Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-11-08

/ THESE lllJIe DOQ1eS TO tnelr proper MOI =
NAL physiques is appalling in scope.
Vital Work in q. S.
At home 1t is known that there are
$4,000 wounded boys in our military
hospitals. The Red Cross is looking
not only after their welfare and COM
fort. but after that of many of their
families. At Walter Reed Hospital in
this city, where nearly 1000 patients
are convalescing or being treated, the
work of the department Of military re-
lief and the District Red Cross chapter
has won the praise OF officers and pa
| tients alike.
Dr. keppel is that until the relief work
now being carried on by the American
Red Cross, both at home and abroad,
can be turned over to local agencies
capable of dealing Independently with
the health conditions and the destitu-
| tons of their environment, the Red
Cross must remain ION the job" To
continue it's labors in the above fields
the citizens of Washington have been
asked to contribute 100000.
Mr.. Hogan Issues Second Appeal.
Frank j. Hogan, chairman of the
finance committee of the roll call. has
issued second personal appeal to
those who believed that. the war be-
ing over there was no longer any
function for the Red Cross to under
take. This assumption. Mr.. Hogan
! clearly shows, is based on the lack of
knowledge of true conditions. Mr..
| Hogan emphasizes the Importance of
each citizen realizing the obligation
placed upon the organization to help
the sufferers Of Europe in addition to
| those OF our wounded men at home.
mittee to be held at headquarters
j 1719 H street. Monday afternoon next
at 4:30 o'clock.
! "Enrollments are still coming in at
satisfactory rate" said Edward B.
Eynon: jr.. in charge of the financial
end of that part Of the drive. Mrs
| Olga Fiske and her workers at Ward
man Park Inn turned in 325 members
from that hotel up to last night. the
walters and the kitchen employees en-
rolling 200 per cent"
Returns of the house-to-house and
| ONCE to office canvass which started
! the drive are now generally in. They
| show a minimum of $4,000 member
ships so obtained. and indicate that
the entire number will prove to be
at least $4,000.
Returns From Speaking Tour.
! Mrs. Allyn K. Capron one of the
oldest members in point of service in
the Red Cross, returned to Washing
I ton yesterday. after a speaking tour
She visited Kenbridge, Va, and the
/ lumber camps in that region and. later.
| Solomon's Island. Thursday night she
had to drive thirty-seven miles to
Owens, Md. to make train connections,
most of her journey through dense
| woods. Mrs. Capron was overseas for
the Red Cross one year. and saw serv-
ice in the trenches at the Argonne
drive.
Mrs. Charles " Wheeler of the Red
Cross motor corps and Mrs. A. N Lock-
! wood, stationed at Cornwells and the
Hotel Powhatan. respectively, have
been two of the most active workers
in the campaign.
| Tickets will be on sale today at the
principal enrolment booths and sub
headquarters for the special matinee
| to be given at Moore's Garden The
alter Monday afternoon at o'clock
| when Soldiers of Fortune" Richard
| Harding Davis famous book, will be
! shown in screen form.
Matinee Set for Monday.
Through a printers error some of
| the handbills advertising this per-
| Torrance specified that it was to be
held tomorrow, but Monday is the
! day.
| One Of the important local activi-
ties of the Red Cross to be kept alive
by the District chapter is the Motor
F, Corps. Those who will recall its
| heroic work in the influenza" last
year. can best realize the Importance
| it means to a city like Washington.
More than 5000 cases were handled
| by twenty members of this volunteer
organiZa ton during those trying days,
+, and they are ready to turn out to-
morrow. should there be a recurrence
| of the epidemic.
| At present those actively engaged
| in the work of transporting the SOL
| diers and sailors from the hospitals
| in and around the District are Mrs
| G.. D. Carter, captain: Mrs. Charles V.
| Wheeler. Mrs. E. r. Miller. Mrs L. S.
| Wolfe. Mrs F. A. Connolly. Mrs. James
Haynes. Miss Florence Mills, Miss En-.
ma Games, Miss Virginia Galliher.
Miss Eleanor Reeve. Miss Florence
! Clarke and Miss Hilda Jansen.
| Commander Pence of the navy yard
| telephoned to campaign headquarters
yesterday for 5000 more buttons. win
dow flags and receipts, saying that
they had already exhausted their orig
inal quota of 5000.
Among the subscriptions received
yesterday, were George NJ. Oyster $780,
VIM. Hahn & Co. 500; Dr. John
Crayke Simpson. s10o; William Phil
& Co, 500. and Philipsborn & Co.,
$3.50.
| Armistice day, November II, the last
| day of the compaign, will be Red
/ Cross tag day. Various governmental
departments are promising bevies of
| pretty girls. who. selling the little
| emblems on the street, will serve as
CLEANERS" for the membership harv-
| est.
| New Booths Established.
! Indefatigable as the victory roll
| call canvassers have been, there are
| necessarily many persons who. as
| yet have not been approached by a
| solicitor and who are DESTROYS Of en-
rolling as members for 1920, but who
are forgetful For their benefit a spe-
| ciaI "enrollment' headquarters has
I been established on the ground floor
of the Wyatt building, northwest
| corner Of 14th and F streets. This
office is at all times manned by
corps of registrars, under Mrs. Flem-
| ing Newbold, chairman in charge.
and those who have not yet obtained
the little membership button are
urged to make 1t a point TO stop there
and enroll without delay. Another
membership booth. almost as conven-
lent, has been established at 1888 F
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