New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1918-05-15

The first big gun in the Red Cross
100000 second war fund drive will
be fired Friday night at 8 o'clock
when a public mass meeting will be
held in the Ruswin Lyceum.
The Liberty Chorus, under the di-
Frection of Professor G. b. Mathews,
instructor of music in the public
schools will sing in conjunction with
the Universal Chorus from Landers,
Frary & Clark's. Special Red Cross
films will be shown.
The speaker of the evening will be,
Commissioner Luther ID. Wishardl
who will speak upon THE Ministry
of the Red Cross to Our American
~Soldiers in Europe Howard L.
Platt, chairman of the speakers COM
mittee, considers New Britain very
fortunate to secure Mr.. Wishards
services as he comes directly from
the front, where he was sent BY the
War Council at7the sspcciata atasfeauestsaof7
President Wilson. He will also pre-
sent an important message from Gen
aral Pershing to the American Red
Cross
Travelled All Over World.
Mr.. Wishard has long resided and
travelled extensively IN many of the
bellgerent countries in Europe, Asia
and Africa. He crossed the Cauca-
sus, Persia, Kurdistan and Asia Minor
in the saddle. Years of intimate con-
j. tact and acquaintance with all classes
of people in the nations at war pc
culiarly fitted him for making first
hand studies of conditions in the war
zone and for grasping the principles
Sfsabe Prussian plot for world DOM
Pg\ time connection with the
and Sailors orphans and his
FIFTY with the great sanitary
.elief ENTERPRISES in other wars
pointed HIM out as the man
ninently qualified to make an
gent survey OF the vast hospital
E and the measures of relAt
the Red CROSS is employing
e soldiers children and refugees.
years of resideRce in hospitals
|eWabltpd him to make ap exceptionally
intelligSnt inspection oE the treat
ment of \gas burns jaw Fractures, ir-
ritation OF wounds and (orthopaedic
work with.,which the Red Gross is so
vitality connected as the chief ally Of
the great SURGEONS who have Agone to
the war zone to minister to the
American wounded as we'll as those of
our Allies.
Mr.. Wishard holds a foremost
place among patriotic platform
speakers. He combines a high or
der of eloquence, a vividness of char
acter sketching and an exceptionally
firm grasp of the issues over which
despotism and democracy are met in
a death grapple. His original and
powerful treatment of the facts and
problems of that war differ from
anything yet heard on the platform.
He thrills and nerves men beyond
measure for facing and throttling the
new barbarism which threatens to
wreck civilization.
Under Fire With Canadians.
His baptism Of shell fire in com pany
with a division of Canadian troops;
his observations when conducting an
inspection of the devastated area; his
through which a wounded soldier
passes from the battle front to the
base hospital, when his life is so de-
pendent upon the agents and equip
ment furnished by the Red Cross; his
word pictures of camp life Some
where in France" and, above all, his
special message from General PERISH
ing to the members and supporters OF
the American Red Cross, entitIe him
to the enthusiastic receptions with
which he is everywhere met.
Mayor George A. 0uig1ey will oc-
clipy a seat on tho platform and Will
deliver a short uddrcas preliminary to
Mr.. Wishard's lecture.
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