The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-11-04
RED CROSS MEETS
COOL RECEPTION
Some Want to Pass Entire
Buck to Soldiers Who
Have Returned.

An unenviable arraignment Of Mem
PMS Is about 70 be recorded through
out the nation unless local business
ana professional men have a change
Of heart.
Wouldn't contribute the mite asked
by the American Red Cross, which took
care Of their sons on the fields OF bat
Tie and in the army camps is the
way the arraignment win sum up.
A GOODNESS that local Red Cross lead
ers are at loss to explain is greet
ing workers in the third annual Red
cross drive. which now is on. And the
amount that individuals are being asked
to contribute is ST. That for a 1920
the world"
Women workers particularly have en-
countered this disinclination TO con-
tribute. Their reports to John f. LIP
pitt, manager for Memphis and Shelby
county in the drive, iedicate this
The same response was met by sol
dlers of the American Legion, 200
strong, on Monday, when the legion
went over the top for the Red Cross
The soldiers got the benefit. Let
them take care OF the Red Cross now, -
one man OF doubtful patriotism, but
undoubted short sight told a legion
naire. when he refused to contribute
the 81 asked.
But nothing was said about the sol
diers taking care of the country when
| the knife of the. Hun lowered above
me barred breasts OF America, Great
britain, France, Belgium and Italy
Nothing was said about the gallant boys
IN KHAKI, who, lying bleeding from a
rake OF German shot and she'll, were
| picked up by the Red Cross workers
ana carried to hosuital Nothing was
said Tor the toilinR, motherly nurses of
the Red Cross, who caused one soldier
lad to say: AN Red Cross nurses
are angels A.W.O.L from heaven"
The dollars which are being asked in
the present Red Cross roll call, Nov
to II, are to be devoted to complet-
ing the war work which the Red Cross
! ala so well, and in carrying out the
| peace program of the organization
which is go important that the United
states government when it demobillEed
all other activities sponsored by tho
government during the war refused to
permit the Red Cross to disband
The fact that sick and wounded
American soldiers, thousands OF them
sun in hospitals, are being cared for
Dy the Red Cross now, should be in
centlve enough for anyone to contrib
ute dollar. But ip addition, the work
| toward disease prevention. particularly
[ne combat being ,waged by the Red
cross on the "flu," the sanitary i'm
provements and the educational advan-
tages which this organization now ia
| working out, should make a Red Cross
dollar the easiest thing in the world to
| obtain from a business man?
1t is to the credit of Memphis, how
ever, that the percentage Of business
| men who have turned down the Red
Cross is small. The first day, with its
300 workers, was bound to be large,
because OF the vast amount of pre-
| lin mary work that was done. But it
Is for the remaining days Of the drive
that officials expressed wonder at the
cool reception the workers received in
many quarters.
Although It still was impossible at
| noon Tuesday to give an accurate ac-
counting OF the number of new mem
| berships signed in the American Red
Cross on Monday-American Legion
day--John L. Lippitt, head OF the drive
FOR Memphis and Shelby county. re-
ported that he was sure the number
would be close to $4,000 when the great
piles of money in headquarters had
been counted.
Leaders OF the drive worked all of
tuesday morning in an effort to COM
plete the official tabulation OF results.
But the amount of money turned in and
the records OF memberships signed at
| each proved too big task to COM
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