The Coconino sun., 1918-12-13
RED CROSS CHRISTMAS
 ROLL CALL DRIVE

The Red Cross has announced that unless the unforeseen happens, it never again will stand before the public asking for contributions and subscrip- tions in drive for funds with which to "carry on" it's humane work. Not that the great organization expects to discontinue, but because it expects and hopes to derive its sinews from other sources, has it taken this posi- ton.
 The other sources are Memberships in the Red Cross.
 For one dollar per year, any man, woman, or child may become a mem- Der.
 The organization has announced a drive for memberships to begin De- cember .16 and to close December 23.
 It is called the Christmas Roll Call, this drive.
 Who will be able, when he consid- CTS the deathless glory of the Red Cross, to refuse it dollar as Christ mas gift, especially when he knows, beyond doubt, that the dollar will go abroad to succor a starving per son or to take comfort and cheer to soldier who fought for the Great Democracy which is now a fact in- stead of dream, and who is so wounded and disabled that he is doom- ed to lie on a bed of pain while his buddies are receiving the homage of America on their homecoming
 Who is there in America who could put dollar to other use when the Red Cross asks him to join the great comradeship?
 Said the Prince of Peace Suffer lit- tie children to come unto me, and for bid them not for of such is the King dom of Heaven" There are thous- ands of starving children in Europe today, and unless the Red Cross feeds them, they will be hungry on the day when the world is celebrating the Ma tivity of the children's friend. But the Red Cross WILL feed them. All over the world it will requite evil with kindness. For cruelty and inhumani- ty, or the memories of those attri- butes, do not deter the Red Cross in it's Christly mission.
 But its funds are being used contin- uously. It has given boundlessly in the last four years. And the public has given boundlessly to the Red Cross.
 Therefore, no further appeal is to be made for money, per SC.
 The Red Cross asks only that you evince your loyalty and appreciation of the good which this Christmas has brought to the world by becoming a Red Cross member. It asks you to wear a Red Cross button, the badge of membership, to indicate to the world that you believe in service to humanity in distress, that you have faith in the goodness of man and the mercy of Christ, whose birthday has rolled around again, this year to find Peace and Goodwill among men.
 The organization of the Red Cross would have a hundred million mem- bers did every person in the United States join. But such a consumation were of course impossible. The Red Cross will be satisfied if 65,000,O00 of the population express their commsn- dation of Red Cross work by taking a membership. That would assure working fund sufficient unto the time of Peace and even guarantee that the era of reconstruction and rehabilita- tion in the other hemisphere be pros ecuted with efficiency and dispatch by the Red Cross.
 Out of the dollars which you will spend in the next few weeks spare, in the name of the Humanitarian who was born 1919 years ago, dollar for the Red Cross. If you cannot spare it, or have it not, then you are blameless. If you can spare it and do not, your of Christmas will be a i For the Red Cross symbol | zes the very spirit of giving and l serving, two of the tenets of the gos- pei preached by the Man born in the hanger and heralded by the Star of Bethlehem.
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