Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-05-16
Appeal to Country
Patriots For Aid
For the Red Cross

The Red Cross movement is under full
Roadway in Marshaltown. We will
have close to 1900 members at the
close of the present campaign.
You who live in the country are none
the less patriotic because you do not
live in the city, and because you are
not so easily to be reached. You are
none the less susceptible, because the
less accessible. To most of the dwell
ers in Marshalltown this war comes
as hardship. unmixed with any finan-
cial blessing. We pay higher prices
for the products you raise, with no
opportunity to pass the burden on.
Yet our citizens are responding cheer
fully and literally. What are you 60
ing to do? Will you permit it to be
said that you are backward, and not
interested in this great work? We
should not be compelled to devote the
time and expense to see you each per-
sonally. We believe you should join
hands with US on invitation. Please
don't wait to be solicited personally.
Please be volunteers-not conscripted.
Send in your name with a check, which
payment you won't miss, when corn is
worth $3.50 a bushel, wheat $500 a
bushel, and a hog listens like $50.
| There are these classes of members:
Annual S100 Qocal chapter retains 90
cents); subscribing, 81 per year Qocal
chapter retains so cents); contributing,
IS per year, Oocal chapter retains so:
sustaining, $40 per year Oocal chapter
retains $50; life, one payment, $25:
and patron, 500; one payment. OF
these last two the local chapter re-
tains nothing.
All these memberships {savc annliaD
include the Red Cross Magazine"
published monthly.
There will be membership booths at
the Bargain Store, the Y. w. G. A,
the Y. NJ. C. A., the Marshaltown
Club, the public library. and at Levin's
Dry Goods Company, E. r. Lays, Ben
edict G. Brintnall's, and j. D. Palmer
& Co. Or, if you will send check to
H. S. Lawrence at the Iowa Savings
Bank: or Mrs. +. d. B. Ingalls, our
secretary; or A. A. Moore, our presi-
dent, you will be properly enrolled
! II you want to form local chapter
Of your own, the writer will assist
you.
| Help your American Red Cross to be
prepared for the saving of life and the
alienation of suffering in war and
civilian disaster.
The American Red Cross is chartered
by congress. 1t is the only volunteer
agency for relief commissioned by the
government in case of war.
The president of the United States is
president Of the society.
| The Red Cross reports to congress;
its accounts are audited by the war
department: all that it does Is open to
public scrutiny
Since. 1905 the American Red Cross
| has rendered valuable aid in eighty
six disasters. 1t has received and ex-
pended more than s15.OOo,O0O in money
and relief supplies.
Thousands Of families have been
helped and kept together; suffering has
been relieved and greater misery pre-
vented. Its work also includes prevent
i've and educational measures.
No other agency provides so prac-
tical an opportunity for helping human
ity in times of great crises, when the
| need Is urgent, and the measures for
relief. must be prompt and adequate
You are familiar with some of it's
achievements-with the organized help
fulness. heroism and self-sacrifice of
its men and women amid the horr ors of
| war, devastating plaques and epidem-
les; and in great calamities, such as
the San Francisco fire, the Ohio valley
floods, the Titanic and Eastland disas-
ters, and other catastrophes involving
loss of life and suffering.
Do you know that as an American
you have the right to become a men,
Der of the Red Cross? That by pay
ment Of small annual dues and little
unselfish service. you can support your
government in it's humanitarian work?
Your circumstances may not permit
you to engage in field work-few men,
bers can-but you can help; your fam
| lily and your friends can help by be-
coming members of the society and by
actively supporting your local Red
Cross chapter
Your help is needed now. To sup
Iport its field and base hospitals. its
doctors and nurses, and to provide the
necessities of military and civilian re-
lief calls for at least 100000 menu
bers. America can do what other ma
tions have done.
| President Wilson says: "A well or
ganized and efficient Red Cross is es-
sential. 1t Is both a patriotic and hui
name service that is rendered by every
citizen who becomes a member of the
American Red Cross"
| Ex-President Taft has said: ~ hereby
| commend the plan of the Red Cross to
secure large membership in this
| country. l hope the American people
| will prove as patriotic in this respect
as are the people Of other nations, so
that we may be as well prepared as
they to render relief in the misfortune
! of war or to mitigate the sufferings
caused by pestilence, famine, fire,
floods, mine explosions and other great
! disasters"
Elk President Roosevelt has said: 81
hope that all the patriotic and humane
| men, women and children Of the United
States, who are able to do so, will
give it (the Red Cross) their suppol>
| by becoming members of our national
organization
The Immediate question is--what are
you going to say in these stirring
times?
Remember, the suffering must not
wait, This is the period Of prepare
ton.
Become q member and wear the Red
Cross button now.
Miss Anna Muad Kimberly is cahir-
man of special committee to organize
the rural districts. You can aid her