Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1917-12-28
RED CROSS Returns
not YET ALL IN
Hard Work Done By Campaign
Committee And Assistants
MORE MEDICAL SUPPLIES
Needed For Red Cross Honor Roll
OF Members To Be Pub
Hshed.

heIuIHS OinVtdiiy TeCCTueu ana
: checked at Red Cross headquarters
Wednesday evening by the Secretary
and the Treasurer of the Chapter indi-
cate that the outcome of the Christ
mas membership campaign in Anna
polls and Anne Arundel County is
| still uncertain. To be successful, the
| campaign should succeed in reaching
the official quota assigned to this
Chapter of the Red Cross. This quota
is $500 new members, or 10 per cent
of the population of the county, which
is approximately $4,000 inhabitants.
/ laccording to the census of 1910. The
| statement that 5000 new members
were asked for was incorrect Even
the official quota of $500 is subject
TO some discount, because it is doubt
| full whether there are now as many
as $4,000 persons who are regular resi-
dents of Anne Arundel County. AS
suming, however, that $500 new Red
| Cross members would make the cam
paign success, what are the figures
in membership dues actually received
at headquarters up to date? Includ-
ing few donations, small num-
her of memberships in excess OF the
| ordinary $1.00, and the dues of old
members who have re-joined as a
Christmas gift to the Red Cross, the
total bank deposits and cash on hand
was $1,631664 Some OF this money
represents memberships taken in on
the old forms rather than recorded in
the new receipt-an-stub enrolment
books; some of 1t represents dona-
tions. OF the 100 enrolment books
| signed for and in use during the cam
paign, "a were on hand, duly paid mp.
This leaves 76 still to be returned,
most from the auxiliaries, which have
done excellent work. hut have not all
reported the number OF n1emb befships
| secured
Incomplete as these returns are. it
is felt that they should be announced,
so that the Red Cross workers in An
napolis and throughout the county may
form some idea of the task that lies
ahead before the goal is reached 1t
would be re-assuring to assume that
complete returns will show an aggre-
| gate of even 5000 new Red Cross
members, but it would not be safe
assumption
With all the hard work done by the
] campaign committees and their as
sistants, both in Annapolis and
among the twenty-five auxiliaries,
must it be admitted that thus far the
! Red Cross drive in this Chapter has
| failed? If it has, then there must be
more work done, and more workers
| to do it, National headquarters has
extended the time limit to the eve
continue to come in, the decision
must be made whether this Chapter
will have to request a still further ex-
tension of time. The officers of the
Chapter are determined to make a
| 100 per cent score, and the people OF
| Annapolis and Anne Arundel County
will surely not be satisfied with any
thing less than a satisfactory report
to Washington, even if it takes a
month more to reach all the people
in the county who can afford dol
lar-think of it!-one dollar for the
Red Cross How would 1t look TO
sent the following report to Wash
ington: ANNE Arundel fails to OBJ
tain its quota for the Red Cross.
President Wilson has asked for ten
| million new members, out of a ma
tional population of one hundred
million-ten per cent of the nation.
| In other words. the President has
asked Anne Arundel County for $500
new members. Scale this down. as
you please, il you are not ashamed to.
| Make it $500, and then face the
figures. Not even probable $500 is
in sight
They need more medical supplies
for the Red Cross, more hospital
units. over there in France, more
surgical dressings, more bandages
for the wounded, more nurses. am
balances, tents. clothing, food for the
starving, clothes for the destitute in
Italy, France, Belgium; money to
take care Of the dependent families OF
American soldiers and sailors-Amer-
ican soldiers and sailors who have
given up everything, their lives II
| need be, A transport is sunk. the
Antilles goes down. and the Red
Cross issues supplies OF clothing and
food. and takes care of the survivors
But Anne Arundel does not obtain its
33.50O new members to help in this
modern miracle of healing, and re-
lief and mercy. American troops in
Persiiing's army are wounded, and
they are taken care of by the Red
Gross: American bluejackets, sur
| vivo7s Of tragedy at sea, are cared
for ~ the Red Cross But Anne
Arundel County fails in the Christ
mas c1mpaign for the Red Cross.
Shall this be said? It must not be
said.
The Red Cross roll OF honor is go
ing to be published All the names
OF those who have Joined the Red
Cross in this Chapter viii be print.
ed in The Evening Capital They
will appear in instalments, day bs