Are You a Patriot ?
Do YOU Love Our Country?
Then Join The RED CROSS
A
LLIANCE and Western Nebraska is sending her sons to war your friends, perhaps
your relatives. All of us eannot go to the front but we all can "do our bit."
Xhe very best we can do is to see that the sick and wounded are cared for.
This is the function of the Red Cross. And the Red Cross must have our help it must be
placed on a war footing. Hundreds of thousands of dollars must be subscribed within the
next few days. We arc appealing to you to help. Your contribution will assist our country's
success in the field and on the sea.
The fighting men in whom the nation reposes its trust will not be found wanting in the
President Woodrow Wilson Says:
"Men who give their lives for the defense of their
country deserve to find the people they protect pre
pared to care for the sick and wounded.
"A large, well organized and efficient Red Cross is
essential for such a result. Therefore it is both a pat
riotic and humane service that is rendered by every cit
izen of this country who becomes a member of the
American Red Cross.
What the Red Cross Does
It cares for the sick and wounded men
of the army and navy at the war base.
It provides for soldiers' and sailors'
families.
It secures employment for men disa
bled in the service of our country.
It relieves distress caused by disaster to
cities, towns and villages in time of peace.
The RED CROSS is the greatest human
itarian organization in the world.
Fill out the coupon NOW and send it in
with your contribution.
What You Can Do
You can help establish the Red Cross on
a war footing. Its organization has been
adequate during times of peace, but now that
we are confronted with a situation which is
the most critical in our history, it must be
strengthened and prepared to serve our
great needs.
We must contribute liberally so hospital
equipment and supplies can be provided
that absolute necessities may be ready for
use. Weeks and months must elapse for this
preparation even after the money is sub
scribed. There is no time to be lost we
must act NOW.
It is not a question of "Can I Give?"
but "HOW MUCH can I give?" There is
not a single reader of thTs newspaper who
cannot afford to give something.
Let us be generous. Thus Is a worthy
cause. Where can you give money to bet
ter advantage than by a subscription to the
Red Cross? There is no charity more prac
tical than the work of the American Red
Cross. Every penny contributed to it will
ease the thrpb of pain in some human breast,
somewhere, some time, in war or peace.
Let us not stop our contributions at one
dollar if we can give two, nor at five if we
can give ten, nor at twenty-tive if we can in
fairness to ourselves make it one hundred
dollars. ENROLL AT ONCE.
This advertisement is inserted for the American Red
Cross, Alliance Chapter, by
The Potash Products Company
Hoffland, Nebraska
courage to do their part. Nor muRt these men find that the men and women upon whom they
must depend have done less than their utmost to care for the sick and wounded.
Alliance and Western Nebraska can do nothing which will reflect greater glory on her
citizens than a hearty response to the call for enrollment in the American Red Cross. The
patriotic impulses for effective service to the nation must be mobilized. Do your part to
make Alliance one of the big Red Cross cities of the country.
New York has 125,000 Red Cross members, Chicago has 47,000. We believe Alliance will
surpass any city of its size in the country in response to this appeal.
INFORMATION ABOUT THE RED CROSS
Extracts from an Addrvitti by H. J. Hill
The rnerican Hed Cross Is designated to take charge, under supervision of the
Medical Corps, of all patients turned over to It In what we know as the second zone
the sone of the military base. Here, in the great base hospitals organized and
equipped by the people In times of peace, the wounded soldier and sailor meet for
the first time what is comparable to a regular hospital establishment. Here he re
ceives expert surgical attention and the best care and nursing that a grateful people
can provide. Letters from his dear ones at home are received and read to him here.
and his letters home are written for him by clerks provided in the hospital.
Here he stays until well enough to be transported to one of the great genersl
hospitals commandeered by the government, buck many miles from the war front.
or until he is discharged to his home.
So, you see, it is not a mere incidental piece of relief machinery which the Amer
ican Hed Cross is building.
Twenty-five movable base hospitals, each of them capable of providing for the
needs of an army division of 20.000 men. have been organized during the past twelve
months. Five have been provided for the Navy The equipment for these hospitals,
costing something like $31,000 each, has been provided and stored in orderly fashion,
where it is instantly available. The trainod personnel, consisting of 261 surgeons,
pharmacists, dentists, nurseB, assistant nurses, stretcher bearers, orderlies, clerks,
hospital cooks, carpenters, etc., has been drawn from the strongest hospitals and Red
Crora Chapters In twenty-five of our great American cities, and. for a period of two
years, is pledged to respond to the cull of the government for active field service.
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Let us build our machinery now commensuate with our other resources. No or
ganization holding a membership of 200,000 or 300,000 ran truly reflect the gener
oub Impulses of our people.
Japan has more than 2,000,000 members enrolled in her Red Cross. May there
not be a vital connection between this fact and the fighting fitness of her urmles and
navies in her recent war? Germany had. at the outbreak of the war, nearly 1,500,
000 members in her Red Cross. Does this not partially explain the fact that her mil
itary and civilian population have been cared for as no other nation in Kurope has
been cared for in this terrible war? Austria's" Red Cross, with a membership of 38!,
000, broke down in the early stages of the war; her machinery was not adequate.
While men died on the battlefield and in her hospitals, she hud to stop, as God grant
we may not be compelled to stop, to patch her machinery, to expand it, and to bring
into being what evory nation should have before the call to the flag goes out.
The machinery of the Society Interlocks closely with that of the government
The President of the Society is the President of the United sAutes; its Treasurer is
the Federal Comptroller of Currency; the War Department audit its accounts; th
Surgeon General of the United States Medical Corps and an Admiral of the Navy head
its committee on military and naval relief.
In time of war the government takes over the equipment and personned organ
ised by the Society, and every physician, nurse and officer on its roll is automatically
given proper military rank.
Since 1905, when Congress specially chartered the American Red Cross, every
resident man, woman, and child in America it entitled to hold membership in It.
The American Rod Cross, while purely a volunteer organization, la officially designated
by the government to supply the work of the army and naval medical corps, und to
officiality receive and distribute on behalf of the government all moneys and supplies
required to lelieve communities overwhelmed by disaster, and to co-operat.' through
its base hospitals and other military units, with the army and navy.
Red Cross members are not expected to go to the war
front, nor do they assume any obligation other than the
payment of small dues.
American
Red Cross
Alliance Chapter, Alliance, Nebraska
Please enroll my name us a member of the American R-d Cross. I in
close the sum of therefor.
Subscribing member, per year $ 2.00
Contributing member, per year 5.00
Sustaining member, per year 10.00
'Lift member, per year 25.00
'Patron member 100.00
Annual member .. ... 1.00
Includes subscription, American Red Cross Magazine, issued monthly.
Mr.
Mrs
Miss
Home Address
City and State
Make till checks pu)uble to Alliance tpter Ainrictui Ited I'ros.
