The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1917-10-12
ANNUAL MEET
OF RED CROSS
OFFICERS
Old Officers Named and Auxiliary
Board Appointed At Regular
Meeting In High School
Thursday Evening.

ing held in the high school Thursday
evening. A musical program had also
been provided which added much to
the pleasure of the meeting.
The meeting was opened by Chair
man H. Mulberger, the audience sing
ing the Star Spangled Banner, and
the meeting closed with the singing of
America,
The following officers were chosen
for the ensuing year:
Chairman-H Mulberger.
Vice Chairman-Mrs F. E. Wood
ard.
Secretary-Mrs. O. c. Wertheimer.
= Treasurer-F. P. McAdams
Auxiliary board Mesdames H.
Mulberger, F. E. Woodland, Gordon E.
Bacon, Edward l.. Schempf, L. l..
Parks, H. T. Eberle, l.. W. Parks, Eli
Fischer, E. j. O'Byrne, J. f. Prentiss,
Miss Elsa Schempf.
Messrs. Oscar G.. Wertheimer,
G. H., Lehrkind, H. T. Eberle, Herman
Wertheimer Edward L. Schempf, J.
w. Moore, w. H. Woodland, Henry Null
L "A.
T. A. Wondreyka.
The Red Cross chapter was organ
lied April 81, 1917 with membership
of 65. 1t now numbers 962, fourteen
of whom are soliciting members. 1t
has one branch and five auxiliaries:
Jefferson 74O Lake Mills 4S4, Water
loo 261, Johnson Creek lat, IXonia SO,
Sullivan g. The total membership of
all is 2749.
Up to the present time Watertown
chapter including the branches and
auxiliaries have shipped out Is cases,
total of SS6S articles, plus the rs
sets of knitted garments and rs COM
fort kits for Co. e.
Of this number Jefferson has fur
nished 1869 articles, Lake Mills 1914,
Waterloo 355, Johnson Creek 1854, Sui
livan 46, IXonia $40, Watertown $3.50.
These numbers include knitted gar
ments, surgical dressings, hospital
garments and linens and therefore
represent a great amount of work
Watertown has completed to the
present time 76 sweaters, SO muff1ers,
70 pair wristlets, 120 pair sox; besides
SO sweaters, 80 mufflers, 80 wristlets,
so pair sox which are being made.
The purchasing committee has ex-
pended the following amounts for ma
terials in the work room:
Yarn SS4S %
Hospital supplies 634.23
Surgical Dressings 38O.15
Comfort Kits for Co. E----- 1855
The total amount of cash donations
received by the local chapter is
$8S9.62.
Speaks On Work.
w. F. Hintzman of the extension
department of the University of Wis
consin, and chairman of the speak
ers' bureau for the Red Cross, spoke
Interestingly on Red Cross work.
choosing as his subject, "The Ameri-
can National Red Cross"
The soul of the American Red
Cross is to bind up the nations
wounds, to care for him who shall
have borne the battle, and for his
widow, and his orphan-to do all
which may achieve and cherish a Just
and lasting peace among ourselves,
and with all nations" said the
speaker in explanation of the cues
ton.
What is the American Red Cross?
The American Red Cross is a volun-
tary association of American people
sanctioned and given semi-official
standing by the United States gov
eminent and organized for the pur-
pose of giving relief to sufferers from
disaster of any kind the world over at
all times, and in time of war of SUD-
plying comfort and aid to the armed
forces of the United States, especially
by assisting the medical service of
the army and navy to care for the
sick and wounded" continued the
speaker.
In speaking of the evolution of the
American Red Cross, the speaker
said: "The basis of this humanitarian
organization is found in the sympathy
of the human heart. Man is so con-
stituted that he cannot bear to see
suffering. The Samaritan blood runs
through the veins of all men, The first
impulse at the sight of suffering is to
render aid to the suffering, to relieve
them from their agony This sympa-
thy in the human heart for the suffer-
ing gave rise to this great relief So
ciety, the American Red Cross"
The speaker then sketched the pro-
gress Of the order from it's humble
beginning when the Knights Hospital
lers Of ST. John of Jerusalem. of
Rhodes, of Malta, helped the wounded
II perchance the battlefield Law near
city or convent, the nuns and peo-
pie cared for the wounded. He also
spoke of the aid given to our SOL
diers during the war of the Reyolu-
ton, and stated that the aid given to
our soldiers then was much better
than they were receiving in Europe
He told of the Crimean war of 1884
as factor in bringing about the Red
Cross when Florence Nightingale and
her thirty-eight nurses called 'The
Nightingales" or 'The Angel Band"
the first time that organized relief
work was offered Shortly after this
DumOnt wrote his Souvenirs de Sal
ferino which was responsible for the
conference Of all nations which took
place in Switzerland in 1863. The
treaty Of Geneva, otherwise called
the Red Cross treaty was signed at
L, VI.