Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-12-02

Christmas Roll Call
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an interesting and noteworthy fact
that the one feature OF the Red Cross
that has made the deepest impression
upon the people of our allies during
f., the past year. has been not that the
Red Cross was able to raise a hum
dred million dollars for war relief
work in one of It's money campaigns,
but that 25,O0o,00O Americans were
behind the organization as actual,
active. paid In members. 1t seems in
credible to the peoples OF France. Bel
GUM, England. Italy and Poland that
even the Red Cross could have so
large a membership
| Those closest to Red Cross affairs,
those who have had the best oppor-
tunity TO observe the attitude Of the
public towards the Red Cross since
the arfnistice was signed are conf
dent that--in the minds Of the Am
erican people--the termination of ac-
tual warfare does not mean that the
usefulness Of the Red eros Is over:
rather. 1t is confidently expected that
the American people will realize that
the work Of the Red cross has really
just begun: that, while there will not
be SO much nursing Of the wounded,
or SO many canteens maintained az In
the past, the work of reha bilation
of great sections of the countries dew
| CT n nd Is hn Or, T. ~
for and clothing Of the returning ref
ugees will constitute, very obviously,
a work that will be more stupendous
in the immediate future than any the
Red Cross has yet undertaken.
1t is work that will require the
greatest activity, not only in foreign
fields, but here at home where the
families Of soldiers in thousands Of
instances will still require much at
tention and where the soldiers them
selves, when they are returned home,
will need in many cases careful and
continued attention by the Red Cross
before they become thoroughly re-
adjusted to life of peace rather than
of war. And, in addition to all this.
there will always be the emergency
feature of Red Cross work to be
looked out for. This wonderful or
ganization has shown what il can do
in the Halifax disaster Of just a year
ago, n-the munitions explosion in
New Jersey and in the influenza ep-
| idemic. And in the future. quite re-
CARELESS of all other phases of it's
work, the Red Cross must be fully
prepared as in the past to handle, i'm
mediately and completely, any en-
Urgency whenever or wherever 1t may
arise.
| The chairman Of the Christmas roll
call for New England will be George
A. Gaskell of Worcester. Mr.. Gaskell
has been selected by James Jackson
of the New England division because
of his active and successful conduct
ing, not only with former Red Cross
Campaigns, but also Liberty Loan
and war fund drives in his home city,
Worcester, having consistently gone
over the top" in al LOT these drives
with a much higher excess percent
age than any other city Of smaller or
greater size in the entire country. No
|
Worcester drive is due to the far
| reaching plan Of organization that
has been used and the worcester
plan" for the solicitation of every
person in the community will be fol-
lowed in the New England division
campaign.
| In all there will be seven divisions
coming under Chairman Gaskelfs SUI
pervision and direction. Connecticut,
for Red Cross purposes, has never been
included in the New England division,
nor will 1t be in the coming Christmas
roll call. Massachusetts, is itself divided
into three divisions-Boston tMetropoli-
tap). Eastern Massachusetts and West
ern Massa chusetts. AS chairman for
these divisions Mr.. Gaskell has named
Edwin 8. webster of this city for the
Metropolitan division, Fred W. Storey
for Eastern Massachusetts and George
A. Bausman of Springfield for Western
Massachusetts,. Frank l.. Rawson of
Portland, Me-, will be chairman of the
Maine divisos, Frank J. Sulloway. of
! Concord, n. H., for the New Hampshire
division and Hon. VIM, W. stickney for
! the Vermont division. Howard Knight
will be chairman for the Rhode Island
division, with Howard J. Greene in
chairman at Providence. Excess win
complete the organization in his re-
spectivc territory as rapidly as posi-
BILE. The Offices for the New England
division for the Christmas roll call will
| he at rs Milk street. the Liberty Loan
committee having placed at disposal of
the Red Cross the Offices and employees
for the next three weeks. Chairman
| Gaskell's assistant will be David w.
Armstrong, with Ernest NJ. Parsons as
secretary. Philip S. Dalton. who has
handled the speaking end Of the Iibet.
ty Loan campaigns, will be in, charge Of
the speakers bureau. Frang NJ. Eshle-
man will be business manager and Wal.
ter f. Hapgood publicity director. The
Offices will be open daily ana Chairman
Gaskell and his staff will be on hand
from now until the Termination OF the
campaign.
A Washington boy with the. 1S4tf
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