Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1918-01-10
THE RED
CROSS FOR
ENTHUSIASM RUNS HIGH AND
EVERY ONE WILLING TO
DO THEIR BIT.

We are not going to say forever
because we believe in the promise OF
a time when "God shall wipe away
all tears from all eyes" But we
have something more we think shout
be said about the Red Cross.
The writer knew a country editor
who made money enough out Of the
paper to get start in SOM lines OF
inv stments that made him rich
Then he quit the newspaper bust
ness" But that is aside from the
theme Red Cross, saving only this
That editor had a rule which he re-
ligioUsly kept, "To have the name
of every person in the county ap--
pear in the paper at least once a
year" 1t got subscribers.
The Payette County papers have
10 need to practice anything so mar
''camouflage" as that in order to
:2eak sCme words Of apr ciaticn
that will come very near touching
every body in the county. The Cam
paign for Red Cross membership fol-
lowing Immediately after the apple
picking campaign and both of them
running right along with the sowing,
knitting, and other activities of the
Chapter has come as near enlist
ing the interest of the entire county
as VIC can evere hope to see.
A good many know the extra loyal
ty expressed in the large new mem
bership secured. There were 1900
members in the chapter before the
new campaign was started. These
were all asked to waive the last
six months of the year that they
paid for last June and renew at
Christmas time both for the help Of
the treasury and for the effect on
the campaign for additional men,
bers. So far as can be found not one
Of the 1900 declined or even hesitated
to make the extra contribution. And
with them now are more than 700
new members Just as enthusiastic as
the first contingent was.
: And there was something splendid
about the campaign, in fact about
all the requests that have been made
in this line. The people who were ask
ed to work and those asked to give
received the canvassers as if they
had been bringing a gift. The sug-
Sastion of their being beggars was
hardly once made in the whole coun--
ty. People who were not at home
when the workers called took pains
to send in the Fee direct to the
central office (The Idaho Power Coz.
And when We raan beyond the Gov
ernment expectation and had neither
buttons nor other badges to give to-
the new members there was never
a word of complaint, Just an express
sion of gladness that We were
Away over the top"
1t would be a pleasant thing to
print the names Of the canvassers
who together covered the county as
as if it had been cam
paisn for votes for some high Office
for an intimate friend. If any one
wants to know how each last man,
woman, and child stands on the
Red Cross proposition just call to-
gether those fifty men end women
who did the soliciting and you will
get the information. They have seen
them all.
If print paper were not so expen-
sive We would ask for an extra in
Sert to say what ought to be said.
But under the circumstances just al
few extra words about that now an
cient event "The apple campaign"
If an officer in the U. S. uniform ha
been present TO Commander" he
could hardly have obtained more
ready response than was shown to-
a mere committeeman, when he phon.
II "will you take out an auto load OF
p't kers." And the men with trucks
md teams in the midst of very
FLOOD Of work hauled ON time and
overi me and asked nothing but the
pr,N eee. While the donors Of apples
made only one complaint in connec--
ton with the whole business. 1t was
Why don't you come and get my
apples, They are waiting and ! am
ans ious that they be used" Our suffi-
cient answer was that Jack Frots
he'd entered into the game and held
tn upper hand so long that we could
not get to all the orchards so free
ly opened to us.
AS a mere matter Of getting money
for a good cause the drive" was a