Omaha daily bee., 1919-11-11
RED CROSS LAST
DAY WITH, $500
WOMEN AT WORK
Organization Made Gallant
Effort, But Fails to Get
Enormous Quota Of
$50, 900.

This is the final day Of the Red
Cross roll cali drive. The quota Of
Omaha in this drive, as apportioned
by the national association, wa.
$4,000.
When the books of the Omaha
Red Cross closed last night the total
in sight, or rather cash in bank and
pledges, aggregated $40,156. OF this
the women had raised $24,S25 and
the men $15,33l. :.
The money taken in by the won.
en- means that 24,825 memberships
have been sold at 81 each. They had
set their goal at selling $4,000 mem
berships.
The men had undertaken to raise
$4,000 on subscriptions and pledges
According to the figures, both men
and women have fallen down in
their undertaking. However, all Of
the workers continue optimistic
They hardly expect to raise the APP
parent deficit but before the work
of the campaign closes tonight they
propose to add several thousand dol
lars to the total now on hand.
Large Sums To-day.
Mrs. L. J. Healey, chairman OF
the membership committee, last
night asserted that there is $1,000
and possibly $4,000 that she knows
of that will be obtained today. II
addition TO this, the 5000 women
workers will be in the. field from
early morning until late at night
and if results are up to anticipations
the membership roll will be far be-
yond the halfway mark.
While Mrs. Healey would not pre-
dict the, results of today's work, she
said that she confidently expected
that the drive would close tonight
with a Red Cross membership of
something like $4,000.
Chairman Al c. Scott of the mems
committee expressed himself as feel
ing confident that if Onnaha's quota
is not raised today the goal will be
reached within short time, as it is
the purpose of the committee to con-
tinue with the letter campaign until
the entire 100000 is in hand.
1t is the understanding of the
mems committee that a number Of
good sized subscriptions and pledges
will be received today, but hardly
enough to bring the total up to
$4,000.
Get After Firms.
A considerable number of firms
and corporations that contributed
during the former war
drives, up to Monday morning had
failed to report. Urgent letters were
sent to all such urging them to be
on hand today with their cash. or
pledges, thus maintaining the repu-
tation of Omaha and keeping it in
the list of cities going over the top"
At the postoffice, the postmas-
ter's department, the cashiers sta
ton C. Ames Avenue branch and
the Mike" division are all 100 per
cent on the Red Cross membership
drive.
The Item Biscuit company and the
Western Newspaper union have each
sent checks for $780,
Mrs. ]. o. Adams, after cleaning
up her own territory, reported for
more work and was given a MINI
Der of districts to recanvass.
Walter Red Cross Mason.
Walter H. Mason called at the
headquarters of the women workers
in the Red Cross drive and took out
a membership card for a son, born
He confided to Mrs.
Georges Prinz that he had named
him Walter Red Cross Mason.
In many of the districts, this
morning the Red Cross workers will
be on duty at 7:30. They will start
out early in order to catch the men
before they start for down town. In