The Harrison times., 1917-12-22
FOR REPRESENTATIVE.
Appeal for Help in the LOCaI
Red Cross Cause.
FOR CONGRESS.
Harrison. Ark, Dec. l9, 1917

To the People of Boone County:
Unless you have been overlooked, or
have not been reached, you have been
asked Are you a member OF the Red
Cross?'
If YOU have answered the question
in the negative and then declined to
become a member, there is some rea-
son for asking you why you decline to
ioin an organization that will do as
much to win the war as any factor,
excepting the men who do the actual
fighting.
The Red Cross is the great Organi-
ZatiOn for war service, and every man,
woman and child in Boone county, and,
in fact in every county in the country
will be given an opportunity to be
come member before the curtains
are drawn on the campaign Christmas
eve.
If you cannot enlist in the army,
you can do the next best thing enlist
in the Red Cross. By doing so you
will serve not only your country, but
the great cause in which the nation
is now 6HllSltu.
Every city in the country has been
thoroughly organized to carry on the
membership campaign. The whole
work is being done by women, and
they have so thoroughly organized
themselves that no man or woman
will be overlooked.
The Red Cross supplies for our ar
mics and for the armies of our allies,
hospitals, surgeons and physicians,
nurses, surgical an medical supplies,
Upon its promptness and efficiency
depend the lives and limbs of soldiers
upon them depend the percentage OF
men saved from death and saved from
permanent disability. 1t restores men
to the battle line. The armies would
be defeated and discouraged and
would fail without the Red Cross.
1t takes care of wounded and sick
prisoners. The Red Cross takes care
of the civil populations who are in dis
tress and lack shelter and colthing.
Without its services millions would
suffer and die
1t is doing a great work now. 1t
must do a greater work-greater in
scope, greater in cost, greater in eff
cheney
1t needs money in large measure;
it needs trained workers, but it needs
first of all popular support and CO.
Oe ration. 1t must have back of it,
I'd Ter and with it the American peo-
e. 1t needs a great popular national
a anization to sustain and aid it with
>Wral and pecuniary support.
kHhe Red Cross membership is now
00, 0,000-think of it-for its vast SER
loe to the army and navy necessary
N the winning of the war for its vast
4 ecessary service to the armies of the
Miles, for its vast necessary service to
jhe suffering civilian populations of
Europe, for its vast necessary service
to the victims of calamities at home,
only 100000 out of over 100, 200, 600
Americans are enlisted, Only 8 per
cent of our population is cooperating
with AID sustaining the Red Cross.
The record is shameful. The Red
Cross asks for only 100000, Of Is
per cent. That many Americans
should join without an appeal The
membership drive should bring 3O,-
100000 at least.
The membership due is only $1,O0,
The money is good, but what is Of
first importance is the membership
testifying to the loyal support of the
organization by the people.
Are you a member of the Red Cross
While | do not claim to be the au-
thor Of the above it expresses my sen.
timents exactly, and | believe that
every home in Boone county ought to
display a Red Cross Service Flag in
their window Christmas eve, We are
asked to furnish $500 MEMBERS only
one-sixth of our population Let every
patriotic citizen get busy and send in
the one dollar at least to secure a
membership.
Yours for success,
JOHN |. WORTHINGTON,
Manager Red Cross Campaign for