Judsonia weekly advance., 1919-10-30
RED GROSS ROLL GALL
Membership Campaign Opens Mo-
 yember Ed, Closes 11th.
President Wilson, in Message Prepared Before Illness, Makes Appeal
 for Generous Response.

Washington, D. C.-In a request to the people of the United States to gen erously respond to the Third Red Cross Roll Call the following message was dictated by President Wilson be- fore his present Illness:
 As president of the United States and as president of the American Red Cross recommend and urge gen. erous response to the Third Red Cross Roll Call, which opens on November the second with the observance of Red Cross Sunday and appropriately closes on November the eleventh, the first anniversary of the signing of tho ar miStice.
 Twenty million adults joined the Red Cross during the war. prompted by patriotic desire to render service to their country and to the cause for Which the United States was engaged In war. Our patriotism should stand the test of peace as well as the test of war. and it is an intelligently patriotic program which the Red Cross pro- poses, continuance of service to our soldiers and sailors, who look to it for many things, and transference to the problems of peace at home of the ex- perience and methods which it ac- quired during the war;
 Stress on Membership.
 It is on membership more than money contributions that the stress of the present campaign is laid, for the Red Cross seeks to associate the people in welfare work throughout the land, especially in those communities where neither official nor unofficial provision has been made for adequate public health and social service
 It is in the spirit of democracy that the people should undertake their own Welfare activities, and the National Red Cross wisely intends to exert upon community action a stimulating and co-ordlnating influence and to place the energies of the organization be- hind all sound public health and vel fare agencies.
 The American Red Cross does not purpose indefinite prolongation of it's relief work abroad, policy which would lay an unjust burden upon our own people and tend to undermine the self-reliance of the peoples relieved, but there is necessary work of com pletion to be performed before the American Red Cross can honorably withdraw from Europe. The congress Of the United States has imposed upon the Red Cross a continuing responSi- blilty abroad by. authorizing the secre- tary of war to transfer to the Ameri- can Red Cross such surplus army med ical supplies and supplementary and dietary foodstutfS now in Europe as shall not be required by the army, to be used by the Red Cross to relieve the distress which continues in certain countries of Europe as result of the war
 Program Deserves Support.
 TO hnance these ratiOns, to con- clude work which was begun during the war, and to carry out some com paratively inexpensive constructive plans for assisting peoples in eastern Europe to develop their own welfare organizations the American Red Cross requires. in addition to membership Tees, Il sum of money small in compar- ison with the gifts poured into its treasury by our generous people dur ing the war.
 Both the greater enduring domestic program and the lesser temporary for eign program of the Red Cross de serve enthusiastic support, and l ven ture to hope that it's peace-time mem bership will exceed rather than fall below its impressive war membership.
 WOODROW WILSON.