Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1917-06-24
This Amount Is Needed to
Reach the Goal Set and to
Make the Drive for the Week
a Complete Success,
LOCAL WORKERS URGED
TO EXERT THEMSELVES
Campaign Managers Impress
Upon Leaders in All Parts
of the Country the Impor-
. tance of the Undertaking,
ts~ MORNING JouaaAL SPECIAL LEASED w,RGI

Washington, June 23.-Twenty mil
lion dollars must be collected tomor-
row and Monday by the Red Cross
volunteer campaigners to make the
weeks canvass for a 100,000,O0O
fund an entire success. Despite the
spectacular spurts of a number of
cities, total new pledges reported to-
national headquarters today were
only $3,000,000, making the aggre-
gate collections for six days about
$S0, 900.
Campaign managers directed local
workers to make strenuous efforts in
the next two days to ferret out indi-
viduals or corporations who have not
contributed and to impress on them
the tremendous Importance in Ameri-
cas- war scheme of the success of the
Red Cross fund.
The need of every humanity dol
lar that can be collected was empha-
sized today by Lord Northcliffe, Brit
ish war commissioner now In the
United States, in letter to Henry b.
f. Mcfarland, chairman of the Dis
trict of Columbia Red Cross finance
committee.
NOrthcliffe Urges Action.
I'm wishing success and prosperity
to your efforts wrote Lord North
cliffe, II would, as an experienced
Red Cross worker, urge caution and
conservation of effort. You will need
every cent you can collect, and every
pair of human hands you can employ.
The war, in my personal opinion, gath
cred by much experience at the front,
| is but beginning"
Word reached here tonight that
committees in number of cities will
refuse to quit work Monday night
when the campaign formally closes
This prolongation of the canvass will
be sought in two classes of communi-
ties-those like Cleveland on fire
with enthusiasm and piling up over
subscriptions, and cities where, for
various local reasons, the campaign
did not start until late this week. At
lanta, suffering from the recent dis
astrous fire, is one of the cities of the
latter class
Cleveland, which promises to be the
star of the weeks performance, by
noon today made its total 81, 4,lS2 900,
and passed Chicago, whose report at
! that hour showed $4,160,000. New
York city's total was known to be ap-
preaching 35,000,000.
| Among the other big totals record
ed at headquarters tonight were:
Cincinnati $1,400,000; Detroit,
| s2,161, 900: Buffalo, $1,735,000; Pitts
| burgh, $2,596,000; Boston. $2.03S,0 900:
| st. Louis, 81, ,465 900, and Philadelphia,
$1.232,000.
Ohio Leads the States.
Ohio still leads the states Except
! for New York; with $7,092,000. Next
was Pennsylvania, with $4,615, 900. IL
| linois came third with $4,119, 900;
New York (outside New York city,
| has $3,591,00
In percentage of their appoftion-
ments actually raised, Delaware head
ed the list with 500 per cent. Utah
was second with 1856, and Ohio third
with 118.
! Tomorrow is Red Cross day in thou
sands of Sunday schools and churches.
Campaign directors expect the harvest
from rural districts, where intensive
solicitation has not been done this
week, to be large in church reports.
In a statement tonight on the desig-
nation of Monday as "Pershing day.
Secretary Baker said:
ut is eminently fitting that the
final day of the Red Cross week--a
week devoted to collecting 100000
600 for the purpose of humanity
should be called 'Pershing day / am
sure that the leader first to carry the
banner of our citizen soldiers to the
western front will appreciate the
honor, and that his name on the other
hand will act as an inspiration which
will urge patriotic Americans to more
than complete the sum required by
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Pershing day."
Some State Quotas.
Red Cross headquarters tonight
announced the proportion of state
quotas raised and reported to date.
Some of them follow:
Utah. 135 per cent; Colorado, So;
/ Wyoming, 65; California, 56; Kansas,
| 46; Texas, AZ Arizona, is; Nevada,
IA; New Mexico, 13.
| Arizona, which has been close to
the bottom of the list so far. reported
confidence today. Tucson already has
completed its quota and Is going on
to double the sum before the week
is over. Similar messages have come
from New Mexico.
| Marshall, Tex, reports that the ma
Il tional banks are considering declar-
ing special dividend for the Red
Cross fund and similar action is being
taken by public utility corporations in
Kansas City and Denver. Denver
/ with a goal of half million dollars,
already has realized $4f6.000, and
plans to double her apportionment.
With this, the state of Colorado is
put over her goal by a narrow margin,
and the fact that so large a percent
age of its cities are honor cities will
probably give Colorado a heavy ex-
cess.
Kansas and oklahoma are other
state which are expected shortly to
pass their goals.