diers To Steal.
Paris ive German officers have
and held for court-martial on a charge
of ordering their to steal the
inhabitants of Roulers,
the Matin. Numerous prisoners
soldiers
BAYS
in their possession.
HIGHER PAY FOR FLIERS.
Added Ricks.
Washington. —Legiclation
increased pay for candidates for com.
missions in the alr service while re.
ceiving instruction Involving fiving,
and appropriating $4,152,200 for the
purpose, was transmitted by Secretary
Baker to Chairman Chamberlain, of
the Senate Military Committees
providing
|
a
ood
PEAGE WITH
HOHENZOLLERNG
Wilson's Answer Means Un-
conditional Surrender.
NO LET UP IN THE WAR
America Will Continue To
000 Men To France Each Month,
And No Effort For
Will Be Relaxed.
Victory
GERMAN NATION MUST FIRST RID
ITSELF OF AUTOCRATIC RULE
Washi
net
ustifies
and
with
a frank
decision
inications o
man sovernment of the »ib
th of October, 18158
clearly underst
ma
of an armistice are
be
of the
ters which must left to the judg
military
Lie
ad
Unit
and the Allied Governments
President feels it his dut)
no arrangement can be
the Government of the Unit
not provide ab
satisfactory safeguards and
guarantees of the maintenance of the
military supremacy of the
of the United States and t
in t field
“He feels confident that he can sale
assume that this will also be the
judgment and decizion of the Allied
Jovernments
“The President feels that
his duty to add that neither
ernment of the United States nor,
quite governments
the Government of
is associated as belligerents
consent consider an armistice
long armed forces of Ger.
continue the illegal and
and advice
of the Government
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{to
States which does ie
present
bo
irmies ne
Allies
ae
it also
the Gov
he in
with
in
sure, the
to
80 as the
i vy iy
Wu
the Gorman
{sovern-
time that
approaches the
United States
“At the very
ment of the with pro
en
ships at
but
their passengers
in sinking passenger
boats in which
German
of
armies are pursuing a
wanton destruction which
civilized warfare.
all they contain, not only, but often of
their very inhabitants. The nations
associated against Germany cannot be
expected to agree to a cessation of
derstanding
very solemnly
f {
Government of ern
guage and piain int
terms of peace which the
ernment has
in
DOW BCcepid A
tained the address of t}
zx?
vernon
Ole
gle «
power
the
YANKEE PRISONERS ESCAPE.
A Number Break Out Of German
Prison Camps.
the French
George Purye
Willis
and Puryear
got
MORE TROUBLE IN CHINA,
New President,
Tuan ChiJui
post as Premier
abinet on
Hsu Shih-Chang as hin
Nun-Hsun, the Minister of the Interior
will temporarily succeed Tuan ChiJul
as Premier.
Peking
quish his
relin
in the Chin
inauguration
President (
will
ene OC the
Canton, China.-—The military gov
ernment here has issued a formal dec
laration of war against Hsu Shih
Chang "for having accepted an elec
tion the Presidency a bogus
Parliament.”
of from
TO FIGHT EPIDEMICS.
Health Service,
Washington. — Increased authority in
combating epidemics would be granted
the public health service by a Senate
The
creates a sani
tary reserve in the Public Health
Sarvice, but also provides for raising
the rank of officers in the service and
authorizes the Presideht to commis.
TURKEY MUST SURRENDER.
This Will Be England's Reply To
Overture For Peace.
London. Great Britain's reply to
Turkey, the Evening News says it un.
derstands, will be a demand for uncon
ditional surrender. The Turks will be
required to negotiate an armistice with
General Allenby, commander of the
British forces iv Palestine and Syria
AMERICAN ARMY
OF 5,000,000 MEN
That's What the Enlarged War
Program Calls For.
MILITARY BILL IN THE HOUSE
| Total Of Appropriations And Author.
izations For The Year Up To
$36,000,000,000-—The Maxi
Effort.
mum
Washington The milita
| clency bill, carrying $6.24
program
he Hou
It prox
s¢ by the
AIR FIRE FIGHTER.
| saves 2.000.000 Pounds Of TNT Dur
ing Morgan Blaze
Washington —Eight million
TNT
pounds
gaved from destruction
ent fire at the Gillespie
lant at Morgan, N. J.
which flew over
at an altitude of
ected fight
The War Depart.
feat, disclosing
that piloted by Lieut
Cyrus F with Major H., lL.
Armstrong as observer
were
hell-loading
army airy
plane
an
works
and dir
the flames
the
1,000
feet
announced the
plane was
ment
the
Smythe
LENINE, ASSASSIN'S MARK.
Another Atternpt Made To Kill Bok
shevik Premier,
Amsierdam Another attempt bas
been made upon the life of Nikolal
f.enine, the Bolshevik premier, accord.
eral Amnzeiger's Kiev correspondent,
Lenine received a bullet in the
shoulder from a revolver in the hands
of M. Dwanitzke, of the Information
Bureau of the Soviet. Dwanitzke was
arrested,
ANOTHER BERLIN PANIC.
Wilson's Answer Caused Painful Im.
pression In Capital,
London President Wilson's reply
to the German peace note produced “a
most unfavorable impression” in Ber
b lin, says a Central News dispatch from
Amsterdam. The publication of the
reply, it adds, was followed by a panie
in Berlin banking circles and on the
Stock Exchange.