The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1918-12-19
Head Of Red Cross War Coun-
Gil Sends Stirring Message
to the Public.
VAST PROBLEMS ARE AHEAD
Sees No Necessity for Further Cam
paigns for Funds II People Re-
spond Properly to Christ
mas Drive.

the 1854 chapters and the $4,000 900
members the following statement out
lining the future policy OF the Ameri-
can Red Cross:
"The whole American people will be
invited in the week preceding Christ
mas to enroll as members of the Red
Cross. 1t is confidently believed there
need be no further campaigns for Red
Cross funds, but instead the annual
roll call will constitute the foundation
OF the Red Cross. The people should
therefore know as definitely as posi-
bic the plans Of this, their national
humanitarian society.
"Snce the armistice was signed
have had an opportunity TO confer In
Paris with the heads 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 managers
of the fourteen Red Cross divisions of
the United States, and with the heads
of our department at national head
quarters. / am, therefore, able to
speak now with knowledge and assur-
ance in saying that the beneficent work
of the American Red Cross Is to go
| forward on a great scale-not alone,
as heretofore, for purposes Of relief of
war, but as an agency of peace and
pprrnanpnt human service
"Since Americas entry into the war
the purpose of our Red Cross has been
primarily to aid our army and navy in
the care of our men under arms, and,
secondly, to extend relief to the sol
diers, sailors and civilians of those ma
tions which were fighting our battles
along with their own. With the funds
which have been so generously con-
tributed by the American people this
war work of the Red Cross will con-
tinue and be completed with all posi-
BILE 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 I'M
| 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 to whom will con-
| tinue to be devoted the ministrations
Of the Red Cross home service. In
this latter effort $4,000 trained Red
Cross workers are now engaged at
$500 different places throughout the
| land.
1.-THE problems Of reconstruction, in
v0lving feeding and caring for the dis
tressed civilian populations of Europe,
are Of such magnitude that necessa-
rily they must be met very largely by
| the governments of our allies, with
whom our own government will coop
crate.
"The great tasks of fighting tubercu-
loss promoting child welfare, and car
ing for refugees, with which the Amer
| lean Red Cross has concerned Itself so
effectively in France, Italy and Bel
/ gian. will at an early date be assumed
by the governments, the Red Cross or
| ganizations, and the relief societies Of
those countries, which, now that they
| are released from the terrible burden
Of waglng war, naturally desire to take
care, as far as they can, Of their own
people.
1.-THE war problem of the American
Red Cross VIII thus steadily and rap
idly merge itself into a peace program.
The wake Of the war will, however,
reveal the prevalence of disease, and
| give rise TO epidemics and emergen-
ces which In all parts of the world
will call for unlimited voluntary eff
fort, the cutting Of red tape and mani
festaton of those qualities of human
sympathy which government action
cannot display. Here will be the op'
portunity for the American Red Cross
But even our Red Cross must not act
and cannot act most effectively alone
we must labor in cooperation with the
National Red Cross and relief societies
of other nations, to the end that not
alone the heart of America but the
heart of all mankind may be modified
on behalf of suffering humanity.
"While, therefore, the plans Of tn
American Red Cross In this direction
cannot be formulated specifically, II
advance of the general relief program
Of the allied governments, the Ameri
can Red Cross Is nevertheless planning
to develop Its permanent organization
IN this country upon scale never be
fore contemplated in time of peace
The commissions which are now con
Quoting the activities Of the American
Red Cross In foreign countries, n
well as the temporary war organlza
ton In this country, will as a matte
Of course ultimately merge their ener
giles with those of the permanent OF
ganlzation of the Red Cross.
"Wlth the war has developed tn
striking and important fact that man
men and women, some of whom ma
with great success devoted their live
J entirely to business, came into the Re
OfosS organization III inc oulaet VI W
war simply that they might serve thel
country, but have realized such q sat
isfaction to themselves In the oppoi
tunity to serve mankind that they nov
desire TO become a part of the perms
nent peace organization of the Amer
can Red Cross.
There may be, therefore, perfec
) confidence that the peace activities Q
j Tim Pad 1rnpo ,tr4iI hu conducted uT