The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-06-18
Includes More Nearly Unanimously Repre-
sentative List of Worker. Than Ever En-
listed in Any Campaign Here Before.
THE STAFF AND TEAMS ARE NAMED
Every Resident Of Every Age Sex and Condition to be
Brought into the Red Cross Help Take Care Of the
American Soldiers Wounded While Fighting in
France and Belgium.

Red Cross headquarters are in the
Keokuk Electric building at Eighth
and Main streets. The new telephone
is No. 359.
All the workers drafted and listed
in the other column will meet at the
Hotel Iowa dining room at $50
O'Clock this evening for organization.
orders and conference on the cam.
paign to be waged this week for
$4,000 In Keokuk.
Scan the list of executives who
have enlisted in this Red Cross cam
paign in Keokuk.
Nobody ever before saw printed
such long list of active workers in
any cause here which included so
many kinds Of people.
All keokuk Enlisted for the Cause.
Some are noted as politicians;
some as business men; some as
church workers; some as manufac-
turers; there are bankers and doc
tors, Office holders and employees of
corporations; there are members or
every church. every lodge and every
club in town-all Keokuk is going
into this biggest Of campaigns-all
Keokuk for all it is worth and with
perfect team work for Keokuk, the
future wounded soldier boys, the re-
pulse of absolute monarchy and the
eternal safety Of republican forms of
government in the world.
Everybody is making sacrifices
and everybody will make sacrifices
before this war is over. Keokuk
people will make sacrifices early and
voluntarily. Every man in the list
is sacrificing according to his ap-
praisement. Nearly every man will
lose money he would have made had
he had not given his time for week
and more to this Red Cross cam
paign-and in addition every man is
the Red Cross fund being raised here
in Keokuk.
Easy Ways to Pay II.
Not what you can spare-but what
you can possibly get along without.
is what the people of Lee county
must give to this movement.
And all the people Of Lee county
from the rich man giving in thou
sands to the wage Garner giving a
dollar bill will be amalgamated in
this Red Cross fund campaign.
The subscription blanks provide
for payments. If desired, one-fourth
at time, the first Of July, August
September and October.
Liberty bonds will be taken at par
on subscriptions. ]. P. Morgan &
Co.. will cash them for the Red
Cross.
Every subscription of one dollar
or more makes one member of the
Red Cross and button is given the
subscriber. These buttons should be
worn constantly by all members.
Everybody Must Fight or Finance.
Every mothers son and daughter
receives the benefit Of civilization
and every one of them must pay for
that protection or be a Stacker.
Not every one needs to fight in
the trenches against the militarism
which has laid waste Belgium and
northern France, and hopes to make
the United States pay hundred bill
900 000-war indemnity
after dropping bombs on New York
and capturing Keokuk and It's lock
giving control of the Mississippi
river.
An American can do his part in
this war against the common enemy
in several ways-by fighting; by pay
ing for the shells others fire at the
Germans; by raising crops to feed
our allied armies-and by furnishing
hospital equipment, antiseptics, auto
ambulances and other supplies to
the wounded soldiers who will soon
90 from Keokuk, from Iowa, from
every state in the union to France
and Belgium to repel the KAISER VINO
would be overload of the whole world.
Every American must do his part
and do it now.
All Together, Now, keokuk!
differences of opinion are proper
and sure to occur. They are proper
and useful as long as they remain
merely opinions and do not become
acts. But the only way to win
football game, or even game OF
Withstand certainly the only way TO
win warts by team work regard
less of personal opinions. After the
full nine innings are played is the
time to roast the coach and captain
IF the home baseball team, and
coaching by a dozen different men In
the grand stand, Of a dozen different
opinions, never put over the winning
run.
The only way to keep from being
defeated and made another Belgium
is for America to do perfect team
work.
II is team work that is the essence
Of the Red Cross campaign about to
start in Keokuk-team work by every
man, woman and child in this his
toric city. No kind Of resident is
exempt from this duty.