Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1919-10-22
RED CROSS PREPARES
FOR XMAS. ROLL CALL
Drive For Membership Will
Be Held November
2-11
HOUSE CANVASS NOV. 8
Ormani .atinn 7 'i"ted Last Night
Address i;y G.. {. Clark, Of Natiora'
Headquarters, Washington.

A meeting of the Executive COM
mittee of the Red Gross Roll Call was
held at the Chamber of Commerce
last night. This meeting was address
| ed " c. s. Clarke from the Red
| Cross headquarters, Was:' ngtCn. D.
| c., who gave most interesting
talk.
J. T. Ileston is secretar: Of the
roll call. Ciher officers arr Mrs }.
Y Villains. secretary, Carroll Pierce
treasurer The following were named
chairmen ii committees:
Churches, Capt. Louis n. Duffey;
publicity, Mrs. Geo. R. Hill; posters,
Miss Collins Jones; streets and NOV
ing pictures, Mrs Lucy Evans, Miss
Nellie Uhler, Miss Katherine Wal
Ter: stores, Mrs. Richard Gibson;
banks, Mrs. Geo. f. Warfield, Miss
Sadie Field; Miss NJ. E Young; win
dow dressing. Mrs. O. w. Price;
business offices. III. A. Bales. +. +.
Ticer; Mrs. C. E. Yaeger, Miss
Frances Fairfax, Miss Ethel Rem
irgton, Miss Bertha Allison. four
minute speakers. Major j. Randall
Catcn. schools. Miss Eddie Dickert.
The roll call will be held on Thurs
day, Friday and Saturday, Novemhar
CTS and on Sunday, November 8,
house to house canvass will be made.
4 coma lttce composed CT a repre-
sentative from ea:n church will DC
eo.lAaJ to secure workers from all
= .es.
C. S. Clark. executive secretary of
the Third Red Cross Roll Call az Ma
tional Headquarters, Washington, D.
c. delivered in part the following
address:
The greatest organization of Mercy
the world has ever known is stand
ing waiting for something to do and
something to do it with. The Amcri-
can Red Cross, that during the nine
teen months of the war enrolled over
twenty million adult Americans in Its
membership, gathered and spent more
than four hundred million dollars,
created articles Of necessity and com
fort valued :. one hundred million
more: is standing on the threshold OF
its next chapter Of activity. With
tie coming of the third Red Cross
T. :: Call, wii!rh is u celebrate the
,a,.:versa:y IF he signing o: the
arn,sti.e. az will ci.Ho on No.
{, :er lit. n. led Cross expects
:. :e-cnroll :t.$ n'e7.he-sa,'; t. enlist
sr ne millioas nee; AM 20 :S'e a
fund of Fifteen Million Dollars with
which TO close up its war wor!: ani
bcrin The activities Of its reconatruc-
ton campaign.
When the armist;ce was signed
everybody made up their minds lhat
the war was over, and after few
hours of hysterical and emotional
celebration everybody prepared to get
out and to get down TO normal peace
time activity. 1t was supposed D!
thouphtless observers that wartime
machinery would Immediately be
trashed. The peculiar thing was that
when II came to the American Red
Cross it simply refused to be trashed
In spite of the relaxation that fol
lowed The armistice; In spite of the
ten-fold more debilitating influence of
an epidemic of influenza that shut
down half the country and made i'm
possible any propaganda work, or iii
deed any public meetings; in spIs'
of it all, 19,94s,92O adult Americaa'
deliberately walked up and enrolle;
themselves as members of the Rec
Cross.
This membership Of course is an an
nual one. It must be renewed fron
wear to year, or the Red Cross as
going organization would cease to ex
ist. save at the hands of few hun
dred permanent members made so b!
generous gifts in the past. There vii
be no trarlble about the enrolment
Not only our present membership
but hundreds of thousands more ar
waiting, eager to be shown VIVA
there is to do, and as eager to do il
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