The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-10-21
WORLD NEEDS
RED CROSS WORK
Roll Call and Campaign for
Funds Will Be Started
Nov. 2.

The hats Of the men Of Memphis once
again must be DOTTED In Difference to the
energy and speed with which the gen.
tier sex can organize for the common
good.
This time the ladies' literally have
outdtstanced the men in plans for this
formation Of an organization for the
third annual roll call and peace program
Of the American Red Cross.
Seventy Of the leading women of
Memphis will meet at II o'clock We'd
nesday morning at Red Cross headduar-
ters In response to a call from Mrs.
Kenneth Graham Duffield. chairman Of
the woman's division for the campaign.
Organization plans will be gone thor
oughly into. and other women will be
tzation to assist Mrs. Duffield, and Mrs.
Harry Boyd, who has been named vice
chairman.
The work Of the women in the cam
paign, which will open on Nov. 2 and
close on Nov. II. Is well defined. The
gentler sex will have In charge the
annual roll call feature, whtis the mems
division will raise the fund which is
Memphis share toward the national to-
tai which will go for carrying U the
peace program for the great relief So
Ciety.
The obtaining OF members to the
American Red Cross makes up the work
OF the annual roll call. Through this
feature, 1t is expected that the women
Of Memphis and Shelby county will
raise. $4,000. which is set as their quota
locally.
John y, Lippitt, manager Of the rru-
dental Insurance Company Of America,
is the Memphis and Shelby county
chairman for the drive. He has ar
ranged for the Parent Teacher associa-
tlon 10 handle the roll call feature in
the residential districts, and Mrs. DUFF
field and her workers to take charge
OF the downtown section-business and
professional men.
The women's work throughout the ma
ton In the big drive Is looked to as the
medium Of raising a larger sum thar
the men will raise, although this does
not apply to the Memphis chapter Of
the Red Cross.
The roll call, or renewal OF member
ship, nationally will net $22, 900, 900. The
peace program feature Is expected to
raise SIS, 200, 900 additional,
In Memphis, however. $23, 900 Is the
amount the Southern division Of the
Red Cross looks to the women of Mem
phis to raise. The men OF Memphis are
expected to bring in $4,000 as their
part,
With the women's division well under
the process Of organization, Mr.. Lippltt
expects soon to organize the mems di-
vision, So far, only one committee has
Dttll uhIltu-lidl WINCH VIII Hdllule
publicity. Elwood Lloyd was named
chairman of this committee, He will
be assisted by Halbert h, Phillips, of
the Commercial Appeal, and Bob Hill
dehrand, OF The News Sclnfltar.
While the groundwork Of the cam
paign will be laid In the mex two
weeks, the actual raising Of the money
will be confined to the week Of Nov.
2 to g.
Sunday, Nov. ., will be designated as
Red Cross Sunday in all Memphis
churches.
The $t5,OOO,O 900 to be raised will go
toward work to be done by the Ameri-
can Red Cross-"the greatest mother Of
them ail'-and toward caring for the
SIS, 000. 600 worth of supplies ~intrusted
to the Red Cross by the United States
government, The supplies now in
France will be used for Red Cross peace
time activities.
While other organizations sponsored
by the government during the war will
cease activities on November /,
the government would not listen to
the cessation of the activities of the
American Red Cross, Better sanitary
and educational conditions throughout
the United States are the principal aims
Of the peace-tine program.
A meeting of the branch Chairmen
Of the Red Cross in Shelby county has
been called for Saturday morning at II
O'clock, at the headquarters OF the
Memphis chapter, The call was sent
out Monday by Mrs. Duftield, All coun-
ty chairmen are urged to attend the
meeting.