The Tupelo journal., 1917-06-22

APPOINTMENT OF WAR
COUNCIL OF RED CROSS
Red Cross Week Observed
Throughout the Country.

The action of President Wilson
IN appointing the Red Cross War
Council, with Mr.. Henry P. Davi-
son, of J. P. Morgan & Co., at it's
head, sets in motion the tremen-
dous campaign for popular SUBJ
scriptions to fund which the Red
Cross will use for supplying hospitals
at the front, and also for carrying
on relief work at home and in Eu-
rope on scale perhaps greater than
the world has ever seen.
Other members of the Council
appointed are: Charles D. Norton,
G. M. P. Murphy, Cornelius N.
Bliss, Jr., Edward N Hurley, with
William H. Taft, Chairman, Eliot
Wadsworth, Vice-Chairman of the
Executive Committee, ex-officio
members.
| In appointing the War Council
the President earnestly exhorted
the American public to support it's
work, issuing the following state
ment:
II have today created within
the Red Gross a War Council to
which will be entrusted the duty of
responding to the extraordinary de-
mands which the present war will
make upon the services of the Red
Cross both in the field and in civil
ian relief. The best way in which
to impart the greatest efficiency and
energy to the relief work which this
/ war will entail will be to concen-
trate it in the hands of single ex-
perienced organization which has
been reorganized by law and by in
| ternational convention as the public
instrumentality for such proposes.
Indeed, such concentration of ad-
ministrative action in this matter
seems to- me absolutely necessary
and I hereby earnestly call upon all
those who can contribute either
great sums or small to the allevia-
ton of the suffering and distress
which must inevitably arise out of
this fight for humanity and democra-
Icy to contribute to the Red Cross.
It will be one of the first and most
necessary tasks of the new War
Council of the, Red Cross to raise
great sums of money for the support
of the work to be done and done up
on a scale. / hope that the response
to their efforts will be a demonstra-
ton of the generosity of America
and the power of genuine practical
sympathy among our people that
will command the admiration of the
whole world.
WOODROW WILSON,"
In an interview given the same
day, Mr.. Dawson pledged the back
ing of Morgan & Co. to the undertak-
ing and announced that he himself
had temporarily given up all other
business to devote his whole energy
to the Red Cross financial cam
paign.
To emphasize the Importance of
this work from the public's stand
point, President Wilson gave to the
press copies of letters addressed by
him to Mr.. Davidson and Mr.. Eliot
| Wadsworth, the active executive
head of the American Red Cross. The
letters were as follows:
"My dear Mr.. Davidson:
"After consultation with my ac-
tive associates in the American Red
Cross, it has been thought wise to
create Red Cross War Council of
seven members including the chair
man and the vice-chairman of the
executive committee. l have today
created the council. This letter is
to ask you to accept the chairman
ship, patriotic service which l
trust it will be possible for you to
perform.
"The close cooperation between
the American National Red Cross
and the military branch Of the Gov
ernment has already suggested new
avenues of helpfulnes in the imme-
diate business of our organization.
for war, but the present crisis is