The Alaska daily empire., 1917-12-18
EVERYTHING
 IS RED CROSS
 THESE DAYS People Talk, Eat and Think About Red Cross and Interest Is
 Keen. ABOUT JUNEAU CHAPTER A Person May Become a Member by Paying from S1 to $10 a
 Year Dues.
ABOUT JUNEAU CHAPTER

The working committee of the Red Cross Christmas membership campaign is now occupying the at tention of Juneau citizens, wish all persons to know that those who are already members of the Red Cross are asked by national headquarters to waive the unexpired portion of their membership, and to take out new membership in order that, with the coming of the new year, fifteen million new members may start out abreast in Red Cross work
 The various organizations of Jul neau are entering enthusiastically into the membership campaign. and it is believed that the next few days will witness unusual activity along Red Cross lines It is said the business men have something up their sleeves in the way of secur- ing memberships from the business force of Juneau. Churches, frater- nal organizations. social and i'm provement clubs will all turn their attention to the matter of swelling the Red Cross membership list, having as their goal a fifteen mil lion membership list for the Ameri- can Red Cross, and therefore a sixty-nine hundred membership list instead of the present twentythree hundred membership list for Juneau Chapter and it's branches.
 Certain supplies for the campaign, service flags and other equipment, have been delayed in reaching Ju- neau. but word has been received that these supplies will arrive on the twentieth, and the final days of the great drive will be rendered particularly interesting and attrac- tive by the use of this equipment,
 Juneau Red Cross
 Juneau Chapter of the American Red Cross, though among those chapters most remote from the cen ter of war activities, is, neyerthe- less, among those most active in sending supplies to the front. Each month a splendid consignment of A4IiilCl dI titltS, hOSDllui SdIIuGuiS iS, and surgical supplies is sent to di- Visional headquarters in Seattle, aud during the past month special ship nent of knitted articles was sent as well.
 In acknowledgement of a recent shipment of supplies from Juneau Chapter, letter was received from the director of the Woman's Blu reau of the Northwestern Division, praising most warmly the quality and careful packing of the supplies sent. In the same letter the sug- gestions was likewise made that the amount of supplies might be in creased to two shipments each month. The greater the amount of supplies it is able to send the great Chapter but in order to increase it's present output it must have more workers at the City Hall on Tues day, Thursday and Saturday after moons. Those who are working there now are faithful, conscientious, and thorough, but one pair of hands can do but the work of one pair of 1 hands. The number of workers should be multiplied if Juneau Chap i ter is to do it's full share of Red Cross work and keep abreast of the other energetic chapters of the great organization.
 General Figures
 The American Red Cross now has about 5000 chapters, an increase of more than 2000 since the first of the year when there were PIP Red Cross Chapters in the United States. In the one month of July, 571 chap ters were organized than twice the number that had been or ganized in the history of the society prior to January l, 1917.
 The geenral plan under which these chapters have been organized was for a group of prominent men and women to secure official au- thorization from the manager of their division toorganize and elect officers. The name, which was geo. praphical in each case, and the defi- mite territory in which the chapter would have jurisdiction as the local representatives of the American Red Cross. were determined before au- thority to organize was granted. In most cases the chapter territory is