Arizona republican., 1917-05-13
FIRST GREAT DRIVE FOR RED GROSS
 ADDS LOGO TO CHAPTER ROLL; MORE
 VOLUNTEERS NEEDED FOR MEMBERS SHIP


 have been tramping the streets of this city for three days soliciting membels , for Phoenix Chapter of the National ! Red Cross and to such good purpose has their work been done that in the three days they have added at least sl. 400 to the income of the chapter, placed over 1000 new names upon the membership rolls and there are several reports not yet complete It was big drive for the nation-and a most sue cessful one.
 Just what the total membership of the chapter now is cannot be told until all of the figures are in. but it may be near 1000. It should be many more and this is but start in the good work 1 which these women are doing
 Every bit of this labor was done without compensation other than the feeling of duty well done All members and officers of the Red Cross in this city serve without pay. Women are daily sewing on the suppiles which may mean life and death to American citi- zens on the field of battle. In fact the 1 chamber of commerce rooms, where 1 the Red Cross makes it's headquarters is a veritable factory in which unpaid workers of the gentler toll day after day to do their bit for the general good | of the nation they are so faithfully serving.
 The response in Phoenix to the per- lsOnal appeal of the president of the | United States-himself the president of the National Red Cross-has been most gratifying to those who have worked so hard the past three days in this membership drive. All the people of the city have not been seen and the work is but started, for as the appre- | n grows, it is anticipated many more will volunteer as members of the Red Cross and help this official working organization by their individual con- ' tribution. The fee is so small thai there is scarcely anyone who cannot 1 afford to join and thereby do his or her part towards caring for those in danger All over Phoenix women are sewing in homes, clubs and societies for the Red Cross. There must be money for materials and for the many other things needed. The full importance of Red Cross work is shown by the following 1 statement issued by President Wilson on May 10:
 Appeal of President
 'l have today created within the Red Cross a war council to which will pc entrusted the duty of responding to the extraordinary demands whic the present war will make upon the i service of the Red Cross, both in the IIeid and in civiiinn ralief The hNr- way in which to impart the greatest i efficiency and energy to the rellef Work which this war will entail will be to concentrate it in the hands of a single experienced organization which has been recognized by law and interna- | tional convention as the public instru- mentality for such purposes Indeed such concentration of administrative action in this matter seems to me abso- lutely necessary and l hereby earnestly call upon all these who can c0utritute either great sums or small to the allevi- ation of the suffering and distress which must inevitably arise out of this fight for humanity and democracy tc contribute to the Red Cross. It will be one of the first and most necessary tasks of the new war council of tho Red Cross to raise sums of money for the purpose of the work to be done and done upon a great scale. l hope that the response to their efforts will be q demonstration of the generosity of Americans and the power of genuine practical sympathy among our people
 They will command the admiration O.
 the whole world"
 Good Work We'll Done
 | It becomes necessary on account Ot
 the increasing needs at home occa } stoned by the mobilization of American l troops and for allies abroad that larger sums of money should be immediatelv | raised The National Red Cross now requires that one-fourth of the contri- buttons made hereafter should be de- : voted to the local work of each chap l ter and the remaining -fourths l given to meet the heavy national obli. $ cations One-half of the membershiy l fee will he retained in each chapter fol local work.
 $ The war council of the Red Cross Ina. n been formed to meet the emergencl a and has called upon Arizona by wir n to respond in the present great crisis
 The finance committe of the Phoeni, I Chapter gratefully acknowledges ad . ditional subscriptions as follows: Pre-
 viously reported, $2,054: Madison I'm provement club. S550; Trinity Branc : of the cirls' Frienaiv sacio.v srn' Nr~e -iJ. w. Mulrein, $515; the Boston Store l S235.50: Harmony "iur su, v.e day Social Circle, S5; Woman's Relic Corps. SEQ; L. H. Gadsby, s5 total t date. s2 .405.15.
 Contributions may be sent to an
 member of the finance committe,
 Bishop Atwood. chairman; H S. Prime,
 treasurer; Dwight B. Heard, J. I = Whitney. N. D. Sanders, or left at an q of the banks, at the Adams, Commer l. cial. Jefferson and Ford hotels. at tn
 New York. Boston, Goldwater's an e Berryhill stores or with the secretar e of the chamber of commerce.