Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-12-17
RED CROSS LAUNCHES
MEMBERSHIP DRIVE
Seeks to Add Thousands OF Names
to Its Roll in Richmond
This Week.
SPEAKERS IN THE SCHOOL.
Booths for Acceptance OF Member
ship Fees to BE Opened in Charge
"f Workers ALFRED rs Red Cross
Nurses.

of Workers Alfred as Red Cross
Nurses.
Active efforts to add thousands OF
names to the Richmond chapter Of the
American Fed Cross will be started
to-day. The membership campaign
will last until Christmas Eve. and as
result OF a nation wide drive lasting
for ono week it is expected io0ooooo
members will he recruited. The ma
,ional organization now has a member
ship Of J.0UG.ooo. Of which numbcr there
arc 5000 in Richmond.
AZ o'clock this morning Spc crs
Will address the pupils OF sixteen pub
lie schools on the Importance Of he
Rcd Cross work. They will emphasize
the need Of greatly swelling tho Rcd
Cross ranks h.. taking out memberships
immediately. and viii urge their hear
crs IL make tho approaching Christmas
Il Rcd Cross Christmas.
Morton c.. Thalhimcr and Irving L.
May are il: charge Of the :pcakcra'
bureau. hSsi;n'ncuiS hayc been made
as follows for today talk 20 school
Students John Marshall High School
500 East Marshall street. i,r Douglas
:. Freeman: Robert Fulton school.
Marshall and Virginia Streets: Nor
gan Il. Mills. Chimborazo school Thir-
ty-third and Marshal! streets. Rev. j.
!. Wicker, y. -: Bellevue Junior High
school. Twenty-fourth and Grace
Streets; Rev. s. l.. Dumyillc: Balm
bridge Junior High School. Cowardin
Avenue and cambridge street, Angus
tine Royal: Franklin School. Thirty
hrst street and Midlothian Turnpike.
Eev. w. Oliver Gordon: Eufncr School.
IIutzicr; Madison School Madison and
Cary Streets. Alvin NJ. Smith; i1arton
Heights School. Wickham and Lucke
Streets, Rev. g. Pcyton Craighill: RAN
dolph School. Randolph and Chahin
Streets. John 6. Easley: William Fox
school. $500 Hanover Avenue. irving
I. May; John T.. Cary School. Beverly
and Rowland Streets. Morton 6. Thai
himcr; Einford Junior High School.
Floyd Avenue and Vine street. Rabbi
r.. \. Calisch; Nathaniel Bacon School,
1hirtyhfih and streets. W II.
Adams; Springfield School. Twenty
sixth and Leigh Streets. Henry Clay
Greenberg; Highland Park school Sec
ond Avenue and stuart street. John
J. Mitchell.
BOOTHS TO BE OPENED
At VARIOUS POINTS
TO expedite the work OF securing
memberships. booths will be opened
this morning in various parts OF tho
city in charge OF Rcd Cross workers
attired as nurses. II is expected that
rushing business will he reported
from all OF tho booths throughout tho
week. The booths will he located as
follows: First National Sank. Mer-
chants National Bank. Planters Bank.
Miller & RhOads. Cohen Company,
Grants durs store. Kerr & Schaaf,s
drug store, Church iiil. and the post
Office. For the convenience OF colored
subscribers booths will be opened to-
day at the headquarters Of tho colorcd
Red Cross branch. Second and Leigh
Streets. tho Mechanics Bank and ST.
Lukes Bani;.
The campa ign is in charge Of Dircc-
tor H. q. Eoykin and l.. II. Stern. vice
chairman Of tho membership commii
tee. Members Of tho speakers bureau
will appear at all Of the pcrfo-ma noes
az the Lyric Thcater telling the Rcd
Cross story briefly and urging tho.c
already not enrolled 20 join. Another
avenue OF publicity will be the use OF
electric signs and slides at the motto
picture theaters. Numerous newspaper
advertisers have consented 10 make
mention OF The campaign in their adj
vertisemcnts this week.
RED CROSS APPEAL.
IN CATHOLIC CHURCHES
Al all the masses in the Catholic
churches of this city yesterday most
StIrrinS appcal was made To those who
were not already members OF the Rcd
Cross Society. that they would show
their patriotism by joining during the
campaign OF this week. and il was
expected that Catholics would display
tho Red Cross banner illuminated By
lighted candle in the window OK each
home on Christmas Eve night.
Tho patriotic drive Was begun in all
the churches IN this city yesterday.
onc or more prominent speakers adj
dressed the audience of each religious
organization. "Npla ming the invaluable
work of the Red Cross and appealing
10 get their names on the roll OF honor.
Governor stuart spoke al the Ccntc-
nary Methodist church. delivering a
brief patriotic address.
George Bryan. in 4 very earnest and
taking address. in behalf OF the RCD
Cross Society. delivered in the pulpi,
OF ST. Jamcs's Methodist Church yes
tcrday morning referred to the Scrip
ture incident Of the Good Samaritan
and designated this man as the frs;
kuivh, cf IKE Red Cross, and the inn
~ Jcrusaicm. whittier he conveyed the
waysidc sufferer, as the frs; Rcd Cross
hospital.
Mr.. Eryan wildly pictured the l;ed
Cross banner as ''soins on before in
thu van Of armies and always planted
by the trenches cf distress. lie made
references 10 the catholicty Of the
Christian religion. and expressed his