Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-06-26
RED CROSS WAR FUND
NOW TOTALS s80,0O0,00O
Collections Today and Monday
Expected to Add $780,
100000 to Relief Work

WASHINGTON, June 24.-Twenty
million dollars must be collected Sun
day and Monday by the Red Cross
volunteer campaigners in American
cities and towns to make the weeks
canvass for $1OO,OOO,OOO fund an en-
tire success. Despite the spectacular
spurts of a number of cities, total new
pledges reported to national headquar-
ters today were only $3,OOO,OOO making
the aggregate for six days about $780,
600, 900.
Campaign managers directed local
workers to make strenuous efforts in the
next two days to ferret out individuals
or corporations who have not contrib
Uted and to impress on them the tre-
mendous Importance in Americas war
scheme of the success of the Red Cross
fund.
The need of every humanity dollar
that can be collected was emphasized
today by Lord Northcliffe, British war
commissioner now in the United States
in a letter to Henry B. F. Mcfarland
chairman of the District of Columbia
Red cross nnanCe committee.
"In wishing success and prosperity to
your efforts" wrote Lord Northcliffe, 81
would, as an experienced Red Cross
worker, urge caution and conservation
of effort. You will need every cent you
can collect and every pair of human
hands you can employ. The war, in my
personal opinion, gathered by much ex-
perience at the front, is but beginning"
Word reached here last night that COM
mittees in a number of cities will re-
fuse to quit work Monday night when
the campaign formally closes. This pro-
longation of the canvass will be sought
in two classes of communications
like Cleveland, on fire with enthusiasm
and piling up Neutrality-suspicious., and
those where for various local. reasons
the campaign did not start until late
this week. Atlanta, suffering from the
recent disastrous fire, is one of the
cities in the latter class.
Cleveland, which promises to be the
star of the weeks performance, by noon
today made it's total $4,182,000 and
passed Chicago, whose report at that
hour was $4,160,OOO. New York City's
total was known to be approaching $685.
100000
New York managers sent word they
would not report until the books were
closed Monday. But when we do re-
port it will be an oversubscription,"
they said.
Baltimore, where almost nothing had
been subscribed, was stirred to pledge
it's entire allotment of $1,000,0O0 at a
conference today of business men, called
by Edward N. Hurley, of Chicago, for
mer chairman of the federal trade COM
mission, and II. j Hill, assistant mana
ger of the campaign.
recorded
at headquarters tonight were: Cincin-
natl, 81, 400, 900; Detroit, $2,161, 900; Buff
falo, $1,735,O00; Pittsburg. $2,596,000
Boston, $2,03S,000: ST. Louis, $1,465,000
Philadelphia, $1,2S2,OOO.
Ohio still led the states Except for
New York; with $7,092,OOO. Next was
Pennsylvania with $4,615,0OO. Illinois
came third with $4,119,0O0. Other large
state totals were: New York (outside
New York City,, 1851 900; Massachu-
sets, $3,259,O Michigan. $2.617,OOO;
Missouri: $2,2OO,OOO; New Jersey, ST.
100000 California, $1.6S7,OO0; Connecti-
cut, $1,649,OOO, and Minnesota, s1,2S9,-
600.
In percentage of their appointments
actually raised, Delaware headed the
list with 500 per- cent. Utah was sec
ond with 1876; Ohio third with rs, and
Michigan fourth with 1O4.
sunday is Red cross day IN thOu-
sands of Sunday schools and churches
Campaign directors expect the harvest
from rural districts where intensive So
licitation has not been done this week,
to be large in church reports.
In a statement last night on the desig-
nation of Monday as "Pershing day."
Secretary Baker said:
1T is eminently fitting that the final
day of the Red Cross week-a week de-
voted to collecting s100,0O0,00O for the
purpose of humanity-should be called
'Pershing day 1 am sure that the
leader, first to carry the banner of our
citizen soldiers to the western FROM,
will appreciate the honor, and that his
name, on the other hand, will act as an
inspiration which will urge patriotic
Americans to more than complete the
sum required by the Red Cross before
the close of Pershing day"
The Red Cross has no regulations for<
bidding nuns or members of sisterhood
from wearing the garb of their orders
while serving as Red Cross nurses.
Eliot Wadsworth, acting chairman of
the American Red Cross, Saturday made
this explanation in response to a num-
Der of inquiries.