Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-12-23
FINAL DRIVE ON TO-DAY
!. FOR RED CROSS MEMBERS
District Lines Broken, ami Can
vasscrs viii Solicit at
WILL
CHANCE FOR ALL TO JOIN
So Far Only 10000 Men and Women
Have Enrolled for 1919. but Local
Chapter Hopeful That "Clrun-Up
Day" Will Add Several Thousand.
CHANCE FOR ALL no JOIN

Richmond's Red Cross Christmas roll
call comes 10 an end tonight. The
concluding day Of the campaign for
1919 members has been designated as
fClean Up Day" which means that dis
trict lines will be broken down this
morning and men and women cam
Nassers may solicit Who're they Will.
Everyone not wearing II 1919 Red Cross
membership button will be asked TO
join the Richmond chapter.
There is still time FOR everyone with
& Il heart and = dollar to make it Il Red
cross ChirStmas. said II. q. Boykm.
roll call director. last night, Although
I new memberships have been taken out
up to this lime by only 1900 men and
women. the committee is hopeful that
Mondays canvass VIII increase this to-
tai by several thousand names. AS
surances have been received that sew
eral large establishments will enroll
Monday FOR all of their employees. and.
providing the weather conditions are
favorable. al! of the enrolment booths
should do Il rushing business all day"
FINAL CALL MADE IN
THE TliEATERs To-NIGHr
l'our-minutc men Will present the
: foi-call message TO thcatcr audiences
for the iaAt time tonight. and mem
oerS OF the cantecn committee of the
local chapter will he present to So
licit memberships after the speakers
have made their short talks. Efforts
VIII be made by women house to- house
canvassers to visit every home where
Red Cross service flag is not dis
played before niShtfal. Each new
member receives a nag. ten Red Cross
seals and membership button.
The enrolment booth at roll call
hcadquartcrS Fourth and Grace Streets
VIII be open all day. and other mem
pcrship booths. with the workers in
lowing places:
Miller & Rhoads-ColoniM Danes.
. Mrs ;rn Thomas IaTy Johnson. general
COhCn'S
eral chairman: Mrs. j. NJ Rubcns Miss
Irma Roscnbaum.
>n rirSt ?<,,nn;o Eank ieh M d
Martha Chambers. Mis- Elizabeth Knox,
Post-oflicc Ricchmond Antitubcr.
cuiosiS Association. Miss Martha pur-
cell, Miss Lucy Byrd Martin
Mmrphy's Hotcl-Ecd cross Cntholi.
AuSiliary. ''''''''
y Kerr & Schnafs store Church hin
MIS- Il. ~. Garcin. chairman.
Mechanics ana Merchants. Rank
chairman. N'"'"S'
y booth for colored members will bc
open ut Colored Red Cross IIeadn,,or-
tcrs POI East Leigh street. in chnrmc
or Key. w. I. Johnson
rIbEHCuLosIS ASSOCIATIONS
SELL. No SEALS T,iis YEAR
aoaittonai concerns entitled to adj
MISSION into the 100 per cent cl,h
which contains the names of III , ao
factories and offices where cycrw cn,
nioyee has become II 1919 Rcd Cross
TnnnI' Wee announced last night as
suramco C',.ce force. of the Life In
r nulahcG company Of Virginin. Rich
R mond Dry Goods Company Southern
Inc sain n, House, Etchison Hat Companv
S;is. snnn in. Lewis. Gray Co. Inc.
MSS blanche Webb. acting cyccni;vn
seSretary Of the Richmond Anii,nhnMrt
InM n" association. ana Miss Agnes y
state association stated ycs,cS[. %. Inc
aIde1 'uIoSis association Supporters had
81, c.Ied generously in ptomoi;nr tho roll
tIc ,ss M Is inc first Christmas that
D ,g's seals Sea ard5Givcn with cach
, ,M cross membership this "car IN
,in, ""a ., IN campaigns Of thc associn
s'ons VII he carried dn next vc.r 80,
= s2,Hoo.o"n appropriation made hv IN" IN
ii ross This was done To rcdnn,
~; ne number Of anpcHls for confirm