The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1918-12-26
RED CROSS CALLED.
ON TO CONTINUE ITS
WORK INDEFINITELY.
CHAPTERS AND BRANCHES WILL
BE cENTERS IN EACH CON-
MUNlTY FOR GIVING AID TO
DISTRESSED HUMANITY.
ACTIVITIES NOT CURTAILED
Membership Campaign Each chrIst-
mas viii Be Means Of Calling
Americans Together to
Show Spirit Of Love.

Henry Z. Dawson, Chairman of the
War Council of the Red Cross, has is
sued to the 1854 chapters and the
23,000000 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 Christ
mas to enroll as members of the Red
Cross. 1t is confidently believed
there will be no further campaigns for
Red Cross funds, but instead the an
nual roll call will constitute the foun-.
dation OF the Red Cross. The people
should therefore know as definitely as
possible the plans of this their ma
tional humanitarian society
Since 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 man
ayers Of the IA Red Cross divisions Of
the United States and with the heads
Of our departments 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 permanent human service.
Since Americas entry into war the
purpose Of our Red Cross has been pri-
marily to aid our army and navy in the
care Of our own men under arms, and,
secondly to extend relief to the sol
diers, sailors ana civilians OF those
nations which were fighting our bat
ties along with their own. With the
funds which have been so generously
contributed by the American people
/ this war work of the Red Cross will
continue and be complete with all pos
sible sympathy and energy
Wherever our soldiers and sailors
may be, the Red Cross will stay with
them until they are demobilzed. Moth
ing which we may do will be left un-
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 the Red Cross will
continue its ministrations In this lat
ter effort $4,000 trained Red Cross
workers are now engaged at $500 diff
fcrent places throughout the land.
THE problems OF reconstruction, in
volving feeding and caring for the dis
tressed civilian population OF Europe,
are of such magnitude that necessarily
they must be met very largely by the
governments Of our allies, with whom
cur own government will cooperate.
The great task of fighting tubercu-
losis, promoting child welfare and car
ing for refugees. with which the Amer
ican Red Cross has concerned itself 30
effectively in France, Italy and Bel
gium. 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 terrific burden
Of waging war, naturally desire to take
care, as far as they can, Of their own
people.
"The war program of the American
Red Cross will thus steadily and rap
idly merge itself into $peace program.
The wake of war will, however, reveal
the prevalence of disease and give rise
to epidemics and emergencies which
in all parts of the world will call for
unlimited voluntary effort. the cutting
OF req tape and the manifestation Of
those qualities of human sympathy
which government action cannot dis
play.
Here will be the opportunity for the
American Red Cross. But even our
Red Cross must not and cannot act
most effectively alone; we must labor
in cooperation with the National Red
Cross and relief societies Of other ma
tions, to the end that not alone the
heart OF America but the heart of all
mankind may be mobilized on behalf
Of suffering humanity.
while, therefore, the plans of the
American Red Cross in this direction
cannot De formulated specifically, In
advance of the general relief program
Of the Allied governments. the Ameri-
can Red Cross is nevertheless plan
ming to develop its permanent organi-i
zation in this country upon a scale
never before contemplated in time of
peace.
The commissions which are now
conducting the activities Of the Amer
lean Red Cross in foreign countries, as
wei as the temporary war organize
ton in this country. will as a matter
Of course ultimately merge their ener-
gies with those of the permanent or.
ganization Of the Red Cross.
with the war has developed the
striking and important fact that many
men and women, some of whom have
met with great success in devoting
their lives entirely to business. came
into the Red Cross organization at the
outset c. the war simply that they