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Show . QUOTA EACH STATE DJST RAISE : BY DRAFT FOR flATlOIIAL ARMY be raised by selective draft for Unci Allotment by states of quotas-tannounced was by the war department Sams national army The quotas assigned are on a basis of proportionate population of each state to the population of the nation as recently fixed by the census bureau, Ia the allotment each state Is given credit for Its total enlisted National Guard strength, plus the men enlisted In the regular army between April. 2 and Jun 80, 1917, The following table gives the war Apartment allotment, gross quotas, net quotas and National Guard and regular army credits the total of the latter two appearing In the final column of the tablets arles Leo Dry,501V Gross Quota S NOW constituted, (lie American Red Crons la but 12 years ..old. It was chartered by congress In 1905, and Is protected by various laws passed since tkat date. Rut it owes its existence to the convention of Geneva, held In 1863, 8nd the treaty often called the Red Cross treaty of 1864, at which a number of civilized nations agreed that each should form an organization for the relief of the wounded In war, and that (Ids organization of each should be respected by. all the others. The iiniwt, paw erf ul - Immediate force making forth! treaty was a little paper written by Henri Dunant, a Swiss, describing the , horrors of the battlefield of Solferlnd. "He visited that battlefield after the French, Italian and Austrian armies had fought over It and hnd left 80,000, wounded to die u neared for. timid agonies that cannot be told Neither sur peons, nurses nor comrades paid any heed to those tbe Americas Red Creee ie as Vary brief! B0.0O0 whose tortured bodies lay for days on the organ iaetioa to reGevo human suffering, end Ua aim it te .field, until death relieved those who could not prepare in time of paaca and quiet, for iU relief weak rrawl away. is war, diaaater or peatiience. Rut Dunant saw add heard the horrors fhere, It worka under die protection and with tha aid of the and he told so much of It that he was able to get government, and, being international in ita acope, it recthe leading nations to send delegates to the Ge ognised by and werkt in Garmon with similar organineva convention, and so started the movement sations io aQ civilised countries. But ita strength cocnee which has npw developed Into the Red Cross. A from the people directly, whe give of their time, fine account of this achievement was In the Red their money and their lives to it Cross Magazine of May, 1917. . Its reaaoo for bring k the tamo that baa called hits Though now acclaimed a lendcf In humanesistence our hospitals, our asylums, our charity organiitarian work, the United States was then so little sations area our physicians because it stands for a interested In the Red Cross that the treaty was work which must be done end which cannot bo doss not signed until 1882. Rut In 1905 the government except by preparation io advance. Until the Rod Cross was organised, tha wounded on the battlefield and tha awoke, at least In pnrt, to the opportunity, and victims of civil disaster alike bad to go without care until chartered the American Jfted Cross as It Is today. amateur relief could bo organized offer the need bad The president of the United States is the active - ' become imperative. .head of the Red Cross, and presides at Its meetings, Rut o little Influence hns politics In this work of mercy that former President Taft is a large city or a county sometime several counchairman of (he central committee, by appointties. . ment of President Wilson. And the present writer The chapter Is governed, on a smaller scale, wishes to say that, though he hns been connected Red Cross as a whole la very much . more or less closely with headquarters of the central division for two and a half years, he' board It hns Its chairman and other officers, its of directors and its executive commtttee, In actually does not know the politics of another whose hands the active work Is carried on. In officer of either national or local organization. large chapters sn executive secretary usually does Like snakes in Ireland, politics In the Red Cross most of the active work of the executive commitIs not. tee. The government of the American Red Cross is Ench chapter is divided Into a section far milivested in a central committee of eighteen mem-herrelief and a section for civilian relief, much tary six appolnte! hy the president of the United as the national organization la divided. And each States, the others eleeted by representatives of section has Its committees to carry out the various the members. And since the president himself activities. is chosen by the people, the policy of the entire The section for military relief has lts"cotmnlt 'Rod Cross Is united very closely alike to the govtees on: Red Cross; Instruction; hospital supernment and to the people. Since a central warehousing and shipping; supplies for plies; of eighteen U too unwleldly to transact men, and special committees for such fighting routine business with dispatch, power is further work as organizing hospital companies, sanitary' concentrated In an executive committee of seven detachments, surgical sections and supply Repots. members, of whom five constitute a quorum. The The section for civilian relief has Us commitchairman of the executive committee must, by tees on: Care of families of soldiers and sailors; law. be the chnlrmnn of the central committee. relief for noncombatants ; care of discharged solHow closely the Red Cross la Identified with the diers and sailors; training lo volunteer civilian s government Is shown by tracing, briefly, the relief, and special committees as needed on local held by its officers. As has" been said, the disaster, care of refugpesand other kindred sub president of the United States is president, and . Jects. .x 'he appoints the chairman of the central committee ReiKtlross How the operates Is perhaps best and six of Its members. The chairman of the some concrete examples of Its told of the citing" by committee Is also chairman of the executive .work. jTooegln with, two of the most recent incommittee of seven. The treasurer of the Red stances of civilian disaster relief, take the torna- Cross Is John Skelton Williams, comptroller of the and New Albany, currency of the United States, and the counselor jdoes which devasted Newcastle two a weeks. of about Intervals of the Red Cross is John W. Davis, United States . When Newcastle was laid In ruins with the loss .solicitor general. t Under former President Taft on theCCntraU , of a score of lives, and several hundred persons made homeless and thrown out of work, the pres- committee are such men as Brig. Gem Charles ent writer, learning the situation through teleHear Admiral .'Bird of the United States Army i William C, Bralsted, surgeon general of the United graph and long distance telephone messages to the press, notified Division Director John J. OCon- States navy; MnJ. Gen. William C. Qorgas. sur - geon nor of Chicago. Within ten minutes Mr. OConnor general of the United States army; Robert was calling for Red Cross nurses, surgeons, FrankLansing, United States secretary of state; United State Alabama ........ .... e goy-erne- Belgium was violated, and ten millions of help- r- -- - -- -- -- . --- ..tap vt -- -- and-growin- g by-lea- - -- 1 -- - tho-cou- -- 's' - There was a great famine la'Chlna. There, too, was the American Red Cross, not only helping a commission of some Utah feed the starving, of the most famous engineers of the war department, to whom China intrusted the task of spending $50,000,006 on a system of works to prevent the overflow of the great river which yearly destroyed crops and caused famine. 'That is how the Red Cross works. Alaska Why the work is done by the Red Cross Is easiest of all to explain, though perhaps least un- Hawaii R derstood by the public. It Is because the work of Porto preparing beforehand to meet unforeseen emergencies, add of alleviating human suffering, has never been undertaken by any other agency., In the words of the old saw, everybodys business Is bu-wit- h nobody's business." It seems almost Incredible, but after all the centuries of war and agony, no nation In history ever went to war with an organization capable of car-- . Ing for the men wounded on the battlefield, .to say nothing of the victims of rapine, disease, famine and pestilence that stalked across the land after the armies. Never, until this present year of grace, has there ever been a base hospital organized, in time of peace, to care for the wounded after a battje. There Is a small medical corps with the army, yes ; but It can merely pass the wounded back to field and evacuation hospitals, giving only a temporary dressing often not even that There are always home hospitals, too. But the gap between them, now filled by base hospital organizations, has never heretofore been filled until thousands lay on the field dying of thirst and fever and loss of blood for lack of that very thing. After the battle of the Marne, in the present . war, the Red Cross facilities "were so limited that men lay In the scorching sun on the battlefield for two, three, four, and .even five, days with not even a drop of water, nor a bandage on their wounds. It cost thousands of arms and legs that could have been saved, cost many a life needlessly spent, afld the anguish endured can never be voiced. That is why the Red Cross is here. It may be said that the governments of the various countries should have met the need. True but they never did. All governments are more or less bound down by precedent, constitutional and legislative limitations, politics and And It has now been found that the Red Cross, protected and encouraged by the government, can do quickly and well many things which the government could not do for Itself. Speaking locally and selfishly, there are strong personal reasons why every American should help the Red Cross. In this war, It may be you or me, your brother or mine, whose life Is saved by the the Red Cross Is -- making. - nereat 'bandages -homer It may be your house or mine blownup of trained Investigators, and arranging with Washington for whatever funds might be needed to' start the work of rescuing the survivors, feeding and houslng them, getting them back to work, and collecting, identifying and burying the dead. All night long, from his room In Chicago, he was putting this, that and the other agency to work at the end of a wire, and the dawn of the nexir day saw order coming out of chaos. Then, and not before, Mr. O'Connor took train for the scene, and when he arrived, found his or- ders being carried out He took personal charge, aided by the chairman and committees of the Indianapolis and other nearby chapters, and the aids for base hospitals, and i curses and nurses work of rehabilitation went swiftly forward. to units service vwomens classes In training; the still at Newcastle he the director-wa- s anc care for soldiers" even worse disaster an a received that message saniyanles, base hospitals, .nurse detachments, New had befallen Again sending orders Albany. the tary detachments and general hospitals; and and for wire nurses, Investigators surgeons, by lied Cross supply service, for the buying, storing latest scene of the the train took for be supplies, and shipping of all kinds of supplies. calamity, and again he arrived to find the systrth Ernest under is relief civilian The department of already at work. The living were cared for and 2 Bicknell. director general, with a long record work found- for them, the dead burled, and, all of personal service In disaster relief. Ills depart with the least possible delay and disorganization onent controls alt relief work at domestic and forof tho dally life of the community. eign disasters of flre flood and pestilence; the The June number of the Red Cross Magazine relief of noncombatants In war, both here and contains a succinct account of the splendid relief of the families of soldlera andl -- abroad w orkn ecom pi! shed. sailors ; t he town and country nursing service; The work of organizing base hospitals Illusand the sale of Christmas seals for tho stamping' the forehanded methods of the Red Cross. trates out of tuberculosis. a clarity of vision for which the country With The department of chapters Is under E. IL now blesses him. Colonel Kean called last autumn Wells, director of chapters. It deals, through the for the Red Cross to organize for the. army and directors of the nine territorial divisions, with the navy with the least possible delay 86 base hospital organization of new chapters, and the membership units. He did not want hospital buildings what campaigns in those already formed. he wanted was 86 units of surgeons, dentists, The Red Cross Magazine, at first little more apothecaries, orderlies, nurses and assistants, with than a monthly .bulletin which, told, briefly, the ell the cots, mattresses, bedding, laboratory appa- -now Into has grown the of organization, doings ralua, bandages. splints, surgical shirts, bed at $1,000. a splendid publication (valued recently and gowns, and the thousands o( things that, must be vivid OtW), which tells by clear pictures had before a single wounded man can be properly at or) p the history of the Red Cross for each cared for. Each of these 36 base hospital units month all over the world. was to be enrolled and trained, all their permaone nent above Cross the of Red Each member the equipment bought, and ill their consumable dollar class gets the Red Cross Magazine free, supplies bought or made, boxed, labeled and . cir-stored, so that the whole could be shipped by train port of the dues going to the publication. The steamer on notice of a 'day ertwo, y' J Is w 'or hich was only 25,000 three years ago. culatlon, a t ry . the division dt. ot.5Q.0QCL Instantly, all over at a time. - It has been predicted by men In the rectors passed the word to their chapters, and the." various committees took up the work of forming position to know best that wltldn a few years It will be making $250,000 a year clear profit for the base hospital units. Under the supervision of a as of instead $10,000 Red month, Cross, , costing Washington Itself the surgeons and nurses were It did until a short time ago. chosen and enrolled. Uurchaslng agents bought at the lowest possible price the equipment. UnUnder the rational organization at Washington, der each chapter engaged In the work a committhe territory of the United States Is divided Into tee on hospital supplies got standard patterns and weven great divisions, each under the supervision to of a dlvl-lo- n specifications from the war department, and set director, responsible Washington, hundreds nnd thousands of women to sewing on and standing between the national officers and the the bandages, wound dressings and hospital garthe state and local organizations. ments, The unit of the Red Cross system Is the chapter. All that was long before the United States This always covers some definite territory, usually . -- i homes. posl-ion- W. W. Morrow. t The work of the national organization Is carried - on under three great departments: One for mill tary relief: one for civilian relief, and one for -.chapters. The composition of each will be briefly outlined. The department of military relief Is under Col. Jefferson Randolph Kean. United States army i medical corps; a grandson of Thomas Jefferson, trader him are the medical bureau, in chargeflrst-vil-ofd the medical personnel of base hospitals, the instruction; the nursing bureau. In charge of Mississippi . -- lln K. Lane, secretary. of the Interior, and Judge 7.651 less civilians left starving and freezing. The Red Cross to the rescue, and at President Wilson's Montana call money and supplies were raised and sent over, to be there distributed by Red Cross agents. Nevada Mil IMtHtMII Serbia was crushed, and stricken with typhfis New Hampshire .... fever. There went the American Red Cross, with New Jersey ........ strong' and capable surgeons and skilled nurses, New Mexico . . . '.f. . backed by money and medicines and supplies fur- New York ,y ....... nished by the Red Cross, It cost the lives of North Carolina ..... some of the finest of the Red Crosn workers, but typhus was stamped out, and thousands upon thousands saved. There was an earthquake at Messina, Italy, The American Red Cross was there with surgyena and nurses, food and clothing yes, even with Pennsylvania Rhode Island . portable frame houses "made In America" to South Carolina house the victims until they coffid- rebuild their South Dakota ee -- 465,985 1 tf. al 117,974 1,232 gave up Itope of peace. .When, finally, the uatlon Idaho declared war, the 36 base hospitals were completely organized, equipped and supplied, and back of Indiana them was a great body of men and women trained to-- the work of keeping them supplied. , That Is how the Red Cross works In all Its manifold activities. The heads of the organization and that means the heads of the nation deter- Malno mine what Is needed, and through' the division directors to the chapters goes the word of what Massachusetta Washington wants and Instantly the people, oo whom rests the Red Cross, begin to supply It Minnesota s, con--tr- 233 District of Columbia.; -- coin-rnltt- 183,719 687,000 13,612 21,300 Colorado - as-th- National Regular Aggregat Net Quota Guard En-- Army Nation; by Draft listed April April 2- - Guard and 30 June 30 Reg.Army e - Wilson Rallies 1,262,985 Men Around the Flag. -- short-sightednes- s. 687,000 -- ON THE FIRST CALL Official Allotment Shows What Part of Total Must 60 Furnished by Each State and Territory In tho Union. ' Washington. A formal order by President Wilson, drafting 687,000 Into the military service under the selective 'conscription law, was promulf gated by the war department, together with an official allotment showing what part of the total must be furnished by each state and territory. The only steps now remaining are distribution by the governorsr of state quotas among the local exemption districts and the great lottery, which probably win be held next week and which will establish the order In which registrants are to present themselves for service or exemption. The men summoned for service be used to fill the regular army National Guard to war strength toorganlze the first 500,000 of the national army or youffamllyor mine left destitute by any one of a score of disasters. And In that case we ourselves would benefit by the ministrations of the Red Cross. From the standpoint of the business man. a strong and active Red Cross Is an Insurance policy. - When disaster comes. It Is always the business, man w ho Is called from his office or store to take up the unfamiliar task of raising funds. Investigating cases of destitution. overseeing the purchase of supplies and their distribution, and getting the survivors back to where they can earn their living again. But with a trained Red Cross the disturbance of normal life Is at a minimum. Almost . before a citizens committee could be rolled together, capable and experienced men. directed by the head of a division, himself under orders from Washington, lays a Arm and steady band on affairs, and m Uetis given surety, swiftly, Justly, and the business roan does not have to spend yaluable days and weeks at work for uhTTh he has no training. Nationally snd locally, the Red Cross Is the best accident Insurance any people can have. storm-wrecke- d flood-swep- t; will and and new Total to Be 1,262,985, The total of these three forces will be 1,262,983 men. Later another 500,000 will be called out, supplemented by sufficient men to make up losses and maintain reserve battalions. " Following is Secretary of War Baker's announcement of the"order: ' By virtue of the authority vested in him by an act of congress, entitled An ' Act to Authorize the President to Increase Temporarily the Military Establishment of the United States, approved May 13, 1917, the president of the United States has ordered the aggregate number of 687,000 men to 'te "raised by draft for ' the 'military service of the Unltqd States In order to bring to full strength the organizations of the regular army and the organizations embodying the members of the National Guard drafted Into the military service of the United ISN'T THIS SILLY States and to create the national army, and has caused said aggregate Arch," she of the high arches and arched eye- number to be to the sevapportioned love do roe?" you brows snid, archly, eral states and territories and the L Gladys? District of Why, of coare. why Columbia as set forth in You've got the Gladys rags in this town and when the schedule hereto appended. I know youre my own little Glad, Urn Gladys 1 The governor of each state and ter- ' ' ' can V." iiory and tbs commissioners of the , ' District of Columbia, acting for and by the direction of the president and In accordance with said act of congress and rules and regulations prescribed pursuant thereto, shall apportion the quota so apportioned to such state,Jer- ritory or district and shall comihuul-catto each local board established in such state, territory or district notice of the net quota to be furnished by such board, and- such net quotas shall thereupon be furnished by the respective local boards as required by said act of congress and rules and regulations prescribed pursuant thereto In computing the number of men to be required from the various states the government put to the credit of' each state every man It now has la the National Guard and every man it has contributed since April I as a war volunteer to the regular army. f Computation Method. Placing on the debit side of the led- ger the national army of 500,000, the entire National Guard at war strength and the number of war volunteers needed on April 1 last, to bring the regulars up to the war strength, the grand total was apportioned according to population. This gave a gross quota for each state, from which a net quota was computed by checking off the number of National Guardsmen available for federal service and the number of men given by the state to the regular army since April J. The apportionment was made on the basis of an estimated grand total for the United States and Its possessions of 105,860.058 Inhabitants. This Is a paper estimate, 'computed from registration returns, which comes within the law requiring distribution of quotas by population, - but whief equalizes la a great measure the bur; den that Is to fall upon the 4.559 e emptlon districts. Total of 1,152,985. Each will furnish under this ePPp" tionment the men Its total registration would indicate as a fair proportion, rather than the number the actual population of the district would Indicate. The totaj of these gross quotas H - -152,985 mem. . Credit Vs given to the various state for a total of 465,983 voluntary enlistments In the National Guard and regtut ulars, making the total net quota. all states 6S7.0H0 men. state Illinois, which was the first big to fill Its quota for the regular army, reduced Its gross quota of 79,091 to t - 5l.Cu3. .. V. , ... r. .... Never Satisfied. That dog of yours bit a piece GSD out of my leg," Well, you're never satisfied. were only telling me the other day that you wished you could lose 63 flesh." f Too Small For Some Purpose- "Nearly all the newspapers are reduced In size, I notice." Yes; It seems to be a lucky t!d that bustles are to longer able," ft--- 1 |