The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-12-17
Will Be Inaugurated at Ten
O'Clock This morning in
City of Pensacola.
INTEREST HIGH
IN ALL QUARTERS
Red Cross Expected to Re-
ceive Appreciable Boost
All Over West Florida.

The Christmas membership cam.
paign of the Red Gross which VIII
be inaugurated at ten o'clock this
morning is going TO be the most sys-
tematically conducted and strenuous
iy executed campaign which has been
carried on in Pensacola since the
commencement of the war, if the ac-
tivities of the past week count for
anything
Chairman w. K. Hyer, of the cam
paign executive committee, completed
the organizat. on of his forces for the
campaign Saturday evening and from
its beginning this morning until its
conclusion at five o'clock next Mon
day aftsernoon-Christmas eve-all
of the Sorce and vitality of the sew
eral subcommittee ORGANIZED for
the work. will be put into the CAM
paign.
AS stated in the preliminary an
nouncements Of the campaign, not
only are all adults eligible for MEM
bership in the Red Cross, but chill
to boys and girls budding from chiIn-
hood into young manhood and young
womanhood. In recognition of this
privilege which is being extended TO
the children of the nation really two
days of the weeks campaign have
-heen set aside for the children's ac-
tivities in the local campaign.
BY special resolution of the Es-
Gambia County Board of Public In
struction, Wednesday, December 10,
has been set aside as School Day.
while Saturday. December q, has
been designated as Boys and Girls
Day.
School Day should not be confused
L. IS ,1z nF Nt,A
county schools as n holiday; it Ia not.
In order, however. that all of the
public school children of the county
may be acquainted with the purposes
and activities OF the Red Cross, and
given an opportunity, through en-
rolling themselves as members of the
organization, of doing their bit in as
sistinp their government in winning
the war and perpetuating for them
selves a democratic government. tho
school board adopted a resolution at
its last meeting calling upon the
principals and teachers of all of the
county schools to set Wednesday
aside as Red Cross Day. And the,
day will be devoted entirely to ex-
plantations by the teachers of just
what the Red Cross is and what it is,
doing for the. government.
Santa Rosa and Okaloosa counties
are also included in Pensacola's and
Escambia county's jurisdiction in the
campaign, and Chairman Hyer has
organized committees in those coun-
ties for the conduct of the work: and
from reports which he has received
from both old Santa Rosa and
young" Okaloosa, the outlook is
most encouraging for the enrolment
Of large memberships in both coun-
ties.
An accession of ten million new
members to the ranks of the Red
Cross is the purpose of this Christ
mas membership campaign. and Es-
Gambia county's quota of these ten
million new members is two thous-
and
The Red Cross has come TO be as
indispensable to the government in
its successful conduct of the war as
are the nations armies and navy.
In both Of the Liberty Loan CAM
paigns, in which the people Of the ma
tion were asked to lend, not to give.
their money for the governments
necessities, the response astounded
the world and caused the nations
enemies to quake in their boots
To the recent Red Cross campaign,