The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-12
FOR R, C.FLAG UAY
Governor Capper Sets Aside
December IL in Kansas.
All Public Buildings, Stores and
Homes To Be Decorated.
SATISFACTION TO SOLDIERS
Sammies viii Know Their
Families Are Protected.
An Appeal to the Patriotism of
People of Kansas.
SATISFACTION TO SOLDIERS

In a special proclamation Cover
nor Capper today set aside Monday,
December IT as Red Cross flag day in
Kansas. The governor appealed to all
loyal and patriotic Kansans to give
earnest and sincere support to the
Red Cross campaign in this state. All
public buildings, offices, stores, shops
and homes should be decorated with
Red Cross flags next Monday under
the appeal of the governor.
The governors proclamation is NJ
keeping with the action of President
Wilson in setting aside the week of
December 1924 as Red Cross week
must know that we are keeping
guard over their homes which they
have left says the governor, and
that the Red Cross stands ever ready
mothers and children of the men who
have gone to fight in this great strug-
GLE"
Governors Appeal.
In his appeal to Kansans to show
their loyalty and patriotism during
Red Cross week and to observe flag
day, the governor says:
The president of the United States has
appealed by proclamation to all patriotic
citizens, urging united effort toward a
large ehFoiiIneht IN the ranks of the Ameri-
can hed cross, which organization has
been recognized by law and by inter
national conventions as the public instru-
mentality of concentrated relief work He
has especially appointed and set apart the
week of December II to "a as Red Cross
Christmas membership week and called
upon all citizens of the United States to
observe 1t by becoming .Christmas1 mem
bers of the organization and by endeayor-
ing to persuade others to do so.
Now, therefore, l Arthur Capper, gov
ernor of the state of Kansas, in accordance
with the nationwide plan agreed upon
10 no nerepy appoint and set apart Monday,
December IL, as Red Cross flag day, and
do call upon all state officers, business
houses and private citizens, so far as it is
possible for them to do so, to display the
Red Cross flag from their buildings and
homes. and in every other way to aid to the
limit of their ability in making this day.
on which the membership campaign is 10
oe started, day of earnest conservation
Membership in the American Red Cross
being synonymous with good citizenship.
child, not now a member of this. the
greatest of all humanitarian organizations
to become a member before Christmas eve
ana, In accordance with the general pro-
gram, to place in his window. with a
lighted candle behind it. a Red Cross
service flag as a sign that the occuna1fs
or the house have enrolled in an army no
less determined nor less ready to do its
share than the Kansas boys who have gone
10 france. Our brave soldiers must know
that we are keeping guard over the homes
Whlch they have left and that the Red
ross Sdfss,,9 stands . ever ready to protect and
OF the men who have gone to fight in this
great struggle.
Our army will fight with more vfgor and
enthusiasm if it knows that millions of
American men and women stand behind it
ready to relieve the suffering certain TO
come As the morale of the soldiers in
France and Belgium has been stiffened
and new heart given to the troops because
OF the rellef work done among the civilian
population of Europe, so will our troonS he
made stronger in the noble cause and for
| the great fight in which they have pledged
| their lives. Fseu
Believing that this would be the most an
| propr1ate way in which the spirit of Christ
mas can be observed this year in Kansas
Where our cltlzenS are awed by the horrors
OF world wide war and saddened by
| thoughts of sacrifice made and to come I
| call upon our people faithfully to carry ONT
their program, with a sincere PRAYER in
| their hearts that victory may speedily come
TO our arms and that Peace on Earth.
| humanity everywhere