The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1917-12-27
FEW WINDOWS
WITHOUT THE
RED CROSS FLAG
Eastern Half of Benton County
Exceeds Membership Quota
By Four Hundred
EXTEND CAMPAIGN A WEEK
Nearly Every Home from White
Bluffs to Hover is Now Enrolled
Under Mercy Banner

Under Mercy Banner
There are but very few homes in
the Columbia Valley from White
Bluffs to Hover which on Christmas
Day did not have displayed in the
window Red Cross service flag, in
dicating that atsleast one member OF
the household had become member
of the greatest humanitarian organ
ization in the world today. There are
q few homes which do not bear the
emblem of patriotic and Christian SER
vice because owners Of those homes
either refused to enroll under the Red
Cross banner or enrolled but were too
unpatrioitc to put up the little win,
dow emblem. But be it said to the
credit of the people of the Columbia
Valley that these homes are few in-
deed. There are some homes without
the flag whose occupants are loyal
and patriotic workers for the Red
Cross, but who did not feel financially
able to cancel their present member
ships and take out new ones. They
should be entitled to the flag, but
those in charge Of the Christmas cam
paign in the western division ruled
otherwise.
The eastern half Of Benton county
was asked for 1850 memberships. In
complete returns from the campaign
show 1867 memberships and this in
cludes nothing from the territory be-
low Hover, which could not be worked
because of a shortage Of supplies. Ow-
ing to the fact that train service was
demoralized and supplies could not be
promptly delivered the membership
campaign in the Northwest is to be
continued until New Years Eve. An
effort will be made here to swell the
valleys total membership to 100.
It can hardly be said that any one
precinct responded more loyalty than
any other. They all responded loyalty
especially the country precincts,
where the percentage of memberships
is much higher than in the First and
Second wards Of the city, where the
campaign was not started until late
The third ward, where the soliciting
was done by r. L. Banta and c. L.
Holcomb, made a good showing. The
other two wards were canvassed by
Allen Arnold, Leroy Kratzer, Lynr
Taylor and Norman Lynch, of the Sem
ior Ten and Kathleen Hudnall, Gladly:
Miller and Marie Spiegelberg, of the
Business Girls club.
Out in Horse Heaven Carl William!
says he got every adult but two ant
in several homes the children as well
w. L. Craver, Geo. d. Peters and Ed
Mann made thoro house-to-hous'
canvass of the Highlands, with ex
cellent results. Floyd Kelso took tn
South Kennewick precinct and his re
port accounts for every resident eithe
in memberships or the reason give
for failure to become member. d. J
Beinhart and Mrs. T. w. Payne lef
nobody unseen in the Kennewick Gan
dens and w. B. Elliott, with a lat
start, tackled the Kennewick Vale
precinct single-handed and won out.
Under the direction Of A. S. Cos
Finley precinct was thorly canvasse
with good results, as was Hover PR
cinct by H. w. Powell.
Perry Willoughby reports 313 men
bers at Richland; Chas. M. Sanfof
236 at Hanford and w. j. Kinkai
It's at White Bluffs. The committe,
in charge of the campaign in the tv
up-river towns just naturally ccmbt
the territory with fne-toothed con
and missed nobody, not even Il
rancher who lives away up in Il
northern end of the county out in t
sagebrush, 20 miles from nowhere.
At noon today, from the Kennewi
territory, including Finley and How
933 members had been reported
follows: Annual members, 904; ma
azine, 27; contributing, 2; the tot
membership receipts being 1868. T
two contributing members are Nj
Alma Schneider and 7. J. Enr