The Washington herald., 1918-05-05

100000 IS to be raised Tor c;
of ministry and mercy entailed by
d G. Quota Half Million.
OF this amount the minimum quota
Of the District OF Columbia, as to
amount. 10 10000 As to numbers Of
subscribers the quota is every resi-
dent Of Washington q subscriber" and
since this population now is estimated
at $4,000 a strenuous effort will be
made to approximate that number Of
subscribers.
Last summer the Red Cross war
council asked for sl0o,O0o.eoo, and the
people of the country pledged sllO.-
OOO, 900, of which sl0s, 10000 has thus
far been collected-coIlected probably
at the lowest cost in the history OF
such undertakings.
Hence there arises the question,
What has been done with the first
$1oo, ,0oo. 900 or more?" Also, Why the
need Of another sl0O, 600, ,OOO?'
To answer the question fully would
I'LL q book with stories OF merciful
deeds. Of aid extended to our allies.
with succor to families Of men in the
service at home and abroad, and with
efficient. life saving, humane. con-
structfve work. But in the following
sketch, written by Will Payne, is
given an outline Of the ways in which
this hundred million, your hundred
million, was spent:
Last summer the public subscribed
s100, ,0oo, 900 to the Red Cross. At the
latest statement over $S5,O0O,0OO Of it
had been appropriated.
n.~ n-~ ~. "a ~
where has it gone? you ask. For
many months the world has been
spending over 800 10000 a day for the
destruction of life, limb and means
of subsistence. Call up what you
have read about the wars devasta-
ton. The American Red Cross enor-
nous job is to do whatever it can to
alleviate that-not after the war, not
after governments have deliberated
and resolved: but right now, at the
minute, on the spot. It's amazing
that it has done so much with so little
money.
Last autumn the Italian army fell
back precipitately. On your wal
map that meant rubbing out one
line and drawing another half ar
inch further south. Over there in
Italy 1t meant thousands of poor
families fleeing from their homes
Maj. Murphy. Red Cross Commits
sioner in Europe. rushed to the
scene and wired: "Indescribably pa.
thetic conditions exist. involvine
separation of mothers and children
cold. hunger, disease, death" In
November and December the Amer.
ican Red Cross appropriated thre'
million dollars for relief there-4
large sum. yet small in comparison
with the need.
Condensed NINA fer ChiSdren.
Soldiers are only a part of tn,
Red Cross work-probably th'
smaller part. Every instant, some
where in the vast flood OF destruc
tlon, q hand reaches up in appeal
1t is pretty apt to be a child
hand or q woman's. When the Re-
Gross Commission reached Petro
grad It asked the government
What 10 the most urgent thing?
The government replied: We mus
get condensed milk for the littl
children here" The commission go
the milk. At one spot in Franc
farm work was stopped by lack O
horses. That meant more hunger
The Red Cross got in a big tracto
and set Il to plowing for the com
munity.
There are q million needs. Cold. we
and the deadly physical strain Of tn
trenches undermine mems constitu
tons. A frightful scourge of tubercu
losis has developed in France. tn
Red Cross has built santoria; provide
over 1000 beds and nurses.
Thirty MIIHons for France.
have here q big sheaf of sheet
hHed with figures. One item is thil
teen million and odd dollars-th
amount which. up to that time, ha
gone to the local chapters Of the Re
Cross in the United States for locs
relief. Twenty-Five per cent of IN
money subscribed through the chaI
ters eventually goes that way.
Over 5000, 900 have been appropriai