The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1918-12-14
DAWSON OUTLINES
FUTURE OF RED CROSS
Chairman of War Council Tells OF
Need of Members And Future of
Society in Peace Times.

Henry p. Dawson, Chairman >ol
the War Council of the Red Cross.
has issued to the 1854 Chapters and
the % 100000 members OF the
American Red Cross, the following
! statement outlining the future poll
cy of the American Red Cross.
The whole American people will
be invited in the work proceeding
| Christmas to enroll as members OF
the Red Cross. 1t is confidently be-
| Iieved there need be no further
campaigns for Red Cross funds but
instead, the annual Roll Call will con-
/ stitute the foundation Of the Red
! Cross. The people should therefore
know as definitely as possible the
! plans of this their national humani-
! tartan society.
| Since the armistice was signed,
/ have had an opportunity to confer
in Paris with the heads of all Ameri-
can Red Cross Commissions in Eu-
rope, and lateG in Washington with
the President of the United States,
the War Council of the Red Cross,
the managers of the fourteen Red
Cross Divisions OF the United States,
and with the heads of our depart
ments at National Headquarters. l
am, therefore, able to speak now
with knowledge and assurance in
saying that the benefcent work OF
the American Red Cross is to go
forward on a great scale-not alone,
as heretofore. for purposes of relief
in war, but as an agency of peace
and permanent human service.
Since Americas entry into the war,
the purpose of our Red Cross has
been primarily to aid our Army and
Navy in the care of our own men un-
der arms, and, secondly, to extend re-
lief to the soldiers, sailors and civil
lians of those nations which were
fighting our battles along with their
own. With the funds which have
been so generously contributed by
the American people this war work
of the Red Cross will continue and
be completed with all possible SYM
| pathy and energy.
| Wherever our soldiers and sailors
may be, the Red Cross will stay with
them until they are denobilized.
Nothing which we may do will be
left undone, either for the men in
the war zone, for those returning,
for those in the camps and hospit-
ais, or for their families at home to
whom will continue to be devoted
the ministrations of the Red Cross
Home Service. In this latter effort
$4,000 trained Red Cross workers
are now engaged at $500 different
places throughout the land.
The problems of reconstruction,i in
yolving feeding and caring for the
distressed civilian populations OF
Europe, are of such magnitude that
necessarily they must be met very
largely by the governments of ouI
Allies, with whom our own govern
ment will cooperate.
The great tasks of fighting tuber-
culosis, promoting child welfare, land
caring for refugees, with which the
American Red Cross has concerned
itself so effectively in France, Italy
and Belgium, will at an early date be
assumed by the governments, the
Red Cross organizations, and the
relief societies Of those countries,
which, now that they are released
from the terrific burden of wagtng
war, naturally desire to TAX ecare, as
far as they can, of their own people.
The war program of the American
Red Cross will thus steadil yand rap
idly merge itself into a peace pro-
gram. The wake of the war will,
however, reveal the prevalence of dis
ease, and give rise to epidemics and
emergencies which In all parts OF
the world viii call for unlimited vol
untary effort, the cutting OF red
tape and the manifestation of those
qualities of human sympathy which
NOTICE.
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