Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-12-13
RED CROSS DRIVE
Christmas Membership Drive in Full
County for Universal Membership
Week of December 10th to 23rd-
Booths in WauseOn-"AIl You
Need is a Heart and a Dollar
"Join."

Futon County will Join with all
the rest of the United States next
week in the movement to send out
to the world a practical Christmas
Message of good will by universal
national membership to the Ameri-
can Red Cross. That will mean that
the American people as a whole are
back of and with the Red Cross So
ciety that through the years of the
World War has been the angel of
practical and helpful mercy among
the stricken. suffering and needy
peoples of every nation upon which
war has laid its cruel hand and as
well the tender hand outstretched to
the sick and wounded on every bat
tie field on which American soldiers
have trodden.
Nor will it be soon forgotten that
this same great organization has
efficiently ministered to the needs of
prisoners of war in the prison camps
and served as a means of communi-
cation between the anxious friends
at home and the men far away from
home and all they had counted dear
to them. Because of the magnifi-
done and the stupendous work that
is before it in our own land and alb
road, this "Christmas Roll Call" is
instituted and every 100 per cent
American will respond. "All you
need is heart and a dollar" and
you can answer "Here!" to this Red
Cross Call. The American people
will be confronted at every turn,
next week by the message, "Join!
All you need is a heart and dollar"
The branches Of Fulton Chapter,
Will conduct the drive in their sew
eral territories according to their
own methods, but it will be conduct
ed. Clinton and Dover townships
and West York will be organized
under the direction of G. M. Leist.
In Wauseon, the women of the town
have organized for the drive. There
will be booths established in the
Princess Theatre Rest Room and in
the Arcade corridor. These booths
will be open all week and ladies will
be in attendance to receive member
sh D fees and register the names for
1919 membership. No receipts will
be given this year, but instead each
member will receive a Red Cross 1919
button, a service flag for each fam
i.y which will indicate by the num-
ber of small red crosses how many
members of the family are Red
Cross members, also how many are
in the army, navy or nursing SER
vice. In case all members of the
family are either members of the
Red Cross or actually in the service,
a single white star on the service
flag will indicate a one hundred per
cent American family. Red Cross
Christmas seals viii not be placed
ON sale this season; instead each one
who pays the dollar membership fee
will receive a package of ten of these
seas.
The goal in both the town and
county is every adult citizen Red
Cross member and the man or wom-
an who does not wear a 1919 Red
Cross button after next week is like
1y to be looked upon as one whose
real Americanism is somewhat II
question.
Children will not be solicited, but
a movement to enroll them in the
Junior Red Cross. One prominent
feature Of Red Cross activity in thi:
country this season will be the stag
inq of a series of Christmas Ba
zaars throughout the United States
by ten million American boys anC
gfrls. members of the Junior Rec
Cross. Things the youngsters have
made, grown and collected will bt
placed on sale. The proceeds vii
90 toward maintaining the organ
ization the coming year and will b.
spent in great part in making thu
supplies which the Juniors contri
butte to the relief work throughou
the world.
In addition TO the booths in Wau
seon where citizens may registe
their names as Red Cross members
solicitors have been appointed fo
every street town and every adul
person in Wauseon will be urged t
"Join."
The game is to "beat the solicito
to it." If you are physically abb,
If you live on the south side go {
the booth in the Princess Theatr
Rest Room; if you live on the mort
side go to the booth in the AIcad
corridor and register your name q
n member of one of the creates
benevolent organizations on earth
II the solicitor gets to you frs
there is only one thing to do,-
"Joinl" all you need is a heart and
dollar.
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