The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1918-12-12
.REDCROSS MEMBER /
SHIP DRIVE DEG. IS
NATIONWIDE MOVEMENT TO
ENROLL EVERY FAMILY IN
AMERICA.
MUCH RECONSTRUCTION WORK
ALL MEMBERSHIPS AUTOMATIC
ALLY EXPIRE AT END OF
CALENDAR YEAR.

ALLY EAPlRE Al END OF
CALENDAR YEAR.
The Red Cross membership roll
drive covering the entire nation will
start Monday, Dec. 16.
People generally are quite familiar
with what the Red Cross stands for
and The splendid humanitarian SER
vice it. has rendered both friend and
foe during the late war.
Heretofore it has been necessary to
continually ask the public for a con-
siderable donation in cash aside from
the membership fee to carry on this
work. While there remains an I'M
mense amount Of reconstruction and
refugee work to do in France as the
result of the bloody devastion carried
On there for four years, it is expected
by the National authorities !, that
enough funds will be raised by the
Soming membership roll drive to meet
the needs.
Under the plan it is hoped that
every member of every family viii he>
come a Red Cross member. This will
cost $1.O0 per year each.
Locally there are at present in this
locality-that is Sank Centre city,
Getty, Raymond, Ashley and Sank
Centre townships, approximately
1900 active Red Cross members.
Under the rulings of the national
board all memberships automatically
expire with the close of the present
year.
Asa M. Wallace has been appointed
as chairman of the membership roll
drive for Sank Centre and the four
west end townships named above. He
has appointed the chairmen sof the
various auxiliaries working in con-
nection with Sank Centre branch of
the Red Cross as sub-chairmen for
their districts, and they will receive
the necessary blanks and buttons be-
store the end of the week. Early last
spring the local branch canvassed the
city and country and secured pledges
for period of IL months to carry on
the local work. These pledges have
not been collected for several months
and it is very probable that no more
Scollections will be made on them as
there is enough money in the hands
Oh the local treasurer to meet local
demands for a long time under normal
conditions.
The local chairman has arranged
for the production of a motion picture
show at the Caughren Friday evening
which will showSthe work of the Red
Cross since it's organization down to
date. The charge for this feature will
be- nominal and every one should see
TIE Red Cross is the one organiza-
! tioR where all creeds and conditions
Of heople dan work together for tina
common good of humanity. Ht- Rev.
Bishop Busch, chairman of the Stearns
z CSanty Chapter, has recently issued
the following open letter indorslng the
membership roll movement:
The annual campaign for member
shin in the Red Cross Society will be-
Gin. ON December 10th under the name
of the Christmas Roll Call.
q The Redt Cross Society is the one
organization in all the world that rs
absoultel impartial, unprecedented and
avoid every suspicion Of self inter
est. Every friend of humanity, every
vennine citizen and every true lover
Of his neighbor will welcome the OPP
portunities offered by the splendid
Red Cross organization.
The Red Cross was the worlds one
great solace during the last four years
Of carnage and the Red Cross is the
worlda,one great hope now In these
DAYS OF reconstruction. III . :,
Word cannot express the needs ana
sufferings of the orphaned, the nome,
less. the poor and the expatriated and
there Is but one heart big enough TO
embrace them ALL The. Red Cross
motive eall for humanity" has stood
the test of the world war. It now
aims to prove It's worth during the
coming days of peace. ,
MANY conditions have been created
or discovered even in our own midst
that are far from ideal and often
harbor the seeds of peral and calam-
ity.s These must be properly remedied
and improved.
The Red Cross&is 1 addressing Its
anercies.- TO this new task with the
Lew sentfusiasm that ccncx from 2
EtSsk welI dones I. 81 b, g. /
kInl order 10 fell worthy t0 hse y.
atHk lems wpzld that is to zzises ont az
,this world Sccufiiot one must be an
nctiye member In the Red Cross