The Marietta journal and courier., 1918-04-12
FLOWERS HELP RAISE
MORE FUNDS FOR
THE RED Cross
A New Chairmanship Is
Created to Collect and
Sell Flowers.

Dell Flowers.
Mrs, William Tate has been APP
pointed Flower Chairman, for the
Marietta Branch.
This Craftsmanship is the outcome
of very beautiful work accomplish
ed by Mrs. Tate in the collection and
sale of Lilies of the Valley.
The response by all who were for
tunate enough to have beds of these
lovely flowers to Mrs. Tates appeal
made it possible to add during the
past week the sum of $64, to be di-
vided equally between the Surgical
supplies and the Hospital supplies,
And to give to the Hospital ambu-
lance of the d. A. gR. SIS.
The collection of the lilies has
taught wonderful lesson in the
value Of concentration of effort
Many of the contributions were in
very small numbers, as many people
had only few of the lilies in bloom.
Some being as few as two, but the
aggregate has been great.
The list of contributors will be
given on the Honor Roll next week.
If any one reading this notice has
lilies that can be contributed to this
committee please telephone Mrs.
Tate.
Spice Pink, Peonies, Sweet Peas,
and Iris will also be disposed of by
this committee and any one growing
any Of these flowers can help the
Red Cross by contributing them
through Mrs. Tate's Committee.
SPRING DRIVE FOR NEW
MEMBERS AND RENEWAL
OF MEMBERSHIP.
Beginning next week and contin-
uing through May the Membership
Committees in all of the branches in
the County will be hard at work in
the effort to enroll every man, wo-
man and child in the county as Red
Cross Members.
The growth of the Red Cross in
the United States was told in an in
terview in the "Petit Parisien", a fa-
nous Paris paper, by own Mr.. Ivy
Lee, son of Rev. j. w. Lee, in an is
sue of February. eve organized
two public meetings in the States of
Oklahoma, which is our most recent
state, and which only twenty five
years ago was populated by Indians
only We organized conferences at
Oklahoma City and at Tulsa. We
had larger audience than any where
else, unless in New York City. We
had asked from the committee of
Tulsa 100000 francs ($60,000). But
on the first day the subscription gath
cred by one member of the commit
tee alone, between in the morning
and one o'clock in the afternoon, was
625, 900 francs, ($125,OOO."
"All of the citizens who subscribed
to our Red Cross expressed by this
act of subscription their opinion. The
gift of each is the fervent, sincere,
heartfelt sympathy for the cause of
the Allies. This proves the perfect
moral unity of the American people
its unshakable resolution that can
be summed up as follows: All the
sacrifices for victory" "The Germans
have pretended that a few Of our
millionaires alone responded 10 the
appeal, and that the popular masses
remained Indifferent. But do you
know how many members Of Red
Cross is composed of in America at
this time February 1879? \ For
ty-two millions! The adherents each
pay ST to our cause, excepting the
School Units of children, who pay
25 cents each"
The Young Ladies Auxiliary, Mrs.
~ K Smith, Chairman, has decided
to appropriate the fund already in
bank made by the committee, to the
Surgical Dressings committee. The
next amount made by this Auxiliary
will be appropriated to the Hospital
Supplies Committee.
The Auxiliary has decided to aban-
don the original plan of raising funds
with which to purchase and ambu-
lance in view of the pressing need for
funds to carry on the three great
by the Marietta Branch, Hospital
Supplies, Knitting, and Surgical Sup
plies. The amount now in hand
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