The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1918-12-13
RED CROSS CHRISTMAS ROLL
CALL TO Be STAGED NEXT WEEK
County Committee Has Appointed His Help
for the Big livery American a MEMBER
Drive Which Starts Next Monday, Dec. Is.

The Red Cross Christmas Roll Call
is universal, and every patriot should
answer the call. The campaign will
be started throughout the nation on
December 16, and last for a week.
Plenty of time is given so that every
one will be given that chance to be-
come a member.
Prof. D. S. Williams, superintend-
ent, of the Glasgow Public Schools,
has been chosen chairman of the VAL
ley County Drive and he is urging
that every individual with a dollar
and heart take heed. Workers have
been appointed in every precinct in
the county so that everyone will have
an opportunity to enroll as a men,
ber during "Red Cross Week."
Have you a membership in the Red
Cross for 1919? That is the ques-
tion that every individual is expected
to answer, and the requirement is
that he be able to make an affirmative
reply. If the individual is over 16
years of age he wants to get into the
big campaign and sign the card.
Those under 16 will be taken care of
through the agency of the Junior
Red Cross. The membership brings
with it three things which are ply
sical evidence of that fact. They are
the 1919 Red Cross button, the service
flag and the 10 Christmas seals which
will be distributed to every member,
There will be no sale of Red Cross
Christmas seals this year. That has
been put aside in order not to con-
flict with the membership campaign
with the Red Cross Roll Call. And it
may be said here that membership
taken out last spring nor the Red
Cross subscriptions nor the monthly
payments to the Red Cross for the
membership required for the Red
Cross Christmas Roll Call. The other
acts all are accepted as meritorious
evidence of the intention of the indi-
vidual to help worthy cause, but are
not sufficient to entitle the individual
to the 1919 Red Cross button, and
no one wants to be without one of
them.
Before departing for France to at
tend the peace conference, President
Wilson issued the following proclama-
ton:
"To the American People,:
"One year ago % 100000 Americans,
by enrolling as members of the Red
Cross at Christmas time, sent to the
men who were fighting our battles
overseas stimulating message of
cheer and good will. They made it
clear that our people were of their
own free choice united with their gov
ernment in the determination not only
to wage war with instruments of de-
struction, but also by every means in
their power to replace the ravages of
the invader and sustain and renew
the spirit of the army and of the
homes which the represented. The
friends of the American Red Cross
in Italy, Belgium and France have
told, and will tell again the story of
how the Red Cross workers restored
morale in the hospitals in the camps
and at the cantonments, and we ought
to be very proud that we have been
permitted to be of service to those
whose sufferings and whose glory are
the heritage of humanity.
"Now of Gods grace, the Red
Cross Christmas message Of 1918 is to
be message of peace as we'll as a
message of good will. But peace does
not mean that we can fold our hands.
1t means further work. We must
prove conclusively to an attentive
world that America is permanently
aroused to the needs of the new era,
our old indifferences gone forever.
"The exact nature of the future SER
vice of the Red Cross will depend up
on the program of the associated gov
ernments, but there is immediate need
today for every heartening word and
for every helpful service. We must
not forget that our soldiers and our
sailors are still under order and still
have duties to perform of the high
est consequence, and that the Red
Cross membership means great deal
to them. The people Of the saddened
lands, moreover, returning home today
where there are no homes must have
the assurance that the hearts of our
people are with them in the dark and