The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1917-12-14
Join RED CROSS
HELP WIN THE WAR
FOR UNCLE sam

Ten million new Red Cross mem
bers are wanted before Christmas
day. The drive for new memberships
will begin on next Sunday when Red
Cross sermons will be preached from
every pulpit in the country.
In Watertown a great effort will be
made for membership and it is pro-
posed to add it's share of the 100000
new names wanted. Everyone over Is
years old will be asked to enroll.
The move has the sanction of Presi-
dent. Wilson, who in a proclamation
says:
Ten million Americans are invited
to join the American Red Cross dur
ing the week ending with Christmas
eve. The times require that every
branch of our great national effort
shall be loyalty upheld, and it is pc
cullarly fitting that at the Christmas
season the Red Cross should be the
branch through which your willing
ness to help is expressed.
You should join the American Red
Cross, because it alone can carry the
pledges of Christmas good will to
those who are bearing for us the real
burdens of the world war both In our
own army and navy and in nations
upon whose territory the issuses of
the worldwar are being fought out.
Your evidence of faith in this work is
necessary for their heartening and
cheer
You should join the Red Cross be-
cause this arm of the national service
is steadily and efficiently maintaining
its overseas relief in every suffering
land, administering our millions wise
ly and we'll awakening the gratitude
of every people.
Our conscience will not let us en-
joy the Christmas season if this pledge
of support to our cause and the
worlds veal is left untitled. Red
Cross membership is the Christmas
spirit in terms of action
Ward Workers.
The chairmen of the various ward
committees in charge of the campaign
are:
First ward-Rev. n Carter Daniell
Second ward-August Henze.
Third ward-G. H. Lehrkind.
Fourth ward-Harry Schlueter
Fifth ward-F. S. Weber, J. c. Sea-
ger.
Sixth ward-F. W Hinze, Charles
GlatzeI
Seventh ward-H A Downing, Louis
Bergman.
Eighth ward-Frank Atkins.
Ninth ward-W. F. Gruetzmacher
Tenth ward-Joseph CLAUS.
Eleventh ward-G. M. Gahlman.
Twelfth ward-Edwin Reichardt
Thirteenth ward-T J. Koerner, ".
P. Kaub.
Fourteenth ward-Dr Frank F.
Schlueter.
The American Red Cross has on its
hands one of the worlds greatest and
grimmest jobs. In order to do the
work, the organization must have at
once fifteen million members. 1t now
has five million on the rolls and is
campaigning to. secure the ten million
additional members by Christmas eva
Every man, woman and child in this
community ought to belong to the Red
d
that one is expected to go to Europe,
carry wounded soldiers off the battle
fields and nurse them in the hospitals.
1t doesn't mean that one need go to
the devastated areas of France, or Bel
GUM, or Poland, or Serbia, and give
personal care to the starving, freezing,
naked, homeless women and children
there.
But it does mean that those of US
who stay comfortably at home will do
as much as we can in every way to
back up the organization already at
work "over there"
1t does mean that the men among
US will contribute our bit to help our
brothers fighting the cause of liberty
in Europe.
1t does mean that the mothers
among US will knit and sew for the
wretched mothers of Europe and their
pitiful babies.
1t does mean that our young women
will show practical sympathy for the
young women along the western
'front.' and in Serbia who have suffered
unspeakable cruelties at the hands of
beStial enemy soldiers.
1t does mean that our children be
made to understand the curse upon
the children Of Europe, and be taught
to make some sort of sacrifice for the
cause of humanity.
1t does mean that each of us will do
what he can individually to supply
plenty of comforts for our soldiers
fighting the enemy and necessities for
the wounded in hospitals.
Stricken Europe is crying to heaven
for relief, and Providence is answering
that prayer through the instrumental