Connecticut western news. [volume] (Salisbury, Litchfield Co., Conn.) 1871-1970, 1919-09-11
HOME PROGRAM
EMPHASIZED IN
CALL FOR FUNDS
RED CROSS WILL OPEN
CAMPAIGN ON NOV. 8
Membership Primary Purpose.
S15,OOO,oO0 Asked for as
Means of Fulfilling War
Obligations.

The enrolment of members for 1920
and the collection of S15,000000 to en-
able the organization to fulfill its war
obligations at home and abroad are
the objects of a nationwide campaign
to be conducted by the American Red
Cross, beginning Monday, November 3,
end continuing until Armistice Day,
November II. Local appeals will he
made by chapters where it is neces-
sary to secure funds for local pro-
Grams. according to the statement of
DIR. Livingston Farrand, Chairman Of
the Executive Committee of the Red
Cross, in formally announcing the CAM
paign.
During the war there were two an
nual Red Cross campaigns, the War
Fund Drive in the late spring and the
Christmas Roll Call for membership.
The only campaign this year will be
the one in November, and in succeed
ing years there will be only the annual
Roll Call, in which the Red Cross will
SEEK l1l6 lGtillll iilNA tliiN-itiiANt VI AiAN
American people expressed in dollar
memberships The money so derived
will be used for American purposes,
and the approval is to be. regarded as
mandate to carry on future pro-
grams.
To Concentrate on Home Program.
R,.ef 20 If hn A ion RnI
Cross is, of course, to complete its OBJ
legations to American soldiers and sail
ors," said DR.. Farrand in announcing
the program. 1.-THE organization plans
as its future policy to concentrate its
efforts upon peace problems at home
unless America should again be in
volved in war or confronted by great
disasters creating special emergencies.
'The Red Cross programs are pri-
marily within the field Of public health
and will aim particularly at co-opera-
ton with official activites-federal,
state and local. The Red Cross will
seek not to duplicate the work Of es-
tablished organizations, but will en-
deavor to supplement other agencies
where they already exist or to stimu-
late and organize work where none
such exists"
The tremendous task of the Ameri-
can Red Cross in the war has, how
ever, left continuing obligation which
cannot be fulfilled for some months to
come, DIR. Farrand stated. In an amend
ment to the Army Bill, Congress has
prolonged the responsibility Of the Red
Cross abroad by authorizing Secretary
of War Baker to transfer to the Red
Cross such medical and surgical sup
plies and supplementary and dietary
foodstuffs now in Europe as is not
needed by the army abroad or at
home "to be used by the American
Red Cross to relieve and supply the
pressing needs of the countries In
volved in the late war"
Inventories of these supplies are now
such material as the American Red
Cross itself has in Europe, and these
will be distributed in the countries
where the organization is concluding
its war relief program and where be-
cause of the ravages of war, famine
and epidemic the distress is most pro-
nounced, as in the Balkans, Poland
and other Eastern European countries.
To meet these obligations and admins
ter this foreign relief the Red Cross
must raise at this time a fund of $751;
100000, Dr. Farrand stated.
Asks for Smaller Amount.
1.-THE Red Cross authorities realize
that the astonishing generosity of the
American people during the war and
the present high cost Of living at home
might legitimately lead many to ex-
pect a release from further demands
for assistance to other people," contin-
ued DR.. Farrand, "but we must remem-
Der that our Allies were much harder
hit by the war than were we and that
we have incurred obligations to them
which honor demands shall be dis
charged. In naming the sum of $751;
100000 the Red Cross has tried to de-
termine the smallest amount which
will enable it to round out its work
and make effective the appropriation
of Army goods rather than to estimate
the generosity of the American peo-
pie"
In conclusion DR.. Farrand said:
at is believed that the end of our
foreign obligations is in sight, and &C
cordingly the Red Cross is turning its
chief energy and attention to the de-
velopment of a clearly defined home
program, which already includes sys-
tematic preparedness for Disaster Re-
lief, widespread Nursing Plan, con-
tinuing Home Service operations, First
Aid instruction and a Junior Red
Cross program. all Of which will de-
pend for their success upon large and