Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1917-06-15
TO RAISE FUND
FOR RED CROSS
Nation Asked to Raise Fund
of $1OO,OOO,OOO Next
Week--Idaho County'S Por-
ton be $4,000.

AS a result of President Will
sons recent call for a hundred
million dollars from the people
of the nation for red cross pur-
poses a large meeting was held
last week in Portland which was
attended by delegates from all
western states and at that time
plans were laid for a campaign
covering every nook and corner
of this vast Pacific domain. Ac-
cording to the plans outlined in
the east $85. 900, 900 is to be rails
ed east of the Mississippi river
and SIS, 900, 900 in the states west
of that stream and at the Port
land meeting the committee ap-
p 'rtioning to each western state
the sum to be raised placed Ida
hos sum at $25O,OO0. After the
Portland meeting the Idaho dele
gates returned home and a meet
ing was held in Lewiston and on
Saturday at Grangeville and at
| these meetings a movement was
launched to promote the cam
paign throughout the central Ida
no counties.
At Grangeville county organ
ization was perfected and on
Wednesday evening R. G, Beach
and H. L. Powers came to this
place from Lewiston and address,
ed a large audience at the Or
pheum theatre explaining the
movement at length and calling
on the residents of Cottonwood
to take up the work in this part
of the county and carry it through
to a successful completion in or
der to raise the required sum and
not to have it said that the resi-
dents of Idaho county are behind
their neighbors in patriotic duty.
The speakers explained that
the red cross work is entirely
neutral in character and for this
reason cannot be handled snc-
cessfully by any nation engaged
in war and also that a warning
nation is so busily engaged in the
business of destruction that it
cannot adequately care for its
wounded soldiers. They pointed
out how the war might last for
several years and that repeated
calls would be made for more
men to fill the place of those kill
ed in battle; how fully ninety per
cent of those wounded can be
saved by proper care and again
return to duty; that if the wound
ed were not properly cared for it
would naturally result in more
men being called from the farms
and factories to replace them
and that from the standpoints of
humanity and patriotism we owe
it to those who have gone to the
front to fight our battles to pro,
tect them in every possible way
and make their life in the trench.
es as agreeable as possible.
The speakers said it was neces.
sary for the men to raise the
money needed for red cross work
but that a great duty also resteC
with the.women and girls who
could'give literally of their time
and labor in doing red cross sew
ing and preparing of articles fol
the wounded. They said it was
impossible for these articles to be
turned out in proper amount by
factories and that in fact the
factories are now working at toI
capacity and there is still a grea
shortage of supplies and that tht
nation must prepare to supply tht
articles needed for its troops b!
the time any considerable mum
ber of soldiers are taken across
the ocean.
Of the quarter million dollar
to be raised in Idaho the count!
of Nez Perce is to contribute
$4,000, Idaho county $4,000