Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-11-25
WILSON ASKS
RED CROSS AID
President Makes Thanks
giving Appeal For Funds
to Assist Europe.
MONEY NEEDED TO
CONTINUE WORK
Appeal Contrasts Conditions in Our
Own Land Of Plenty and Abroad
-onIy $4,000 in Treasury to Meet
Pressing Demands Of Winter Nc
Adoo Represents President at An
nuaI Thanksgiving Service.

Adoo Represents President at An
nuaI Thanksgiving Service.
Washin gton, Nov. 25.-Officials today
looked for generous responses to Presi-
dent Wilson's Thanksgiving appeal to
Americans for contributions to the
American Red Cross to continue the
work Of alleviating suffering thruout
the European zone.
The appeal recites the urgent need Of
funds against curtailment OF its work
and adds that the amount now in Its
treasury will suffice for only few
weeks OF the $1,60O,0OO war relief
fund received by the Red Cross, only
$4,000 remains to meet the pressing
demands Of the winter.
ITO permit the work to cease" the
appeal says, "is unthinkable."
The appeal contrasts conditions here
and abroad and says that altho this
country has made generous contribu-
tions the harvest of death and desola-
ton has not ended and our sympathy
must not yet withdraw it's hand
Presidents Appeal.
The presidents appeal follows:
"The day Is at hand on which we
bend our thoughts toward O. oonsid-
GRAFTON Of the blessings Of peace and
security. Inevitably the contsmpla-
ton Of our own good fortune must
bring sharply to mind the anguish
and the loss which lie, an intasrable
and crushing burden, upon the bodies
and souls Of our neighbors ac1oso the
seas.
"our country has poured out gen
srously Of its sympathy and its means
IN bg1ialf Of those who suffer heceuss
| of the war. But the harvest Of death
ana desolation. IL not ended and ssr
sympathy must not yet withdraw its
hand. ~
Rssovress Near Exhasstien.
THE American Red Cross. thru
whose fundamentally hundreds OF
thousands Of our people have been
enabled 60 give substantial expression
to their pity for those who have fallen
under the stroke Of war. IL nearing the
exhaustion Of It's resourcess Into its
war relief fund 1t has received In
round sum $1,000, 900.
"In the sending ana maintaing Of
nearly 400 surgeons, nurses and sani-
tarians. who have carried American
skill into all the zone Of war. in fnan-
cial aid for the hospitals and other
Red Cross Institutions. and In the pur-
chase and transportation Of nearly 4
00O, 900 pounds Of hospital and medical
supplies and equipment. this sum has
been reduced TO less than $4,000 now
available to meet the great demands
Of the approaching winter.
Y. s. People Urged to Aid.
THAT the splendid work Of this or
ganization, which more than any other
represents the sympathy Of us all,
should be permitted to cease Is un-
thinkable. 4 therefore earnestly call
upon the people Of the United States
once again. by their generosity, to as
sure the Red Cross against the cur
| tailment or discontinuance Of the large
| activities in which it is engaged. That
this assurance Is urgent is shown by
the comparatively small sum remain
ing in its treasury, a sum which. how
| ever closely 1t may be husbanded, will
| suffice for but a few weeks.
Contributions may be forwarded to
| any state or local treasurer of the Red
1 CEOSS pT " lNS IdlAOHal IVA 2
at Washington.
WOODROW WILSON,
Thanksgiving at Warrington.
The annual Pan-American Thanks
giving celebration at st. Patricks. Ca
tholic church. attended by members ot
the cabinet. the diplomatic corps and
supreme coustices. was the main fea-
ture Of the days celebration here.
! President Wilson was represented by
l,Secretary McAdoo. Dignitaries In
bright uniforms attended. After mass
the guests were entertained at lunch
con by Mgr. Russell, pastor of st. Pat,
President Wilson spent the early part
ricks.
Of the day in putting the finishing
touches on his annual message. He had
larranged to have dinner with Mrs. Nor.
man Gait and his family. A thirty.
five pound turkey, the gift Of South
Trimble, clerk Of the house. was pre-.
pared.
All Of the cabinet, with two excep.
tions, spent the day here. Secretary
Garrison was In Jersey City. and Secre.
tary Daniels was with his mother IL
lGoldsboro, N. c.
Big Dinner at Prison.