The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-12-16
RED CROSS ROLL
CALLSTARTSIN
WITH BIG PUSH
Prospects That Membership
Drive Will Be Remarkable
Success
NUESSLE ADJOURNS COURT
Judge Allows Recess for Can.
vassers and Makes Address
Urging Joining
NUESSLE ADJOURNS COURT

New York, Dec. 16.-The Christ
mas roll call Of the Red Cross
opened today with officials hope
fu' Of big increase over the pres
ent membership The money OBJ
tained through membership fees
will be used to carry out the great
peacetime program which the Red
Cross has set for itself.
COURT is ADJOURNED.
Judge w. l.. Nuessle, presiding
in district court, declared twen-
ty minutes' recess this morning
to enable the Red Cross Christmas
roll call canvassers Of the Bis
marck team to sign up the court,
officials, members Of the bar and
gentlemen Of the jury"
Judge NuessIe in proclaiming
the recess declared the Red Cross
one cause in whose behalf no ex-
pIanation need he made. The
work which the Red Cross is do
ing, said the court, is fully i'm
portant now that peace has come
as It was during the great world
struggle, and the court expressed
the hope that not a single person
in the room would be found un-
ready.
Business then was suspended
for 20 minutes, while the "gentIe-
manly canvassers" passed among
the audience, collecting fees and
distributing Red Cross buttons,
banners and Christmas seals. It
was a good stroke Of business
which netted the team at least
50 members at one fell swoop.
"Oh Joy, somebody must have got
the kaiser!" remarked one tender
hearted old lady this morning when
the cicumnambient was rent with
such naturalization as Bismarck had
not known on but one other occasion
the morning Of peace day.
The early morning salute announced
the beginning of the Christmas roll
call OF the Red Cross. A few moments
after the echoes of the bells and whts
ties had died away, there set out
from the Grand Pacific hotel severa
dozen earnest, aggressive, and efficient
and the listing Of; mem
bers for the annual roll call had be
gun. .s ..,
From the very start 1t went big
Everyone was ready for the canvass
ers. They had to do no talking tc
sell their . product. BY noon every
business house and large
section Of the residence district hat
been covered through a door-to-dool
convass, and it seemed safe to predict
that the city would at least double
its original Red Cross membership
BY nightfall it is possible this goa
will have been reached.
AT the city's larger hotels and II
various other points Of vantage Ret
Cross booths are established. where
eager young women are exchangint
stamps for coin of the realm. OF
every hand is the sign of the Rec
Cross. The seasons first snow gave
the day Christmassy appearance ant
placed everyone in the mood.
The Auditorium was filled Sunday
afternoon when John Bowe, an Amer1
can member of the French foreig1
egion, told Bismarck and Burleigf
county folk something about the fight
ing over there. Mr.. Bowe had three
years of it. Two of those three years
were spent in the trenches. During
all of the time he was in France iMr
Bowe found the Red Cross to be tn
soldiers most sincere and valuable
friend. He left no doubt in the min;
of single hearer as to. the worth o
this organization in peace as well a.
in war. There was congregations
singing of familiar hymns, "a mum
Der of solo and quartette number
and choral selections by the Commun
ity Choral club, directed by Miss Ber
gliot Caspary. e..