Emmons County record., 1918-12-12
REQ CROSS XMAS
ROLL CALL WEEK
DECEMBER 1913

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Henry p. Davidson. Chairman Of
the War Council Of the Red Cross,
today issued to the 1884 Chapters
and the %. 900 200 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
Christmas to enroll as members Of
the Red Cross. It is confidentially
believed that there need be no further
campaigns for Red Cross funds, but,
instead, an annual Roll Cali will con-
stitute the foundation Of the Red
Cross. The people should, there
fore. know as definitely as possible
the plans Of this. their. national hu-
manitarian society.
"Since the armistice was signed, I
have hadzen opportunity to confer in
Paris wlO the heads of all American
Red Cross Commissions in Europe;
and later in Washington with the
President of the United states, the
War Council Of the Red Cross, the
managers Of the fourteen Red Cross
nivisiops in the United States and
with the. heads Of our departments
at National headquarters. / am,
therefore. able to speak now with
knowledgs and assurance in saying
that the beneficent work of the Amer
lean Red Cross is to go forward on
great scale-not alone, as hereto
fore, for purposes Of relief of war,
but u an agency Of peace and per-
manent human service.
Since Americas entry into the
wsr, the purpose Of our ..:::.i Cross
has been primarily to aid our army
and navy in the care Of our own men
underarms and, secondly. to extend
relief to the soldiers and sailors and
civilians of those nations which were
fighting our battles along with their
own. With the funds which have
been 30 generously contributed by the
American people, this war work Of
the Red Cross will continue and be
completed with all possible sympathy
and energy.
wherever our soldiers and sailors
may be, the Red Cross will stay with
them until they are demobilized.
Nothing which we may do will be left
undone, either for the men in the war
zone, for those rsturning, for those in
the war camps and hospitals, or for
their families at home to whom will
continue to be devoted the ministra-
tions Of the Red Cross Home Service.
.'Iifathe latter effort so. 900 trained
Red Cross workers are now engaged
at 2 500 different places throughout
the land.
The problems Of reconstruction,
involving feeding and caring for the
distressed civilian populations of Eu-
rope, are Of such magnitude that,
necessarily, they must be met very
largely by the governments Of our
Allies, with whom our own govern
msnt will cooperate.
'The great task Of fighting tuber-
culosis promoting, child warfare and
caring for refugees, with which the
American Red Cross has concerned
itself 20 effectively in Franes, Italy
and Belgium, will at an early date be
assumed by the governments, the
Red Cross organizations and the re-
lief societies Of those countries
which, now that they are released
from the terrific burden Of waging
war, naturally desire to take care, rs
FAR rs they can. of their own people.
saThs war program of the American
Red Cross will thus steadily and rap
Idly merge itself into peace pro-
gram. The wake Of the war will,
.however, reveal the prevalence Of
disease and give rise to epidemics and
emergencies which in all parts Of the
world viii call for unlimited volun-
tary effort, the cutting Of red tape
and the manifestation Of those quail
ties Of human sympathy which gov
ernment action cannot display.
Here will be the opportunity for
the American Red Cross. But even
our Red Cross must not act and cam
not act effectively alone; we must
labor in cooperation with the Nation
Il Red Cross and relief associations
Of other nations, to the end that not