Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-06-20
NORTH DAKOTA MUST Dol HER BIT
QUICKLY AND READILY FOR RED
CROSS; The NEEDS ARE EXPLAINED
Meeting at Denver, Which Was Attended by E. F
Flynn, of Devils Lake, Was interesting Affair
North Dakota Representative Tells Of Work.

campaign in that city, who attended
meeting of Red Cross ofacials and
chapter chairmen Of the Mountain d.
vision, held recently at Denver, has
prepared especially for the Herald.
following enthusiastic account of
the big meeting:
In response to q telegram from the
President Of the United States re-
Questing representation from the local
chapter Of the American Red Cross
Society and city government and tho
commercial club. at a meeting Of the
finance committee Of the war confer
ence Of the American Red Cross to be
delegated by the local chapter Of
the Red Gross, the board Of city COM
missioners Of the city Of Devils Lake
Of which I am president. and the
Devils Lake Commercial club to rep
resent these institutions at that meet
Ing. and accordingly I was pressn.
during these session of the committee
and delegates held at the Brown Pal
ace hotel in Denver on June Z. meet
noon and ct night. There were pres
ent in addition to the men who are
members of the Red Cross War Coun.
Gil Of the Western Division and in
Guiding Ford Harvey Of Kansas City,
Lawrence g. Phipps Of Denver, John
d. Miller Of Los Angeles. Charles e.
Peabody Of Seattle. Lyman L. Pierce
Of San Francisco, William H. Crocker
Of San Francisco and Judge A. N. Tai
liferro of San Antonio, 1S1 delegates
from North ana South Dakota, Nebr-
braska, Iowa, Colorado, Montana and
Utah. l was the only delegate from
North Dakota.
The members Of the war conference
committee present at this meeting had
been at Washington, many Of them
several times, and had attended tho
all over the country, which was held
In Washington May "a and Is and the
thing which most impressed one was
the way in which these big men of
the west are devoting practically all
Of their time to the Red Cross work
and the earnest appeal made by every
n Of them to the delegates to re-
to impress the people Of their COM
munities with the necessity Of helping
the Red Cross in q big way. The dele
gates were told to advise their chap
tsrs Of the Red Cross and all Of those
with whom they came In contact that
while the Red Cross membership
campaign had far exceeded the presi-
dents hope and while the president
had requested that by June l the
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Cross be increased to 100000 and
that already it had been increased to
early 5000, 900, still the membership
campaigns would have to be delayed
until the end of the week of June 18
to IS when 1t was hoped 800, 900. 200
would be raised by the American pub
lie as a first subscription to the Amert-
can Red Cross.
John D. Miller, Of the biggest
men Of business in Los Angeles in Z
planning why the business men of the
country had undertaken the Red
Cross service, given their energies and
time to this branch, said: THE gov
eminent does not finance the Red
Cross for several important ason
One Of them is that the Red Cross
is recognized by the Geneva conven-
ton as q voluntary neutral organiza-
ton. 1t is immune from attacks on
the field and III nurses and ambul-
nee are protected from fire as they
carry out their mericful mission. An
other reason Is that the Red Cross as
an Independent body can do speedily
and effectively what 1t must undertake
without the red tape of bureaucracy.
1t can act without being required to
wait until Congress might pass appro-
priation bills" And it appeared from
what the speaker said that there
might be men in Congress who would
block such appropriation bills and the
Red Cross would thus be seriously
hampered in its work and the boys
that we are sending to the front would
be the ones that would suffer az a
result Of the lack Of necessary sup
piles, medical and otherwise.
Another big nan who was present
at the convention and who spoke was
Charles f. Peabody of Seattle, presI-
dent of the Alaskan Navigation com
pany. Mr.. Peabody said he was not
a speaker and had his address writ
ten out but when he warmed up to
his subject he forgot all about his
notes and made one Of the best ad-
dresses I have yer heard. Mr.. Pea
already volunteered and gone into the
service Of the United States and he
said: II know from my experience
in this country that we're in a fright
full and awful condition. We're up
against it. We've had a habit Of say
ing Let George do It, We can't a
that any longer. Everybody's got to
do it now. Your boys. my boys, our
S SeXs nan me s tse 70 fs se tn 10 r rnd 3o and sn DO
1t we'll. Their sisters also are going
to do what they have to do, and the
mothers. God bless them, will bear
the brunt OF the sorrow and do what
they have to do in the best way they
know how to do it. On our shores
the government has built lighthouses
that are beacons Of safety to our sail
ors. The Red Cross must establish on
every firing line of the battle fields OF
Europe relief and emergency stations
for u soldiers. That's III duty.
That's what we must do. What we
shall do. What we will do"
In his speech which brought the
delegates to a high pitch Of enthusi-
asm, 8. Poulterer Morris, Director Of
the Western Division Of the Red
Cross Of which North Dakota is
council assembled at the close Of the
war, humanity, Justice, American at
fciency shall be written into the ar
ticls that insures peace to the world"
Lyman l.. Pierce Of San Francisco.
western secretary. told the meeting
that, ut is dificult to realize at frst
that there will be urgent need for
such a large sum but when We con-
slider what 10 contemplated to be done
our " country engaged 10 in the
var we must surround GU lighting
men with every possible means Of
protection that the Red Cross can at
ford and We must strengthen the Rcd
Cross SO that even after the war It
Will stand 40 a monument to the spirit
OF the people Of the nation in provid-
ing for the boys in the trenches. Then
we will find that in Europe in the
battle torn countries that are now u
allies there 10 need OF q tremendous
sum for the rehabilitation Of the
devastated areas. There sare great
areas Of agricultural lands IA France
laid waste by the invader. These
must be started over again. The ;peo-
pie Of these communities can be made
3chinery and American e1orta must