The Era-leader., 1919-10-16
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
niversary of the Germans last KAN
erad," of course. Next, there Will be
at the same hour of the same day, the
successful termination of the Third
Red Cross Call which will be con-
Quoted, according to an announcement
made Saturday at the headquarters OF
the Gulf Division here, from Novem-
Der to II.
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
Thaddeus hampton, of Jackson, Is
Chairmen for the State of Mississippi
The national goal is for $15,OOO,OOO,
and 2O,0O0,OO0 members. Alabama is
asked for s73,06O and S4,15O members.
The Louisiana quota is $4,000 and
149,6OO members, and the Mississippi
mark is S56, $40 and 65,450 member
ship.
The campaign is to supply the
American Red Cross with the men,
women, and money needed not only
to complete wartime activities OF the
Red Cross, but to establish in To-
cal 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-tlme
program are the Home Service DE-
partment, which gives help and ad
vice to the needy, works for better
schools, Fairgrounds, recreation ano
social centers, and community clubs;
q Nursing Department, whose aim II
will be to provide Public Healtf
nurse in every Chapter, and to dt
emergency nursing in times OF cpl
denies; First Aid Department, II
give training in emergency treatment
and a Department of Disaster Relief
In addition to this peace program
the completion of the present war pro
gram includes the care and service t.
American soldiers in Russia, German
and in France; the continuation OF tn
disease fight which is being waged L
= Siberia, Poland and the Balkans; an
continued care, assistance and SER
ire to the 10000 American soldier
still in military hospitals, and the Sc
eral hundred thousand who have bee
discharged disabled.
One of the high lights Of the can
paign here in New Orleans will {
the visit of DR.. Livingston Farran
Chairman of the national central con
mittee of the American Red Cros
will pay the Crescent City. DR.. Fa
rand will reach New Orleans on o.
tober 8. In the swing he is maxim
about the country in the interests
the Roll Call, and will make an az
dress here the same night. He wi
leave on the following morning fc
Jackson, where he will speak ths
evening. On the tenth DR.. Farran
will speak in Birmingham, Alabama.
incidentally, there is one chapter
the American Red Cross which has a
ready far exceeded it's quota, despi1
the fact that the roll call will not
completed until the eleventh hour
the eleventh day of the eleventh mont
and that Chapter is Honolulu.
According to telegraphic announc
ment from Washington headquarte
Immediately upon receipt of the cal
paign plans, the Hawaiian branch c
bled a subscription Of $4,000. Th
sum was much larger than the quo
which would have been assigned Il
Honolulu Chapter.
The following "Call' was issued 81
urday by Manager Homer w. Bor!
of the Gulf Divisions Third Roll Cal
"For the purpose OF alleviating b
man suffering among our recent ALI
of the great war; of continuing R
Cross service to the soldiers and sa
ors of our country; of aiding disable
soldiers and sailors to regain heal
and happiness; Of continuing R
Cross advice and assistance in eve
locality to the families OF fighti
men; of extending the aid OF the R
Cross to all those in need; and
using every practicable means for t
elimination of disease and distres
Red Cross calls upon every Americ'
to give loyal response to the Thi
Roll Call. November 2 to H."