Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-12-17
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Challenge Red Cross Mem
bershipi Contest Means
f. $4,000 Here. IT,.
DRIVE is IN FUEL SWING

| Washington, accepting Philadelphia
| challenge to enroll 20 per cent of its
population as members of the Red Cross
during roll CALI week, now in progress,
! thereby has pledged itself to put 100000
men and women into tho organization,
+ basing this number upon an estimated
| population for the National Capital Of
| 400, 900.
| Frank J. Hogan, chairman of the
| local committee, accepted the challenge
of Philadelphia committee without hesi-
! tation, and was enthusiastic today over
/ the prospects for even doing better
than the City of Brotherly Love-"
/ A series of living pictures to illustrate
favorite Red Cross posters Will De
staged, beginning Thursday, on the
south steps OF the Treasury. Society
Boardman and Mrs. Christian Hemmlck,
will pose.
I Livins, illustrations of the posters will
! be given at 1880 O'Clock and 4:3o O'Clock
Thursday. Friday and Saturday after.
; Rooms, it is announced. Five posters Will
f, be dealt with, 1.-The Greatest Mother in
/. the World 1.-THE Red Cross Nurse.
1.-The Christmas Red Cross" 1.-THE Spirit
of the Red Cross" and Where Columbia
| Leads !.
hundreds OF voluntary eIlTOilIIeiilS III
! the Red Cross are being made, scores OF
persons enrolling at headquarters, 141S
H street. An airplane from Boiling
j Field flew over the city at noon today.
| dropping Red Cross literature. on the
\ lunch hour crowds
No Seals Sold This Year.
! Added inducement to enroll in the
Red Cross was given today with the
announcement that there will be no
sale of Red Cross Christmas seals this
year. but that ten of the Red Cross
Christmas "stickers'' will be given to
every person who joins the Red Cross
I stamps will be obtainable i'll no other
way.
/ The American Red Cross national
| organizat alton has given to the National
| Tuberculosis Association, for which
F.! the annual seal sale has been held, the
sum of $2,5OO,O0O. which is declared
| to be 40 per cent more than that or
ganization has received in the past
| from the sale of "stickerS" The tu-
berculosis association is lending the
efforts of it's 5000 members to pro-
i noting the success or the Red cross
! roll CALL
! The use of the Red Cross seals this
year, members of the local committee
declared today, constitutes conclusive
evidence that the user is member OF
| the national organization and has paid
his or her dues for the coming year.
Banks Enroll in Drive.
Washington banks today enrolled in
the enterprise by displaying large
signs calling attention of patrons to
the roll CALI Among the banks thus
Il; loo, tu ND
Trust Company, the Riggs National
Bank. the Exchange Bank of Wash
! ington. the Dupont National Bank, the
| Washington Savings Bank. the Column
| hia National Bank the Union Savings
Bank. the Liberty Savings Bank, the
Franklin National Bank. the Seventh
Street Savings Bank, the Central Saw
| ings Bank, the Security Savings and
Commercial Bank, the Second National
Bank, the District National Bank, the
National Savings and Trust Company.
the National Metropolitan Bank, the
Federal National Bank, the CONNER
cial National Bank, the American Ma
tional Bank, the Merchants Bank, the
Continental Trust Company, the Lin
coin National Bank, the Washington
Loan and Trust Company and the
Home Savings Bank. - "
Women to Canvass.
The voluntary enrollments being
made at the local headquarters prove
especially satisfactory to the local
committee. Women are on hand to
take enrollments and to distribute
! the stamps, button and window sign.
| Thousands of women will canvass
! the city Thursday. and many people,
! evidently anticipating absence from
! home on that day, are signing up"
| beforehand.
| This action not only insures one
! being enrolled, it is declared, but
| will save the enrolling clerks many
calls Thursday, as they will not. call
at homes where the special window
! signs designating that one has paid
/ the 1919 Dues are displayed.
! A meeting of the executive commit
! tee of the local roll CALI committee
| is announced for 4 o'clock this aft
! ernoon.
| Booths for the enrolment of MEM
! berS have been established near the
| disbursing offices of the Senate and
| House, so that senators. representa-
| tives and employees may be afforded
| opportunity to enroll before leaving
| for the Christmas holidays.
| Only scattering reports on the roll
! call" throughout the nation have
been received as yet by the National
| Red Cross organization here. 1t was
announced that the Berks county
| Pa.) chapter was the first to "go
over the top" in the week's cam