ORTH SHORE BREEZE 
Vol. XV 
AND REMINDER 
Manchester, Mass., Friday, June 15, 1917 
No. 24 
Red Cross Pleads For $100,000,000 Next Week 
HE Narionat Rep Cross Assocta- 
T10N of the United States has un- 
dertaken to raise by voluntary contri- 
butions $100,000,000, to be expended 
in its work for our army-and navy in 
the present war. This is an enormous 
sum and the appeal of the Society, 
coming as it does at this time when 
so many and so urgent calls arise on 
every side, must be backed by excel- 
lent arguments if it is to succeed. 
Such arguments are not wanting and 
it is our purpose here to tell some of 
the many reasons why the appeal 
should be meet by a more than gener- 
ous reply. This vast sum is to be 
raised during the next week, begining 
Monday, June 18 and ending Monday, 
June 25. 
What does the Red Cross do? In 
time of peace, wherever, in any part 
of the world, disaster overwhelms a 
community; wherever fire or flood, 
earthquake or famine bring death and 
loss and suffering, there it is the part 
of the Red Cross to bring help to the 
stricken and relief to the suffering. 
Notably has it played this part in the 
past. Its work in Galveston, at San 
Francisco, in Salem and in the Mis- 
sissippi floods will forever be held in 
grateful remembrance by these com- 
munities. 
But now the nation and the society are confronted by 
Our Prompt Response May 
Save Terrible Suffering Later 
(Written for the Breeze) 
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Proclamation of Red Cross 
Week 
INASMUCH as our thoughts as 
a nation are now turned in united 
purpose towards the performance 
to the utmost of the services and 
duties which we have assumed in 
the cause of justice and liberty. 
INASMUCH as but a small pro- 
portion of our people can have the 
opportunity to serve upon the 
actual. field of battle, but all men, 
women and children alike may 
serve and serve effectively by mak- 
ing it possible to care properly for 
those who do serve under arms at 
home and abroad. 
AND INASMUCH as the Ameri- 
can Red Cross is the official recog- 
nized agency for voluntary effort in 
behalf of the armed forces of the 
nation and for the administration 
of relief. 
Now, therefore, by virtue of my 
authority as President of the 
United States and President of the 
American Red Cross, I, Woodrow 
Wilson, do hereby proclaim the 
week ending June 25, 1917, as Red 
Cross week during which the peo- 
ple of the United States will be 
called upon to give generously and 
in a spirit of patriotic sacrifice for 
the support. and maintenance of 
this work of national need. 
WOODROW WILSON. 
and sickness. 
ized and efficient the system may be 
under which the government supplies 
its soldiers with the necessities and 
comforts that are their due, there 
must inevitably be much they cannot 
provide and much they must. fail to 
perform. The aim of the Red Cross 
is to supplement in so far as it can 
supply what the government cannot 
the work of the government and to 
give. This is its constant work. Al- 
ready it has done and is doing it in 
the training camps and naval stations 
where our young soldiers and sailors 
are being taught their trade. 
When officers and men are too busy 
to take the time and when money 
must be ready to use immediately the 
Red Cross can do a necessary work 
quickly and efficiently ; often, because 
it has on hand ready money and the 
very articles needed. One hears it 
said sometimes, “What is the use of 
making these garments, surgical sup- 
plies and knitted things unless you 
can use them as soon as they are 
done?” The fact that the Red Cross 
has these things in reserve is the rea- 
son it can help without a moment’s 
loss of time, At a training station 
“somewhere in Massachusetts” in 
bitter, cold, stormy weather the Essex 
County chapter of the Red Cross sup- 
plied things urgently needed to prevent serious suffering 
Knitted wool sweaters, mufflers, wristlets, 
war—a disaster so overwhelmingly greater than these that 
in comparison they are as nothing—and the society must 
accept its duty and, arousing all its forces, go forth to 
meet the greatest need in all history, as best it ‘may. 
Indeed the work to be done may well seem appalling. 
Hospitals, relief stations and dressing stations must be 
equipped and organized. Nurses and doctors must be 
provided and transported; ‘immense stores of medicines, 
surgical dressings and appliances must be found and ship- 
ped and this at a time when three years of the fiercest war 
mankind has suffered has depleted or well nigh exhaust- 
ed available sources of supply, All these must be sent 
across the ocean in the face of an enemy, who has not 
hesitated to throw aside all dictates of humanity and 
international law and sink unwarned and unarmed ships 
of its enemies bearing the symbol of the Red Cross. 
3ut the work of the Red Cross in war is not only 
among the wounded, the sick and suffering. It cares for 
the soldier in the trench, at the front, and in the rest and 
instruction camps in he rear of the fighting line, as well 
as for the wounded and the sick. However well organ- 
helmets and hundreds of pairs of woolen gloves were 
taken the next day after the need for them was known— 
and this was only the beginning. 
Overcoats were badly needed and were thought to be 
all but impossible to obtain. The navy stores had none, 
but in a suprisingly short time 450 units of sailors over- 
coats were made and delivered. Within five hours of the 
notice of the need of them, blankets and oilskins were 
bought and delivered. Supplies for the sick were as 
quickly sent. Altogether supplies to the value of over 
$2,000 were freely contributed from this one chapter of 
the Red Cross society. 
This emergency close at hand may give some idea 
of what the need will be when we come to equip an army 
of.500,000 men. 
In addition to all the serious and vital needs of the 
soldier in the field—his minor comforts, the pleasures and 
conveniences are to be thought of, This is not for the 
government, but is the work of the Red Cross. Tobacco, 
pipes and cigarettes to most soldiers are hardly luxuries, 
