The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-12-09
ROLL CALL SERVICE


the 1854 Chapters and the 100000 members
of the Red Cross the following statement out
lining the future policy of the American Red
Cross:
To the 1854 Chapters and 100000 members
of the American Red Cross:
The whole American people will be invited in
the week preceding Christmas to enroll as men,
bers of the Red Cross. 1t is conidentially be-
lieved that there need be no further campaigns
for Red Cross funds, but instead the annual
Roll Call will constitute the foundation of the
Red Cross. The people should therefore know
as definitely possible the plans of this, their
national humanitarian society.
Wherever soldiers and sailors may be the
Red Cross will stay with them until they are
demobilized. Nothing which we may do will be
left undone either for the men in the war zone
for those returning, for those in the camps and
hospitals or for their families at home to whom
Will continue to be devoted the. ministrations of
the Red Cross Home Service. In this latter
effort 100000 trained Red Cross workers are
now engaged at $500 different places through
out the land.
The war program of the American Red Cross
will steadily and rapidly merge itself into
peace program. The wake of the war will
however, reveal the prevalence of disease and
in all parts of the world will call for unlimited
voluntary effort, the cutting of red tape and
the manifestation of those qualities of human
sympathy which recommendation cannot dis
play.
Here will be the opportunity for the Amer
lean Red Cross. But even our Red Cross must
not act and cannot act most effectively alone
we must labor in cooperation with the National
Red Cross and relief societies of other nations.
to the end that not alone the heart of America
but the heart of all mankind may be modified
on behalf of suffering humanity.
While, therefore, the plans of the American
Red Cross in this direction cannot be formu-
lated specifically in advance of the general re-
lief program of the allied governments the
American Red Cross is nevertheless planning
to develop it's permanent organization in this
country upon scale never before contemplated
in time of peace.
The commissions which are now conducting
the activities of the American Red Cross in
foreign countries, as well as the temporary war
organization in this country, will as a matter
OF course ultimately merge their energies with
those OF the permanent organization of the Red
Cross
For the completion of it's war work and for
the institution of it's peace program, the Red
Cross is fortunately in healthy financial condi
ton. Abundant occasion for the use of large
funds of money and great quantities of gar
ments and other supplies will continue to arise
but it is believed that there will be no further
need for intensive campaigns for funds The
work of supplementing governmental activities.
which the Red Cross will be called on to do in
all parts of the world, will be upon a great
scale, but it will call for human service rather
than for large expenditures
What the American Red Cross ,ooodc nov, :,
not so much contributions of money as the con-
tlnued devotion and loyalty of it's members. This
is peculiarly true at this moment of transition
from war to peace. Annual membership in
wolves the payment of only one dollar The
moneys thus received not only defray all the |
administration expenses of the organization but |
leave substantial balance which, together with
all funds subscribed directly for relief, is de- |
voted solely to that purpose
The Roll Call of the nation is thus to be called
at Christmas time that, through enrolment in |
their Red Cross, the American people may send
a message to our soldiers still overseas and TO /
the peoples of the world that we are not con-
tent merely with seeing arms united with /
our allies in victory but that our abiding pur-
pose is that the love, the sympathy and the in
teligence of all America shall be re-dedicated to
the permanent service of mankind. I