The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-12-17
Hope to Secure $4,000 Addi-
tional Members in Ver-
mont This Week
PROGRESS OF WO TO
BE REPORTED ! ALLY
Dollar Con s5outed to
This Organizat' 2 Is Judi
ciously E. s nded

An energetic campaign for the enroll
ment of $4,000 members in the Red Cross
had its beginning throughout Vermont
and the nation to-day and with band
of picked workers ready for the canvass
Barre and Washington county promise to
hold up their end Local headquarters
has been established in the jackson
block, where a clearing house for re-
turns, in conjunction with street sta
tion in the waiting room Of the traction
company, is to be conducted. The state
headquarters is located in Burlington
with Charles II. Darling at the head, and
returns from all over the state are to be
received daily.
While the national headquarters at
Washington has set the figures for Yer
mont at 25,000 it is the hope and the
aim of all state workers to exceed this
quota. The personal appeal which Barre
workers are making is to take cognizance
of the noble work which the Red Cross
has performed in the terrible war now
being waged, and prospective members
are to be reminded that the work should
be fortified as strongly as possible. Each
day returns from the local canvass will
be available, and the Barre and county
committees are to report regularly to
state headquarters.
Declaration of membership may be
made to any solicitor, to the county
manager, or TO the state headquarters.
Every member will be presented with a.
Red Cross button, and every person who
pays more than 81 viii receive the Red
Cross magazine for a year. Everybody
should know that the Red Cross is rec
ognized by our government, President
Wilson is president of the Red Cross,
and every dollar contributed to the cause
is idiciously expended. Let it be known,
too, that there are no high salaried off
cials and that vast majority of work
ers give their services as freely as those
who are identified with the canvass here
IN Barre. Were it not for the work of
The Red Cross. our soldiers would lack
for the comforts, would suffer for need
1f some necessities Every dollar helps
20 hasten the day of victory, and as the
workers set forth to-day they were
strengthened and encouraged by the
that Barre has aided most
in two previous Red Cross
Campaign assignments were announced
1t headquarters this forenoon. S. Hollis
er Jackson is the county chairman and
T. Il. Ayers chairman of the local COM
nittee Six captains have been appoint
d and each captain is to have the over
light of 10 canvassers, so that the forces
ack of the drive locally number &C.
The captains are; Mrs. George f. Bond,
frs. C. w. Steele, Mrs. Alexander Dun
an. Mrs. w. A. Drew, Miss Annie Bar
lay, Miss Evelyn Phelps.
A Red Cross worker is TO be stationed
onstantly in the waiting room in the
.ldrich building and two workers are to
ave a desk in the lobby at Hotel Barre.
he committee is desirous of expressing
$ thanks to Miss Glee Wood, whose
ork as soloist in the entertainment
esterday was highly appreciated. The
lbIic in general is asked to receive
le canvassers with cordiality and to
'spond as literally as possible. The
impaign viii continue until Saturday
ght