The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1918-12-18
RED CROSS
CHRISTMAS
ROLL CALL
st. JOhnsbury People Gladly
Contribute to a Worthy
Cause
NUMBER ALREADY
ENROLLED 1101
Miss Josephine Woods
Team Still Leads in
Membership

The Red Cross Christmas roll call
goes merrily on-merrily is the proper
expression. The world has been
"fed up" on gloom for the past four
years and this is to be Merry
Christmas indeed. The St. Johns
bury workers hope to obtain mem
bership of 5000 by Thursday night.
Lives there a man with soul so
dead that he doesn't want to join the
American Red Cross and thus make
use of the greatest opportunity of
carrying Christmas cheer and COM
fort to all the distressed peoples of
the whole world? Should we not be
devoutly thankful for the privilege
thus offered to US here in our COM
Portable homes of sending aid to
these distant lands where it is so
sorely needed.
One of the local canvassers re-
ported Monday night that there was
one such man in ST. Johnsbury. The
report is being carefully investigated
and will doubtless prove to be mis-
take.
There can be only three reasons
for refusing to give at least one dollar
to the American Red Cross. The
first and only good reason is the lack
Of the dollar. The other two rea-
sons are disloyalty or complete ig-
norance of the Red Cross and what
| it does.
/ There are some people in St.
Johnsbury who really cannot afford
to give dollar to the Red Cross.
Here is suggestion for comfortably
situated st. Johnsbury people by
which you can make few dollars do
double duty by bringing Christmas
cheer to deserving people both at
home and abroad:
Give as much as you can afford,
| five, ten or twenty-five dollars, to one
Of the local canvassers, or send it. to
B. A. Palmer. local chairman, with
instructions to pay for memberships
| for any persons who wish to join but
who are not financially able to do so.
There are probably several hundred
children in ST. Johnsbury who would
be greatly pleased with present of
a Red Cross membership with the
button, the seals and the window flag
which goes with it. Try this and
make your dollar do double duty by
bringing pleasure to some St. Johns
bury child and later perhaps saving
some other child in distant Europe
from starvation. 1t looks like a
bargain.
! The local team workers had d good
day Yesterday, bringing the final
score up to 1101 This is excellent
as far as it goes but only about one
eighth of US seem to be thoroughly
alive to the situation up to yet. We
must have a lot more speed and
some of our people must develop
more real patriotism if we are to
reach our quota of 5000 members by
Thursday night as the committee
hope.
Much is expected from the E. & T.
Fairbanks Co. team, which is in
charge of the office manager, MI.
Wells. The report from this team
will be given to the local chairman
Thursday night after the factory
closes and will be published in Fri
days Caledonian.
Miss Woods team still leads but
other teams are showing signs of
coming up front. It will be neces-
sary to speed up to about one thou
sand day if this drive is to finish
in the usual st. Johnsbury manner
by Thursday night. The member
ships reported by the various teams
up to last night are as follows:
Team No 20