Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-04-23
IAN APPEAL
| FOR RED CROSS.
Drive Opens In Annapolis And
Anne Arundel County May 20.
Its Objects.
MAJOR RILEY CHAIRMAN.
Solicits Cooperation Of All Cid-
zens And Countians. States
The Objects And Pur-
noses of The Society.
poses Of INC SocIetY


| In an open letter and appeal to the
people of Annapolis, Major Hugh r..
Riley, Campaign Chairman for the
Anne Arundel County Second Red
Cross War Fund, says:
"The work of the Red Cross is
known TO all, and needs no explana-
ton The government has wisely left
to this agency, which is not operated
| directly by il, those things which re-
| quire the human touch and which
/ would not be quite so warm and
hearty if accomplished by direct gov
ernmental action. To help the
wounded, to heal the sick, TO provide
by voluntary work many things which
| the soldier needs but which are not
provided for him, to care in innum-
cradle ways for the loved ones left
| behind so that the soldiers mind is
at ease on this score; these are the
things which the Red Cross is per-
mitted to do because il is found that
it does them better than any other
agency that could be devised.
"In June, 1917, the Red Cross War
| Council asked the people of the Unit
ed States for 500, 900 900 for its work.
! The response was such that there
could be no doubt that the people of
this nation were not only willing, but
glad, to help its objects. Most of this
sum was expended upon our Allies, for
the United States was not ready to
engage in the world conflict on scale
| befitting its might. But the work of
the Red Cross is as broad and exten-
sive as the world itself, and what was
! helping the Allies was helping us, too.
THE second appeal has now been
made and it is for an equal sum. If
the Red Cross work is to continue up
on the scale which should be main
| tained and, in particular, if our own
soldiers are to be given every chance,
relieved of every bit of suffering that
is possible, given the things that they
need for their comfort and well-being
and their minds kept free from worry
about thesfortunes of those at home,
the Red Cross must have about hun
dred million dollars, and they are to
get it between now and May 9th,
little over a month.
"The request for this second great
sum is made without apology. The
people know better than ever the work
the Red Cross had done, is doing, is
going to continue to do. 1t has ex
pended most of the first sum, given
so willingly, and il is known that all
! but the very smallest amount, used
for administering the rest, has gone
directly for the purposes for which it
was given. Further, the new amount
is needed for the most part, for our
own men, now taking a fitting part in
the great conflict and TO take an ever
increasing part.
THE Red Cross works first to allie
viate human suffering, but its work
has no small part in increasing the eff
| fectiyeness of our arms, and making
victory more certain and more prompt.
| The relief which the Red Cross af-
| fords, in its various activities,
strengthens the spirit of our soldiers
| and their allies, and this tends in no
small degree to increase the morale of
the soldiers who are fighting that lib
erty may remain with the people of
the earth and humanity and common
THE local work is just beginning
Committees will be appointed to take
! charge of the various phases of the
work and the people of Anne Arundel
County, from the richest man or wom-
an to the smallest child will be asked
to contribute to the limit of their
means to this work 1t will be ex-
! pected that those who are asked to
| serve on these committees will not re-
| fuse and that there be not the slight
est reluctance upon the part of any
one to take up that portion of the
work which may be assigned to him.
The men who have offered themselves
or upon whom their country has call
ed to arms. must respond willingly or
brand themselves as unworthy of their
citizenship. Is it any less a stigma
! to refuse this reasonable service that
our country asks just as definitely?
Some of you are saying, thought
lessly, perhaps, Il am just over-sub-
| scribing to Liberty Bonds, and it has
/ been one thing after another ever
since the war began" OF course, it
has been one thing after another ever
since this war began, and it will be
the same until the war ends, and you,
Mr.. and Mrs. Patriot and every child
of yours, are going to keep on help
ing and giving up to the limit of your
means, and giving your time and your
energy right up TO the end of your
endurance as long as it lasts-you
must not. you can't do anything else.
The strain may hurt little; you may
have to give up some things-and how
few and small the things we over on
this side have given up-but just the
same you are going ahead to do what
you are called upon to do and give all
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