Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 42, Number 181, 12 June 1917 — Page 10

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, TUESDAY, JUNE 12, 1917

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The Reason Why

In times of war or any other calamity, Wayne County has always done its full share for the relief of the suffering.. Our citizens still .delight t relate the contributions that were made during the civil war, and now that the greatest war of the world is going on, and we are in it, she will not be found wanting. She will not forget her sons in these days of bloody conflict. ' Millions of men have fallen in battle, millions more have been wounded and maimed for life, some blind, some deaf and others will suffer pains to the end of their days. The monster war is demanding more men and the United States has already commenced to send our boys to the fray in order to stem the awful destruction. A million more will soon be called to the colors and every community must contribute its full quota of young men from which there will be no escape. Many will come back heroes, but others will be left on foreign soil never to return. Others must languish in pain from wounds and disease. Among them will be your sons, husbands, brothers and friends. You will not shirk the cost of providing for them the comfort and nursing necessary to bring them back to you. The only organization that is prepared to give relief to the sick and wounded on the field of battle and in the hospitals on the gigantic scale demanded is the American Red Cross. Its thousands of nurses are the angels of mercy who will bind the wound and cool the fevered lips of our sons as tenderly as the mother who will be deprived of bestowing that comfort. We have profited the past three years from the sacrifice and suffering of the allies. Our purses have been filled because we have been the world's market place. Now that our own flesh and blood is to be commingled with theirs to the end that our liberties may be preserved, we are going to do our part providing for the relief work that must follow. America is known the world over for her generosity and Wayne County will do her bit to maintain this record.

Nurses Cannot Go Unless They Are Sent; You Cannot Go But You Can Send Them; What Heart So Hard That Will Deny Them?

Proclamation By the President of the United States 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 proportion 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 making it possible to care properly for those who do serve under arms at home and abroad; AND INASMUCH as the American Red Cross is the official recognized 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 people 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.

Every House in the County Will Be Solicited The plan is to canvass every home in the county during the week beginning June 18. Every township will be organized with its own officers and solicitors. Each township will be given credit for its own contributions and the amounts will be published daily. The townships showing the largest contribution per capita will be placed at the head of the column and the rest in regular order on the same basis. In this way the small township may lead the big one. This will be calculated on the U. S. census of 1910.

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