Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1918-12-04
Double Event at High School to
See First Step in Roll Call
of Members
WANT PUBLIC TO ATTEND
French Soldier Will Address
Gathering Officers Will Make
Years Report

There will be g. two-in-one Red
Cross meeting in the high school
auditorium tomorrow night at 8
o'clock.
The annual meeting of the Perth
Amboy Chapter of the American Red
Cross will be held then and in con-
junction with 1t the first gun of the
big Red Cross Christmas roll call will
be fired.
The first half of the program will
be given over completely to the chap
ter when the reports of the auxilia-
ries and committees will be read.
The latter part of the evening will
be devoted to the roll call ana PROM
inent speakers will be there to en-
thuse the people with the necessity
of keeping UP the splendid work of
the Red Cross which has been so
we'll exemplified in the past four
years.
The principal speaker of the even
ing Is Lieutenant v. de Wierzbicki, Of
the French army. who is member
of the French High Commission vis-
iting this country. He has been in
close touch with the Red Cross work
ON the battlefields Of France and in
the rest camps and hospitals, and
brings burning message to the peo-
pie of - America. There Will In all
probability be another speaker who
program for the meeting has not yet
been completed. and it is not known
who the other speakers will be.
The committee in charge of the
meeting on Thursday night wish to
make 1t understood that the meeting
is not for Red Cross members only,
but everybody who is interested in
the work is invited to attend. and
everybody who can possibly be there
is urgently requested to come out and
help, fill the auditorium to give the
drive good start.
The campaign officially opens on
December 16 and will be completed
on December 23 and will be worked
out in a similar manner to the last
Liberty Loan campaign: the same ,e
captains who served at that time Will
be asked to serve again and that Will
eliminate lot of unnecessary organ
iZation.
The executive committee of the
Christmas Roll Drive met in city hall
last night at the call of Chairman
Albert Leon and details of the cam
paign were explained and plans for
carrying it out formulated. There
will be at least two dozen booths, for
the enrolment of members, distri-
buted about the city, in hotels and
stores and other places where people
congregate in large numbers; these
will be under the charge of wom-
ans committee headed by Mrs. w.
III. Hodges, and all the committee
members will wear the regular caps
and arm bands so that there will be
no difficulty in knowing to whom to
give the subscriptions. The only re-
ceipt that will be given this Year is
the Red Cross button with the num-
erals 1919 thereon.
There Is to be no specific quota al
fAt1o fGtr Re In n
paign-but the aim Or the campaign
managers is to have every community
secure q hundred per cent. member
ship; that is, to have every man,
woman and child in a community on
the membership books of the Red
Cross This is a tremendous task and
needs the cooperation of everybody to
sale this year of the Red Cross seals
by the Tuberculosis League,
their committee having agreed to
work in common with the roll call
committee and thus two campaigns
will not be running at the same time.
The headquarters of the campaign
will be situated in the Boynton build
ing. in close proximity to the regular
Red Cross headquarters. Will M.
Menaker has volunteered his services
as secretary of the drive and will be
at headquarters every evening during
the week in which the campaign is
held.
The executive committee in charge
of the roll call has Albert Leon as its
chairman and assisting him are Mrs.
w. H. Hodges. Jesse Seaman. Isaac
Alpern, Rev. DIR. William p. Can't
well, Henry w. Fisher. John Pfeiffer.
Frank Stas, Adrian Lyon. Theodore
Degenring, H. E. Comings, w. Guy
Weaver. Michael Lakomski. A. c.
Clark, ]. Logan Cleyenger and John
+. Reilley.