Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1917-12-14

/ the 50 or the $40 or the $50 or the
i 500 or the 81 fee that membership
I costs though that has its Importance.
! 1t would be even more necessary if
membership did not cost a cent. But
/ In this case the fee is a small consld-
/ GRAFTON. What is needed is an army
/ of 100000 true-hearted Americans
who will stand back of the army and
navy, and supply them with everything
they need to keep them well and
! CHEEKY and TO give them every chance
| for life if they get sick or are hurt.
! Confidence in his backing is a mighty
factor in fellows spunk when he is
! fighting $500 miles from the home he
/ is defending.
| Now word about the different
kinds of membership: A patron mem
| Der pays 500 in one sum, and the in
/ terest on that money accrues to the
Red Cross every year. A life member
! pays S25 in one sum, and the interest
sufiices to keep his membership alive
so long as he lives. But the most
stress is not to be laid on these forms
in this campaign because, as l have
said, money is not the chief object.
! Everyone who can possibly afford II
ought to be what is called a "Maga.
zine Member" 1t costs 50, each year.
but it brings with it the Red Cross
Magazine. published every month with
wealth of pictures of Red Cross
work, aud inspiring articles telling
what the Red Cross is doing all around
! the world.
For those who cannot spare 81. the
| annual membership costs but 81, and
J one who has this membership is just
| as much Red Cross member as any
one, the only difference being that he
/ does rot get the magazine. The great
! effort Will be 10 enroll the 81 and 81
! people, for it is numbers and not mon,
ey at this time that the Red Cross
wants.
When the membership has climbed
to the 15.000OO0 mark, then will come
the call for members to help turn out
| supplies. There is no cOmpulsiOn-
nobody has To pledge himself to give
any money except his dues, nor to
ElhG SCI VIC nOi dHs lliiliSs APul VA
course you will want to help, and you
will have world of opportunity.
Whether you can knit, or sew, or roll
bandages, or run errands for those
who can do those things, or give mon
ey to help them buy supplies of yarn
and muslin and gauZe you can help.
1t will be your part to do the biggest
To nssly- Arrlaf }Rnff
boys over there.
The first thing is to become a Red
Cross member. Take somebody in
with you if you possibly can. Help the
membership team that comes to you
for your name and your dollar or two
dollars. Remember, 1t is not, in the
final analysis, the Red Cross you are
helping at all-it is the boys who are
ever there fighting for you. Nobody
concerned with the Red Cross ever
gets a penny ont of anything given for
relief, or from any garment made and
entrusted to it. Every penny and
every stitch goes to some American
soldier or some destitute one whom the
Rcd Cross is trying to keep alive.
You will hear-if you have not al
ready heard-a dozen stories about
graft in the Red Cross. They are lies.
everyone of them. They were started
maliciously, and have been peddled
ever since by gossips, some malicious,
some merely chatterers with no sense
of responsibility, who would in the
same spirit repeat SANDER about a
good woman.
You have heard, or will hear that
the high officers of the Red Cross get
most of the money given it for relief.
Exactly the reverse is true. Every
member Of the war council, every head
of every Red Cross bureau in Washing
ton, every head of every bureau in
everyone of the thirteen divisions of
the Red Cross in the United States,
is giving his time free, and Is spending
money of his own while he does tbs
work.
In a recent public speech on this
subject, Henry p Dawson. chairman
of the Red Cross war council, de.
clared that of every dollar given the
Red Cross for relief, about $1.02 is
spent for relief. Not only are the ex-
penses met from funds provided for
!, that purpose, but the money contributed
draws interest while in bank, and the
interest also is applied to RELIEF work.
The Red Cross is led by the biggest
and brainiest and most nnseltish rdeE
the nation could find. Trust them.
, They are doing the very best that
, brains and money and determination
can do TO prevent human suffering, and
| to take care of Pershing's boys. Help
them. Y'ur own may be there soon
idolatry on the Decline.
II is becoming a custom among non.