Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-12-23
QUOTA ALREADY SUBSCRIBED
twenty-five Thousand Is Goal
Now Set for Herself by
Liberal Tulsa.
CAMPAIGN TO CLOSE MONDAY
All Other Points in District
Are Anxious to Nearly
Double Minimum.
Tulsa has gone oven the top.


In IA drive for fifteen thousand
Christmas members to the American
Eed Cross Tulsa and Tulsa county as
usual have responded en- mass and
have exceeded their quota by 2,62l,
aud the directors of the campaign and
he workers are determined to send
the membership of this district TO the
twenty-five thousand mark by tine
close Of the campaign on Christmas
eve
Thruout yesterday tho headquarters
Of the campaign committee for Dotn
the city and county buzZed with JeIe-
phones AS the reports OF the various
township captains came in snnounc-
ing that althc the quota in these dis
tr!cts had been reached. the WORK
had not been abandoned and would
continue until Christmas eve.
Everybody Going "Oycr."
We are not satisfied with our
work" was the typical announcements
which came with these reports. and
Wa are going to do even better than
the national committee expecteu or
a., by Mt least 10 per cent"
The same sentiment was expf essed
by the managers and workers in the
city proper and there Is every indi-
cation that the final count OF nleni-
hCrshipS secured IN the campaign will
exceed twenty-five thousand.
Elaborate plans were made yester-
day for q whirlwind finish today and
tomorrow in the churches and other
places where noni~cmbers couiu 10
reached.
Al meeting of the ministerial al
lance, the directors of the campaign
and team workers yesterday morning
il was announced that plan had
been perfected whereby workers would
be stationed at the rarious chuicnes
today at all services to secure mem
hcrs TO the Red Cross
Working Plan Announced.
In accordance with this plan. the
following orders were issued by Il. IL.
Oberholt1er. chairman of the city dis
tIiCt. Yesterday TO all members of the
in'Disterigl alliance:
Pastors will furnish headquarters
of campaign with names of workers to
serve at the churches in securing
membership
Workers to be placed at exits OF
church to solicit membership from all
persons not members and to secure
additional amounts II possible for de-
sewing persons who are unable to
purchase membership.
Pastors to report to committee all
territory which has not been thoroly
worked by assigned workers"
Sermons will be delivered today in
most of the churches on the American
Red Cross and every effort will be
made to stimulate more enthusiasm in
the campaign in order that Tulsa may
go over the top" and march onward
TO the 5000 mark before the end OF
the campaign.
Monday Last Day.
The pastors have been requested by
the directors of the Red Cross Christ
mas membership campaign to secure
three automobiles each from their re-
spctive congregations to assist in the
campaign tomorrow. These automo-
hiles will be used by volunteer workers
in making a canvass of the districts
which have been neglected by the res
ular assigned workers and every home
i'm which there is not service flag
will be the objective of these workers
Chairman Oberholtzer announced
, that the carollng and lighting OF the
lRed Cross service flag candles which
kvas formerly set for O'Clock on
fhristmas eve had been changed until
. o'clock in order not to conflict with
the church services
The ten thousand candles which
have been secured with some diff
Guilty by the Y. NJ. c. A, are to be dis
tributed at the "Y" tomorrow morn
ing at $3.50 o'clock to all who present
Christmas membership receipts
These candles are given gratis to all
Red Cross members by the Y. NJ, c.
\. and are TO be distributed in the
boys lobby of the "Y" building at the
east entrance to the building.
Those who procure candles are re-
quested to observe the utmost caution
In placing the candles hack of the Red
Cross service flags which are to be
hung in the windows Of homes. II has
been suggested that these candles be
placed in tin pie pan or in saucer
in order that every possible preventa-
tive for fire may be placed about this
spectacular finis of the Red Cross
Christmas membership campaign
which already had resulted In more
than seventeen thousand members
having been secured and which now
appears to be on It's way TO n mark
of $4,000 members in Tulsa and Tulsa
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