The Natchitoches enterprise. (Natchitoches, La.) 1888-1965, 1919-10-23
NOVEMBER ROLL CALL
To Establish Red Cross Com.
munity Welfare Work.
STATE CHAiRMEN AND QUOTAS
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 Thru
Red Cross Roll Call which will be con
Quoted, according to ali announcement
made Saturday at the headquarters of
the Gulf Division here. from Novem-
Ter to H.
The State Chairmen and the state
quotas were also announced. For
Alabama, Lloyd NJ Hooper, of Selma,
will head the drive. In Louisiana.
Judge E. H. Randolph, of Shreveport,
will mobilize the Red Cross forces
| Ihaddeus hampton, of Jackson, is
Chairman for the State of Mississippi
The national goal is for $4,000, 900,
and 2O.00O.000 members. Alabama is
=
The Louisiana quota is $4,000 and
149,6O0 members, and the Mississippi
mark is $56,94O and C5,45O member.
ship.
The campaign is to supply the
American Red Cross with the men,
womer, and money needed not only
to complete wartime activities of the
Ked Cross, but to establish in local
communities the newly formulated
peace program of which work such as
that now being done by the Red Cross
IN the stricken areas around Corpus
Christi, is one branch.
Other branches Of this peace time
Program are the Home Service De.
partment, which gives help and ad-
vice TO the needy. works for better
schools, Fairgrounds, recreation and
social centers, and community clubs;
a Nursing Department, whose aim it
will be to provide 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
American soldiers in Russia, Germany
and in France; the continuation Of the
disease fight which is being waged j:
Siberia. Poland and the Balkans: and
continued care, assistance and serv,
ice to the 10000 American soldiers
still in military hospitals, and the sev-
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
nittee of the American Red Cross.
will pay the Crescent City. DR.. FAR
rand will reach New Orleans on Dc
ober 9, in the swing he is making
'bout the country in the interests of
Ire Roll Call, and will make an ad
'ress here the same night. He will
cave on the following morning for
Jackson, where he will speak that
On the tenth DR.. Farrand
will speak in Birmingham, Alabama.
Incidentally there is one chapter in
he American Red Cross which has al
esdv far exceeded its quota, despite
q of no No
ompleted until the eleventh hour of
he eleventh day of the eleventh
lonth, and that Chapter is Honolulu.
According to a Geographic an
from Washington head
uarters Immediately upon receipt of
he campaign plans the Hawaiian
ranch cabled a subscription of SIS.
90. This sum was much larger than
&c quota which would have been as
gned the Honolulu chapter.
The following Call" was issued Sat
rday by Manager Homer w. Borst
the Gulf Divisions Third Roll Call:
"For the purpose OF alternating hu
an suffering among cur recent allies
the great war; of continuing Re-
ross service to the soldiers and sail
IS of our country; of aiding disabled
'ldiers and tailors to regain health
Id happines; Of continuing Rec
ross advice and assistance in every
cality to the families Of fighting
en-; of extending the aid of the Red
'oss to all those in need; and Of
ing every practicable means for the
limitation Of disease and distress
ID Cross calls upon every American
give loyal response to the Third
Ill Call, November to H."