Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-12-19
EDCR0SS WOMEN
VISIT EVERY HOUSE
400 Uniformed Workers Can
vassing City Today for
New Members.
TABLEAUX ARE SUCCESS

women began this afternoon an in
tensive canvass of the city to secure
new members for the American Red
Cross as part of the roll CALI cam
paign being conducted here and
throughout the nation this week.
The women are calling in pairs this
household in the city. Each pair of
auxiliary members is assigned one
square of the city, around which they
go completely. crossing the street at
no point. 1t is the aim of the women
to visit every home between now and
midnight.
Everybody Seems Anxious.
Responses early this afternoon indi-
Gated that the canvassers will COM
plete their work long before the hour
4 f midnight arrives. Women report
~ that everybody seemed anxious to
ha nd over 81 for the privilege of be-
COZ ling a member for 1919 OF the
me. cy organization.
In exchange for every dollar dues,
each new Red Cross member is pre-
senteA with an official membership
button. ten Christmas seals, and
window. sign denoting membership.
PaonIe are asked to display promi-
nantIy tI~ >ir window insignia, SO that
the womt, , will not spend unneces-
sary time n calling at the homes OF
persons win already nave enroiled-
Apartment i ouse jewellers are ad-r
USED IN Mao the insignia in their
mail hoxes. IA their apartments do
not face on thu street.
Hundreds il in at Tableaux.
Hundreds of per. ons enrolled as Red
Cross members at the hrst OF the
tableaux showing IA vorite Red Cross
nosters presented on the south steps
of the Treasury at 12t ~ CLOCK TO-DAY
Carter Glass. Secretary OF lne Ireas
ury, and other officials. were preseht;
Miss Mabel Boardman ot Tue heo
Cross presided. assisted tr MIS- chris
tan Hemmick. Five post @rS' incuu-
ing THE Greatest Moth IT IN tnf'
World" were posed and brtA isIlt lortii
hearty applause. The real IL ST OF APP
preciation however, was sho1 IN Whet,
men and women in the crowd steppeo
forward to enroll. The pictunNs VIII
be repeated at $50 o'clock toda ana
twice tomorrow and Saturday.
Business firms continued to ~ port
TODAY 100 per cent enrolment in the
Red Cross of their employees. F'rAhk
j. Hogan, chairman of the WashiH
ton committee, issued statement NJ
which he declared he did not believe
alleged talk to the effect that wash
and forgotten the great work it has
still to do for our boys at the front.
Il am convinced" Mr.. Hogan de-
clared, that the National Capital.
which has a full realization that in
every great national and patriotic
movement it is the cynosure of all
eyes, will subscribe 100 per cent
strong.
Dollar Memberships Important.
Mr.. Hogan declared that he wanted
to correct, too. the impression that
one-dollar memberships are not inn
portant The amount is small-so
small that all can afford it-but the
great moral support which is evl-
denced by the whole people coming
forward and subscribing to the Red
Cross is of even greater Importance
than the funds accompanying thesub-
scriptions.
Fifty soldiers and marines who as
sisted the committee YESTERDAY If
placing posters about the city were
entertained at dinner by Chairman
Hogan at the Hotel Lafayette last
night.
Cen. Crowder Urges Enrolment.
Provost Marshal Gen. Crowder to-
day made the following statement in
regard to the Red Cross Christmas
membership campaign:
1.-The need :or the Red Cross does
not terminate with the cessation of
hostilities-rather are its usefulness
and its scope increa sed. With the war
at an end, the Red Cross must turn its
hand to the rehabilitation of devas-
tated Europe. not only in the late
theaters of operation, but in all those
fields Just delivered from hostile occu-
patton and among all those people
who for more than four years have
felt the heel of German oppression.
To embarrass it's activities at this time
is to add misery to suffering.