The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1918-04-18
With Americans in Tren ,hes Work Of Or
gauizatiOn Doubled; ReIps Allies
Win the War
SERVICE OF REAL
MILITARY VALUE
Vast Sum Raised Last June Nearly Ex-
hausied; Much Relief Work Has
Been Done

st. Louis, Mo-, April 1S.-With the
active entry of American troops into
the fighting line in France the work
of the American Red Cross is
doubled, quadrupled More than one
hundred thousand Of Uncle Sans
boys are now helping the French and
British to hold and force back the
unspeakable Huns and other hun
dreds of thousands are being hurried
to the battle fields as fast as trans
ports can be found for them.
These men are Americans, our
sons, brothers and neighbors. They
are cheerfully, even enthusiastically,
going forth to face death, to brave
deadly German gas, the efficient Ger
man artillery, the murderous on
slaughts of German hordes trained
to slaughter, the privations and suf-
fering Of camp, trench and dugout
Bo-a from every state are already
showing their spirit in the fight for
civilization and before the summer is
half over boys from every village mad
county in this broad country will
join them. The more that are sent
the sooner the task they must ac-
ccmplish will be done, the less the
cost will be in men, money and suf.
fering.
How will the American Red Cross,
the unofficial organization that aids
Uncle Sam in caring for hundreds
of thousands of fighters, do its part
in the great drama just being stag
ged.
Judge the future by the past and
you have the answer; perfectly.
A little less than year ago the
American Red Cross as 1t exists to-
day was unknown. It had neucleus
and it had a name. But it had no
organization anything like adequate
to undertake the task before it and
it had no funds with which to do
the work that had to be done. Let
us recapitulate the achievements OF
the Red Cross In ten months.
1t asked for a fund Of $lOG0,OOO,'
600 to be- raised within week. Tho
generous American public raised 1OS,'
100000. The assembling of an orga-
nization of trained workers, physb
clans, nurses, engineers, social settle
ment experts, wise counselors in law,
hygiene and activities in civil and
commercial life, was begun and hur.
ried into effective shape. The orga'
nization was made world-wide-yes,
even Germany, Austria-Hungary and
Turkey are included for Americans
are in those countries either as pris-
oners of war or refugees-and the
the work Of minimizing the havoc Of
war was started.
Not a penny of the fund raised in
the United States was wasted. In.
deed it was so wisely administered
that the Red Cross has
been able to expend s1.02
for every 81 received in dona-
tions. This was made possible by the
facts that banks paid interest on the
fund or such portion of it as was not
Immediately needed and by the fact
that not one cent was used in ad
ministration expenses. Those expen
ses, kept to the minimum, are met
in other ways.
France. heroic, bleeding France
had suffered most and it was there
that the Red Cross expended most OF
its efforts and money. Accurate fig
uIes show that up TO March l, nearly
. one-third Of the sum raised in thai
week of sacrifice and effort last june
tn be exact, s30,936.O4 had been ex
; pended in relief work in the country