The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 23, 1917, Page 4

Bullets kill their thousands, wound their ten thousands. Your dollars never had such a chance to save lives before! Now is the time; delay and you will be too late! STAR—SATURDAY, JUNE 23, 1917. PAGE 4 MAKE IT HALF A MILLION — FOR THE RED CROSS! HAVE MERCY ON Millions have been saved by the Red Cross; help us to save millions more! Don’t save your dollars— SAVE YOUR BOYS! “MERCY MONDAY" ‘If there’s mercy in your soul prepare to show it Monday! Translate that mercy into dollars that will save the lives of Seattle boys. Don’t let others do your part; bleed money for the Red Cross! Your sons, husbands, brothers, friends, are going upon the bloodiest battlefields that the fiends of hell ever let loose. Bring those men back with your money— Don’t have murder on your conscience should you read that Seattle soldiers lost their lives through neglect—because you made a god of your dollars! FILL THE MERCY BARRELS! Don’t let the agonizing cries of neglected wounded haunt your dreams! AMERICAN RED CROSS WAR FUND Arcade Building, Seatt! I hereby authorize my employer ..........++++ ‘ aT. oe CO to the Red Cross War Fund or ~MERCY MONDAY (June 26) as my to the noble work of the Red Cross. Give! Give! Give!—until it hurts; if you can’t give money, give jew- elry, valuables, Liberty Bonds! This is Everybody’s war—every man, woman and child in Seattle must do something to stay the flow of precious blood. Instead of $300,000 let Seattle’s name go forward to the world as sub- scribing half a million. DO YOUR PART! To hold back your dollars is to commit murder upon the flower of Seattle’s manhood! STRANG & PROSSHR