El Paso Morning Times (El Paso, Tex.), Vol. 38TH YEAR, Ed. 3, Tuesday, May 21, 1918 Page: 8 of 10
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ft. PASO MORNING TIMES
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ASKS EL PASO FOR $500001
Fads About the American Red Cross What Has Your Red Cross Money Done?
. Did you know that
It has established and is operating twenty dispensaries in the
American Army Zone in France to care for the needy families there
and to improve health conditions in that section ready for our troops?
It is housing and feeding thousands of children in the War Zone
to keep them away from the danger of gas and shell fire?
It has divided the entire War Zone into six main districts with Red
Cross workers at each point to distribute cooking utensils agricul-
tural implements beds bedding food and clothing?
It provides builders and ready-to-put-up buildings to house the
homeless in the devastated regions often before the walls of the de-
stroyed homes have cooled?
It is bringing over two hundred tons of supplies every day into
Paris from which one hundred and twenty-five tons are reshipped to
branch warehouses over France?
It is providing an artificial limb factory outside of Paris in addi-
tion to special plants for the making of splints?
What will YOU give to keep this Hand of Mercy at its work?
In the first place it has enabled the American people through
the Red Cross to help care for its army and navy.
1 Secondly it has enabled America to hearten her Allies fighting
forces and to keep up among the civilian populations the spirit to
win the war. That alone hás made the American Red Cross one of
the largest factors since our entry into the wan
Canteens which provided food and hot drinks -more than a mil-
lion meals to soldiers in December warehouses crammed with ma-
terials situated all along the French line all along the Italian lines1
at seaports and at places where our soldiers are going to fight; institu-
tions for the care of consumptives institutions for the re-education of
maimed men these are a few of the concrete accomplishments
abroad.
f At home the millions of woolen sweaters muf flersj socks and
other comforts for the men in camps; the work of sanitation around
cantonments and the help and advice given dependents of soldiers
and sailors these are things which wifl "make you your children
and your children s children in whatever part of the world they may
be proud of being Americans."
fill vou do YOUR share to keep this Hand of Mercv at its work?
HOW WAS THE LAST WAR FUND SPENT?
It is a fair question and it is fairly answered in the detailed and itemized reports
that have been published in the El raso newspapers.
You never saw it? Then ask at the El Paso Red Cross Chapter or write for the
Red Cross wants you to know where your money went.
They say that Red Cross supplies have a way of coming through on time.
Italy surely has found us not wanting in promptness when her great trial came.
And Rumania they said no allied nation could get through to help her dire need.
But the Red Cross FOUND A WAY.
It's not always a cheap way "Needs must" costs money. But did you give that
money TO BE SAVED or TO SAVE lives? Are you not willing to pay five dollars
or FIFTY to bring something of comfort to a war racked tortured mortal who but for
you would surely die?
And of one thing you may be sure. NOT ONE PENNY OF THAT HUNDRED
MILLION HAS GONE FOR ANYTHING BUT WAR RELIEF.
In the Red Goss there is no high salaried bureaucracy no extravagant administra-
tion expense. All of the higher officials and nine-tenths of the workers are unpaid vol-
unteers. The cost of raising and collecting the last War Fund was about one-half of one per
cent more than covered by the banking interest on the money.
YOUR Red Cross needs another hundred million to lighten just a little of the awful
load of misery "over there." Your share is all that you can give and then a little
more. 1
WILL YOU HOLD UP YOUR END?
Let us tell the world on Wednesday night that El Paso gave $50000 and more.
It will make every El Paso boy we have in the service proud to say: "I Came From El Paso
The Red Cross Canvassing Committees Begin
Tomorrow. El Paso Will Be Ready and Willing
Join the Big Red Cross Parade This
Afternoon at 3:30
Get Your Tickets Early for the Elks' Red
Cross Minstrels at Texas Grand
THIS SPACE CONTRIBUTED TO AID THE RED CROSS BY
Buquor Motor Co. El Pato Overland Co. F ranklin Motor Car Co. Lone Star Motor Co. M. L. Naquin
Oakland Auto Salea Co. Southern Motor Co. Tri-State Motor Co. Weet Texas Motor Co.
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Black, James S. El Paso Morning Times (El Paso, Tex.), Vol. 38TH YEAR, Ed. 3, Tuesday, May 21, 1918, newspaper, May 21, 1918; El Paso, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth199667/m1/8/: accessed May 1, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting University of Texas at El Paso.