The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1919-10-10
OFFICIAL NOTES OF The
AMERICAN RED CROSS
Bv ALICE. V. S. GRANT, Publicity
Chairman Cobb County Chapter
Red Cross Head to Address Georgia
Officials in Atlanta

Red Gross Head to Address Georgia
Officials in Atlanta
Atlanta, Ca, Oct.-Atlanta will be
the mecca for hundreds of Red Cross
chapter heads from all parts of Geor-
gia and neighboring states on octo-
Der II when thy, together with 9TH
err leading citizens, assemble here
to greet DIR. Livingston Farrand'
chairman of the Central Committee
of the American Red Cross, and hear
the message he brings as the highest
official in the Red Cross today
DR.. Farrand, making coast-to-
coast tour of the United States to
herald the time program OF
the Red Cross and the Third Red
Cross Roll Call, November Pill, will
return to national headquarters IN
Washington via the south, stopping
at New Orleans, Birmingham, Attain
ia. Nashville and Charlotte, N. Z.
The three latter cities are the only
ones in the southern division of the
Red Cross at which he will speak, and
accordingly steps are now being tax
en- to bring into them from sister
cities and neighboring communities
all the men and women interested
in Red Cross work who otherwise
would not have the opportunity to
meet their leader.
DR.. Farrand will arrive in Atlanta
at 1850 o'clock on the morning of
October II, leaving the next night at
8 80 o'clock for Nashville, which he
reaches at 6 :35 o'clock the following
morning. He leaves Nashville that
night at 10 o'clock, going back
through Atlanta to Charlotte, where
he will arrive on the night of Octo-
Der IA, speaking there on the fifteen
th
DIR. Farrand will be accompanied
by DR.. Thomas E. Green, head of the
national speakers bureau of the
American Red Cross. Both of them
will make addresses, DIR. Farrand
probably in the morning and DIR.
Green in the afternoon. The former
is expected to review the wartime
activities of the Red Cross, as he
knew them both in this country and
in France, where he was a PIONEER on
the Red Cross commission that went
to France in advance of the American
army. He is also expected to out
line the great need for the Red Cross
in finishing its war work and the
beneficient peace-time activities with
in its power to achieve. DIR. FAR
rand is an authority on the subject
of tuberculosis, and his address is ex-
pected to contain some illuminating
facts on matters of public health.
1t is the desire of Red Cross Off
cials that every man and woman who
can possibly do so, be given the OPP
portunity to hear DR.. Farrand. Ac-
cordingly, every Red Cross chapter
in the southern division has been
authorized to send, at its own ex-
pense. as many delegates as it wish
es to the nearest one of the three
conferences at which DR.. Farrand
will speak. The responses Indicate
that a majority of the chapters will
send at least their chapter heads and
the chairmen of the Third Roll Call.
Not only does DR.. Farrand bring a
message of vital importance to every
community where he will speak, but
he himself is personality that COM
mands attention and interest where
ever he goes. For nine years eXecu-
tive secretary for the National AS
ISOLATION for the Study and Proven
ton Of tuberculosis, member OF
leading scientific societies, president
of the University of Colorado since
1914 and a lecturer and writer Of
worldwide prominence, DR.. Farrand
is one of Americas truly great men.
He served in France as director Of tu-
berculosis work for the International
Health Board, being in the supreme
position in the fight against tuber-
culosis among the civil and military
population of the French republic.
The record he made abroad, his vast
knowledge of medical and social
problems. and his reputation as one
of the country's foremost leaders, led
to his appointment last spring by
President Wilson as head of the Ma
tional Committee Of the Red Cross
to direct its peace-tiPe activities.
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