The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-05-20
"Why Limit Force7" Is
Answer To Talk Of Army
Of 100000
HOW FUNDS HAVE
BEEN EXPENDED
Great Organization Gives
Report In Beginning
New Campaign
tRy Associated Press.l

New York, May, 20-The American
Red Cross drive for a second $780,
100000 war fund was opened here
Saturday night by President Wilson
in an address at the metropolitan
operahouse.
The President was given great
demonstration when he entered the
hall at $3.50 p. m. The President was
introduced by Cleveland Dodge.
A In introducing the President, Mr
ADodge said that the President had
Masked for the privilege" Of march
EIg in the parade, when none Of the
Bomnfttee had cared to invite him. y
Ehe President, Mr.. Dodge declared, is
Inc spokesman of all the great spirit
d IElal forces Of the world.
I The President started speaking by
S,aying he did not come to New YORK
10 tell OF the work of the Red Cross,
Gut to tell what Il think it all
aThere are two duties which we
are face to face" he said. "The first
duty is to win the war. The second
s to win it greatly and worthily.
& Why Limit Number.
'T have heard men say" said he,
] 'tthat we must put five million men
in France. Why limit to that num-
ber?' av
Every ship shall go on every voy-
age with every man and aid the sup
piles it can carry, he added.
The crowd arose when he said: I
ana here to stand by Russia as we'll
as by France"
The President said ne had tested
the Teutonio nations and found them
dnsincere. For the first time in his
tory. said the President the world
has seen an unselfish war.
II cannot fight for a. selfish pur-
pose, but am proud to fight Tor
mankind" he said.
Nothing" said the President, 'in
one hundred years has knitted the
nation together as has the war. 1t
also" said he '1s knitting the world
together"
Against autocracy are lined up the
free governments representing the
greater part of the population OF the
civilized world, he said.
Liberal giving to the Red Crpss,"
the President said, us every mans
duty. This is the war that will save
the world. The war is being fought
that the world may be q better place
to live in ~.
Giving To Himself. y
."In giving to the Red Cross" said
the President, a man is giving to
himself. "One of the damning things
against the Germans he said, 'is
that they have not respected the Red
Cross" ~
The President told p with evident
endowment the story OF the Indian,
who, when asked what the war was
about. said it was to make the
whole world safe for the Democratic
The President concluded by declar-
ing he summoned the American peo-
ple to say how unanimously they are
ready to sustain the hearts Of the world
by contributions to the Red Cross.
"The cross" he said, sis an emblem
of Christianity. The organization is
aiding in bringing the American
people together into ona great family.
Only where peoples are free do
they realize their interdependence
upon one anotlner.'
President In Parade.
The President, COMMANDMENTS
chief OF the army and navy, marched
on foot through Fifth avenue Satur-
day at the head of $4,000 soldiers OF
mercy. Then, standing in the re-
viewing stand, he gravely saluted the
colors as the women of the Red
Gross fled past, in seemingly end
less line, bearing their flags as
braveIy and wearing their uniforms
as proudly, as the nations fighting
men.
The great procession In this city
was described as only one of 1900
parades with 100000 Red Cross
workers, marching on the same a.f-
sernoon In the United States.
To0tsore and weary before they
had gone half the distance given
them to cover, the women trudgad
along as gaInely as any column OF
regulars Those with gray hair
and there We're thousands of them
marched as brave1y as their younger
sisters, many carrying service fiags.
AS The Presidents car drove up to
the curb he was recognized and a
fcsnn4iuv9ed an Y1aesa .