The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-04-18
Managers From All Over State
at Meeting Here.
j. l.. Johnson, Chairman South
west Division, in City.
HENRY ALLEN is PRAISED
Telegram Telling of His Work
Read at Meeting.
Captain Vickers Speaker at
Noon C. of C.. Luncheon.

The morning meeting of the Red
Cross war fund managers for Kansas
was held at Memorial hall at 10
o'clock. S. E. Cobb, of Topeka, pre-
sided, and speakers from the South
west division of the American Red
Cross, with headquarters at st. Louis,
made addresses.
]. l.. Johnston, chairman of the
Southwest division. outlined the plan
of the Forthcoming campaign for the
raising of a hundred million dollars
for the Red Cross the drive to begin
May 20. Il am taking this matter
up he said, "as a business PROPOSE
ton, and when 1 am asked what
donors to the Red Cross will get for
their money, l shall say that they
are buying safety for themselves and
their families and Americans of the
generations to come" Folders, con-
tai. ing instructions for the campaign,
were distributed to the committeeman
present, and Johnston explained all
the papers contained therein, reiterat-
ing that the instructions were in the
nature of suggestions that should be
mocified or amplified to meet local
, conditions.
Praise for the work of Henry j.
Allen in France was contained in
telegram which johnson read from
George w. Simmons of st. Louis. who
has Just returned from the western
/ front. The message, which was sent
Wednesday night from New York.
contained greeting for the state Red
Cross organization.
Allen Doing Big Work.
Give my warmest greetings to
everybody in Kansas" Simmons said,
land congratulate them on their mag
| nificent representation of Red Cross
| work in France in the person of Henry
\ j. Allen, who because of his great
| executive ability, his big heart and
keen understanding of human nature.
/ was requested above everyone in
| America to go to France to take
! charge of what 1 consider one of the
most important works the American
| people are doing. Briefly, Aliens de-
| partment places men and women in
every hospital. who sit at bedsides of
sick or wounded soldiers and write
| letters home for them with details
about the wound and how it happened.
when an American boy dies, his
mother receives comfort from the fact
| that an American woman was at his
| bedside to the end and will transmit
his last words to the loved ones at
! home. Aliens department also has
! men who search among the comrades
| of our boys who are killed and learn
details of how each boy fell so that
! the family may be advised also, send
| ing the family a photograph of the
grave wherein the boy lies.
ALIENS department also is organiZ-
ing a section in which trained men
are assigned to each division to whom
| worries he has about folks at home
that may depress him. Then, thru an
| efficient Red Cross organization and a
division director of civilian relief in
| America, the home service section of
the local chapter of the Red Cross
mr. doc 6a nQ1 ra1
or other assistance at home needed by
the soldiers family. Kansas should be
mighty proud of this magnificent
/ work; as l am proud of Henry Allen
one of my best personal friends. a
man who does things with both his
heart and his head. This illustrates
one phase of the immense work the
American people are doing in France
thru their efficient agent. the Ameri-
can Red Cross. 1 know that the Kan
sas people will respond as Kansas al
ways does when the time comes to
provide funds to continue such work.
Captain Vickers Here.
Wounded twice, operated on with.
out an anaesthetic, and then return
ing and fighting until disabled a third
time, is the record of Captain Wick
ers, of the Scottish army in France
Captain Vickers was in Topeka today
to lecture at the meeting of Red Cros.
committeeman in session, following a
luncheon at the Chamber of Com
merce.
when I am asked" said Captain
Nickers, ''if law abiding people and
Christians can enter into warfare and
kill their fellow men, | answer thai
they can when they are fighting a.
England and France and America are
fighting in this war-for civiIiza tior
and democracy.
"I am one of those" the captain
went on, who thought America
should have been in the war a Ions
time before she entered. / though
she should have been in when Bel
gium was invaded