South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-12-12
CANT AIGN WILL
START ON MONDAY
Plans Being Made to Increase
Red Cross Membership
in This City.

Next Monday morning Will be the
opening of the great nationwide
campaign for $4,000, 600 members
of the Red Cross by Christmas eve.
and at the same time the Mishawaka
chapter will begin its weeks cam
paign for a larger membership.
There are now 100000 members
OF the Red Cross in the United
States, and Pres't Wilson has issued
proclamation calling for 10000.
600 new members by Christmas eve.
For every dollar membership, so
cents Of il will remain i'm the Mish-
awake chapter and 90 cents will be
sent 10 Washington for the work Of
the national organization. and for
every magazine membership at 81.
- cents Of il will remain in the
Mishawaka chapter for home work
and the remainder Will 20 TO Wash
ington for national work and the
Red Cross magazine 1t is desired
that many people take magazine
membership because the magazine
is a tremendously interesting ac-
count of the work of the Red Cross
on foreign fields, in the hospitals.
and for relief work, and il inspires
a strong fighting morale in the work
Of the Red Cross at home.
To Re Family Matter.
The slogan Of the Christmas cam
paign is. Every Family a Red Cross
Family by Christmas Eve" and il is
hoped that many will put their
Christmas spirit To work fighting for
the boys at the front and for the
destitute people Of war-torn lands by
adopting this slogan. All who are
now members of the Red Cross up
on application 20 the headquarters
next week viii receive a Red Cross
service flag. which is TO be display
ed in the windows of the homes, and
for every additional member of the
family who becomes a member of
the Red Cross a small red cross is
TO be placed on the service flag un-
til the entire family is a Red Cross
family. on Christmas eve a candle
flag, 10 display the spirit OF Christ
mas and the Red Cross service.
The local campaign is in charge
of the reelected officers of the chap
ter, and the campaign will be in the
hands of chairmen appointed 10 take
charge of the work in the various
churches, factories, business district,
house 70 house canvass, and in the
schools. These chairmen will be
announced tomorrow by Chairman
Burnett. and each chairman will
choose his own committee for the
work of the campaign.
Schools TO Take Up Campaign.
The schools have decided TO take
up the campaign for junior mem
bers of the Red Cross, and TO make
q campaign for full membership Of
the school so that each school may
become a junior Red Cross auxiliary
by Christmas eve.
When each pupil pays % cents he
becomes a junior member of the
Red Cross, and receives a button.
When all the pupils OF the school
have become junior members the
school becomes a junior Red Cross
auxiliary All of the money paid in
TO the Red Cross for junior mem
bership remains in the treasury OF
the school auxiliary 20 provide ma
terials for future Red Cross work
for the junior members.
Schools all over the country are
becoming junior Red Cross units
and the schools Of Mishawaka will
enter the Christmas membership
drive for their fun quota Of mem
bership All pupils become mem
( bers of the American Red Cross by
belonging 10 the junior auxiliary and