Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-08-04
FOR NEW oRED CROSS
MISS BARTON tssuEs APPEAL TO
PUB1iC.
Plans an Organization With . Big
Permanent Fund Ready to Act
in Emergency.

special dispatch to the New York
Herald from oxford. Mass. Monday says:
Miss Clara Barton. sfounder and president
Of the Red Cross. who is visiting her native
town. has prepared an address to the Amer
lean people. in which she outlines a plan
for the collection of a 81. OOOO 900 fund with
which something permanent for the aid of
humanity can be established. in anticipa-
ton of the time when she must necessarily
lay down her work.
1t is assumed that the new organization
will be an annex Of the Red Cross. but some
persons say 1t will be rival.
This fund, she proposes, shall be backed
by an organization to be known as the Ma
tional Society of Red Cross and be at the
ready command of q finance committee of
men of national reputation when calamity
breaks upon the country. or. as one of her
associates describes it. "a fund that may
be used without waiting for the slow or
ganizaticn Of relief committees and the
erection of elaborate machinery for passing
every dollars to be distributed through a
cash register
Miss Barton has sent invitations to lead
ing men in all the states to become MEM
bers of the national advisory board of
the Red Cross, and she says the favorable
responses are general.
"A time must come" says Miss Barton.
in her address to the public, when / will
be compelled to lay down my work. Out Of
the many years l have given to this work
has grown one dear ambition. If l may call
1t such-a great desire to leave the Red
Cross a great national institution in the
hands of the people supported by the peo
pie. for their mutual help and strength in
the face of disaster.
son in the United States may become a
subscribing member of the Red Cross upon
the payment of 81 year. which is the full
membership dues. Upon the payment Of
pfo nda In hn cd ho6 orA
In the form of a PIN or button. may be
procured and 80 cents will procure diplo-
ma of membership for framing.
Il want this idea to spread and grow until
1t develops into q great national Red Cross
movement. Then my hope will be realized
and when my call shall come can lay the
burden of my work tenderly and lovingly
into the lap of the whole people with whom
l have labored SO many years, who will
keep it and cherish 1t always because it is
the great sacred cause of humanity which
they hold.
"Out of the great national fund so Gre
ated 1 want, first. to have erected perma-
nent executive offices, which shall be the
peoples home of the Red Cross. This will
contain a permanent organization for ad-
ministering Red Cross relief not only on
the immediate field of disaster, but relief Of
all the suffering and distress growing out
of great calamity.
From these central executive offices Of
the Red Cross will be directed the new
educational movement in the direction Of
popular instruction in first aid methods of
treatment of the injured. needed more and
more as our population and dangers in
crease. < zaIL
In addition, l am organizing a financial
committee, composed Of men of national
reputation and experience. who will stand
as warranty to the nation that the funds
Of the people are being administered with
careful integrity"
Friends of the new society say 1t Is an
elaboration of the Red Cross
First aid department, branch No. l." of
the new society has been organized here in
Oxford, with Alfred H. Chaffee as chair
man and F. o. Bixby as secretary. 1t is
the intention to have similar branches
everywhere.