The Little River news., 1918-12-18
CHAPTERS AND BRANCHES WILL BE CENTE2S IN EACH CON- MUNITY FOR GIVING AID TO
 DISTRESSED HUMANITY.
ACTIVITIES NOT CURTAlLED
Membership Campaign Each Christ mas Will Be Means of Calling Americans Together to
 Show Spirit of Love.

War Council Of the Red Cross, has lS sued to the 53,854 chapters and the 22.000,000 members of the American Red Cross the following statement outlining the future policy of the American Red Cross:
 "The whole American people will be invited in the week preceding Christ mas to enroll as members of the Red Cross. It is confidently believed there will be no further campaigns for Red Cross funds, but instead the an nual roll call will constitute the foun. dation of the Red Cross. The people should therefore know as definitely as possible the plans of this their na- tional humanitarian society.
 Since the armistice was signed l have had an opportunity to confer in Paris with the hsads of all American Red Cross commissions in Europe, and later, in Washington, with the Presi- dent of the United States, the War Council of the Red Cross, the ms,,. agers of the IA Red Cross divisions Of the United States and with the heads of our departments at national head quarters. l am, therefore, able to speak now with knowledge and assur- ance in saying that the beneficeat work of the American Red Cross is to go forward on great scale-not alone, as heretofore, for purposes of relief of war, but as an agency of peace and permanent human service.
 !. purpose of our Red Cross has been pri- marily to aid our army and navy in the care of our own men under arms, and. secondly, to extend rexef to the sol diers, sailors and civilians of those nations which were fighting our bat. ties along with their own. With the funds which have been so generously contributed by the American peopie this war work of the Red Cross will continue and be complete with all pos sible sympathy and energy.
 Wherever our soldiers and sailors may be, the Red Cross will stay with them until they are demobilized. Moth ing which we may do will be left un- done. either. For the men in the war zone, for those returning, for those in the camps and hospitals or for their families at home the Red Cross will continue it's ministrations. In this lat ter effort 50,00O trained Red Cross workers are now engaged at 2,500 diff. ferent places throughout the land.
 The problems of reconstruction, in- volving feeding and caring for the dis tressed civilian population of Europe, are of such magnitude that necessarily they must be met very largely by the governments of our allies, with whom cur own government will cooperate
 The great task of fighting tubercu. losis, promoting child-welfare and car ing for refugees, with which the Amer ican Red Cross has concerned itself so effectively in France, Italy and Bel gium, will at an early date be assumed by the governments, the Red Cross or eanizations and the relief societies of those countries, which, now that they are released from the terrific burden of waging war, naturally desire to take care, as far as they can, of their own people.
 "rhe war program of the American ReA Cross will thus steadily and rap idly merge itself into peace program. Tie wake of war will, however, reveal tic prevalence of disease and give rise to epidemics and emergencies which in all parts of the world will call for unlimited voluntary effort, the cutting fo h1 those qualities of human sympathy which government action cannot dis play.
 Here will be the opportunity for the American Red Cross. But even our Red Cross must not and cannot act most effectively alone; we must labor in cooperation with the National Red Cross and relief societies of other na tions, to the end that not alone the heart of America but the heart of al, mankind may be mobilized on behalf of suffering humanity.
 While, therefore, the plans of the American Red Cross in this direction cannot be formulated specifically, in advance of the general relief program Of the Allied governments, the Ameri- can Red Cross is nevertheless plan ming to develop it's permanent organi- zation in this country upon a scale never before contemplated in time of peace.
 The commissions which are now the activities of the Amer ican Red Cross in foreign countries, as well as the temporary war organiza- ton in this country, will as a matter of course ultimately merge their ener- gies with those of the permanent or. ganization of the Red Cross.
 With the war has developed the striking and important fact that many men and women, some of whom have met with great success in devoting their lives entirely to business, came into the Red Gross organization at the