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American Red Cross

The Red Cross War Council  

The Red Cross ‘Nat Council was created May 10, 1917, by the Presr
ident of the United States, who is also president of the Red Cross. In
creating it the President said, “I have today created within the Red
Cross a VVar Council to which will be entrusted the duty of responding
to the extraordinary demands whichthe present war will make upon
the services of the Red Cross both in the ﬁeld and in civilian relief.
The best way in which to impart the greatest efﬁciency and _energy to
the relief work which this war will entail will be to concentrate it in
the hands of a single experienced organization which has been recog-
nized by law and by international convention as the public instru-
mentality for such purposes. Indeed, such a concentration of admini-
strative action in this matter seems to me absolutely necessary.”

The War Council is made up. of the following men: Henry P.
Davison, of  P. Morgan & Company, chairman; Charles D. Nor-
ton; G. M-P Murphy; Cornelius N. Bliss, Jr. ; Edward N. Hur1ey,'with
W/'illiam H. Taft, chairman, and Eliot Wadsworth, vice-chairman of
the executive committee, ex-ofﬁcio members.

ALREADY IN THE FIELD

Immediately on its creation, it organized and got down to work.
That was four weeks ago. In the meantime, a Commission headed
by Mr. Murphy, of the Council, and made up of well known physicians,
sanitary engineers, and experts in various lines, has_ been sent to
France to prepare for the coming of the American troops and to see
that the Red Cross relief work is properly administered in Europe.
Accompanying this Commission is Dr. Alexander Lambert, of New
York.

Six base hospital units of our Red Cross, made up of some of our
most renowned surgeons, most experienced nurses, and accompanied
by more than a thousand men all together, have actually landed on
European soil. ~ A

It has brought into its work some of the foremost men and
women in their respective lines of work in America. Among these
is Judge Robert S. Lovett, formerly of Texas but now of New York,
and chairman of the board of the Union Paciﬁc Railroad; George
Wharton Pepper, of Philadelphia, and many others of national note.

I THE $100,000,000 FUND

It has established new business, reorganized the Red Cross on a
War basis, systematized its supply system, and now it is going before
the people asking for a fund of $100,000,000.

“The main idea at the back of all planning,” Mr. Davison says, “is
to stir the United States to a heartfelt realization of debt and duty, to
raise $100,000,000 more rapidly than that amount was ever collected
by voluntary subscription, to assemble the best trained talent that
America possesses, to assemble the great stores of supplies and pro-

vide the ships, a.nd then to start to Europe, especially to our French
and Russian allies and friends, a stream of help that will never cease
to flow, so long as the need lasts, an unending rich current of material
and moral aid.” *

WHAT THIS WAR MEANS

We all admit that it is hard to realize to the full extent What this
war means, and is going to mean to us. As a matter of fact, not one
of us has the first conception of it yet. The War Department expects
IO0,000 of our boys in the trenches by Christmas. The Red Cross
must go with them. Indeed, it has gone ahead of them. There will
be casualties. Americans will be missing and made prisoners; they
will be wounded and killed. A Red Cross Bureau has already been
established to secure quick information about these boys of ours, and
to get that word back to their relatives at home. We must be pre-
pared for whatever that word is. Back from the front, through this
Information Bureau, will ﬁlter the news which will mean so much to
us, the place ’ofthez'r death, the nature of their wounds, or the moment
when they were last seen going forward’.

Those of us who cannot go will be here, our boys will be there.
The Red Cross will take our place in taking care of them, indeed, it
will take far better care of them than we, ourselves can. But that
care will be possible only because you make it possible by giving
every dollar, every dime, and every cent that you can to this Red
Cross fund.

“WHY DOES NOT THE GOVERNMENT DO THIS?”

The American Government is the most generous in the world. But
no Government in times of peace aims to carry a medical equipment
and personnel equal to the necessities of war. All governments lean
in a measure upon the voluntary services of their people. Physicians,
surgeons, and business men, whose help in ordinary times would not
be available to the Government, eagerly volunteer their services in a
national crisis. -

In like manner millions of hearts and purses are open to the neces-
sities of the sick and wounded soldiers and their families, suffering
and deprived by the war. There are human needs to be alleviated
long before the slow moving machinery of the law can be gotten into
operation. In Canada it has recently been pointed out that every
time “you tax the people you tax the soldier too”. What we, who re-
main behind, give in support of our own soldiers of our Allies, to that

degree lightens their burden during and following the war.

An unending volume might be written on reasons for raising
$Ioo,ooo,ooo. But the American mind already knows enough of the

horror that has followed in the wake of war to need only headlines to ‘

picture the extent of the terrible need that calls to every one of us".
Here are some of the dread things the suffering nations, who still must
ﬁght on, cannot themselves relieve:
Millions of brave men dead and wounded.
A million women and children homeless and starving.
Thousands of once happy cities and towns in France utterly wiped out.
Disease and distress everywhere. e

France full of blind and mutilated men, dreadful, pitiable wrecks.

Tuberculosis spreading.

Human bones lining the roadways.

The children, F rance’s hope for the future, orphaned, homeless, and
hungry.

A torn nation, and our friend when we needed her, stricken to the
heart, lifting a mute appeal to prosperous America across the seas.

This is the picture. the Red Cross War Council sees, only it sees it
through the eyes of its experts on the ground, through direct cables from
the centers of suffering, through an unsentimental, business-like organi-
zation which includes some of the best—trained American talent, with
which it is moving swiftly to extend American help in an organized,
systematic way.

BELGIUM PROBLEM

“The problem of Belgium,” says Herbert C. Hoover, the American
who has had charge of relief in that stricken, heroic country, “is a problem
which,is the same as that of France, but a problem of much less dimen-
sions.’

The VVar Council’s task is two—sided: Manifestly, America must take
up the world problem of dealing with the aftermath of the war. With
American foresight, she is beginning on it now, instead of waiting until
the war is over. But, as Mr. Davison indicates, another and pressingly
urgent phase of the problem calls for immediate action. Here is the
situation as he sees it.

“Are the American people going to let the rest of a liberty-loving world J

struggle and suffer for us and eventually be stricken down, taking with
them in their fall the only barrier that now stands between the Germans
and ourselves? These are no speculations, they are facts. . Unless we
in America wake up, unless our minds take fire with the inspiration for
service, unless we open our pocketbooks and our hearts, then mark my
words, there may be a German Governor—General in Manhattan. The
crisis in this war is at hand and the United States must play her part or
prepare for such humiliation as a free people never endured——not even
devoted Belgium.”

NOT A CHARITY FUND

But don’t get the idea that the $100,000,000 is a charity fund. “This
is not charity,” says the Chairman. “Don’t let anybody get that idea for
a moment. It is debt paying. VVe owe all that and vastly more to the
France that has poured out her blood for us. _

The answer to the third question you have already anticipated. “T/Vhat
is the VVLW C ozmcil going to do with this money .9”

“First, our duty is at home,” says the Chairman. “VV e hope never to
be found wanting there.” ,

Accordingly, not a camp of troops in the United States but will be
supplemented by the Red Cross, with all that the Red Cross symbol means
in the care of fighting men and suffering humanity. As heretofore stated,
hundreds of American surgeons, doctors, and nurses are already at the
front. Twelve thousand American engineers will soon be rebuilding the
railroads of France. Soon, thousands of American regulars will be
ﬁghting shoulder to shoulder with our Allies in the trenches. Our Army
will soon number a million men and our Navy 150,000. An army of a

million men needs one hundred thousand Red Cross nurses. They must
be the most efficiently trained men and women that can be secured. They

‘must be ready as soon as our Army and Navy are‘ready. For them to

work with, quantities of hospital stores, linen, bandages and supplies
generally must be prepared, standardized, gotten ready for shipment and
systematized, so that in urgent need there will be no heart—breaking slips,
no life-costing delays. The VVar Council is seeing to that.

CANADA’S EXAMPLE

Can we expect to be more favored or less unfortunate than our heroic
neighbor in the n0rth—Canada? Canada has eight million population.
She raised an army of 450,000 men. Eighty thousand of these men -are
now dead or injured. Awakened to what war means, Canada has already
given her Red Cross $16,000,000. If America does as well as Canada in
proportion to her population, we would give our Red Cross $180,000,000.
Our War Council has asked for only $100,000,000.

At the outbreak of the war Great Britain had an army of only 250,000;
since then she has created a superb ﬁghting machine of 5,000,000 men.
At the same time, she has sent her Red Cross to the aid of every nation
engaged in battle——ambulances in South Africa, Egypt, the Balkans, and
in Russia, as well as France. Our troops are now going into the ﬁght.
\/Ve must support them by caring for them when they are wounded or
sick. And there is another serious side still. Frenchmen and Englishmen
have homes to go to when they are relieved from the terriﬁc strain of the
trenches. VV here will om’ boys go? The Red Cross must make them
a home where there are kind comforts, amusements, and a touch of the
“good old U. S. A.” After the gas, and the shells, and the machine guns,
they will need all these things. They are brave enough to go, and we are
going to give for their comfort and care. Our Red Cross must be their
mother on the battleﬁeld.

Do you want to help make this possible for your boy and the thousands
of other ﬁne American boys who may be in the scarred trenches by
Christmas? You do I The $100,000,000 the War Council is asking will
help do these things.

RUSSIA

Then, there is Russia. An American commission, composed of some
of our foremost men, is now there. Russia is in need. Millions of

‘refugees, driven out of other countries by the Prussians, are behind the

Russian lines, huddled in stables, cellars, dying from disease and insuffi-
cient food. Russia needs ambulances. On the thousand—mile Russian
ﬁghting fr0nt—the distance that New York City is from Chicago——there
are only six ambulances to the mile. The French have 64,000 ambulances
on a 400—mile front.

Russia is heart—breakingly afﬂicted. She needs our help. She must
have it quickly ! Only the Red Cross can supply it. Only the $100,000,000
will equip the Red Cross to give it.

THE CALL LIMITLESS
Newton D. Baker, Secretary of V/Var

The call is limitless, and it is to be made known to the hearts of the
people of the United States, and we «8.I'€ going to endeavor to respond to

this cry of distress. The President has urged that the Red Cross be made
the Vehicle of our response.

WAR AND THE RED CROSS
William Howard Taft

The Red Cross is the only 7'ec0g1ii.2'ed aigehcy thmitgh which we may
help to- take care of the Wounded of the Army and the nations that are
ﬁghting our battles. It is an admirable arrangement that some such
avenue as that should be supplied to give vent to the patriotic desire of
those who can not go to the front, to Work in behalf of their country and
the world. i

Every country has a Red Cross, and every country must hav-e it, be-
cause no Army can furnish the instrumentalities adequate to meet the
proportion of wounded that this War furnishes. Think of it! Forty
million with the colors ; seven million dead ; six million on beds of pain, and
the Whole of Europe taken up with hostilities. You can not exaggerate
the function that our Red Cross Will have to perform merely in attending
to the wounded of our army and other armies in carrying on this ﬁght.
Therefore, one hundred million dollars, great as the sum seems, is inade-
quate ; but the ﬁrst one hundred million dollars‘ will be the hardest hun-
dred million to raise. And We must leave no» doubt about it; and I thank
God that the organization is in such competent hands to do the great
Work that has to be done. ~

A VVE HAVE NOT BEGUN TO REALIZE
General John J. Pershing

The feeling among our people is very lax. They have hot begun to
7*eaZi.s'e that we are in this great war. So you men here can do no greater
work than to start this movement and bring them to the full realization
of the very grave seriousness of this War and make them feel that we are
in this to win and the probability is that our entering the War is going to
be the deciding factor .and the burden of the success. is going to rest on
the United States.

A MAD DOG LOOSE
Frederick Wolcott

There is a -wild dog, a mad dog loose. That system has become so
ingrown that it threatens to involve the German people themselves. I tell

you, ladies and gentlemen, it is Worth While, if it costs everything in the

world, to stop that system.

It devolves upon the American Red Cross, ﬁrst to look after our soldiers
and to help the soldiers of our allies. But, after that, do not let MS forget
i0’tt7’ dirty to the imioceiit victims iii this war. It is going to devolve upon
this nation to go in there, remembering our duty, remembering the fate of
Belgium and Poland, With no hope for the future, to resuscitate those
people and give them hope and prove to them that there is a God in
Heaven and that liberty is Worth any price.

WE MUST REBUILD
Herbert C. Hoover

The Germans had erected battering rams, had Clestroyed and burned
villages, had leveled everything to the ground, had gathered up all the

agricultural implements in open squares and burned them, had taken all
the animals, and had removed all the male portion of the population
between the ages of 18 and 65 years. Even the fruit trees have been
destroyed. The cost of rehualyilitation runs into ﬁgures which should
startle all except Americans, and perhaps Americans even in the larger
ﬁgures in which we have begun to think.

THE VAST HUMAN TRAGEDY
Ian Malcolm, of the British Commission to the United States

It is one thing to glance at long lists of casualties in the morning papers,
to read the descriptions of villages and townships ruined by artillery ﬁre.
It is quite another thing to sense, as I have had to do, the true inward-
ness of the vast human tragedy that is being enacted across the sea. The
silence of Lond-on and.Paris, and of our great cities in France and Eng-
land; the prevalence of black as the color in which mostof our women
are dressed, an eloquent testimony to the mourning that is in the hearts
and homes of nearly every family in the land; the streets full of wounded
in hospital uniforms, either walking or being driven out for an airing;
these are some of the outward and visible signs of the ravages of war.
Ambulances driving gently down all the thoroughfares, the Red Cross
flying over one or /more "large houses in every street of the residential
quarter,‘ these are tokens of the same tragic truth. »

EVERYONE MUST HELP

Eliot Wadsworth, Acting'Chairman Central Committee American
Red Cross

I know from personal observation what the problem is in Europe. It
is beyond the power of any group of men or any nation really to meet
those needs. But I have at least a vision of seeing through this country
every individual affiliated in some way with the Red Cross through a
Red Cross Chapter or auxiliary or branch.

OUR DUTY CLEAR
Charles D. Norton, Member Red Cross War Council

Mr. Norton said that many people had asked him what the American
Red Cross proposed to do now with reference to the forwarding of sup-
plies to the German Red Cross.

“The answer is exceedingly simple,” said Mr. Norton. “We do not
propose to be tried for treason. We do not propose to lend aid and com-
fort to our enemies. We intend to attend to our own American Red C ross
aﬁfairs.”

TRUE AMERICAN SPIRIT

“I was most deeply impressed and touched by much that I learned in _

Washington. The South does not begin to understand conditions in
Europe «and what we are facing. For myself and my family, we know

something of the cost and sacriﬁce involved, for we have given our eldest .

son, Charles Loaring Clark, Lieutenant in the Queen’s Own Riﬁes,
Toronto, Canada, who was killed ‘somewhere in France’ while leading

his men in an attack on a German trench in June ’I5. And we have two
other so11s waiting and eager to ‘Do their bit’ when age permits.”

A PICTURE OF DEPORTATION
By John H. Gade, of the Commission for Relief in Belgium

At half past ﬁve, in the gray of the morning, on the 18th of November,
6,200 men at Mons walked out, myself and another leading them down
the cobblestones of the street, with the German soldier on each side, with
bayonets ﬁx-ed, with the women held back. The degradation of it as they
walked into- this great market sq/uare, where the pens were erected, exactly
as if they were cattle—all the great men of that province, the lawyers, the
statesmen, the heads of the trades. There they were collected; no ques-
tion of who they were, whether they were busy or what they were doing or
what their position in life. They were turned to the one side or the other.
Trains were standing there ready, steaming, to take them to Germany.
You saw on the one side the one brother taken, the other brother left.
A hasty embrace and they were separated and gone. You had here a
man on his knees before a German ofﬁcer, pleading and begging to take
his old father’s place; that was all. The father went and the son stayed.

You saw the women in hundreds, with bundles in their hands, beseeching

to be permitted to approach the trains, to give their men the last that they
had in life between themselves and starvation, a small bundle of clothing
to keep them warm on their way to Germany. You saw women approach
with a bundle that had been purchased by the sale of the last of their
household effects. Not one was allowed to approach to give her man the
warm pair of stockings or the warm jacket. Off they went! I walked
the streets of Mons all that evening. There was not a street, there was
not an alley, where the shrieking of wom-en did not deafen your ears.

So they went. Then we saw them come back, too. I read the reports
the next day in the paper at Brussels of how Germany had announced to
the United States that, in her great mercy, she was taking the idle work-
ing men of Belgium in order that they might earn -enough in Germany to
keep their families provided with plenty of funds back in Belgium. Yes,
I read this, and every other edict issued by Germany, and I found no
truth in them. ,

I saw them come back in the cars. I/Ve carried the corpses out of the
cars; we carried the poor, broken wretches to the hospitals after three
weeks of work in Germany. They tried to put them in the trenches to
dig. Wliat had been the result? Those poor, ignorant, uneducated men,
ﬁlled with nothing but love of country, refused to work; so they took
twelve of the best of them and tied their hands to posts outside of the
city, and let them hang there for thirty-two hours without nourishment,
and then they fainted or died rather than ﬁght against their brothers in
the trenches !

I see them again across those terrible» swamps, up to their waists in the

' mire and dirt, shot at with blank cartridges in order to make them sign

the contracts so that Germany might publish to the world that they were
willing workers, that they had come from Belgium to Germany in order to
execute the work they needed so much.

It is for you to bring these scenes before the public. You can not all
ﬁght, but you can bring these scenes before the public and help those who
do ﬁr/I22‘.

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