The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-06-30
Results Gratifying In Red Cross War
 I Drive, Says Davison

Henry P. Davison, chairman of the War Council of the Red Cross makes the following statement: ,:
 sFThe returns up to nine o'clock Wednesday night indicate that dur ing the past week at least $114,G00,- 900 have been subscribed to the Rec Cross War Fund. This assumes that stockholders in conpanies which have declared special dividends amounting to some $2G. 100000 will turn their dividends over 10 the Red Cross.
 Local Chapters of the Red Cross are. entitled to retain fer their own work twenty-five per cent. of the to- tai amount collected, but it is very evident that the National Red Cross will have a generous fund win which to begin it's tremendous tasks
 'The result which has been achiev- ed is indeed gratifying. Never be- fore in the history of the world was such a fund for the relief of human
 suffering raised by voluntary sub scription in so brief period.
 This result was made possible by surprisingly generous contributions in many communities. The most in- spring, indeed the most extraordin- ary feature of the campaign, has been the number of contributors, as well as their wide geographical distribu- ton. Many millions of our people, representing every part of the coun- try have given and worked to induce others to give.
 "Nothing which has happened be- foreN shows as clearly as this cam
 paign that the great heart of the American people is in this struggle vzyifh at ira OJ1r WI shall be cared for, that everything that can be done shall be done to hearten and to aid the suffering peo-
 pies among our Allies, indeed that nothing shall be left undone to win this war;
 "Nos time will be lost by the Red
 Cross in it's efforts to accomplish re- suits with the large resources with which it has now been supplied. Some of the plans which are being devel- oped and which we hope promptly to carry into execution are the follow ing:
 First and foremost we shall pro- vide, as we may be called upon by the Army and Navy, for the care and saftey, of our soldiers and sailors wherever they may be. we shall provide funds whereby the American Red Cross Commission may take over administration of American relief work in France. Ma jor Grayson M. P. Murphy, head, of the French Commission, has been appointed by General Pershing a member of his staff, and the Red Cross has appropriated at Major
 Murphys request $1,000,000 to take care of immediate needs. teWe have cabled each of the Allied governments seeking authority to in-
 stall an American Red Cross dispen- sary in each of their important sea- port cities-a measure of relief ur- gently needed.
 I've shall send to Russia a com mission of some twenty experts, un- der the leadership of pr. Frank Bill ing of Chicago, to study the needs and the best mean% ol aiding the
 Russian people.
 "The commission will be equipped with materials, instruments and fa- ci1ities for extending immediate re- lief in urgent cases and the Red Cross will meanwhile organize to render 3 large and effective aid along the bat tie line and elsewhere in Russia where there is acute distress. We shall send a similar commission to make survey, and likewise equipped with supplies and instruments to ex- tend immediate relief to the people o1 Roumania. -=' t'The War Council of the Red Gross deeply sensitive, of its very grave obligation to administer the very large sum of money iptr,s~+-A t> |