Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1918-12-16
RED CROSS roll CALL
Solicitors Numbering $50 Seek Mem
i,crship for Annual Xmas RoI Call
Will be continued During Week
Booths Opened for Enrolment.

Will be continued During Wee
\, Booths Opened for Enrolment.
Rain failed to dampen the ardor O.
$50 women who today began house
to house canvass. to secure mem.
bcrships for the Christmas Red Cross
Roll Cali. In addition to the worer
a committee of mcu also is engaged
in the work.
Booths have been erected in the diff
facent stores AMI banks and office
buildings and viii Je daily in charge
of women.
A report on the work accomplished
w.n be made at meeting which win
| 5e held Wednesday night in the rooms
of the Chamber Of Commerce.
Miss Mary Lind'5ey is chairman Of
she womens committee. The business
houses are being canvassed by COM
nittee of men of which T. E. Dyson
S chairman. Mrs. Carroll Pierce IS
chairman of the committee in Charge
if the stands in the banks, and Mrs.
raylor Burke is chairman of the COM
nittee in charge of stands in the
stores.
Despite weather conditions those en-,
ragged in the work report having met
With considerable success at every
,lace visited by them.
They are simply soliciting subscrlp-
lions for years membership in the
Red Cross. The dues are only One Dol
ar a year. No other funds are asked
md this IS universal enrolment week
CIR the Red Cross. There will be nc
more collections by the Red Cross fol
mother year and every American
,hculd enroll for the year 1919.
During the war the work Of the Red !
cross has been praised throughout the
world. However, it is not necessary
o 90 abroad to see the work OF the
Ted Gross. In this country in time
# flood, fires, earthquakes and other
:iyasters the Red Cress is first on the |
Job.
RIGHT here in Alexandria during
he endemic of influenza the RED
Cross did excellent work ano
through the splendid efforts Of Its
nurses sent here to cooperate with the
,ther nurses of the city, many lives
we're saved. This organization spent
more than $4,000 in Alexandria in II
york.
Every day during the remainder o.
he week representatives of the Reo
cross win call at your home to secure
,our enrolment and be ready to give
Iour dollar cheerfully to them in OF
Ter that the good work being dons
~ this organization may be coatlnu-
ID.
The goal set for this city is a mem.
,ership of 5000. Representatives OF
the Red Cross, however, will not os
atisfied unless they can go far be-
vond the allotment set TO rthe city as
he various other organizations have
lone in this during the different
drives made since the starting OF th'
var.
:: The hone Of the Gazette is that th'
allotment may be doubled and II every
.itizen does his or her duty such WI
,e the case.
Relief Work Must Be Continued
Now that the war is won, many
Alexandrias citizens are asking why
The Red Cross is planning to enron
the entire population of the city as
members the week before, Christmas
+: The Chairman of the local Execu-
tive Committee Of the Red cross
'Gbristnss Roll Gail organization
makes the following reply:
"Starvation, sickness and sorrow aia
,ot vanish in Europe when the flght-
NO ceased. On the contrary, the ne"
.ondtions have revealed greater op-
,ort,nities for the American people,
through the Red Cross, to EXTEND re-
lief. This work is just as imperative
in peace as in war, though not SO
lra1natic.
"Besides, Alexandria boys IN II rance
or in home camps, with millions OF
other American soldiers, and sailors
have right to expect that Red Gross
service will be continued for them III
full measure until rehabilitation IS
completed. This means the Red Cross
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