Omaha daily bee., 1919-11-08
Letter APPEAL
FOR RED CROSS
FUND SUCCEEDS
State Committee Investigates
Plan and y Announces
That it Is Fully
Satisfied.

Members OF the state executive
committee of the Red Cross met
with Al. c. Scott, chairman OF the
Third Red Cross roll call live,
Friday afternoon and went over the
entire situation in connection with
the campaign that is being coducted
in Omaha to raise 100000, the city's
quota OF $l5,000,00O.
Members of the state committee
expressed entire satisfaction over the
manner in which the Omaha cam
paign is being conducted, and adj
vlsed that it be continued along the
same lines. All members were OPP
timistic, and unhesitatingly main
tanned that if nothing unforeseen in.
tervcnes, Omaha will reach its goal
by Tuesday night.
Chairman Scott pointed out that
when the Ak-Sar-Ben people made
their recent campaign to raise
100000, more than 400 business
men, whose salaries range from
$1,000 to $4,000 a year, each gave
up eight days of time. Thus, their
business losing more than the en-
tire total asked from Omaha by the
Red Gross.
A Letter Campaign.
Going upon the theory that time
is money that can never be replaced,
while cash can, Chairman Scott as
serted that the Red Cross had con-
Quoted letter campaign, instead
of asking men to neglect their busi-
ness to 20 out and solicit funds. He
said that thousands of letters ap-
pealing for funds had been sent to
Omaha business men, firms and cor
porations, and that now the re-
sponses are coming in in manner
that is entirely satisfactory, most of
them bringing checks for good-sized
sums. .
On the whole, Mr.. Scott expressed
the opinion that by adopting the
letter soliciting plan, more money
will be saved than would have been
possible if business men had gone
out and solicited subscriptions to
the fund. Members of the state COM
mittee agreed with him in his con-
clusion relative to this matter.
Expenses Held Down.
It was shown that the present
drive has been conducted along eco
nomical lines, and that the expenses
have been held to the lowest posi-
Bile minimum, not more than dozen
persons being on salary, while the
others, including a large number OF
women have been freely and cheer
fully giving their time.
The drive will be continued up to
and including next Tuesday, and in
the meantime the women will keep
on with their house-to-house cam
paign. Up to last night they had
received little more than $l5,Ooo
in membership subscriptions, MAX
ing the total cash and pledges in the
neighborhood of $4,000.
It is known that within the next
three days there will be an increase
in the cash receipts, as scores OF
business men have notified the
headquarters offices that they were
prepared to contribute and would
send their checks by mail.
Donates "Booby" Prize.
The third Red Cross roll call is
SIS richer by reason of the Ak-Sar-
Ben drive to raise 100000 to
finance an exposition to be held in
Omaha. c. ]. Thorson, First Trust
company, was major of one OF the
Ak-Sar-Ben soliciting teams. He
and his men were hard workers, but
when the returns were counted, it
was ascertained that Major Thorson
had won the "booby" prize, So
worth of street car fare slugs.
Major Thorson is good sport
and a good loser, so he cashed in
his slugs, receiving SIS silver and
presented it to Chairman Scott.
Red Cross Notes.
The McKeen Motor Car company
is another Omaha concern that has
gone over the top in the Red Cross
drive. With its employees all taking
memberships it is 100 per cent.
From Long Beach, Cal, Miss
Evelyn Ledwich, an Omaha can
teen worker spending the winter
there, sends three subscriptions.
At the women's headquarters
Mrs. E. B. Ransom is known as the
lightning calculator" She foots
long columns of figures more quick
ly than the most expert machine
operator ~
Henry C. Sprague of Fremont
found a silver dollar. He went to
the nearest Red Cross booth and
invested in a membership card.
Miss Alice Huston, major in
charge of the Florence district, re-
ports she found one couple, Mr.. and
Mrs. E. H. Manning, the parents of
three sets of twins. Mr.. and Mrs.
Manning went 100 per cent, taking
membership cards for themselves
and all of their six children.
Peace Conference