The Alaska daily empire., 1917-10-22
JUNEAU CHAPTER OF AMERICAN
 RED CROSS
(Juneau Chapter meets Tues day, Thursday, and Saturday afternoons, at the City Hall, at one o'cIock.)

Juneau Chapter announces that another shipment of supplies is scheduled for November first and that all workers are expected to put forth an extra amount of effort in& order to complete enough hos pital garments and surgical supplies to fill the four large boxes that are to be sent. In addition to these four boxes, there will also be a supply of knitted articles ready for shipment All knitters who have articles in the course of cOnstruc- tion are requested to hasten their work that it may be used to swell the November shipment.
 The work rooms, always busy, should be even more so during these days before November first, and every Juneau woman is urged to make her plans so that she may do her bit in the workrooms and assist in making a record shipment on November first.
 Christmas packages, in order to reach the soldiers by Christmas time, must leave Juneau November first Full information concerning these packages may be obtained by inquiring at the work rooms. Sug- gestions concerning the contents of these packages have previously been made, but a complete list of desirable articles may be obtained upon inquiry It is especially i'm portant that no perishables or de- structible articles be included.
 The Red Cross will not under take to deliver packages to particu- lar persons, therefore those who have relatives to whom they wish to send packages are advised to send them through other channels.
 All packages must undergo the inspection of some representative of the Red Cross, and to this end it is requested that the packages be brought, with the necessary wrap ping materials and decorations to the workrooms where they may be inspected before being tied up.
 It is hoped that many will re- spond to the request for Christmas gifts for the soldiers, and will glad ly send from their own comfortable firesides a greeting of warmth and cheer to those who find but scant store of these things in the trench es. Indeed, 1t is certain that in many homes Christmas this year will be a Christmas for children only, in so far as gift giving is concerned, and that those who have previously. lacked the moral courage to become S. P U. G. (which, as everybody knows, denotes member ship in the Society for the Proven ton of Useless Giving) will now bravely take up their position un- der the S. P. U. G. banner, and de vote the money and supplies, time and energy, thus saved, to creating a Merry Christmas" for the boys at the front. Too long has the spirit of the Christmas season been perverted, far too long has gift giving been associated with hurry and worry and unwise expenditure and unloving bestowal of presents, until there has arisen grave danger that, instead of cOmmemoratiOn of service and sacrifice exemplified in the life of Him for whom the season is named, Christmas may be- come for us a season of barter and exchange, thinly glossed over by the earlier traditions of gift giving.
 For the sake of heartening our soldiers at the front that they may fight our battles the more cour- ageously, there is not one of us who cannot afford to forgo the doubtful pleasure and necessity of a long Christmas list among our acquaintances.
 Rehearsals are now under way for a National Red Cross Pageant to be given at Rosemary Farm, l.. |, on November g. The perform ance will portray in beautiful sym bolism the nations allied in the fight for the freedom of humanity, dramatizing the part which each na- tion has played and is playing in the great war. A number of lead ing actresses and actors have vol unteered their services for this event, which promises to be one of the most elaborate yet held for the benefit of war relief causes.
 The American Red Cross has completed plans for securing ire quent standardized reports from all of it's 2.600 Chapters as to their fl. nancial transactions and member