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OFFICIAL PAPER INCOME COUNTY
APPEAL BY PRESIDENT
ON RED CROSS DRIVE

Washington, Oct. 25.- President
Wilson in letter written before his
illness and made public today, adj
dressed the following letter to the
people of the country appealing for
support of the third Red Cross roll
call, which is to be held from No
vember to IL:
"As president of the United States
and as president of the American Red
Cross, recommend and urge a gen.
erous response to the third Red Cross
roll call which opens on November 2
with the observance of Red Cross
Sunday and appropriately closes on
November. IL, the first anniversary
of the signing of the armistice.
Twenty million adults Joined the
Red Cross during the war, prompt
by patriotic desire to render service
to their country and to the cause for
which the United States was engaged
in the war. Our patriotism should
stand the test of peace as well as the
test of war, and it is an intelligently
Pdtii Pi O6iethi Whith Lie leCd
Cross proposes, continuance of SER
vice to our soldiers and sailors who
look to it for many things, and
transference to the problems of peace |
at home of the experience and meth |
DDS which it acquired during the war. |
sit is on membership more than /
contributions that the stress
of the present campaign is laid, for
the Red Cross seek to associate the
people in welfare work throughout
the land, especially in those COM
munities where neither official nor
provision has been made |
for adequate public health and social
service.
ut 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 ac-
and to place the energies
If the organization behind all sound
public health and welfare agencies.
1.-The American Red Cross does not
indefinite prolongation of its
elief work abroad, policy which
yould lay an unjust burden upon our
un people and tend to undermine the
of the peoples relieved,
ut there is 9 necessary work of COM
Ition to be performed before thes
merican Red Cross can honorably
-ithdraw from Europe. The congress
the United States has imposed up
q the Red Cross continuing respon-
bility abroad by authorizing the |
ecretary of war to transfer to the | ,
Red Cross such surplus
rmy medical supplies and supple
lentary and dietary food stuffs now
Europe as shall not be required by
ne army, to be used by the Red Cross | :
orelieve the distress which continues q
i certain countries Of Europe as
esult Of the war.
"To finance these operations, to | },
Dnclude work which was begun dur
lg the war. and to carry out some
inexpensive construc-
we plans for assisting people in east
IN Europe to develop their own vel
ire organizations, the American Red
ross requires, in addition to member "
nip fees, a sum of money small in
with gifts poured into it's | II
'easury by our generous people dur b
lg the war. Il
Both the greater. enduring domes- o
c program and the lesser temper
ry foreign program of the Red Cross u
eserve enthusiastic support, and | y
enture to hope that its peacetime r,
embership will exceed rather than or
ii below its impressive war member
lip.
WOODROW WILSON"