Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1940-05-16
Red Cross Drive
Begun This Week
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already spent by the American Red
Cross has gone into Poland and Fin
land for relief of civilian war suf-
ferers, Baxter explained. Ten Amer
lean Red Cross ambulances formerly
used in Finland now are in use in
other war zones. American Red Cross
chapters have turned out approx
mately 100000 garments for Euro
pean war civilians since last Sep
TENDER.
Norman III. Davis Speaks.
Norman H. Davis, chairman of the
American National Red Cross, broad
cast the following statement recently
over the NBC network:
millions more today became the
tragic victims of ruthless war as
the result of the invasion of Holland,
Belgium and Luxembourg. Their
people for months in dread of war
have struggled to escape it. Today
they may be forced to relinquish their
safety, their security, their peace and
their possessions. They join hordes
of others who already dwell in despair
and restitution.
"Your American Red Cross since
the invasion of Poland, has carried
relief to Poland and to Polish refugees
in Hungary, Roumania, Latvia and
Lithuania. 1t has rendered assist
ance in England and in France. 1t
has helped brave, courageous little
Finland. 1t has aided harrassed Nor
way. In so doing it has used its
general funds, the results of its an
nual Roll Call, the contributions sent
it voluntarily. 1t has made no ap-
peal, no campaign for funds.
''It now must do so. The months
ahead threaten and may demand all
our resources. And so your Red
Cross calls to all the country, to all
its people everywhere, to give and
to give generously.
Suffering in Many Lands.
"a minimum of S1O,OOO,OOO must
be had at once. Motorized mechan-
lied warfare in all its fury sweeps
across brave but little lands. De-
struction is rapid. So also must be
the response of those who would sus-
tain the sufferers.
Death dealing airplanes ride the
skies. The carnage of their creation
sweeps many lands. Armored tanks,
motorized artillery now across whole
countries, destroying as in a blight
all standing in their way.
Cattle, crops, homes, people, even
children stand in fear then in despair
only to fall into destruction. Some
will live. They must be aided to en-
dure, to struggle on.
eve in America live in compara-
tive health and happiness in relative
safety and security. Those in sor-
rowed lands whom we must help are
being stripped of all. The war today
is not just between those who wear
uniform. 1t strikes down civilians,
the aged, defenseleSS women and lit
tie children. They are being stripped
of even the dignity given them by
their Creator.
ITO them we must send our assist
ance. The American Red Cross, the
official relief agency of this country
and its people, is prepared to give
that aid. Its vast army of volun-
teers, its greater army of senior and
junior members, its skilled expert
enced personnel, its safeguards, its
equipment all are ready, but funds
are needed. They are needed in great
amounts. They may be needed in
even greater amounts than we can
now anticipate.
Hoped War Would not Spread.
eve have waited hoping almost
against hope that the war would not
spread but soon would end. Against
great pressure we have delayed this
appeal for funds hoping that we
could without it finance the war re-
lief expected of us. The Red Cross
societies of all the countries involved
in armed conflict in Europe have re-
quested aid except Germany. We
were advised that Germany could
take care of its own. The appeals
of the other nations through their
Red Cross societies, however, have
increased in recent weeks. Their