The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1918-01-24
ACTIVITIES OF
THE RED CROSS
Statement That the Red Cross is
Selling Garments to Soldiers is
Vehemently Denied by Private
AdOlph Carlson, Now at Camp Cody
GRAND WORK OF THE sHRINERs
Multitude of Ways and Means for
Raising Funds for This Noble
Work is Devised at Hundreds of
Places Throughout the Country.

Here at least is a lie against the
Red Cross, mailed by the man about
whom the story is told. Private
Adolph Charlson now in Camp Cody,
New Mexico, writes to Mrs. Sands
of the Kenyon Red Cross.
"Received your letter a few days
ago with the surprising news that
some person in that vicinity has made
the statement that I have purchased
socks and other garments form the
Red Cross.
eff the reader whom it may con-
Germ will place himself or herself in
my position, they still would not be
able to imagine with what wonder
ment this news struck me. l can
truthfully say that I have not pur-
chased any garments whatsoever from
the Red Cross. AS to the Red Cross
articles I have in my possession,
they have been given me as gifts. AS
to the sweater l am wearing, it was
given to me by Mrs. Fogelson, who
has been a very good friend to me-"
every student a member and
every member a worker" is the slogan
adopted by the Aberdeen High School
in the Membership Drive for the Red
Gross, which will continue until the
middle of February.
A Red Cross sale at Wetonka, South
Dakota, netted $903.01 for the cause.
Little Louise Best gave her only
possession, a little brown leghorn
rooster. It was sold and resold until
$29 was realized.
The Shriners of Butte, Montana,
have turned over to the local chapter
of the Red Cross 1880, proceeds OF
the sale of the famous sack of flour
first sold by Islam Temple at San
Francisco and which is on it's way
around the United States to be sold
and resold for the benefit Of differ
ent chapters. After being sold by
Islam Temple, the sack went to
Honolulu where it brought $1O36 at
Aloha Temple. Aloha Temple agreed
to double the amount any other tenn
ple raised if it exceeded that secured
by the Honolulu sale. Algeria Tenn
ple of Helena took up the challenge
and raised $4159. 1t "a then en-
closed in a bearskin and sent to Butte
where Bagdad Temple outdid the gen.
crosby of Helena mobiles.
Because of economic management
and care of funds to see that they
are kept drawing interest, the North
Dakota Red Cross Society has so con-
Quoted it's business that $1.02 is avail
able for the Red Cross for every dol
lar collected in the state.
New England North Dakota Chap
ter of the Red Cross has received a
check for $163.83, net proceeds from
the sale of 1887 rabbits shipped to
Minneapolis in November. To this
will be added the net proceeds Of the
rabbit hunt banquet, $685., making
a total of $229.68.
"In response to a request from Red
Cross War Council for specific advice
from General Pershing's Medical Staff
in France as to whether the Red
Cross appropriation of n hundred
thousand dollars for medical research
was contributing toward the relief OF
humane suffering, the following cable
gram has been received and relayed
at the Northern Division:
"We believe the Red Cross has
properly expended its funds because
it is the duty of the Red Cross to
care for sick and wounded American
soldiers and to use funds to prevent
those soldiers from being infected
with the various diseases met with
in their peculiar army life.
"There are several diseases, the
exact nature of which is still unde-
termined, as they are new and pecul-
lar to this war and must be studied
now to aid our troops. We stand or
the principle that Red Cross funds
should back such work rather thar
secure special funds for that pur.
pose. The Medical Department Of
the United States Army is in full &C.
cord with all the Red Cross is doing
in this regard. 1t is cooperating ane
assisting in every way in research
matters and is counting upon oul
Help III CHlS TcSdfU. IL HAS IHc INCs
Cross to help it study the many prob
lens of preventative medicines ant
of medical and surgical disease:
against which the army Medical Corp!
must struggle.
1.-THE Research Committee assists
the Red Cross in the management o:
its funds and it's experiments ant
controls the type and kind of exper
imentation. The Research COMMITTEE
whose names you have, controls full!
it's research work against which tn
anti -visectionists are protesting.
English medical authorities ar
vigorously cooperating with the Re
Cross in research work, SO we fee
that any n e~ndeavoring to stop tn
Red Cross from assisting in it's hum
unitarian and humane desire to pre-
vent American soldiers from bein
diseased and protecting them by soly
ing the peculiar problems Of diseas
with which the army is c~onfronte
is in reality giving aid and confol
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