Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-06-14
STATES NEXT EFFORT WILL BE
TO RAISE CONTRIBUTION
OF ss,ooo,ooo.
TEAMS TO START NEXT
WEEK IN EVERY COUNTY
Effort to Be Made to Complete Canvass
Within Week--Amerioan Rcd Cross
Man Depicts Damnable Devastation
Of War and Of Necessity Of Red
Cross in Alleviatins Suffering.
pecial to Times Republican.

Special to Times Republican.
Des Moines, June 14--With the liber-
" loan campaign out of the way pat
riotic workers in every community IN
the state are setting their faces to the
task of raising s3,0O0,0oo in Iowa for
the Red Cross.
Subscriptions to the liberty loan were
recognized as an investment paying
good profit in money to :ne purchaser
as well as rendering "a service TO the
government. The support OF the Reu
Cross is likewise recognized as an IN
vestment which will conserve human
life, help to relieve the agonies of war
thwart disease bring comfort to the
sick and dying and minister in tnnum-
cradle ways to humanity.
Early next week teams will start out
in every city and every county of Iowa
and it is hoped to have 1owa's share
of the 800. 100000 war fund which is to
be raised in the United States SUD-
scribed within week. 1t Will mean that
an average of more than $3.50 will have
to be given for every man, woman and
child in this state. 1t is the plan OF the
county canvassers to see everybody II
possible, to get out in the country and
secure the subscriptions Of the farmers
and to neglect no part of their terri
tory. Public meetings will be held in
MANY places where addresses VIII DE
made.
tDamnabIe Devastation Of War.
This campaign was planned at
meeting of delegates from the American
Red Cross Chapters of the country held
ait Wa ashington, on May "a. At that
time many notable speeches were made
on the needs of the Red Cross work
Among them was an address by Ian
Malcolm of the British Red Cross who
has been working for many months
in the war zone He gave graphic de-
scription of the awful devastation OF
war.
ut is difficult, nay, almost impossl-
BILE, to imagine or describe the Gamma
BILE devastation of modern war;. ne
declared. 'It is one thing to glance at
the long lists of casualties IN the
morning papers. to read the desGrip-
lions of villages and townships ruined
by artillery fire. For these we feel
sincere but platonic. regret. 1t Is quite
another thing to sense, as have mao
to do. the true inwardness Of the vast
human tragedy that is being enacted
across the sea.
"The silence of London and Paris
and of our great cities in France ana
England; the prevalence Of black as
the color in which most Of our women
are dressed-an eloquent testimony to
the mourning that lie In the hearts and
homes Of nearly ! every family in the.
land. streets full OF swounded-in hoApd-
tai uniforms, either walking Or pelns
driven out for an airing: these are
some of the outward and visible Signs
of the ravages of war
"Ambulances driving gently down.
all the thoroughfares the Red Cross
flying over one or more large houses
in every street of the residential quar-
ter: these are tokens Of the same tragic
truth.
"And abroad in France and Flanders
YOU come nearer still to the true agony
of the situation. How can I describe
it? Think of the worst earthquake, OF
the worst floods that have scouFged
and shocked you here at home-multi-
ply the horror Of your impressions
hundred fold and you will come near 10
the horrors Of the Marine and the Aisne'
Multiply them a thousand fold and you
will realize the ferocity of carnage at
the battles of the Ancre and the SOM
me.
Multiply them two thousand folo
and that is the picture OF misery and
pain and death after the great battles
on the plains Of Russia and IN the
mountains Of Persia and the Caucasus
Think of the ruin by floods in Flanders
with the stencil of thousands OF car
casses, human and animal. poisoning
the atmosphere for miles around Tor
those who must stay in the trenches
Think Of the devastation by fire IN
France where villages and wood and
broad pastures are utterly wiped out
Of existence-not house nor church
nor a tree left standing where once
there were thousands Of families liv-
ing in condition as prosperous ana
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