The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-09-05
RED CROSS
HEADS TO TOUR
new ENGLAND
Reach st. JOhnsbury on Oc-
tOber First on Trip
Through State

A rapid but comprehensive tour of
the New England Division, reaching
every Chapter and Branch, will be
made during September and October
by Division Manager James Jackson,
Miss Lavinia H. Newell, Director of
the Bureau of Production, Miss Eliza
beth Ross, Director of the Bureau of
Nursing, and Cheney C. Jones, Direc-
tor of Civilian Relief.
Each of the four Division officers,
at the Sd meetings on the Red Cross
Circuit" will speak for Is or 20 min
utes, covering intimately the follow
| ing subjects:
General purposes of the Red Cross,
Future Work and Organization, the
coming 1919 Roll Call, Public Health
Nursing needs and possibilities, Home
Service and its possible extension,
and the Future Need of Protection.
Future accomplishment of the Red
Cross, rather than past achievements,
will be stressed by these speakers, as
tne SUBJECTS indicate.
The value of the opportunity of
fered by the tour for direct inter-
change of ideas between directors OF
the New England Division and Off
Gals and members of the Chapters
and Branches cannot be over estimat-
ed. First hand information in regard
to the two great activities of the
peace-time program, home service
and public health, will be given by
the Directors of these Departments,
Mr. Jones and Miss Ross, and the
speeches of all four officials will bear
directly or indirectly on the matter
on which the Divisions attention
must be concentrated from now until
November II, the Third Red Cross
Roll Call
The local meetings provided for by
the tour will be productive of far
more satisfactory results, Division
heads believe, than could possibly be
obtained at a general meeting in only
one place of the entire Division. The
total of the people attending, due
TO the greater convenience of meet
ing in home territory, will be much
greater and local problems can be
more fully discussed.
A general meeting of the Division,
however, will be held in Boston some
time during October when it is OK
pected that DR.. Livingston Farrand,
chairman of the National Executive
Committee, and James H. Perkins,
former Red Cross Commissioner Cor
Europe, will be the principal speak
crs. Speeches at this meeting will
be largely national in scope and will
by no means take the place of those
to be made at the local conference
where Division problems will have
right of way.
In order that the Flying squadron"
of speakers may reach each of the
1903 Chapters in the Division in the
short interval before the November
campaign, the Chapters in adjacent
territory have been asked to combine.
on their meetings. The schedule for
the tour, showing the way the Chap
ters are grouped and the dates for
meetings, follows. The Chapter first
named in each group is the place
where the meeting is to be held
The itinerary for Vermont is:
September 80: 2 p. m.-Montpel-
icr, Washington county, Western half
of Orange County. At Montpelier.
October 1, 100 p. m.-St. Johns
bury caledonia County,, Orleans
County. At ST. Johnsbury.
October 2, 100 p. m-Burlington
(Chittenden County,, Franklin Coun-
ty, Grand Isle County, Lamoillc
County. At Burlington.
October 3, a. m-Vergennes (Addi-
son County,. p. m.-Rutland (Rut-
land County,.
October a, a. m.-Bennington
Octobr 6, a. m.-Brattlborro (Wind-
ham County,.