Salt Lake Tribune | 1915-11-10 | Page 4 | Big Fund for Red Cross is Proposed

' BIG FUND FBI RED i! CROSS IS PROPOSED 10 Movement Is Started to Combine All Societies for vs War Relief. wn JUDGE TAFT LEADER Ai.r Wilson Appoints Former t B! rvi President Chairman of y, .1 ,. tin', Board of Directors. Orl( ; est, is ! KW YORK, .Nov. 'J.--A movement 1 6 ! to combine all relief societies founded . . , in this country since iho outbreak of I ; till? Fuiopenn war under the control of ' ' the American .National Oil Irons and 'j to obtain for Ihat orfiHiii.atinn a perma- nr,'rl ; nont. endowment, of $ltHi,miO,000 was , started today at a mooting at the nome ' ", , of Mrs. Whi't.duw Keith P''1" Amontf those who urod the plan vvei'fi y Joseph FI. (.'hoato, former embassador to 11 " fir-eat Britain, who presided; former iscn : i President Taft, Miss Anno Morgan, Mrs. "', I, Leonard Wood, Mrs. hi. II. Ilarriman, Vlf ,1,-a'ob H. Si-biff and Miss Mabel T. 1 Boardtnan of the Red Cross executive ., ) ! eoiiiiniltee. Union of all the organi.a- 11 . tions working independently to achieve "s."! i the same end relief for distressed peo- "iet ' !'le Fuiupe was urged by Miss -"nil ' I Poardin.'in. J, "With all independent effort placed . under one eontrol, the Red Cross should laiifc ' havc n" C'dowment of $1 00,1)1)0,000, " nws ,'; said Miss Boardman. "This would put ioiT' l 0,1 :l footing similar to the ffocke- ' feller foundation and Carnegie founda- ','piv ' tion. The Red Cross should be the strongest organization in the world, ryy with every citizen iii this country in .nllr its membership. ' ' )nnc .' Mr. Tal't stated that President Wilson fls; ' as head of the Red Cross has appointed ' him president of the central committee. , "I do not know what the burden of BH ; the office is. but whatever the load , will be. I will soon be under it," he t;!j .' said. "When you have that kind of lJ ' interest, you can be earnestly eloquent in asking others to help." No definite plans toward continuing pi the relief oixani.ation were announced.