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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 22, 1918
Page
6
A vivid appeal describes wartime suffering from No Man’s Land to devastated homes and calls on readers to donate at least one hundred million dollars to support relief efforts here and in Europe. The message urges generosity without delay and questions readers’ willingness to refuse aid.
The Red Cross is praised as the largest relief organization, aiding famine and calamity victims globally. It supports soldiers, leverages thousands of workers, and runs transportation networks as America’s advance guard in wartime. Congress authorizes, President Wilson heads it, with allied endorsement and twenty two million Americans as members.
An appeal frames the Red Cross as a voluntary, humanitarian force backing soldiers refugees and patients in wartime. It stresses fighting disease and aiding war-torn regions, urging readers to donate one hundred million dollars without taxation or interest, as the noblest contribution.
The Red Cross War Fund directs every dollar to war relief for military and civil suffering in war torn allied countries. It is authorized by Congress with President Wilson at the helm and War Department audits of accounts.
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