The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-16
Census Being Taken of Keokuk Peo-
pie with a Heart and a Dollar
Which Will be Complete
and Earnest
BIG ORGANIZATION HERE
Every Ward Has It's Captain and
Every Block Its canvasser
Who Will be Very Busy
Every Day.

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to ascertain how many people live
here who have a heart and a dollar.
ALI the Red Cross memberships
must be renewed, as they expire this
month, and many new ones must De
obtained. to Offset the members who
have died, moved away, or become
financially unable to raise a dollar.
To save time and energy and
bother, this is t o be done this week,
by a thorough canvass, Systematically
made, SO that every inhabitant of
Keokuk and southern Lee county will
be asked to join the Red Cross.
1t costs just n dollar.
The Red Cross is needed as much
today as 1t was a year ago.
No Signs OF Letting UP.
The soldiers are not home yet by
a long shot, and while they are in
comforts and services of the Red
Cross in camp and cantonment as
much as they continue to need
clothes and chocolate and sweaters.
The keokuk chapter of the Red
Cross must keep its workshop going
all winter. 1t has orders ahead and
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people do not understand what it is
doing in a big way here.
This is partly due to the jargon it
uses in its own talk about it. But
when it says 1t has. received a quota,
it means it has received an order to
ship, exactly like any manufacturing
concern. And when it says it has
sent a quota, 1t means that it has
shipped an order. 1t calls almost
anything in connection with an order
for goods a quota.
Some People May Guess Again.
Translating it's quotas into ordinary
language, shows that during the
present fall and winter it must fill
orders that many manufacturing
plants in county seat towns would
call very large ones. These orders
come primarily from the Red Cross
officers at the front, and the goods go
to the soldiers still working and
marching and drilling and getting
cold in winter in the American army.
Anybody who imagines that the
work of the Red Cross is about done,
has another guess coming.
Red Cross work takes workers and
money. The workers are writing an
other story full of patriotism and sac
riice and honor. The money must
come from the est of the people of
Keokuk-about 1900 of them.
All that is asked Is a dollar apiece.
The Plan Of the Canvass.
This getting of memberships in the
Keokuk Red Cross is being conducted
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No public meetings will be held,
made. Miss inertia Mitchell is in
in the wards as follows:
ond, Miss Frances Mccarthy; third,
Mrs. Paul Pechstein; fourth, Mrs. w.
L. Allen; fifth, Miss Marguerite
Belts; sixth, Mrs. Joseph O'Brien;
seventh, Mrs. o. C. Swanson.
Every house with a member will
get a banner for the front window,
and the old banners of last year
should all be down today. Every
house with all its inmates joining
gets a 100 percent banner for the
window. Every member gets a but
ton different in design from the ones
of last year.
The Organization at Work.
The business district will be can
by other parties in charge of
G. S. Abel and Miss Maud Immegart.
The factories will be visited by a
third squad under J.. Albert Kied-
Over it all is Mrs. William N. Sage
with Miss inertia Mitchell as assistant
and an executive committee COM
posed of Miss Cornelia Meigs, C. r.
Joy, C. F. Mcfarland, Mrs. Beverly B.
Hobbs and John w. Rovane. The
country townships are organized for
the canvass under Miss Nettie
John Tumelty has done a rather re-
markable bit of work in decorating
store windows with art posters and
the like, and Main street is full of
and tableaux calling attention
to the real need of members of the
Red Cross. DR.. G.. Walter Barr is the
representative of the organiza-
ton.
The Headquarters.
At 625 Main street is headquarters !
the supply station. This is
beautifully decorated and full of
business. Miss Natalie Wahrer is in
there. All workers will report
and get their supplise there,
and many people will stop there and
join the Red Cross to beat the can.
vassers to it.
Every man, woman and child in
is publicly asked to join the
Red Cross this week-except soldiers
and navy men, who will not be So
by -canvassers, Mrs. Sage
although If any Of them want
join, they are welcome.
The Junior Red Cross, for children,
only twenty-five cents a year
is included in this campaign.