The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1918-05-15
Raising Of Another $lOO..
100000 to be Under
taken During Week OF
May 20-27--Work AL
ready Done.9

,ond nationwide war fund campaign
week Of the American National Red
Cross, and in that time 500, O0O, 900
is to be raised for carrying on the
eVer-fncreasng task of ministry and
mercy entailcd by the war, here and
abroad
Last summer The Red Cross war
council asked for 100000, 900 and thc
people of the country pledged $llO.-
100000. of which $l0S,O0O 900 has thus
far been collected collected .proba bly
at the lowest cost in the history of
such undertakings.
Hence there arises the question,
What has been done with the first
$l00,O00O00 or more Also "Why
the need of another 100000, ,OOO?"
TO answer the question fully would
fill book with stories of mericful
deeds, of aid extended to our allies, Of
succor to families Of men in the SER
vice Of home and abroad, and efficient
lffe-saving, humane, constructive
work But in the following sketch
written BY Will Payne, is given an
outline Of the ways in which this hun
drei million-your hundred million
was spent:
Last summer the public subscribed
4 hundred million dollars TO the Rcd
cross. At the latest statement over
ciehty-fvc millions Of il had been an
propriatcd
Where has it gone? YOU ask. For
many months the world has been
spending over hundred million dol
iarS day for the destruction OF life.
limb and means of subsistence. Call
up what you have read about the wars
devastation. The American Red Cross
enormous job is to do whatever it can
to alleviate that--not after the war,
not after governments have dclibcr-
atcd and rcsolvcd bui right now, at
the minute, on the spot It's amazing
that it has done so much with so ilt-
tie money.
Last autumn the Italian army fell
back prccipitatcly On your war man
that meant rubbing out one line and
drawing another half an inch farther
south Over there in Italy ii meant
thousands Of poor families fleeing
from their homes Major Murphy, Red
Cross commissioner in Europe. rushed
to the scene and wired: "Tndescribably
pathetic conditions exist. Involving
separation Of mothers and children,
cold, hunger, disease, death" In No
vcmbcr and December the American
Red Cross appropriated three million
dollars for relief thcrc-a large sum
yet small in comparison with the need
Soldiers are only part Of :hc Red
Cross worf-probably the smaller
part. Every instant, somewhere in the
vast food Of destruction, hand
reaches up in appeal. It is pretty apt
to be a child's hand or a woman's
When the Red Cross commission
reached Pcirograd it asked the gov
crnmont, what is the most urgent
thing?" Tho government replied "Wc
must get condensed milk for the little
children here" The commission got
tho milk. AT one spot in Franco farm
work was stoNpcd by lack Of horses.
That meant more hunger. The Red
Cross got in a big tractor and set 1t
10 plowng for the community
There are million needs. Cold,
wet and the deadly physical strain Of
the trenches undermine mems consti-
tutions. a frightful scOurge OF tubcr-
cnlosis has developed in France. The
Red Cross has built sanatoria. pro-
vidcd over thousand beds and nurses.
y "I have here big shcaf OF sheets
filled with figures One item is thir-
teen million and odd dollars-thc
amount which, up to that time, had
gone to thc local chapters Of the Rcd
Cross IN the United States for local
relief. Twenty-Five per cent Of the
money subscribed through the chan
tors eventually goes that way.
cover thirty millions have been ap-
propriatcd for work in France. Here
Is a million and Iuarter-in round
numbers for military hospitals and
dispensaries: over million and half
for cantccn service, whore French and
American soldiers, relieved from the
trenches. can get good food, a cot,
bath and have their clothes disinfect-
ed-7and SO 80 on for their brief holf-