Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-06-18
GIVE! GIVE UNTIL
IT HURTS 10 GIVE
A Golden Knockout Is in Store
For Kaiser Bill; Tulsa
to Deliver.
LIBERTY BONDS WILL PAY
"Do Not Let the Sun Go Down
on Your Unopened Pock-
etbooks" Says 100 Men.

Red Cross week. officially pro-
claimed by President Wilson as tho
period in which the American Red
Cross should begin its campaign to
raise war fund OF 100000. 900.
opens this morning thruout the United
States.
Does anyone doubt that Tulsa will
do her share? Tulsa the magnifi-
cent who oversubscribed her Liberty
loan three and threc-fifth times the
allotted amount, who has raised an
ambulance company, an engineering
company and n company of infantry
to give to the cause. when the sun
goes down tonight undoubtedly
Tulsa VIII BE There"
While there are one hundred hus-
tling men on the teams that will raise
the Red Cross fund today. II IS pos
siblc that everyone in town will no,
he reached. All those who are not
reached today. however, will he
reached during the week even tho
the sum aspired to is raised before
tonight.
big Offers Made.
Several offers Of $1,000 each have
already been made and II Is believed
that a lumber of much larger sub
StflptlonS VIII ne olleTeu DelOre lne
day Is over
In payment of Red Cross subscrip-
| tlons Liberty bonds will he accepted.
This feature. 1t is believed. will give
"A great Impetus to the generous giving
and n large number of persons have
| already signified their intention OF
giving literally OF their supply OF
Liberty bonds
The team captains are exceedingly
enthusiastic and report that all signs
/ portend a day OF unprecedented Civ
ing.
| Excuses and evasions won't do"
said c. S. Avery of the local commit
tee. THE man who has an income
OF $4,000 year might as well mako
up his mind to give half of 1t to tho
/ Red Cross. That's the spirit the sit
uation demands-no less. II people
will meet the situation with that spirit
we will have our wall of granite in
no time, put life and heart into our
allies. do n tremendous work before
our armies begin to fight and so de-
liver n tremendous punch straight
from the American shoulder, at Ger
man military power. The man who
grumbles at taxes and at the call to
subscribe will do well to keep in mind
the thot that IN France and Russia
and England break down he will bo
paying everything he has to German
tax collectors for the rest OF his nat
ural life. That's hll there is to IT,
That's precisely the way matters
stand.
Must Stir Nation.
"The main idea at the back of all
our planning" rsid Mr.. Avery, "fs to
stir the United States to a heartfelt
realization Of debt and duty, to raise
500. 100000 more rapidly than that
amount was evor collected by volun-
tary subscription to assemble the best
trained talent that America possesses,
to assemble the great stores OF sup
plies and provide the ships, and then
to start to Europe, especially to our
French and Russian friends. n stream
OF help that will never cease to flow,
an unending rich current of material
and moral aid"
The teams aId their captains are:
ID. w. Franchot, captain: J. A. Hull.
H. G. Tyrrell, II. A. Braniff Charles
Wilson, II. p. McKalip, N. J. Gubser.
Tom X. Chestnut, captain; ]. 7.
Flanagan. Simon Jankowsky DIR. Dan
White. John f. Hayden. NJ Delaney.
T.. A. Ross captain; G. w Grimes.
Ray Fellows. Carl Duffield, Ralph
Lockwood.
j. Edgar Pew. captain: w. @. Skel-
ly. J. II. Evans, j. V. Mcmahon, j. w.
Sloan.
A. J. Niles, captain: C. J. Friedman,
Lee Kunsman. Max Madansky. T. A.
Penny. Henry McGraw. G. II. Gill
more. Capt. II. G. La Reau.
John II. Markham. jr.. captain:
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