THE DAILY STAR-MIRROR
VOLUME VI
MOSCOW, LATAH COUNTY, IDAHO, THURSDAY, JUNE 14, 1917
NUMBER 219
American Freedom vs. German Autocracy
President Wilson Again States the Issue
RED CROSS
PLEADS FOR
GREAT SUM
Live Wires in Moscow
Will Work Hard in the
Campaign Next Week
WHAT $100,000,000 MEANS
Yast Sum Demanded to Prepare in
Advance to Care for the Injured in
War and Their Dependents
Dean J. G. Eldridge, Red Cross campaign manager for Moscow, and the men named by Mayor Truitt to serve with him in the work of raising Moscow's share of the great $100,000,000 War Fund are laying the foundation for the appeal they are to make to the people of this community in the week of June 18-25.
The members of the committee—Dean Eldridge, Rev. G. W. Kitchen, Rev. Robert W. M. E. Lewis, Harry Whittier and C. J. Hugo—are meeting every afternoon in the federal building making a careful canvass of the situation.
This program
Why a Great Fund!
It is agreed that this great fund should be raised now, in advance of sending men into the trenches, in order that proper care can be taken of the injured and the loss of life. The hospital is reduced to a minimum, the ambulance corps and all the other essentials for the care of the injured must be on hand in advance. It would be a monumental crime to wait after the mails.  aimed and struck brought back from the men are
front before making provisions
The sum to be raised—
for their care.
$100,000,000,—is in line with all the other preparations in this tremendous war. 