Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-05-13
EXPECT BIG AMOUNT
FROM DELAWARE IN
RED CROSS DRIVE"
Team Captains Meet Today to
Plan for State Wide
Campaign.
CHURCHES WILL HE1

Plans for an intensive drive" to secure
Delawarc's share of the 500, 000,0 900 Red
Cross Fund during the next weeks cam
paign were discussed today mt a gathering
of team captains, the Rcd Cross campaign
committee and other active workers at
a luncheon in the Hotel du Point. Henry
+. Scott, the campaign chairman, and
Mrs. Elzabet II. Curr1cr, the worker
delegated by the American Red Cross to
aid the Delaware campaign, have been
busy for ten days working out preliminary
plans These plans were laid before the
team captains for their consideration and
Will be maturcd ut other meetings during
the week
Delaware is expected to do what she did
last year exceed her quota many times
and special efforts will be made in this
drive to secure a maximum OF subscribers
as we'll rs of money The American people
have begun to realize more fully than
ever before that giving TO the Red Cross Is
a duty to the men who have offered their
lives in the trenches and to those whom
these men have left behind. More than
onc-half million men are now IN France
and there are more than one hundred
million loyal American people ready to
stand behind them with their wealth.
The work Of the Red ross IN tins coun-
try IS preparatory. III a large measure,
TO the work on the battlefront Of Europe
The training Of nurses. the training of
doctors, the gathering together Of supplies
for hospital, home and camp, are works OF
such wonderful value that no question can
toe raised concerning them But the great
est work done by the Red Cross has been
that Of keeping UP the morale OF our
Allies while We have been getting ready
for the actuahties Of war instant results
come from every appeal made to the Rcd
Cross General Pcrshlng IS ono Of the
strongest supporters az the Red Cross
movement He knows from actual eX-
pcricncc the value Of the organization 5
work
Evidence Of local preparations for the
campaign are seen around the old Court
House al Tenth and Market streets \
hlg sign board 80 feet 80 feet has been
erected and on it will be painted a Red
Cross 25 feet wide and > feet high In
addition 10 this there Is a ladder standing
against a tower with white runners and
red and blue rungs When the campaign
opens a figure dressed as an American
soldier will climb tins ladder TO mark the
amount of each days contributions. As
soon as he goes Over the Top another
soldier will be started up the ladder and it
IS expected that the little platform at the
top will have quite a group before the end
Of the week This ladder Is q variation of
the old thermometer and clock dial
announcing each days contributions
The plans to reach everyone in the State
with information about this great humani-
tartan movement include the organization
of large committees IN the rural sections
which showed such a lively interest last
year that IT Is expected that they viii give
the city 81 Wilmington a lively run for
first place during this campaign. l.. Scott
Townsend viii have charge Of the meet
ings in rural New Castle county and DR.
q Layton Grier is organizing the efforts
TO he put forth in the lower counties
II Is planned that every minister
throughout the state shall make the Red
Cross campaign a feature Of next Sundays
services Nearly alLof the ministers have
already agreed most enthusiastically to
JOIN IN this movement