The Cordova daily times., 1918-05-16
TERRITORY OF ALASKA
Governors Office
Juneau
PROCLAMATION

NONAFA4VkA1 1OlN
Alaska has exceeded her quota of enistments in the
military service.
Alaska has exceeded her quota of purchase of iber
ty bonds.
Alaska stands among the first if not the first in the
purchase OF war saving and thrift stamps
Alaska has always responded nobly to every war
call sounded
The people of Alaska generous and true Ameri-
cans, irrespective of the nationality of their birth
We proud to be called Aaskans
We are now called upon once more to give, to give
to that greatest Of all charities-the American Red
Cross
We are called upon to give that our bows our Alaska
boys in France now and in the future may looked af
ter tendery and efficiently in sickness and in health
that in the field they may have those comforts not pro-
vlded by military authority; that when wounded or i'll
they may have devoted to them the highest surgical
skill Obtanable, in hospitals modern in all their ap-
pances that the dying hours of those dear boys who are
to give up their lives for you and for me- for your chill
dren and my children may be quoted and comforted land
that for those who captured there may be supplied
sustenance and methals of communication with their
families and loved Ones
That The families of soldiers and sailors may
ceive a helping hand in case of sickness need;
That The hearts of the poor peasants of France,
Belgium, Italy and Servia may be gladdened by timely
assistance in the upbuiding of homes devastated by
That The crippled may be helped to useful life;
That The little children left in the wake of ''Kul-
tur' abandoned tortured, manned and disfgured, may
be mended cared for and finally returned to their
try to become helpful citizens;
That Our Flag may continue to stand for right, for
faith, for hope, for charity:
THEREFORE,, I, THOMAS RIGGS Jr, Governor
of the Territory of Alaska do hereby PROCLAIM
week beginning on Monday May 90
RED CROSS WEEK
and Saturday, May IS,
ALASKA'S RED CROSS DAY
and do hereby call upon all loyal men, and child
rem in the Territory of Alaska to make every effort to-
ward raising funds for the American Red Cross and
more particularly on ALASKAS RED CROSS DAY do
I call upon citizens, far possible, to observe
the day Territorial holiday wherein the efforts of
all shall be directed toward raising proportion OF the
national subscription of $1OOOOO,OOO
[ call upon all organizations throughout the Terri
tory commercial political and social, the Boy Scouts
the churches the lodges and the Home Guard to bend
every effort in this direction. More particularly call
upon the women for to them belongs primarily the honor
of the Red Cross.
:. The minimum sum of $4,000 is fixed as the amount
to be raised in the Territory Chapters and suochapters
the Red Cross which exceed their allotment OF Sl per
capita for all the inhabitants within their Jursdcton'
will be placed on the honor roll of the Territory to be
kept in the Historical Library and Museum at juneau,
and certified copy will be sent to the President OF the
United States the President of the Society," and the Sec
rotary of the Interior.
GIVEN under my hand and the seal of the Territory
of Alaska in Juneau the Capital this tenth day OF May
in the year of Lord thousand nine hundred ana
eighteen and of the independence OF the United States
the one hundred and forty-second.
(sea) THOMAS RIGGS, Jr.
By the Governor: Governor
CHARLES E. DAVIDSON,
Fix OfflclO Secretary of Alaska