The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-06-16
II TEAMS TO
CANVASS CITY
FOR RED Cross
Burleigh Campaign Will Start
Actively Tuesday for Con-
. tribution to Fund
DINNER WILL BE GIVEN
WORKERS MONDAY EVE
Women to Meet This Afternoon
to Discuss House to House
Canvass

Plans are practically complete for
the big Red Cross war relief fund
drive next week. The active soliciting
will begin Tuesday morning. Seven
teen teams will meet at dinner Mon
day evening to be assigned their dis
tricts and talk over details of the
campaign. 1t is expected that DR..
Stickney of Dickinson and Others will
address the team members. Through
out the United States men will gather
at the dinner table to put the finish
ing touches on one of the greatest
war relief campaigns in the history
of the nation.
Issues Proclamation.
President Wilson, by official procla-
nation, has put an official stamp upon
Red Gross week which will last from
June lS to June ;25, inclusive.
The soldiers stationed here, the To-
cal bands, the Salvation army and
others will participate in the move
ment.
Members of the federated clubs will
meet this afternoon at p. m. to con-
slider the house to house campaign
which the women will conduct.
Tomorrow most of the churches will
celebrate Bunker Hill day as a Red
Cross event Appeals will be made
from the pulpits to engage in this
worthy work.
The national society has assigned
$15,GO0,00O to be raised west of the
Mississippi river. 1t is believed this
will be subscribed as the vests share
in the 100000, 600 = ,,s@
5ur'eioh County Teams. a.. Y. 4.
The following teams will serve with
the Bismarck teams. They will, be
present at the Monday evening dim
ner: taHG@ 7fs III jiJ.Ts r
Brittin, F. r. Galloway: Moffit, Val
entine Benz, l.. L. lockwood; Dris-
coll, Geo. Cunningham, M. B. Finseth; ;
Sterling, S. T. Park, H. e. Wildfang;
Mckenzie, lP. P. Bliss, S. r. Day, w.
l.. Watson; MenOken, A. T. Welch;
Baldwin, H. G. Higgins, c. w. Street
er, l. NJ. Capper:: Still, w. LaVeen;
Regan, A. l.. Garnes, A. v. Marcellus;
Wing, G. A. Hubbell, G. Olgierson, P.
C. Evans, H. H. Kerr; Arena, w. B.
Heaton, w. NJ. Scott.
To keep this great machine in oper'
alton for the benefit of mankind Amer.
fca must give and give as she never
gave before.
The Red Cross asks the American
peopel to give $100,0O0,00O to enable it
to do its work of war relief. This
sum is large, but it may not be even
half enough. Mr.. Hoover directed the
expenditure of $3.50 100000 for Belgian
relief alone, and could have used much
more. The Red Cross will have to
meet not only the demands for relief
abroad, but first of all we shall have
enormous work here at home and next
for our army afield, and our navy
af1oat. xs,s .,9gr...>
The 100000, 900 asked for by
the Red Cross 10 to cover con-
siderable period Of relief and re-
construction, and all the while the
powers at war are spending that
much every day in the work Of de-
struction. - @...'& ~ -:
Some Concrete Needs.
To give a concrete idea of these
real and present needs, the American
Red Cross representatives in France,
acting in cooperation with the French
government officials, urgently cabled
US not long ago requests for immedi.
ate shipment They asked for so more
ambulance transport sections (having
a total of 1850 cars) merely to re-
place those that have been destroyed
in France. That is only one item. But
we shall need to organize many new
ambulance sections calling for thou
sands of automobiles and trucks.
Five Sanitary Trains.
They cabled that they needed five
sanitary trains, each with it's staff of
doctors and nurses. A few more things
needed right at once were:
5000 stretcher bearers.
5000 nurses.
100000 pairs of woolen socks.
2O0OOO blankets.
10000 kilos of quinine.
10000 kilos of cod liver oil.
10000 meters of oilclOth, etc, etc.
There were only immediate, urgent
needs. Since then many similar cables
will come.
Not Awake.
Our great troble today is that our
people do not realize the situation
throughout the countries now at war.
Hundreds Of American doctors
and nurses are already at the
front. A force Of 1900 Ameri-
can engineers will soon be rebuild
ina the railroads Of France. Up
wards of 25,000 American men are
now on the batlefields of Europe,
fighting as volunteers in the A.
lied armies; soon, 25,00O Ameri-
can regulars will be added to their
number. .-..
All our national guard is to be mobi-
lized. our regular army is to be re-
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