The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-05-12
RED CROSS IS
TOLD TO GET
ON WAR BASIS
Meeting Finance Committee
at Chamber of Commerce
at 4 p. m. Today.
GOVERNMENT CALLS
FOR FULL HELP
To Satisfy Needs of Allies
and Demands of Our
Troop Movement.

the government in the national emer-
gency, the finance committee Of the
Red Cross will meet this afternoon.
The meeting will be held in the
Chamber Of Commerce building,
probably at 4 p. M. according to Or.
Louis DEM Blocker, chairman: the
/ hour will be changed if by so doing
a full attendance can be secured, as
/ this is a meeting of exceptional i'm
portance.
Miss Cora Mallory, secretary of the
Pensacola Red Cross, has received a
telegram from the vice president of
the executive committee regarding
the creation Of the war council of the
Red Cross, as outlined at greater
length in yesterdays Journal.
"The war council is organizing to-
day" says the message. Every chap
ter should at once mobilize and re-
infOrCe its finance committee Ito
meet) the increasing need among our
allies for supplies and the in
evitable development of home needs
as we approach mobilization of vast
numbers of American troops"
/ Following is the telegram in full:
War Mobilization.
! Washington, D, c., May 10, 1917.
/ Miss Cora Mallory, Secretary Pens
cola Red Cross Chapter, PeEaa
cola, Fla.
The president has today appointed
a Red Cross war council CONSISTING
of Henry P. Dawson, of J. P. Nor
gan & Company, chairman; Charles
| D. Horton, G. NJ. Murphy, Cornelius
! n. Bliss, Jr., Edward n. Hurley, with
William H. Taft, chairman; Eliot
| Wadsworth, vice chairman of the ex-
ecutive committee, eX-otficio mem
! bers.
The president today issued the fol-
| lowing statement:
81 have today created within the
! Red Cross a war council to which will
/ be entrusted the duty of responding
! to the extraordinary demands which
/ the present war will make upon the
] services of the Red Cross, both in the
! field and in civilian relief. The best
( way in which to impart the greatest
efficiency and energy to the relief
work which this war will entail will
be to concentrate it in the hands IF a
single experienced organization
| which has been recognized by law and
/ by international convention as tie
public instrumentality for such pur-
poses. Indeed, such a concentration
of administrative action in this mat
/ ter seems to me absolutely necessary
/ and / hereby earnestly call upon all
i those who can contribute either great
sums or small to the alienation Of
the suffering and distress which must
inevitably arise out of this fight for
humanity and democracy to con-
tribute to the Red Cross.
at will be one of the first and
most necessary tasks of the new war
council of the Red Cross TO raise
great sums Of money for the supper.
Of the work to be done, and done
upon great scale. I hope that the
( response to their efforts will be a
demonstration Of the generosity Of
America and the power of genuine.
practical sympathy among cur peo-
pie that will command the admiration
of the whole world"
In view Of the above it is necessary
to modify the plan outlined in Circu-
lar A-29. Fer the use of the war
council the national finance commit
tee appointed by President Wilson,
headed by Cleveland Dodge and Sc
ward Prosser, of New York, viii
raise a great Red Coss war fund
through our chapters. Not mo-
ment must be lost in preparing our
selves TO meet the pressing calls from
Europe and the emergencies which
are soon to confront US here.
Every chapter should at once mobi-
lie and reinforce it's finance com
nittee for this work which is of the
utmost Importance and urgency.
Call Immediately a meeting of your
executive committee to make far
reaching plans for finance campaign
as we look to you confidently for
large results. Please telegraph the
names of members Of your finance
committee to Seward Prosser, Amer
lean Red Cross, Washington, D. c.
You will be promptly and fully ad-
vised by Mr.. Prosser regarding his
plans and methods.
The war council is organizing to-
day. The increasing need among our
anllies for supplies that can be fur
nished quickly only by purchase as
reported by Herbert Hoover, and the
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