The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1917-12-20
DRIVE COMMENCED FOR MEMBERSHIP
Every Man, Woman and Child Should Become
Member of Red Cross, Goal Which Sedg-
wick County Chapter Hopes to Reach By
Christmas Eve When Campaign Closes.

A nation wide Christmas cam
paign has been planned by the Red
Cross. The drive will continue to
Christmas Eve. The Sedgwick County
Chapter of the Red Cross has about
AGO members. Sedgwick county has a
population of about 1000.
$500 people in this county do not be-
long to the Red Cross.
DO YOU!
When the campaign is ended the old
membership and the new membership
will be published. Will your name be
in the list Of members?
And this is the country's first
Christmas in the world war. It il
thought that the people will be think
ing Of service rather than of festivi-
ties. and that minds generally will be
turned to the battlefields of Europe,
and especially to our own soldiers and
sailors. 1t is believed, therefore,
that the country will be in frame of
mind at Christmas time to give ex-
preston to all its anxiety and hope
by showing and renewing evidence of
its support of the Red Cross.
Now, if never before, every man,
woman, and child in Sedgwick county
should belong to the Red Cross. Let
us save in food, in service, in clothes.
in luxuries, but not in money. Let us
use it by giving it to save the wound
ed, the suffering, our friends, our
country. Let us keep Christmas this
year by keeping up the Red Cross,
then it will not be q poor Christmas,
but rich Christmas in our hearts.
Why should l belong to the Red
Cross? Why shouldn't l belong to
the Red Cross? Just stop reading
this article and read the Honor Roll
of Sedgwick county on this page. Is
not every one of the boys named on
that Roll of Honor a good, a mighty
big reason, why you and l and every
one of us should be member of the
American Red Cross. should contribute
to it, and should be active in its work
if there is possible opening for US ,
Yes, there is much that every one of
rs could be doing, and every one Of us
every man, woman, boy and girl in
Sedgwick county-is under obligation
to take big part in Red Cross work.
Isn't is true that every one of our
boys in the National Army has made
a greater sacrifice, already, than all
the rest of us have? We are in our
homes and about our business, and
business for all Of US is better than it
ever has been. Those boys of ours
have left it all behind them and have
taken up arms in our common cause.
The same condition which calls upon
them to make an extreme sacrifice
brings to us an extra ordinary condi-
! tion of prosperity.
There are number of different
classes of memberships. 1t only costs
one dollar year to become an annual
member. 1t costs two dollars year
to be subscribing member, and. with
this membership you get Red Cross
Magazine, Other memberships range
from five dollars year for contri-
buting member to fee of fifty dollars
for a life. member, and sustaining
member pays one hundred dollars.
Suppose. now, that you were one of
our boys in the Navy or in the trenches
or in a training camp and soon to be
at the front What would you think
if you got the home paper and found
every page of it covered with the
names of members of the Sedgwick
County Chapter of the American Red
Cross? Under those circumstances
who wouldn't want to read in these
pages or in the Sedgwick Sun news
item that every living soul in Sedg-
wick county had Joined and was a
member of the Red Cross. Wouldn t
you be proud to know that evry in
habitant of your home county was a
member Of the Red Cross and your
hacker? In the Y. NJ. C. A. campaign
we have given our boys to understand
that we are back of them, and we have
established our enviable reputation
among the counties Of the state. We
should accept this opportunity to add
new glory to what we have already
gained. This is not campaign to
raise money. Of course every penny
of the membership fees and dues will
count and will be beneficially applied
for the good of the Sammies. The
object of the campaign is to get a Red
Cross membership that is nation wide
! that includes every one and is limited
only to the population Of the country.
The good effect of such an organiza-