The Press., 1919-11-06
Red Cross Drive.

The third Red Cross roll-call was
 launched on Sunday and will continue till Nov. Il. Canvassers are on a
 week and their reports are quite fa-
 vorable. That the organization de- serves to be supported is certain. It's
 great work during the war need not
 be retold. The returned service men speak highly of it's work and if any
 one had the occasion to see the organi- zation at work they were the ones
 The present enrolment campaign be-
 sides raising money to carry on the
 work started might be regarded as a
 means of keeping alive the enthusiasm
 shown during the war. All this is dealt with more fully on another page
 of this issue.
 Miss Mary Ballantine has charge of
 the local workers. The price of en-
 rollment is $1 There will be a Red
 Cross booth in one of the Main street
 stores Saturday which will open at Il
 a. m to give anyone who has not al
 ready joined an opportunity to do so.
 A subscription to the Red Cross maga-
 zine will not be given in connection
 with the enrolment, as was the case
 in the last call. A subscription to it
 however can be had for $1 from now
 till Jan. 1. After that the price will
 be $50.
 A certain proportion of all the money received through this enroll ment about 40 per cent will be given to the local branch. If enough is re- ceived the services of district nurse may be obtained.
 The Ladies' Aid society of the Con- gregational church will hold a rum opening at II a. m.
 In the interest of the Nationwide campaign that is now being carried on in every Episcopal church in the country there will be a meeting of the women of Grace church in the Guild o'clock There will be woman speaker and after the address tea will be served and a social hour enjoyed. Every woman in the parish is invited and urged to be present.
 St. Edwards Notes: The recent mission of the French-speaking mem bers of the parish was very remark able success. For eight days the mis- sionary priest, Father Schouinard, preached three times a day to a large audience. His sermons were simple and eloquent. So we'll were they ap- preciated by his hearers that the parishioners far sur passed, in attendance and zeal and generosity, the enthusiasm usually aroused by a mission in this place or any other.
 A large number interested in foreign missions attended the open missionary meeting at the Congregational church Tuesday afternoon. Mrs. Robert Hume, who with her husband, Rev. Dr. Hume, is spending year in this country from their missionary labors in India, was the speaker, and a very interesting one. Her subject, "Medi cal Missions" was along the line of this years study-boOk, the Crusade of and was thus very timely. Mrs. Hume feels that India is the land of her inheritance as her grandfather and grandmother went as missionaries to that country in 1885, her father and mother in 1856 and she accompanied Dr. Hume there in 1882. A daughter Is a doctor at the hospital in Ahmad- lagar in which city MT. and Mrs. Hume make their home, and son is on his way there for missionary service. Everyone realizes that in a nation of secluded women the opportunity of )eing of service to them is open only o women physicians. This is at least rue until the custom of centuries is et aside which is a very slow process. Since Miss Clara Swain, a missionary loctor, went to Ludhiana fifty years ago there has been a gradual awaken ng to the better way in caring for the afflicted and at present there are 121 women doctors. Mrs. Hume made a strong plea for our sup port of those institutions which train native women who can practice with a better understanding of their own kin and at much lower living wage. Since the population of India is three times that of the United States com paratively few can benefit from pres ent opportunities. Nine-tenths of the population live in villages without medical assistance. To obtain efficient is a serious problem among the European and American physi- clans there. The speaker paid a high tribute to the United States as India's greatest help in time of famine. Mrs. Hume closed by saying that India is country therefore things go slowly, but education will be India's salvation. Mrs. T. F. Mullen, accom- panied by Miss Charlotte Beckwith, sang Ninety and Nine." Mrs. Hume was entertained in the home of her cousin, Rev. J. W. Ballantine.