Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1918-12-08
RED CROSS WORK
WAS CARRIED ON
UNDER HANDICAP

Hal Prince has been named associ-
ate county campaign director for the
Red Cross Christmas Roll Call. The
central Arizona chapter of the Amerl-
can Red Cross embraces much more
than just Maricopa county, but the
biggest part of the membership is in
this county, and the task of gettig all
those on the rolls for 1918 to renew for
1919 is a large task which will require
a complete county organization.
The lifting of the influenza epidemic
ban in Phoenix will be of material as
sistance in the house to house canvass
to be made for the Christmas Roll Call,
which canvass will start on Monday
December 16, and be concluded the
Monday before Christmas. However,
those who volunteer their 1919 mem
berships before the house-to- house
canvass starts will be greatly aiding
the work for it will then not be neces-
sary to look them up and see that they
are on the roll for the new year.
The membership fee for the Red
Cross is 81 and if the National Red
Cross Magazine is taken, the fee is 81.
The Christmas Roll Call is for the pur-
pose of enrolling all adults in the com
munity in the Red Cross and TO get
magazine into each household.
There will be no sale of Christmas
Red Cross seals this year, but to each
member who gets in on the Christmas
Roll Call free package of these seals
will be presented. The money usually
secured through the sale of the seals
goes in the constant warfare which
the Red Cross is waging against tu
berCulosis and a certain proportion of
the membership fees secured through
the Christmas Roll Call will be used
for the same purpose-hence the seals
are free.
In addition to the money which
comes from the Christmas Roll Call
membership for the anti tuberculosis
campaign in which, of course, Arizona
! is especially interested, half of the
membership fee is retained in the
treasury of the local chapter is is the
| fund which pays the operating ex-
penses of the chapter work. The mem
bership campaign should not be con-
fused with the campaign made in the
spring for actual financial backing for
the work of the Red Cross at home and
overseas. At that time much larger
sums were solicited. This Roll Call is
merely to get members for the Red
| Cross at the regular membership fees.
The local chapter Of the Red Cross
will complete its quota of 1900 refu-
gee garments this week. This work
has been carried on during the same
period that linen shower was con-
| Quoted and thousands of flu masks
We're made by Red Cross workers.
In view of the handicap of the flu
epidemic which called for healt hregu-
lations that restricted many from rem
dering service the amount Of work &C
complished by the local chapter and
its branches was nothing short of
amazing according to Mrs. w. X.
James, chairman of supplies.
Everyone of the fourteen branches
furnished it's allotment, said the pro-
duction chairman in praise of the re-
cent activities of Red Cross workers.
In certain localities where it was i'm
possible to procure linens in accord
ance with the Red Cross regulations,
| funds were forwarded for the purchase
| of supplies. Other branches in com
pleting the amount of refugee gar
ments for which they We're responsible
| offered their services to aid other
branches where the qSotas had not
been filled.
1.-THE enthusiasm and cooperation is
if anything emphasized since the
signing of the armistice," declared
Mrs. James. "The Red Cross work
ers realized there is still a large
amount of work to be accomplished
and they are lending their best efforts
to the cause which does end with the
coming of peace. l find the outside
branches. on which we have depended
always for support, giving the usua
assistance despite the fact that tbs
epidemic has made work different il
certain communities"
Eight cases of hospital supplies anC
linens were shipped to the Pacific di-
vision headquarters from the loca
chapter on Friday. The linens in.
cluded the towels, sheets, and hand
kerchiefs donated at the recent liner
shower.
The surgical dressings committe,
has resolved itself into a committe,
to furnish hospital supplies, its quar-
tiers on the second floor in the Wa
Work building being open daily excep
on Sunday.
Fifteen hundred Christmas boxe
forwarded from the local chapter O
the Red Cross, gives an idea of tn
number of Maricopa county boys il
France.