The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-10
RED CROSS CHRISTMAS DRIVE

Henry, Davison, chairman of the war council of the American Red Cross, an- nounces that in the week of December Is to 2S there will be Christmas roll call of the whole American people for membership in the American Red Cross.
 MT. Davison, at Washington, author ized this statement;
 From December Is to 23 lists will be open for every American in every cor ner of the world so that it may be known that the whole nation at home and abroad is registered for the cause.
 "'rhe American Red Cross wants again
 to give the world notice-not only that
 America can fight, but that to the last
 man, woman and child, we stand four
 square for mercy, honor and good faith
 among nations.
 "At the close of the Christmas mem
 bership campaign of 1917 there were 22,-
 0O0,00O Americans enrolled in the Ameri-
 can Red Cross. There are also S,O00,o0O
 of the Junior Red Cross. This year both as a Christmas observance and as renewal of nationwide pledge of loyalty, the American Red Cross will again put
 before everyone the duty of standing by the flag; for the Red Cross in this
 great fight for peace represents the whole spirit of what we are fighting for.
 This will not be a call for money. It will be a summons to Americans everywhere to line up for the Amerl- can ideal We cannot all fight but this one thing everybody can do The Ameri- can Red Cross membership fee is $1. Half of this remains with the local chapter , to be used for expense and for the re- lief of our soldiers and their families;
 the other half goes to the national treas
 ury.
 There will be no allotment of quotas
 to a community. The quota in every dis trict will be their limit of it's adult popu- lation. When the roll call comes, every
 American, old or young will be called on
 to register and add the weight Of his name to the Red Cross message. Let us answer with one voice to the word or President Wilson when he said, l sum- mon you to the comradeship," Have you done all in your power to make the survey of nurses, now being carried on by the government through the Red Cross, a success? Or have you said: This doesn't concern me! l am not a nurse?"
 The government has asked that all nurses, graduate, undergraduate, prac- tical. nurses-in- training, and all of those women who have taken Red Cross courses shall be named in the survey so that the crying need for nurses may be met with all possible speed. There are question: naires to be filled out by each nurse, obtainable from the local chapter of I the Red Cross.
 You, Mrs. Housekeeper! Are you rent ! ing rooms to nurses during their rest days? Do your bit by getting in sup l ply of questionnaires and asking the nurses in your house to fill them out. l And you, Mrs. Boarding Housekeeper, thow many nurses drop in for dinner? During the survey get the habit of ask | ing each nurse if she has responded. | How about you, MT. Druggist? Many nurses come daily into your Stop? | You too, MT. and Mrs. Everyb ody I how many nurses do you number among your friends and acquaintances? | Go, every one of you, to your Red Cross chapter, get supply of questionnaires,
 and see how many responses you can get today.