Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-06-17
RED CROSS WEEK
OPENS MONDAY
THROUGHOUT us.

/ On Monday morning the Americas
and Sumter County Chapter of the
Red Gross will 'go over the TOP" in
the new offensive which is to be start
ed throughout the land to raise $780,
100000 to be used in the Red Cross
work across the seas for the Amer.
/ lean troops that will shortly be fight
| iIg in the trenches.
Every Red Cross chapter in the
United States will participate in the
general campaign during the week of
June 1926 and every section of the
country is expected to do it's share to-
ward furnishing the funds necessary
to supply help for the fighting men
soon to be sent against the German
forces on the western front.
Canyassing committees were APP
pointed Saturday morning at a con-
ference of members Of the local Rel
Cross chapter and the city will be di-
vided into districts which will be
thoroughly covered by the ladies who
have the work of soliciting funds in
charge.
Many business houses of Americas
have signified their desire to help the
cause by donating per cent of the
cash sales on one day during the
campaign to the Red Cross fund. The
following concerns will cooperate in
this manner
MONDAY. June 18th Sparks Gro
Gerry Co., Morgans Market. Ansley's,
Rylander shoe Co, Allison Furniture
Co, J. w. Harris Hdwe Co, Prather-
Ansley Drug Co.
| TUESDAY, June Buchanan
Grocery Co., Churchwells. Sherlocks
Market, Gyles-Andrews Furniture Co.,
/ Hooks Pharmacy Buchanan Hard
ware Co.
WEDNESDAY, June goth Gatewood
Grocery Co., d. Pearlman, Sheffield
Hardware Co., Murray's Pharmacy,
Acme Sanitary Market, Thomas L.
Bell.
THURSDAY, June 21st-Arthur
Mize Gro. Co., J. w. Josey, Howell's
Pharmacy
FRIDAY, June 22nd-Pinkston Co
Hightower's Book Store, w. H. G,
Dudley, E. j. Walker, Millinery, Al
cazar Theatre
MONDAY, June 25th-W. A. Joyner,
T1lman & Brown.
The executive committee of the
Americus and Sumter County Chapter
makes the following statement regard
ing the situation that must be met at
the present time:
I'VE hope the people OF Americus
will rise to the occasion, and astound
even themselves by the size of their
contribution to the Red Cross War
Fund
The main idea at the back OF the
plans of the plains Of the American
Red Cross to stir the United States to
a heartfelt realization or debt and
duty, to raise $1OO,00O,0OO more rapid
ly than that amount was ever collect
ed by voluntary subscription, to assem-
bic the best trained talent that Amer
ica possesses, to assemble the great
stores of supplies and provide the
ships, and then to start to Europe. es-
pecially TO our French and Russian
friends. a stream of help that will
never cease to flow, an unending rich
current of material and moral aid
Excuse and evasions won't do. If
people will meet the situation with
that spirit we win have our wall of
granite in no time, put life and heart
into our shaken Allies, do tremend-
Gus work before our armies begin to
fight, and so deliver a tremendous
punch, straight from the American
at German military power
The man who grumbles at taxes and
at the call to subscribe will do well to
keep in mind the thought that if
France and Russia and England break
down he will be paying everything he
has to German tax collectors for the
rest of his natural life That's all
there is to it, That's precisely the
way matters stand
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