Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1917-12-10
THE RED CROSS
IMPORTANT MEETING
To Be Held Tomorrow Evening At
s O'Clock In Old Senate Chamber
DRIVE FOR 1000 MEMBERS
Plans To Be Made To Have Annapolis
Fill Her Quota Before
Christmas,

There will be an important meetlnS
of the entire Executive Committee OF
the Annapolis and Anne Arundel
County Chapter of the Red Cross to-
morrow evening, December II, at
O'Clock, in the old Senate Chamber,
State House. The following members
OF the Executive Committee are
urgently requested to attend, since the
object Of the meeting is to decide upon
plans for the great Red Cross drive
TO get 100000 new members in the
United States, the allotment of Anne
Arundel County being set at 5000 new
members in Annapolis and throughout
.he county, before Christmas. For the
Annapolis City Council, Mayor James
+. Strange; Annapolis High School,
Miss Linthicum; Annapolis Section,
National Special Aid Society, Mrs. G.,
II. Foster; Annapolis Section, Navy
League of the United States, MIR. James
A. Walton; Anne Arundel County
Commissioners, Mr.. James A. Walton;
Benevolent and Protective Order OF
Elks, Mr. Samuel Davis, or his repre-
sentative; Catholic Benevolent Legion,
Mr.. j. Henry teller, or representa-
tive (proxies are requested in case
any person named herein as repre-
sentative cannot attend); Chesapeake
Tribe, Order of Red Men, will please
appoint and send representative;
College Avenue Baptist Church, Mrs.
r. Gardiner Clancy; Emergency Hos
pital, Mrs. l.. d. Gassaway; Evangeli-
cal Lutheran Church, Mrs. Louis Ii,
Mang; First Methodist Episcopal
Church, Miss Nellie Ennis; Fra-ernal
Order Of Eagles, Mr. George Shear
man; Independent Order of Mechan-
ice, MIR. john B. Holiday; Independ-
ent Order of Odd Fellows, Mr. George
f. Quad; Junior Order, United Amer
lean Mechanics, MIR. Jesse l.. Medford:
knights of Columbus, Mr.. A. C. Davis;
Knights of the Golden Eagle, repre-
sentative; knights OF Pythias, Mr..
Charles Gates; Loyal Order of Moose.
Mr.. Charles o. Dulin; Maryland Ave-
nue. Methodist Episcopal Church, Mr..
j. Walter Cook; Annapolis Lodge SO.
A. F. and A. NJ, Mr.. Joseph NJ Arm
strong; Mems Civic League, Mr..
George T. Melvin; Mems Prepared
ness and Survey Commission, MIR.
Robert Moss; Peggy Stewart Chap
ter, Daughters OF the American Revo-
luton, Mrs. d. NJ. Garrison; Presby-
terrain Church, Rev DR.. George s.
Bell; Royal Arcanum, DR.. William Z.
Holidayoke; St Anne's Protestant
4 ,,.d 4.
Johnson; ST. Johns College, DR..
Thomas Fell, or representative; st
Mary's Unit of the Red Cross, Miss
Agnes Himmelheber; Trinity Metho-
dist Episcopal Church, Rev. George
IT. Fielding; Women's Civic League,
Miss Katherine Walton; Womens
Preparedness and Survey Commits
sion, Mrs. ]. E. Craven, or representa-
tive; District Nurse.
All representatives of organizations
not included in the foregoing list,
which desire to have a representative
on the Executive Committee of the To-
cal Red Cross Chapter, are cordially
invited to attend this meeting. The
American Red Cross should be uni
versal in it's membership. An effort
has been made to include on the FIX
ecutive Committee representatives of
every public, fraternal, religious, or
other activity in the City of Annapo-
lis, and it is the object of the officers
of the Chapter to include as members
of the committee every active organi-
cation in the city.
AT the meeting Tuesday evening,
plans will be made and committees
to carry out a systematic
maintained drive through
out the county to add 5000 new mem
bers to the Red Cross before Christ
mas. Red Cross headquarters in
with the approval Of the
Presidents of the Red Cross, who is
none other than Woodrow Wilson,
President of the United States, believe |
that membership in the Red Cross
Turing the war should be as universal |
rs citizenship, in view of the small |
annual membership fee of $1O0, and |
because of the vital necessity of hav- |
ng the largest possible membership |
n the nation, the goal being to have |
100000 members by Christmas. AS |
here are somewhat over 100000 /
members of the Red Cross in the I
United States at the present time, this /
means obtaining 100000 new mem
'ers. On this basis, Anne Arundel |
county, including Annapolis, should |
lave 5000 more members. It will /
mean work to get 5000 more mem
'ers, and it will mean organization.
I is humanity impossible for the
our officers of the local chapter to do
III the work of this campaign. The
must be well organized, to
'et results, and the better the or
animation, the less time and energy
ny one individual will have to give
0 it. Everyone should put his
boulder to the wheel Most all have
ad the privilege of hearing the Rev.
'r. Birckhead start this campaign, 1
nd they must now carry it out. to
successful conclusion. Those who
o help all they can will spend a hap
Ter Christmas Eve with the knowl-
dge that they played an active part
the success that ought to be com
lg in over the wires the day before
hristmas: Anne Arundel County
omes across with its allotted. new
embership for the Red Cross. More
ian 5000 new members have been
lrolled since the Executive Commit