Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-06-24
TWENTY MILLION
YET UNPR0M|SED
Heroic Efforts Will Be Made
to Complete Red Cross
Fund by Monday.
TULSA OvERSHOOTS MARK
Subscribes $4,000, Largest
Showing Made by Any
City in Oklahoma.

Twenty million dollars must be coll
lectcd Sunday and Monday by the Red
Cross campaigners in American cities
and towns to make the weeks canvas
for 100000. 900 fund IN entire sue
cess Despite spectacular spurts OF
number of cities total new pledges re-
ported to national headquarters at
Washington yesterday were only
$4,000 600, making the aggregate coll
lectons lor six days about SS,O0O,000.
Committees in "A number of elite,
will refuse To quit work Monday night
when the campaign formally clo'es.
Cleveland Passes Chicago.
Cleveland, which promises to be tho
star OF the weeks performance. by
noon yesterday had made ITS totai
whose report at that hour showed
81, 100000. New York city's total was
known to be approximately SS5.00O-
600.
ohio sun led the states (cXcept for
New York) with $7,O92,000. Next was
Pennsylvania with $i,6l5.000. lllinols
came third with S4,119,0OO.
Tulsa Gives sii5,00O.
with $3.50 unsclfish patriots maxi
ing up the mammoth army that made
It possible, Tulsa contente1ly last
'mieht witnessed the formal close OF
her Red Cross week with the pride
and satisfaction Of knowing that sho
had pledged her allotted 500. 600
and then some.
In q typical local spirit of liberal
ity Tulsa just tossed In approximately
si5,0e0 extra i'm grand total that
Treasurer n. Il. Graham late last
night sad aggregated $i15,76j.a2. A
substantial portion Of the pledge had
been provided on the initial day or
The campaign, but IT was n small
contributors chance" and consistent
plugging and pledging marked tho
weeks giving even up until the con-
Guiding night
$1,000 Largest.
Five thousand dollars was the lar
gest donation contributed by any in
dividual. four loyal Tulsans having re-
sponded to that degree of liberality.
Scores OF Liberty bonds ranging In de-
nominations OF from $50 to $500 were
turned into the melting pot, swelling
the fund by about $4,000.
The team OF canvassers directed by
j. Edgar Pew won the distinction OF
obtaining the largest amount OF funds
From n total of s6S pledges Mr. Pew's
team succeeded In collecting n total
Of S2i.5I6. T.. II. Perry's team came
second with greater number OF
pledges, but producing the sum OF
$16,720 in funds
S5.i5 Per Capita.
| on Mr. Perry's team the honor or
| obtaining generous assistance from
the hundreds of employees OF the ]. S.
| ;osden interests. Virtually every
worker. responding to a personal APP
peal from Mr. Cosden, made some
donation and contributed toward an
average showing of s5.i5 per capita
for the Cosden's company's employees.
The team led by j X. Crawford re-
ported with total or exactly S1O,-
600. one hundred prominent Tulsans
sacrificed time and money to partici-
pate in the week-long canvas. But 1t
was the loyal 1850 donors ranging
from the school child with his mite
to the oil field workers, and the lar
ger lifts" from the more wealthier
citizens that combined to put 1t
over" the one hundred leaders argued
last night
For War Relief.
All of the funds derived from the
campaign are turned into the Golfers
| OF the American Red Cross and al
| lied interests. In Tulsa the campaign
was conducted for the Tulsa war re-
lief fund, the Navy league the Y. NJ.
c. A. war division and the Red Cross
all sharing In the proceeds. All OF
the monies will be utilized in lending
aid and relief to the soldiers now and
soon TO be In France.
Several additional contributors
still may be in the mails or en- route
10 the treasurer's office by other
means" Mr. Graham said last night.
81 need not suggest that the outstand-
ing pledges should be Cancelled as soon
as possible. But ! might merely mem
ton that the soldiers from the United
States-from Oklahoma--from Tulsa
will be I'm France soon after Septem-
ber and that every cent of this fund
will be needed then and before to aid
In rendering our boys succor."
OF Course We Lead.
Yes, Tulsa lead the state In the Red
Cross week with her usual alacrity as
In all other similar competitions where
money is required and liberalty is de-
mandcd Oklahoma city. according
TO telographc dispatches to Tho
World last night. had pledged SllO,-
600 when the campaign closed. and
Muskogee-the Muskog so proud OF
the liberal Liberty loan the United
States governments federal funds
made possible-planked down 100000.
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