Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-05-10
FULTON COUNTY
WAR CHEST
Campaign to Raise Fund of 100000
Per Year in Fulton County to Meet
the COunty's Share of Wartime
Benevolences, Including Red Cross
work-win Start Monday, May 20.

work-win Start Monday, May 20.
The week beginning Monday, May
20, has been designated by the Presi-
dent of the United States, who is also
president of the American Red Cross
Society, as the time for a campaign
to raise from the people of this ma
tion the sum of $1O0,0O0,00O for the
work of the Red Cross in Europe and
the United States. Last year a sim
liar amount was given by the people
of this country and up to March 1 of
the present year $77 ,721 1882 of this
amount had been appropriated and
used in this work, absolutely neces-
sary, which the government cannot
do, but which it authorizes the Red
Cross Society to do. Before mid
summer the entire amount of the first
Red Cross War Relief Fund will have
been expended. The work must be
continued; it is absolutely necessary;
therefore, the call for one hundred
million more which will continue this
work of mercy for another year.
In another column appears statis-
. tlGt tnOWlIlk nOW bAC lAAob LuAlQ Has
been used and the character of the
work in detail, which the Red Cross
Society is doing. But necessary and
inclusive as is the work of the Red
Cross Society, it is by no means the
only necessary and important work
that must be carried on by the Amer
ican people during the continuation
Of the present war. The Y. M. c..
A., X. of c., Community buildings,
Civilian Relief, and the many other
agencies that are ministering to the
needs, physical, moral, spiritual, of
our American soldier and sailor lads,
and the many who are made desti-
tute or brought to dire need by the
war. All these must be continued for
the duration of the war.
In order to meet all these needs it
has been necessary in the past to
carry on a separate campaign for
each fund, but this has taken time
and energy on the part of persons
who could hardly be spared from their
usual posts of duty in these times;
to say nothing of the waste of time
Of those who are being solicited In
order to avoid all of this, communi-
LACS nave utNiSGu Whldb ID hAlOWn dS
"War Chest Fund" Columbus
Ohio, has led in the development of
this plan which makes it possible to
secure subscriptions to fund which
will care for all these causes with
one campaign. In Columbus the plan
was carried out with great success
and that city has certainly "gone
over the top" in providing for these
wartime emergencies. Toledo is now
in the midst Of a campaign of this
kind with every prospect of having
q fund at their disposal ready to
take care of their quota of the
second Red Cross War Relief Fund
and all other quotas that may be as.
signed.
At general meeting of the War
Activities committee of Wauseon
held previous to the launching of the
Third Liberty Loan campaign, the
War Chest plan was discussed and il
was decided by general consent thai
following the Liberty Loan campaign
this plan should be put in operation
in Fulton county. Recently meet
ing Was held by workers along tn
various lines of war work and Judg,
WVn was oGAEStCu dS NOubb,
chairman of the Fulton county Wa
Chest fund, also chairman of the vari
Gus departments of the work en-
tailed by such a campaign, and OF
Monday evening of this week a meet
ing Of workers was called. The plal
was outlined, individuals were as
signed their duties, and general in
structions given. The plan brief.
outlined as it is proposed to apply il
Fulton county is this:
An Executive committee of twelve
with the chairman, will have charg
and direction of the campaign. TIL
county, for the purposes of this cam
paign, Is divided into 10 districts
practically the same divisions a
those made by Mr.. Harris for tn
Third Liberty Loan campaign. Tn
Liberty Loan organization will b
used for the solicitation for the fun
and every resident of the county wi
be solicited; cards bearing the name
of the persons to be solicited will l.
used as in the Liberty loan cam
paign. These cards must be re
turned to the Central Executive com
mittee, whether or not a suhscriptio
is made. A tentative allotment wi
be made to each person OF a sJhscriI
ton to equal one days pay in eac
month, and this amount IS to Ge pal
monthly through soms Aank in th
county, the bank to be designated
the subscriber. These banks wi
forward the money paid to tn
treasurer of the fund in Wauseol
At the time the subscription is take
the solicitor will fill out two caro-
which will record the amount of I'll
monthly subscription, the name {
the person making the subscription
the bank through which the sui
scriber will pay such subscriptic
and blank spaces on which to recoI
receipt Of payments made. One I
these cards will be given to the SUI
scriber and one sent to the bank de
ignated These subscriptions are fl
the duration of the war and from Il
fund so created all the war needs ou
side Of the government loans are
be met; with this exception, Il
amount so subscribed will not GOV
membership fee in the Red Cros
All disbursements will be made by
committee of nineteen; one chose
from each of the nineteen distric
into which the county is divided,
explained in the foregoing, and /
funds will be paid out without Il
consent of the committee.
Az the meeting Monday evenin
Mr.. Harris, who has scored such
success in leading the people of FL
ton county to the greatest financi
achievement in the history of {
county, was called upon for advi
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BROTHERS MEET AT HOME
Corp1 Jay Collins, Aero Supp
Ccr,.d~ov, CIT stationed at Ka1l