Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1917-07-12
RED CROSS BUSY
Rousins Meeting Held at the Opera House Friday Night
to Interest Linton People in Red Cross Work.
Thousands Of Dollars to be Raised.

AT last EmmOnS county is getting
in position to do her share in the hu-
manitarian work Of the Red Cross.
At meeting held in the opera
house Friday night arrangements were
made for the completion of Red
Cross organization, for campaign of
education and for drive for funds
Funds are the crying need of the as
sociation. With millions of our troops
destined for the trenches of Europe
within comparatively few months,
and with the amount of execution
done by modern modes of warfare, the
Red Cross organization will find itself
taxed to the limit to do it's share in
caring for the sick and the injured.
Millions of dollars must be secured
to make the Red Cross effective on
such a large scale. The national war
council has held that the first appeal
for money must be three hundred mil
lions of dollars. That means approx
imately three dollars for each man,
woman and child in the United States.
Emmons county people have been re-
quested to raise $4,000.
Emmons county people stand to suf-
fer less from the war in financial
way than the people of almost any
other part of the world. Produce will
sell far above the average price, and
the percentage Of men called to the
colors will be less here than elsewhere
For that reason, the amount of money
donated here should be far above that
of other communities not SO fortu-
nately situated.
Thousands Of young men will leave
their business, their positions and their
relatives to brave death on foreign
soil. They are not only giving their
! earning capacity for the dur zion of
the war; they are also Offering their
future earning power and even their
very existence. No amount of finan-
cial donations can compare with such
sacrifices. Also, while these people
are away, it becomes the duty of those
at home to see that their dependents
are given helping hand. This is
special function of the Red Cross.
The ladies of Linton who have sue
ceeded in establishing this chapter of
the Red Cross for the county are very
much in earnest. They expect to
spend all their spare moments sewing
and furnishing supplies. But it is the
men who must furnish the cash, and
plenty of cash :S needed.
All over the United States commit
tees Of bushes. leaders arc handling
the work of Red Cross collections. In
Bismarck committee apportioned the
amount that each should contribute,
according to his means. Many persons
doubled and even .ripled their appor-
tionment. Hezeiton has already or
ganized to secure funds. They ex-
pect to personally canvass not only
the people living in Hazclton, but the
tributary farming communities, as
we'll
Linton is to be worked frs. by the
COMMITTEES, and then the drive will be
extended in to the country, and to the
other towns south of US.
Remember when you are called upon
for donation that soon you will have
friends and perhaps relatives on their
way in few months to the CORY bat
tie fields Ct France. Remember, too,
that hundreds Of men and women are
willingly facing death to be near them
when they are injured. Remember,
also, that these people can only be on
hand to help with the necessary equip
ment if such organizations as our own
Emmons county chapter do their du-
ty. The time may come when your
son or your brother, or neighbor's
son or brother will be in grave need
of Red Cross help. If you failed to
help send the nurses and supplies by
furnishing some Of the money, you
may have contributed directly to ad-
ded misery and woe that could have
been al!eviatcd by few of your del
lars.
Remember the Red Cross. Think
Red Cross. Talk Red Crosc. And,
finally, help the Red Cross financially.
Even two million American troops
in France will naed thousands Of good
nurses, thousands of tons of equip
ment and millions of dollars to prop
erly care for them in sickness or in
the agony of battle wounds.