The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1918-05-09
SECOND RED
CROSS DRIVE
The Inhabitants of Bottineau County
County Are Called Upon for the
Second Time to Rally to the AS
sistance of the Red Cross.
$S,5OO.OO is OUR ALLOTMENT.

is Adopted by the Committee in
Charge-Everyone is Expected to
Subscribe According to Their Means.
In the Red Cross drive, Bottienau
county is called upon to raise the sum
Of $8,500.00. This county has made
good on all efforts relating to war
work and in the recent Liberty Loan
drive made record surpassed by but
very few counties in the Northwest.
It is hoped-and there is every reason
to believe-that our citizens will res
pond with the same spirit and good
will in this drive that they have in the
Liberty Loan drives.
The money to be raised in this drive
will not go into the usual Red Cross
channels; that is, it will not be- used
for the purchase Of yarn or other ma
terial. It will be sent as soon as
raised to France. It will be used for
war work-for the immediate needs
of our boys on the battlefront. The
gigantic scale on which the war has
been carried on the past seven weeks
has made demands upon the Red
Cross that could hardly have been
foreseep by even the most observant
and vigilant persons.
Our boys on the battlefront the
trenches and hospitals-are in urgent
need of the assistance that the Red
Cross can give them. This organiza-
tion cannot carry out it's work unless
it is given proper financial assistance.
Not dollar goes astray that gets
into the hands of the Red Cross. All
the reports from France speak in
glowing terms of the vast amount. of
work accomplished by the money at
hand. It is needless to dwell at
length on the nature of the work that
this organization has so successfully
carried on. .Bottineau county has al
ready furnished large quota of boys
for war. service; many of them being
now on the firing line. More have
been called to leave for Camp Lewis
within few days! And more calls
are sure to follow. There is not, q
person in Bottineau county who will
not have several close personal friends
in the trenches. Many will have rela-.
tives over there. We feel that we owe
it to the boys who are fighting our
battles to leave nothing undone that
can be done to relieve their suffering
and to ease the hardships that SOL
diers endure. No other organization
can render service equal to that Civ
en- by the noble band of women enlist
ed in the Red Cross. e.
Those in charge Of the drive in Bot
tineau county have adopted a new
plan. There will be no committees
for the various units to make house
to house canvass. It is believed that
it will prove for more satisfactory to
have every person who subscribes do
so voluntarily. For that reason ar
rangements will be made to have the
polling places in each precinct in the
county kept open between the hours
of one and five on Tuesday, May East.
A committee will be present to accept
subscriptions and register names. AS
a. basis, the subscribers are expected
to subscribe an amount equal to five
per cent Of their Liberty Loan allot-
ment. For instance, if man was al
lotted a fifty-dollar bond, he will be
expected to subscribe $3.50 to the Red
Cross. The fact that he may have
oversubscribed to the Liberty Loan
will not have any bearing on this
plan. It is his allotment that gov
erns. This is most equitable method
and the eminent fairness of it must
appeal to all. Everyone gives accord
ing to his means. Persons who were
not allotted any Liberty Bonds are
also invited to subscribe according to
their means and their subscriptions
will be thankfully received. Chair
men will be selected for each Of the
five commissioner districts and they
will arrange for the committee in each
unit to receive subscriptions and reg
lister names.
Now let us all do our bit. Let us
all go to the polls on the day designat-
ed and voluntarily subscribe our allot-
ment. In this way we tighten the
work of those in charge of the drive.
It is our duty as well as theirs to see
that this money is raised. Let US do
our duty.
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Federal employment bureaus by the
United States Employment Service,
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