The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-17
1.-THE RED CROSS MUST BECOMEAREAL FOSTER PARENT &t5 OF 0UR S0LDlERS D M34ILE IN EUR0PE
 SAYS C. H. MOORMAN, DIRECTOR OF CAMPAIGN

With s1OOO00,O00 to be raised in the
 United States, Birmingham's standard
 has been fixed at S15O,OOO as her contri- button to the fund it will take this amount to care for our boys at the front because we can't bring them home when they are wounded, like France and Eng land, consequently We must go to them" !"
 MT. c. H. Moorman. who has been sent
 here from Washington to conduct the
 whirlwind campaign for the local Red
 Cross work, gave utterance yesterday to the above prophetic statement, which
 rings sound and clear and brings home to every one of us who have loved ones, friends and acquaintances, who will soon be on the firing line in far away Europe.
 MT. Moorman, who knows more about conducting campaigns than almost any
 body you've ever met (he's always on the job campaigning for something pitals universities, Red Cross activities and everything else worth while), is most optimistic about the prospects in Birs mingham.
 We begin our Red Cross campaign to- morrow (Monday) and it will last just OllS WCShs Sdid NIL hOOllhietlls NNS VI set the standard at $150,0O0 for Birming
 ham and I believe just as Birmingham has reached the top notch in everything else, she'll do her part in the Red Cross work of the United States. Montgomery is striving to raise $10O,000 and she'll do it if all indications are true. Anniston means to raise s25,0o0 and Tuscaloosa $15,00 so why not Birmingham, with all
 her wealth and prosperity, s15O,0oo?" At the headquarters of the local Red cross campaign in the Hillman hotel yes- terday typewriters were clicking, tele- phones were ringing, people were calling, neat, busness-like girls were dispatching literature relative to Red Cross relief ac tivities in war times, and MT. Moorman, between busy moments, explained to me that these preliminaries while never seen by the general public were in a measure sort of the man behind the gun" effect. in other words, the amalgamation of in- terests, the getting together of all the little odds and ends of campaign before it was fairly launched, constitutes one of the most important flea atures of the work.
 And just here I would like for it to be made very plain to the public, MT. Moor man said. that every cent that is con- tributed to the local campaign of the Red Cross goes straight to the boys who will soon be on the firing line there is mis- taken idea that the representatives sent here are paid out of the funds collected here, but that is all wrong; we are paid from Washington out of the endowment fund for the Red Cross association. Such men as MT. Henry P. Davson, for in stance, who is chairman of the national war council, and others have taken up their residence in Washington and are giving their time and money to Red Cross work without remuneration as long as the war lasts; many others have given freely of their money to promote the work so that all that is collected from local cam paigns goes straight into the treasury of the American Red Cross War council, of which MT. William G. McAdoo is the cus- todian."
 What we are trying to do now MT Moorman said. lis to build hospitals and provide places of comfort and relief for our soldier boys who will soon be some where in France Every person, no mat ter how poor or how rich, can do their bit toward alleviating the devastation of war conditions by contributing something mo matter how small the sum. The duties of the Red Cross association In it's relief activities during the war include the equipment and management of hos pitals, hospital ships, hospital trains, transportation of the sick and wounded, the manufacture, collection storage and distribution of hospital and other war re- lief supplies, and the organization of in- formation bureaus to serve as a means of communication between the people of the United States and their army and navy.
 "The relation of the American Red Cross association to the armed forces of the Usited States" MT. Moorman said, lis plainly given in a proclamation by the President dated August 22, 1911, which states among other things two very inn portant facts, namely, that the American National Red Cross is the only voluntary