Arizona republican., 1918-01-28

necessity De increased considerably during the next twelve months, as if is the aim of the officials and the national organization to have on hand a supply of surgical dressings and other hospital necessities which will be adequate for any contingency which might arise
 In the supplying of materials for the soldiers and sailors. a big factor has been that of sending knitted garments or all descriptions. With the shortage of fuel which exists. the value of warm Knitted garments can be appreciated.
 Volunteer Help
 II IS interesting to note that all the work executed by the officials of the hed Cross has been without one cent or pay and that no officer of the or ganization has received any compensa- ton for services rendered. The actual cost Of printing. postage and miscel- !aneouS expense has been about a half or one per cent of the total amount handled, and in this connection your chapter has at all times been anxious to interest itself in no method of fi- nance except where the total receipts go 10 the Red Cross organization.
 we nave been advised by national neadquarters that all sorts of benefits
 nave been offered and all sorts of | I the Red Cross, many of them recurring
 the expenditure of a large amount in oruer 10 net a fair return. This meth
 od today will not do. The money need
 ca Dy the government for carrying on
 the war must be secured in large vol
 ume and with the utmost economy
 ana so with the funds required for con
 ductlng Red Cross activities. Any
 proposition that involves a large ex rxrtf
 IS not today acceptable
 The national organization has issued
 certain restrictions governing perform
 ances in aid of the Red Cross. 1t is
 necessary that permission to hold any sort of concert be secured from inc
 chapter officials before any affair can
 be arranged, and many methods of
 raising funds which may seem accept
 able to some, have been discoura ged
 by orders from headquarters.
 It IS evident that with the large
 amount of money that will be required.
 great care must be exercised in sane tioning any Red Cross benefit per
 formances
 There must be economy in opera
 ton Of charity just as in business. and
 no one will hesitate to give. no mat ter how much. provided the amount
 secured is judicially and carefully ex-
 pended.
 Your chapter has been complimented
 by the officials of the Pacific diyi-
 sion as being one of the most progress , we ana complete and active chapters
 Tn the west. It has been pointed fo as
 a model of chapter organization and
 effort, and many of the methods which were lnaugurated here have been
 adopted for use by many chapters in the Pacific division of the national or ganization.
 Your chapter was honored by hay
 Ing one of the members of its eN- ecutive committee appointed to repre- l sent Arizona on the advisory council , for the Pacific division.
 MT. Goodrich is to help the Pacific division officials in. co-ordinating Red Cross work in this state. Other mem : bers of your executive committee have assisted in the work of the state board of the Red Cross. The outlook for l9lt \ is indeed splendid.
 I The Chapter starts with a balance 70 on hand which will enable it to carr, s on all of it's activities, without i'm.
 palrment, for the next month or two
 It is probable that plans will be mad, I by national headquarters for anothe f Red Cross War Drive, and your chap = ter is in good shape to prepare for il [ Il IS nominal. At the present time tn, = only salary that is paid is that of tn S salvage department, and the amount i Q nominal It is believed that the worl . has now reached such dimensions tha = 1t will be necessary to secure the serv
 ices of some paid assistants We wan d again to bring to your attention tin = fact that all of the officers withou = exception, have served during the pas = eighteen months and continue to serv q without cent of pay. There is prob e ably no organization in existence whic g has handled such a large sum and ac d complished so much with such a sma h expediture for operating expenses Tn Il total amount, including Arinting. post n age, telephone and telegraph does nc " reach $500, and when you remembe IS that there are nearly 10000 member d who have had to receive a receiI ,e through the mail and 10000 button le which must be purchased out of thi l. miscellaneous fund, you will reaii7 s- what a small amount is actually eS r. pended for carrying on the organiza in tion. Analysing the general eXpens in and deducting the cost of postage an rs buttons, we find that the actual opei le ating expense of the chapter has al Id proximated $50 a month for the pa: r. IS months. Surely this is a recoI n worth reporting. t. The efforts of the ladies who ha, ,n had charge of the sewing and makir T. of garments is the most delightful pa D. of the work. It is a pleasure at tn lg time to suggest that of all the lab' to that is given, that part which is dor B. by the ladies in the sewing room is Il Id most cheerfully rendered and pei en formed in the ablest way.
 nt H. P. Davison, the head of Il
 Red Cross War Council. at the coI as ference in San Francisco stated tn; UT he would rather have the co-operatic as of the women of America than q worl t. ing fund of fifty million dollars; al S- the Phoenix Chapter is in better p'
 sition with the cooperation of Il
 ladies who do the Red Cross work of this vicinity than it would be with d. quarter million dollar Red Cross fur Of to work with.
 CT It would be unfair and it is impo m sible to mention all who have rel r. dered such splendid service to the R ss Cross and to the nation. The be
 thanks which they can ever be grant
 are the thanks of those whose suffe l. ing they have helped to alleviate. nd -o-----