Word: war
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Boston many mass meetings were held throughout the Metropolitan District in the interest of the Red Cross. Chairman Webster, in charge of the Boston drive for the Second Red Cross War Fund, issued a statement calling for $4,000,000 from the city, a 33 percent over subscription of the minimum quota. He also refuted charges of large administrative expenses in the management of the Red Cross in the following words...
...Regarding the $100,000,000 we are now seeking, it is unnecessary to say more than that every penny of it will be expended for war relief, and that these expenditures will be audited by the War Department...
...Here and there one hears the mischievous suggestion that the administration costs of the Red Cross absorb about 70 percent of these contributions. This is a downright lie. Not one penny of the money contributed to war relief will be deducted for administration expenses. These expenses are very small, as a matter of fact, because 90 percent of the Red Cross workers give their services absolutely without charge, and the small necessary expenses are more than covered by the membership dues...
...production of the modern industrial world consists of two classes of articles: essentials and luxuries. Before the war the latter were very common. They are now becoming more scarce, as nations realize that they must economize and live on the bare necessaries of existence. The war has made economy the watch-word of human actions. The luxuries and non-essentials of society must be curtailed so that raw materials will not be drawn away from more useful channels of war production and so that labor will not be engaged in producing articles of no immediate value. The complexity of modern...
...Cross is a private organization recognized by the Government as an official agency for the physical repair of our Army and for the alleviation of all types of war suffering. It is in urgent need of money. These two facts constitute what must be an irresistible appeal to everyone. There is no student who cannot save enough for his contribution. The man who fails to give something, as much as he can, but at least something, is a slacker of the first order. These are plain words, but they represent a plain truth. We are living in a time which...