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EVENING' LEDGER-PHILADELPHIA, MONDAY, JUNE 18, 1917
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Jplpp This Week is Philadelphia's
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Opportunity to Equip the
Red Cross for the War
HE UNITED STATES is going to raise $100,000,000, of which Phila
delphia is to give $3,000,000, during this one week, June-IS to 25,
officially proclaimed by the President of the United States as Red
Cross Week I It is your opportunity to discharge your individual
responsibility to our boys abroad!
On how well you meet this opportunity depends how many of our
young men will come back to us sound in body ! Some of our Pennsylvania
boys are already on the firing line. Thousands and hundreds -of thousands
will join them soon. fc Will the needed things be ready for them when they
are stricken down by the cruel forces they are fighting against for the sake
of us all? When they are weak in body and maimed in limb, will they
find the rest-home and the personal comforts they crave? It all depends
on you and on how much you give !
No Other Organization Exists to Perform This Work
r The American Red Cross is by act of Congress the
official volunteer aid organization of the United States,
and Woodrow Wilson is its president. Its accounts are
audited by the War Department, thoroughly to safe
guard the funds contributed by the public. Its affairs
are administered by a War Council of five men named
.by President Wilson.
The work of the Red Cross in this world war is to
keep our soldiers and sailors healthy and happy to
stamp out tuberculosis and other dread diseases, to pro
vide hospitals and medical equipment for men wounded
in action and to furnish rest facilities for those conva
lescing from injuries.
It needs at once equipment for hospitals and rest
homes to care for a million men whose wounds have
begun to heal. It needs at once sanitation equipment to
fight tuberculosis and worse diseases now ravaging the
armies at the front. It needs at once supplies for com
fort kits for millions of men, ready for quick distribu
tion. It needs at once supplies for its work at the
mobilization camps here at home.
To provide these needs it must have money !
GIVE NOW. Our young men are enlisting NOW!
Only by giving your money NOW can you help your boy
or your brother in the hour of his greatest need!
Make your subscription to any bank or trust company, or send it to E. T.
Stotesbury, Philadelphia Chairman American Red Cross War Finance Com
mittee, Fifth and Chestnut Streets, Philadelphia AND MAKE IT NOW!
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