The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1917-06-28

Detroit closed her Red Cross
campaign Wednesday night with :
dinner in the Board OF Commerce
auditorium, whom N was announced
that the total contributions approx
mated $500, 600 Team captains
reports showed the amount o.
known subscriptions 20 be $4,000,
sl644. but there are yet TO be tabu
lated dollar day" subscriptions
donations made directly TO Red
Cross headquarters. money collect
ed in the churches last Sunday. and
about $4,000 being raised by Dp
troit commandery. Knights Templar
There donations will bring the grand
total close 10 the stated hgure, IL IL
believed.
Former Presidents Theodore
Roosevelt and William IT Taft SEN
kilograms Wednesday night. con
graduating Detroit on oversubscrip
tion OF her quota OF the 800. GOO. oot
Red Cross fund.
Great patriotic fervor marked the
fnA meeting attended by represen
tative men 81 the city. AS Wednes
day was Allies day" unusual trib
utc was paid 10 the countries who
so far have borne the brunt OF hold
Ing Prussianism in check
The kaiser was handled without
gloves. With his son. the crown
prince. he was made the central
character In a clever buriesque skit
The Rev. w. d. Maxon, rector OF
Christ Episcopal church and chap
lain Of the Detroit College Of Medi
cine and Surgery base hospital unit
soon 10 go 10 the front. said he
wished someone might concentrate
the dynamite in jealous Dctroiters
and find some way 10 drop II on the
head of the kaiser.
Il have no apology 10 ofYer for
any better expression about the
enemy" Or. Maxon said 81 know
there are some good Germans In
Detroit. but how many OF them do
you know? How many do you know
who have openly denounced the
crimes against Belgium and the
sinking OF the Lusitania. No man
can be an American in name and
not an American In spirit"
AS Hugh Chalmers, POSTMASTER.
finished reading a telegram" invit.
ing the kaiser and crown prince TO
a nice. warm little party IN De
troit," there was a commotion back
OF the stage and then appeared John
Plath. made UP as the German ruler,
and A. l.. Weeks. a newspaperman,
az the crown prince.
The kaiser told OF his hatred
for Detroit for oversubscribing the
Liberty loan and the Red Cross
fund.
'f am on my way 10 Chicago 10
decorate my dear friend and sup
porter. Mayor William II. Thomp.
SON." he said.
"Oh. papa" chimed in the crown
prince" Chicago has already dec
Grated him."
Among the speakers were: Lieut..
Col Angus Mclean. head OF Har.
per base hospital unit; Lee Ander-
son, chairman OF the publicity com.
mittee OF the Red Cross campaign;
Mrs Wellington q. Hunt, volunteer
nurse in the Spanish war: James
Schermerhorn and r. d. Pinkerton.
OF Detroit. who served with Cana
dian troops In Flanders and who
gave vivid recital OF the battle.
field horrors in and around Flanders.
Emma Carus. headliner at the
Temple theater, sang her latest pa.
triotic song, Everybody Root for
Uncle sam" She was given an ova.
tion by the crowd
IF they need me and want me
am ready 10 co." declared Miss Ca
rus, waving her hand TO the scores
OF pretty Red Cross nurses sitting
in the gallery.
The Ford Motor company display
cd on screen motion pictures OF
the afternoons celebration and
Tuesdays parade.
W. K Prudden. OF Lansing. a
member Of the Michigan food com
mission. dropped in TO testify 70 the
Joy II was giving him 10 serve HE
state and country in this emergent
hour
II have been in the automobile
wheel manufacturing business, real
estate. insurance. etc, he said. but
row my business is 10 help our
country 10 win and am going 20
stay in that business until she does
win. Let me add ! was never hap.
pier than In The service these vaH-
Gus national appeals are requiring Of
us all
More than 5000 persons gathered
IN front of the city hall In the after