Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1918-12-18
Booths at Stores and Theatres
Only Reports Made to Date
to Committee
WANT REPORTS THURSDAY
House Canvass Going on in
Full Swing and 100 Per Cent.
Result Is Expected

The FIRST results from the Red Cross
Christmas Roll Call drive have been
announced. The workers and solicit
ors secured a total of 1,450 member
ships on Monday. the first day of the
campaign.
This includes only the report of the
women's teams In the booths and the
atres and the 1z5 memberships that
were secured on Monday night at the
mass meeting which was held for the
purpose of enthusing the people with
the spirit of the Red Cross.
The reports of the solicitors in the
toulouse canvass have not yet
been turned in, but 1t is expected that
these results will help greatly to swell
the total number of memberships 1t
IS the aim OF the campaign to secure a
hundred per cent. membership in ev-
cry community and 1t needs the coop
GRAFTON OF everybody to do this.
The executive committee has urged
that II anyone is by chance missed in
the house-to-house canvass or is not
approached by the solicitors in the
stores and theatres. that they will
then voluntarily go to one OF the
booths and take out membership In
the Red Cross.
The executive committee Is today
mailing letters to the captains and
teams, urging that reports of results
report to include all members enrolled
up to that time.
This Is necessary because the re-
suits of the campaign in this city must
be sent to Atlantic Division headquar-
ters and the general chairman AL
bert Leon, desires that Perth Amboy
make fine showing in her first report
to headquarters.
The local headquarters in the Boyn-
to $3.50 o'clock and every evening
from Z to 3. and the members of the
teams are requested to come and get
any supplies that they may need be-
tween those hours.
Huge Block Party Tonight.
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NEW YORK, Dec. 1s.-Historic
Fifth avenue from Madison Square to
the Plaza at Fifty-ninth street, be-
comes an avenue OF mercy" tonigh,
for gigantic carnival or ''block par
ty," to which New York's millions
have been invited, as means of stfn-
nlating enrolment in the Christmas
Roll Call of the Red Cross. The only
price of admission to the party will b
the 1919 Red Cross button, Indicating
that the wearer has a heart and a
dollar" for the cause.
Each block along the avenue which
mas Deen decorated with RarlandS and
evergreens. will be in possession of the
Red Cross. or other official organiza-
tions for a night of dancing and varied
forms of entertainment. Traffic on the
avenue will be cleared at 7:45 O'Clock
after warning has been sounded by
the great air raid sirens. which were
installed during the war.
Praise For Red Cross From Abroad.
BIZ Associated Press.
WASHINTON, Dec. 1S-General
John Biddle, commander of the Amer
lean forces in Great Britain, and
General Zuttelli, italian minister of
war in statements made public today
at the headquarters of the American
Red Cross praised the work of the
Red Cross and urged the American
people to support the organization in
its Christmas membership campaign.
II really do not know" says the
statement Of General Biddle, what
the American army should have done
in England without the American
Red Cross. Everywhere the Red
Cross is giving the best that can be
given or asked for. Our men are be-
ing cared for as well as they can be.
ard are helped by the Red Cross I'm
every way. At all our camps through
out the British Isles It has given us
many things which we either could
not get from the government or could
not get without much delay"
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