Omaha daily bee., 1919-11-02
Red Cross Is Organized on
War Efficiency Basis, 1000
Workers to Start Monday
Hope to Place Omaha in Lead on Big Drive and Keep 1t
There Every Building, Block and Street Under
Captain, Lieutenant and Squad of Solicitors Over
seas Girls in Their War Uniforms.

The bogie man may not get you
| but some woman will, SO you might
just as we'll loosen up on your dol
| lars AND be prepared to part with
them Monday morning.
One dollar is the minimum sum
that you are expected to contribute,
but there is no limit ON the maxi
mum. To these women who are to
start out>after the cash $50 to $l0C
will be just as acceptable.
The occasion is the third Red
Gross roll cali. 1t really starts to-
day, but the workers will not be in
the field until Monday They are
out to raise 100000 in Omaha. That
sum is Omaha's quota.
Omaha in Lead.
In all war drives Omaha was one
of the first among the cities to 60
over the top and in the drive that
starts Monday it is confidently ex-
pected that the city will keep the
pace it set during the war.
AS in former drives the women of
Omaha are going to do most of the
work. though they will be ably as
sisted by the men, hundreds of
whom have turned business affairs
over to clerks and have enlisted for
the campaign, which closes Novem-
Der IL.
The Red Cross women of the city
are as we'll, if not better organized
tban ever before and are prepared
to push Omaha over the top long
before the expiration OF the cam
paign. They expect to obtain $4,000
in memberships and the balance,
$4,000, in larger subscriptions.
Total of, SIS, 100000
The scope of the campaign is na-
tional and Monday morning the
work will start in every city, town,
hamlet and country precinct in the
United States. The aim is to raise
a total of $15,000,000.
( The campaign is authorized by
the National Red Cross and has the
approval of the president of the
United States, who has designated
this as Red Cross Sunday. In every
church in the country pastors will
urge their congregations to give and
give literally.
"A portion of the money will be
used helping the widows and or
yphans of the boys who crossed the
seas and there laid down their lives
that the world might be made safe
for democracy.
Some Of the money will be used to
purchase cheer and comfort for the
boys who are still serving under the
Stars and Stripes in foreign lands.
Help Nebraska Men.
A considerable portion of the cash
that Omahs- will contribute will be
used in helping Omaha and Nebras-
ka men who were crippled and
maimsd, and who had their health
impaired while fighting in France.
Still other portions will be set
aside for emergency purposes, like
foods, tornadoes such as swept over
Omaha a few years ago. 1t will be
used in stamping out epidemics and
the ravages of disease wherever the
need may be apparent, but it will all
be spent under proper authority and
every dollar will be accounted for
by the officers of the Red Cross.
Omaha is we'll prepared for the
part that it is to play in the cam
paign. The mems work is under the
direction of AL c. Scott, who has
gathered about him a corps of eff
fcient workers.
Mrs. Healey to Direct
The work of the women is under
the direction of Mrs. L. J. Healey,
vice chairman, assisted by Mrs. A.
b. Currie and Mrs. c. T. ,Platt, with