Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-06-12
CAPTURE ANOTHER Mile RED CROSS CAMP PAIGN
Effort to be Made to Raise $780,
100000 During Next Week BY the
American People.

"Red Cross Week" proclaimed b,
President Wilson, as period o:
sacrifice and generosity, and II
which the Red Cross will seek Il
raise 100000 War Fund, be
gins Monday, June 18.
In response to many requests
Henry P. Dawson, Chairman OF the
War Council of the Red Cross, make:
the following statement: "Tne Rec
Cross War Council has been asked
to name the specific purposes to
which it expects to devote the $780,
OOO, 900 which it has asked the
American. people to contribute be-
tween June 18th to 25th, the period
the President of the United States
has set apart as Red Cross week
The Public is, of course, entitled t.
as specific statement on this Sub
iect as we are able to make.
"Our first obligation is to render
such service as comes within the
province of the Red Cross to our
soldiers and sailors at home and
abroad. Consideration of the vast
ness of this undertaking alone as
compared with any other situation
ever known tc us will impress one
with the impossiblity of forming a
definite budget or specifying in
particular the amounts of money re-
ouired to care for our own country
men.
"lAfter maxim; every provision
necessary for this purpose, our en-
deavor will be to supplement the eff
forts of our Allies in caring for their
sick and wounded.
eve shall help provide the bare
necessities of life to the homeless
in devastated France; to aid them
to rehabilitate themselves and thus
strengthen the man power of the
French army.
eve shall strive to hearten Rus
sia, by providing additional am
balances and other relief for the
sick and wounded along the battle
front. We shall try to succor the
homeless and wandering peoples of
Poland, Lithuania, and Western Rus
sia.
eve hope to extend aid to those
who are fighting the battles of
liberty in Rumania' Serbia and Italy
indeed to relieve human misery
everywhere among our Allies.
awe have set $1OO,OOO,oOO as the
minimum of our need. 1t is evident
that we could use many times that
amount. To administer these funds
economically and efficiently we are
developing an organization headed
bv some of the most competent and
experienced business men in the
country. They serve without pay.
"In' due course we shall make
report to Congress so that the pub
lie may know the. total amounts eX-
pended and how very small a per-
centage was found necessary for en-
penses.
Before expending money, the
most expert advice obtalnabIe VIII
be secured. Leaders in every line
of related activity throughout the
United States, have freely p:acea
their counsel and services at out
disposal.
"While we recognize the deslr-
ability of specific budget, we can
ONLY say that our task is to relieve
human misery upon"a world-scaie at
a time when more people are suffer-
ing than ever before in the history
of mankind; and we shall pursue
this task under the guidance OF the
ablest experts in the world.
"The American people can rely,
therefore, upon the fact that the
Red Cross war fund of SlOO,OOO,OO0.
or however much more than that the
generosity of the public will enable
us to use, will be administered as
efficiently, as economically and as
laree-heartedly as we know how to
do it.
"We believe firmly that the ef
forts of our Red Cross can be
vital and possibly deciding agency
in helping to win this war. To US, OF
the War Council, that is humans
tartan service in it's highest sense
and to render it effectively Will ot
our paramount purpose"