New Britain herald., 1918-05-20
ENEMY DELIGHTS IN BUTCHERING WOMEN Children and Babies, Too, His
 Victims, Red Cross Man Says SPEAKS AT RALLY HERE
Leaders of Campaign for $1OO, ,OOO Hold Monday Lunch at FIll1s' Club and Make Enthusiastic Appeals for PUElic's Support.

d-blooded talks on Americanism, and the work of the Red Cross in France, the drive for a $100,000 con- tribution from this city as it's share of the $100, 0,0O0,000 war fund began in earnest today. While several large contributions are known to have been given already, no figures will be pub Hshed until tomorrow noon. The speakers at the nOOn-day luncheon at the Elks club today were c. F. Ben nett, general chairman of the cam paign; w. F. Brooks, chairman of the local Red Cross chapter; Mayor George A. Quigley, and Captain Frank Dixon, Red Cross worker, recently returned from France.
 There are 22 teams engaged in the local campaign and the names of 21 were published Saturday. The other team has charge of the stores on Main street. w. H. Boyce is captain of the team which works north of the rail- road and his partners are Samuel Schneider, Samuel Berkowitz, Joseph R. Andrews and Walenty Lech. Will liam Cowlishaw is captain of the south end team, being assisted by James H. Hallinan, Edward X. Callahan, J. F. McGrail and Frank Maietta.
 c. F. Bennett Talks.
 Tn briefly outlining the method of campaign for $1O0,OO0 here, MT. Ben nett declared that there is no question that New Britain will go over it's al- lotment. The only question is hcw much it will go over. He also ex- p1ained the pledge system and asked that no pledges for less than $5 be received, saving that donations of less than $5 should be made in cash to facilitate the work of bookkeeping. He ! also explained that the slogan of the Red Cross is to be for every man to give at least one days pay to the Red Cross. Mr. Bennett likewise said he opposed the slogan of give until It hurts.' He said the giver who feels that it hurts him to give should keep on giving until it becomes a joy; so, he added let our slogan be, Give for the joy of giving"
 Local Branch's Great Work. Telling of the work of the local ! Red Cross, Chairman Brooks said l that during the past year 322 boxes, | each measuring 2x3 feet, have been 1 shipped out. These contained: Hos pital supplies numbering 12,265 arti- l cles valued at $S,9S1; linen numbering 10,426 valued at $2,189; surgical dressings numbering 1S4 521 and val ued at $4O75; 1,671 sweaters, valued 1 at $6,OO0; 2,902 pairs of socks, valued at $3,OOO; miscellaneous knitted arti- cles valued at $1O,0O0. The total value | of the articles sent out, not including the labor involved, was $3S,217. He also explained that the present cam paign is not a membership campaign, that being postponed until Christmas.
 Mayor Quigley likewise spoke in the interest of the Red Cross drive, fore ing his arguments home with telling
 effect, concluding with the plea that "a man who a year ago gave $100, give
 $20O this year.
 Tells of Trip to France.
 The principal speaker was Frank
 Dixon, who went to France last Christ
 mas to study conditions and who has
 but recently returned. He told of his
 own son fighting in the American Elk
 peditionary Forces and said that when
 he went to France he was afraid that
 the Red Cross was occupying too
 much of a place in the public mind.
 He was afraid that the Red Cross, the
 Y. M. c. A. and the K. of c. were 1ulling the people to sleep with the idea that, only money was needed to
 win this war.
 And I knew we were not winning
 the war by any such means. I knew | we must win the war by men in the
 trenches with guns, men who are will
 ing to die' he shouted. He then eX-
 plained how the Red Cross has be- j. come really a branch of the American
 army and then launched a blOOd-curd- ling recital of some of the German atrocities with which he became fam
 iliar. He said that previously the work of the Red Cross was to ad- ] minister to the sick and wounded
 but the German method of warfare, where war is made on all humanity
 and not only on armed soldiers, has
 made the work of the Red Cross the succoring of the entire country. He declared that the German sol
 dier will kill a woman as quickly as
 he will kill soldier. and will kill
 8, baby as quickly man. He told
 of visiting one French village on the
 frontier which had originally con-
 tained 467 houses. After the Ger
 mans left it only 37 were standing
 but that was because the Huns had not fully developed their system of
 devastation and they never left so
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