Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1919-10-31
AID IS URGED FOR
RED CROSS ABROAD
President Wilson Prepared Mes
sage Before Illness.
WORK YET TO BE COMPLETED
To Finance Operations and to Carry
Out Constructive Plans In Eastern
Europe, Organization Requires
Increasing Membe rship.

Washington. -. &. Before his pres
ent Illness President Wilson prepared
the following message, in which he
urges the people of the United States
to generously respond to the third roll
call of the lied Cross:
As president OF the United States
and US president of the American Red
Cross recommend aud urge a 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 the ar
mlstlce
Twenty million adults joined the
Red Cross during the war. prompted
by n patriotic desire to render service
to their country and TO the cnuse for
which the United States was engaged
In war. Our patriotism should stand
the test Of peace NJ well as the test of
war, and 1t IL an lntelligently patriotic
program which the Red Cross pro
poses, n continuance OF service TO our
soldiers and sailors. who look to 1t for
many things, and u transference TO the
problems OF peace at home OF the ex-
periencc and methods which 1t ac-
CURED during the war.
Stress o, Membership.
II 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.
II 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 Il stimulating and
cO-ordnating 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 its
relief work abroad. n policy which
! wound my mn unjust burden upon our
own people aud tend to undermine the
self-reIlancc of the peoples relieved.
but there Is II 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 continuing RESPONSE
billty abroad by authorizing the secre-
| tnry of war to transfer to the Amerl-
| can Red Cross such surplus army med
zeal supplies and supplementary and
| dietary foodstuiTs now I'm Europe as
shalt 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 II result of the
war.
Program Deserves Support.
To finance these operations, to con
clude work which was hegun during
the war, and to carry out some com.
parntively inexpensive constructive
| plans for assisting peoples In eastern
Europe tO develop their own welfare
organizations, the American Red Cross
requires. In addition To membership
! fees sum OF money small in compar-
ison with the gifts poured into it's
! treasury 10y our generous people dur
/ ing the war.
Both the greater enduring domestic
program ana the lesser temporary for
eign program 81 the Red Cross lie
serve enthusiastic support, and Ven
ture to hope that its penco-time mem
bershlp will exceed rather than fall
below It's impressive war membership.
WOODROW WILSON