Weekly journal-miner., 1917-06-20
RED GROSS HAS BIG CH0RE- IN
 THE b|G WAR
TREMENDOUS TASK OF HUMANITARIAN ARM OF U. S. GOVERNMENT IS DESC CRIB ED BY OR. GANIZER HUSH.
(From Thursdays Daily)

Describing the AnerIcan Natlonal
 Red Cross Association as the unofi- cial humanitarian arm of the United State government, II. II. Hush, Pa cihc coast organizer. last night made strong plea for local support for the institution. The so-called Red Cross Auxiliary to the Prescott Home Guard has been reorganized into 2 Prescott chapter-one of B locals of the national organization in Arizona.
 Today begins the campaign for
 members in the Prescott chapter. On Monday, the Red Cross week starts week set aside by the presidents proclamation, for raising the first part of fund of SlOO,00OOOO with which to finance the Red Cross during the European war.
 The Red Cross is not a sewing circle-it Is not an organization for women alone. Its membership is open to all persons of all ages. Even infants in arms are members. All it requires is . membership fee of Sl a year, paid into the local chapter, and by it, transmitted in part to the Wash ington headquarters.
 However one looks at it, the Red Cross has quite chore on its hands in this war. This organization, which is only 56 years old, will be charged with the feeding of the starv- ing populations of Belgium, Poland. Serbia, Armenia, Syria and parts of other European nations, the care of wounded on the battlefields, on every front, and the usual duties 1t assumes in this and every other nation of the globe, in handling the sufferers from flood, fire, famine and other forms of the Wrath O God.
 Three years ago, Japan with a population of 4O,OOO,Om, Germany, Russia, Turkey-not all specially en- frightened nations or specially addict ed to humanitarianisni. each enrolled a million and a half to 1897, 900 mem- bers in their national Red Cross as. sociations. The Turkish organiza- ton is known as the Red Crescent" by the way.
 Three years ago, the United States. originator Of the idea, had 2S,000 members. Now, there are 100000. By the end of next week or at least, before the war is well under way for this country, there must be l,500,000 members, or else the American Ma. tional Red Cross will have to appeal to the Japanese, French, Hottentot or some other Red Cross to help prose- cute the war on suffering.
 MT. Hush stated he believed there would be much more than the hun dred million asked for. He compared the response to be expected for this, with that already given to the de- mands for the conscription enroll ment and the Liberty Bonds.
 NJ. B. Hazeltine, president of the Prescott Red Cross acted as master of ceremonies at the mass meeting on the plaza last evening. He took occasion to state that it was not true, as some believe, that the banks are getting anything in commissions for selling Liberty Loan bonds.
 F. s. Clark was the first speaker. He made an eloquent plea for support for the Red Cross. A remarkable statement of his was that the bulk of the money for this work would come from the people of comparatively small means-just as the poor have always given the most toward all charities and bencvolences.
 Judge r.. w. Wells spoke as ono who is known to everybody he ad dressed in his audience, a pioneer of many years in this community. He, too, made ringing appeal to the people of Prescott, to be ready this to give to the full extent of their means to the Red Cross.