The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1917-05-23
MANILA SETS
THE High MARK
Red Cross Rally Sunday Evening
Nets $3,450 and the Amount Has
Now Reached 100000

Red Cross Rally Sunday Evenin!
Nets $3,450 and the Amount Has
Now Reached 100000
ROBERT WALLACE THE sPEAkEf
Mayor Saunders Stars Campaign fo
100000 Drive in Crawford Coun.
ty-Father MckeiIi Talks
Manila held its Red Cross meeting
on Sunday evening and although thu
weather was threatening the attend
ance was good. When Manila set
about to do thing it is done properl!
and the meeting Sunday evening wa!
no exception for $3,450 was raised be
fore the meeting adjourned and thi:
amount has now been increased to al
most $4,000. 1t is expected that IS,
900 will be raised this week. Manil
la so far has furnished more enlist
ments for its population than any
town in the state and we believe we
are safe in saying that it has raised
more for Red Cross work for its pop
ulation than any town in Iowa.
Many Denison people had planned
on driving to Manila Sunday evening
to attend the meeting, but the threat
ening weather interfered with the
plans. Several cars did make start
but were caught seven miles south ir
a rain and so turned around. At the
meeting held here in Denison two
weeks ago Manila sent a delegation
numbering seventy and Denison had
hoped to return the compliment by
sending delegation there.
Robert Wallace, of Council Bluffs
gave the main talk of the evening and
said that Crawford county should give
$4,000. Mayor Saunders said he lik
ed Mr.. Wallace's speech and that the
only fault he could point out was that
Wallace had said the county should
give $4,000, while campaign is now
on the way for 100000 in 1917.
The meeting was called to order by
C. F. G. Kehr at s. o'clock. with dedi,
catory song for the new silk flag re-
Gently purchased by the German We
rein, afteA which the audience sang
America Invocation by Rev. A. r.
Miller came next followed by scrip
ture reading by Rev. George Mitchell.
This was followed by song, Battle
Cry of the Republic"
The chairman then read letter
from Captain Mckinley of the. Omaha
recruiting office, complimenting Ma.
M...la npOn having furnished more than
her quota OF enlisted men.
Robert Wallace. of Council Bluffs,
was then introduced as the speaker OF
the. evening. His speech was thor
Oughly American, and while Manila
people had been awake to their re.
sponsibilities he made them realize
their duty more clearly and was in
great measure responsible for the re-
lnarkable manner in which they loos-
ened their purse strings. Parts OF the
speech were:
am delighted to come to Manila
and have wanted for the last six weeks
to come to the town that gave more
volunteers according to population
than any other town in Iowa, and
congratulate you. because years after
YOU can look back and be proud OF
your Manila.
A religion that prohibits an eXer-
else OF patriotism is not my kind. The
motto in my home is peace" | am
almost a pacifist and prayed that we
might not have war, but now stand
behind the president. ..e >
The ones who stand on the street
corners and criticize the president and
the administration are slackers.
lam a republican. but believe God
put Woodrow Wilson in the presi-
dents chair
The common people of Germany did
not want war, but they were forced
to it. by form of government that
God did not intend should exist, and
we are going to see that it does not
exist after the year 1917.
We shall know in six months that
war exists and some Of your sons may
fall ""f.
Across the waters operations are be.
ing performed without anaesthetics
because we do not furnish them. We
sources. This is no time to make mon
ey.
God means for the church to step
in as leader and help in this great
work. -a- ..
Loafers around pool halls will have
to 60.
The next day after war was declar-
cd Old Glory was carried to the front
in France by United States citizen,
n Texan.
we are DatIlln6 lOI tAe eIeIAai
peace of the countries in the greatest
war ever fought.
President Wilson is president and
former President Taft is vice presi-
dent OF the Red Cross, and this soci-
ETY. is the mother arm that is ex-
tended to all the boys who need the
assistance. -"
They have practically no bandages
in Europe. To get them nurses are
taking the bandages from the dead,
washing them, and using them on the
wounded. The women of this country
are going to furnish the bandages
now. -
The United States gave Belgium
since the war began $4,000. while
England and France gave $2S6,OoO,-
O0G.s
j Red Cross has given from 1905 to
1917 aid to the amount of $ll,OOO,OOO
in this country, $3,0OO,00O to the San
Francisco sufferers and $2OOOO,OO to
Omaha at the time Of the cyclone, as
examples.
Give until it hurts, nothing else IS
giving. Red Cross could use S1o,OOO.-
900 a day. Crawford county should
g;va S6C) O00 at least by Oct l. 1917.