The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-11-20
ROLL. GALL WILL
 SUPPORT GREAT
 HOME PROGRAM
American Red Cross, Be. sides Serving in Disasters, Will Conduct National Movement for Health
 Betterment

The American Red Cross has an- nounced for the week of November z to II, nationwide campaign to be known as the Third Red Cross Roll Call. This membership campaign is for the support of the future home &C., tivities of the Red Cross.
 Rapid-Fire Relief.
 As comrade-in-arms to the Ameri- can soldier. following him and often preceding him into the thick of bat tie, and on all occasions typifying the loving care and solicitude of the folks at home, the Red Cross won the grati- tude of every fighting unit that went into action. With the Twenty-Sev- enth and Seventy-Seventh Divisions the Red Cross representatives distin- Euished themselves for the perform ance of rapid fire relief measures which saved the lives of hundreds of the fighters in both New York Divi- sions. These services were typical also of the services to other American Divisions
 Major-Genera1 John F. O'Ryan.
 
 Division, signi1ed his gratitude for these services by volunteering to do all in his power to aid the Atlantic Division of the American Red Cross in the approaching campaign, and will serve as chairman of the third Red Cross Roll Call in the Atlantic Divi- sion. Col. Charles W. Whittlesey,. of the Seventy-Seventh Divisions . "Lost Battalion" Brigadier-General George R. Dyer, commander of the First Brigade of the New York State Guard. and many other military lead CTS and service men have enlisted under the Red Cross banner, as token Of their appreciation for ser- vices rendered.
 | Why the Red Cross Must Go On
 The war Is over, but the work of the American Red Cross is far from ended. Its gigantic organization for relief and human betterment today faces tasks even more momentous than those 1t faced and solved during the days of the war. In the disor- ganized and plague stricken coun- tries of Eastern Europe,-in Poland, o1DCI diId IuC lNOs1I EEASt-1L IS com batting fearful epidemics of typhoid and cholera which. unchecked, would sweep over Western Europe and eventually to America with more dis astrous results than those of the h. fuenza Epidemic of 1918. It's pro- gram of relief cannot be abandoned in those countries without removing the one bulwark against disease and disorder which protects the rest of the civilized world.
 The Red Cross has other obliga- lions in Europe which make 1t not only humane, but economically imper ative, that it's program be carried through to successful completion.
 Supplies of the American Army abroad have been turned over to the Red Cross for administration and dis posal.
 The proper utilization of these sup plies for humanitarian purposes makes it necessary that the Red Cross keep some of its forces in Eu- rope for long time to come. An other duty to be performed is the es- tablishment of schools to train native workers in the warstricken coun- tries in American standards of san. itation and social work. Unless this vital measure is accomplished the value of much that has been done for the relief of Europe will be lost. Peace Program at Home.
 In addition to these European ob. legations, the Red Cross is laying the foundation for a great Peace Program at home. It is applying the lessons learned in war to the problems oi peace, and will be the great teache, of public health, sanitation, care ol the child, first aid and home hygiene in all the communities of the United States where well-organized social agencies do not exist
 Already the Red Cross has organ fzed, in hundreds of rural district: and city slums. it's classes in Public , Health Nursing, where wives ana mothers, school children and indus trial workers are being taught tho , simple principles of health and sani tation.
 l The Red Cross must go on