The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1918-12-12
The Red Cross MEMBERSHIPS
Drive.

/ Drive.
During the coming year the America,
Red Cross will be called upon for worl
vast in scope and sacred in purpose. r
will have to handle many problems q
magnitude, both in the United States an,
in the allied countries, necessitatine tn,
maintaining, if not the increasing, of it,
organization. Our Allies must be cheeref
and sustained, and we must show in tht
most positive way to our own millions Of
fighting men that we propose to aid then
in every possible manner, not only in the
hour of conflict, but in the hour of vic.
tory.
The war work of the American Rec
Cross must 60 on unabated until all OF
our brave boys return home and again
take their place in our civilian life.
No more stirring message can be sent
to them by the American people than by
the enrolling of every American during
the coming Red Cross Christmas Roll
Call in the week beginning December l6.
| So great is the faith in the appeal of the
Red Cross that its aim will be Universal
Membership-for every member of every
family to Join in the year 1919.
At this time it is we'll to remember what
| the Red Cross has done for the wounded
of our Allies and of our own army, both
on the field and in the hospital; something
of the work in the camps in this country:
something of the relief for refugees in
Belgium, France, Poland, Italy, Servia-
their clothing and their food; something
of the work for crippled soldiers, their re-
establishment in civil life in self-support-
ing positions; something of the work for
orphan children, for sick children, for
mutilated children; something of the
teaching of trades to soldiers and their
widows and their orphans; something of
the fight against disease in Europe and at
home.
Below is a copy of a telegram received
at the State Headquarters from H. P.
Davidson, the Chairman of the National
Red Cross War Council:
Washington, D. c., Dec. 3, 1918.
Frank L. Rawson, Director Christmas
Roll Call,
So Exchange street, Portland, Maine.
| am issuing today statement to the
Chapters and Red Cross members to
which earnestly call your attention in
the hope you will see to it that the state
ment is brought to the attention of every
man and woman in your territory, as
that statement will indicate that | cannot
too strongly urge upon you the import
ance of the forthcoming Christmas Roll
Call. Conferences with our Commis-
sioners in Europe, together with confer
ences have held here the last two days
with the President, with our Division
Managers, and our Heads of Departments,
have shown clearly that the field for Red
Cross effort is going to be upon tre-
mendous scale andsof beautiful and in
no further campaign for War Funds the
Roll Call will constitute the very founda-
ton of Red Cross effort in the future,
and | firmly believe that the future of the
Red Cross will be devoted to service
w
hearted and active support of the whole
American people; and it's ability to realize
that future will be dependent upon that
support alone. urge you and your AS
sistants to exert redoubled effort to make
this Roll Call in the period of transition
from War to Peace such tremendous
success that our Red Cross organization,
which has been built to such huge proper
tions out of love and sympathy and eff
fort during the War, may continue to be
an agency of human service worthy of
the whole American Nation.
(Signe6 H. P. DAVIDSON,
Chairman National Red Cross War Coun
Gil"
The campaign in this county is in
charge of Cecil Clay, Roll Call Chair
man, with Capt Orrin j. Dickey as Pub
licity Manager, and Miss Isabel CHM,
Roll Call Cashier. The drive is during
the week of Dec. 1928, and large corps
of solicitors will make house to hous
canvass, as we'll as of the business dis
trict, and thus to make practicable the
slogan of universal membership. Tne
other towns in the county will be cam
vassed thoroughly by members of their
Red Cross branches, to whom large
amounts of advertising supplies have
been sent by the county chairman.
The following local solicitors have been
appointed: Mrs. CHARLES Hammons, Mrs.
John Chapman, Mrs. William Holt, Mrs.
Arthur Ritchie, Miss Eda Woodbury.,
Mrs. Florence C. Fernald, Mrs. Walter j.
Clifford, Mrs. Orris S. Vickery, Miss
Kate Warren, Miss Sara Frankel, Mrs.
Arthur w. Morse, Mrs John L. Dow, Miss
George Sheldon, Miss Lizzie Clements,
Mrs. Frederick G. Spinney, Mrs. Fred
Savery, Mrs. William Vaughan, jr., Mrs.
Robert P. Coombs
LOUISA ]. THOMPSON.