The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-12-24
RED CROSS PART
 OF WAR MACHINE.
 DAWSON STATES
Reviews Work Already Accomplished In the War and Tells of Plans for Extending Scope In Future Says Membership Increase Is Blow at Morale of German Army.

New York, Dec 24-The man who has introduced the American Red Cross to the American people, who has taken hold of a great organization of mercy and revitalized it, expanded It, systematized it's operation with the same swift sursness that he employed In the big business of money making, humaniZed it; the man who puts in eighteen hours out of every day of twenty-four in planning for it's future Henry P. Davison-found time yes terday to tell what it is doing not only four our own soldiers and sailors but for the sick and wounded fighting men of our allies and the hundreds of thousands of men, women and chill dren that have been ground under the German heel and have little left ex- cept bare life itself.
 It is common talk that the Presi- dent, in calling the doers of American business to his aid in the tremendous task of organizing America to put Ho- henzollern. Krupp & Co.,, into bank ruptcy, made many excellent selec- tions. It is unanimously agreed that he never made better choice than when he picked Daviso14 of J. P. Nor gan & Co.,, to head the War Council of the American Red Cross. Every body knew of Davison as a financier, as a vital force of the house of Mor- gan, as one behind whose steel blue eyes lay incomparable powers for or ganiZation; but not many, perhaps understood that there was also in him wellsprings of sympathy for the and volcanic enthusiasm for philanthropy.
 Has Abandoned Business
 Davison has turned his back upon business and money getting. He de- votes every minute of his rrrne to ways and means for building up the great est institution of mercy that the world ever saw; for popularizing it with the people that understood too little about it before Uncle Sam drew his gun; for making 1t an asset of every indi- vidual and every home; for making every dollar it takes in get 8 dollars worth of merciful result. He devotes himself to the work with a sort o1 fanatic energy. Ordinarily he is toe busy to talk. Yesterday he literally snatched time from Red Cross con ferences in order to talk.
 The chairman of the Red Cross Wal Council was found in the office of J P. Morgan & Co.,, at Broad and Wal streets. The machinery of that office was revolving as usual. All of the other partners were about their usua affairs. There was the same atmo. sphere as of former days. But Davi son was out of it. His presence in tLf office was to facilitate certain confer. ences that had to do with the Ret Cross and not with money making Once started words flowed from hin rather.
 T don't like the idea" he said a the outset. "of emphasizing any per sonality in this great effort we are al of us forwarding. I don't want to ad vertiss rnyself-hats that sort O. thing. What say refers to the splen did work of other men and not t, what I have done, can only act ai a sort of spokesman for the earnest able fellows that are making the Ret Cross the biggest factor in beating Germany outside of our militar, forces, We are getting somewhere a Make no mistake about that, We ar going to win the war and win it be cause the Red Cross will. bs so trut, national. so truly American, 80 trul, the expression of every man, womal and child in, America, that it will b. the magnificent reserve of our fight ing men on land and sea,
 Urges All to Join Red Cross
 we want Germany te undeFstan' that all America is in this war hear and soul, Best way to make German see that new is to build Up the Re- Cross so that it's service flag will fl in every home, so that the Kaiser vii see 15,006,000 good American name enrolled in the roster, or 20,000,0 60 or 25,006,000 for that matter, Ther should be no limit to the membership Ex-Presfdent Taft was right when h said that every soul in this eeuHtF
 ought to be eager to say, T beleH to the Red Cress.' This is what eu membership campaign means-t Amerieahize the organization so per fectly as to strike at German morale
 T won't say anything now abeu asking for more money, The frs business is to make the Red Cross a
 American as the Stars and Stripes AfterWard we will talk about the flu
 ture necessities in financing. Some da
 soon we will have to ask for nor
 money. The t16o, 100000 subscribe some months ago was a wonderful ex
 pression of the peoples generosity an patriotism, but possibly by next sprin
 another call will have to be made up
 on that generosity and patriotism
 More than that, $40, 6,006,600 has bee
 spent in work here and abroad for tn
 suffering non-combatants of our al lies especially of noble France, Tn
 money goes fast because the work
 growing and expanding in a way W
 scarcely dreamed of.
 | Whole World Bleeding
 | "The whole world is bleeding. Gu | job in the American Red Cross is t bind up the wound of bleeding werl
 and to give it hope for the futur
 Money doesn't count in such effort a that. The American people are to
 rich in money, resources, and best (
 all in intelligence, to require any al
 gument about what must be done i
 a money way when the time come
 For the present they must come int
 the organization, be a part of it, fe'
 that it is their own personal affai 1iryf1 Tos some hay organization are doin
 much toward accomplishing mere
 and relief It is a thing that peopl should think about all of the time an | talk about all of the time-men o 1 the streets and at their businesse preachers in their pulrits, teachers