Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 120, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 June 1917 — RED CROSS GROWING RAPIDLY [ARTICLE]

RED CROSS GROWING RAPIDLY

Patriots Barred From Armed Service Find This Way of Doing Their Bit. Washington.—As a result of the warinspired patriotism th'e number of Red Cross chapters in the United States has more than doubled in the past three months. The number Is now three times that of a year ago. More new chapters were formed in April than existed In the whole country last July. Twenty-six new chapters were organized in the month of February; 74 in the month of March, while April surpassed nil records with 190 new chapters, a 51 per cent increase This brought the total number to 562 chapters, as against 272 at. the first of the year. Requests for chapters have come from every quarter of the country, from Alaska, Porto Rico, Cuba and the Philippines.