Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1919-10-09
NOVEMBER ROLL CALL
To Establish Red Cross Com
munity Welfare Work.
STATE CHAIRMEN AND QUOTAo
FOR ALABAMA, LOUISIANA
AND MISSISSIPPI.

New Orleans.-There will be two
Victories celebrated on Armistice Day,
Of 1919 First there will be the an
Diversary OF the Germans last Kan
Grad" of course. Next, there will be
at the same hour of the same day, the
successful termination of the Third
Red Cross Roll Call which will be con-
Quoted, according to an announcement
made Saturday at the headquarters of
the Gulf Division here, from Novem-
ler to II.
The State Chairmen and the state
quotas were also announced. For
Ala bama, Lloyd M. Hooper, of Selma,
will head the drive. In Louisiana,
Judge E. H. Randolph, of Shreveport,
will mobilize the Red Cross forces.
Thaddeus hampton, of Jackson, ia
Chairman for the State of Mississippi
The national goal IS for $4,000, 900,
and 100000 members. Alabama is
| asked for $4,000 and SAC, 100 members
| The Louisiana quota is $4,000 and
149,6OO members, and the Mississippi
mark is $56,940 and 65,450 member
ship.
The campaign is to supply the
American Red Cross with the men,
women, and money needed not only
| to complete wartime activities of the
Red Cross, but to establish in local
| communities the newly formulated
peace program Of which work such ~
that now being done by the Red Cross
| in the stricken areas around Corpus
| Christi, is one branch.
Other branches OF this peacetime
| program are the Home Service Do
| partment, which gives help and ad
| vice TO the needy, works for better
schools, Fairgrounds, recreation and
| social centers, and community clubs;
Nursing Department, whose aim it
will be to provide a Public Health
nurse in every Chapter and to do
| emergency nursing in times Of cpl
| denies; a First Aid Department, to
| give training in emergency treatment;
| and Department of Disaster Relief.
In addition to this peace program,
| the completion of the present war pro
| gram includes the care and service to
| Amerit an soldiers in Russia. Germany
! and in France; the continuation of the
| disease fight which is being waged
Siberia, Poland and the Balkans; and
| continued care, assistance and serv-
ice to the 10000 American soldiers
still in military hospitals, and the sew
eral hundred thousand who have been
discharged disabled.
One of the high lights OF the cam
paign here in New Orleans will be
| the visit of DR. Livingston Farrand,
| Chairman of the national central com
mittee of the American Red Cross,
will pay the Crescent City. DR.. Far
rand will reach New Orleans on Dc
tOber 8, in the swing he is making
about the country in the interests of
the Roll Call, and will make an ad
dress here the same night. He will
leave on the following morning for
Jackson, where he will speak that
evening On the tenth DR.. Farrand
will speak in birmingham, Alabama.
incidentally, there is one chapter In
the American Red Cross which has al
ready far exceeded it's quota, despite
| will no
completed until the eleventh hour Of
| the eleventh day of the eleventh
month, and that Chapter is Honolulu
! According to a Geographic an.
nouncement from Washington head
quarters Immediately upon receipt Of
the campaign plans the Hawaiian
| branch cabled a subscription Of $7b,-
OOO This sum was much larger than
the quota which would have been as
signed the Honolulu chapter.
The following "Call' was issued Sat
urday by Manager Homer w Borst,
of the Gulf Divisions Third Roll Call:
"For the purpose Of alleviating hui
man suffering among cur recent allies
of the great war; of continuing Red
| Cross service to the soldiers and sail
ors Of our country; Of aiding disabled
soldiers and sailors to regain health
and happiness; of continuing Red
Cross advice and assistance in every
locality to the families Of fighting
men: of extending the aid of the Red
Cross to all those in need; and of
using every practicable means for the
elimination of disease and distress.
Red Cross calls upon every American
to give loyal response to the Third
Roll Call, November to H."