Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1917-06-22

When the first four days of the big
drive for Red Cross war funds closed
last night it was found that Aberdeen
was no Stacker in the great cause,
the subscriptions totalling $21,743, or
$2,743 more than the quota of $l9,OOO
assigned to the city. The committee
in charge will continue until Mon
day evening, as requested in the call
of President Wilson for $1OO, 100000,
and will swell the sum to the extent
of the desire of the patriotic residents
of Aberdeen to do their bit in the
winning of this war.
The men who have taken charge OF
the work in Aberdeen, w. j. Patter-
son, William Donovan, Sr., and S. X.
Bowes, of the general committee, and
the teams, composing 40 of Aber-
deems business and professional men,
probably will never forget the expe-
rience of the Red Cross war fund
campaign. 1t has been hard work,
they all say, but work that has
brought keen pleasure, as we'll. The
number of cases where their fellow
citizens have insisted upon giving
more than the amounts requested are
responsible for some of the feeling OF
satisfaction that pervades- the sub
scription collectors. The cheerfulness
with which workingmen, whose
monthly incomes barely suffice for
their families support, have given
days wages, or better has been an
other remarkable feature.
Subscribe Willingly.
Last evening, at the Chamber OF
Commerce offices in the Hotel Wash
ington, where the Red Cross workers
make their headquarters, several men
dropped in to pay their subscriptions,
of sums ranging from 50 up to IS.
There was no parleying, in any case;
no attempt to find out what the cam
paign workers would accept; each
man, without hesitation, briefly stat
ed his wish to give 81. or SO, or IS, to
the Red Cross, and handed over the
money.
Members of the ten teams that have
combed the business section and that,
today, are starting on the rounds OF
the lumber mills, shipyards and other
large industrial plants, declare that
the vast majority Of the men from
whom they have asked contributions
have shown the same cheerful alacri-
ty in their responses. A noteworthy
feature of the campaign developed at
Yesterdays session of the team cap
tains, when it was shown that certain
citizens desired to contribute more
than, in the campaign managers opin-
ion, they could afford to contribute
Then was expressed a remarkable
sense of deliberate body-to the ef-
| feet that solicitors, in these cases
must absolutely refuse to accept the
contributions which the individuals
desired to make, but rather must per
suade them to lop something from
their intended benefactions.
The campaign workers making the
rounds of the big industrial concerns
this morning and afternoon have di
vided forces in this wise: c. T
Scurry and team visiting the Ameri
can and Wilson mills; the Anderson
& Middleton mill and Grays Harbol
Shingle company being taken in by
Carl Gylling and team; Western mil
and Federal mill. P. H. Hoonan ant
team; Donovan mill. J. M. Phillips ant
team; Aberdeen Lumber &, Shingl'
Co., Roy C. Sargent and team; Wilco,
Shingle Co., w. l.. Morris and team
Bay City mill, H. P. Brown and team
Grays Harbor Shipbuilding Co., L. G
Humbargar and team; Grays Harbo
Motorboat Co., w. c. Mumaw ant
team; Aberdeen Shipbuilding Co., Z
M. Bowes and team.
1000 Subscribers Probably
II will be a few days, in all likeli
hood, before the complete list Of sub
scribers to the Red Cross fund, local
ly, can be compiled. The greater pol
ton of the subscriptions to date, a
, was to be expected, has come fror
the big industrial plants, subscrir
, tions running from 800 up to 81 ,00'
, Under the 800 mark, say the cam
paign managers, the subscription
have been all conceivable amounts