The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1919-09-12
OFFICIAL NOTES or THE
AMERICAN RED CROSS

AMERlCAN MU CRUSS
All branches in the county are re-
quested to call the members together
to form plans for the Roll Call Drive.
All branches are requested to col
lect all Red Cross work in their pos
session, and to send in all finished ar
ticles to Mrs. Graham, Director of
Woman's Work, Marietta.
The officers for the coming Red
Cross year will be elected at the
October Beard Meeting.
All branches should hold their cleo
tons before that time, as the repre-
sentatives of the branches will be the
electors of the County Officers.
Just after the signing of the armis-
tice many of our chapters showed an
unfortunate but perhaps entirely ma
tural tendency to lay aside their Red
Cross work as a thing which ended
automatically with the ending of hos
tilities. To their minds the Red Cross
was war organization, brought into
existence by war conditions, and the
coming of peace left nothing more to
be done.
That attitude, however, is thing Of
the past. The chapters have seen that
there is work still to be done, that the
Red Cross existed long before the
invasion of Belgium, and that it will
exist as long as there is humanity in
the world. All over the division there
is a reaction in favor of the perma-
nent work, which the Chapter officers
and members are determined to make
success in their communities.
War risk insurance policies which
have been cancelled or permitted to
lapse through non-payment may be re-
instated by observing the following
conditions:
The reinstatement must be within
eighteen months after the month
when the policyholder was discharged.
The insurance policy itself must not
have lapsed for period longer than
one year.
The policyholder must present with
his application for reinstatement the
certificate of a physician that his
physical condition is as good as when
his discharge was granted.
This is new ruling which will en-
able many past holders of these poii-
cies to obtain immediate reinstate-
ment. 1t also is important in connec-
ton with the ruling, recently made
public, that policies held under the
War Risk Insurance Bureau are con-
vertible into the old-line life, tontne,
or endowment policies. The combina-
ton of these rulings doubtless will re-
suit in the reinstatement OF many pol
icies that have been permitted to
lapse.
In announcing the date of the Third
Red Cross Roll Call which will take
place during the week beginning Ne
vember 3rd and ending on Armistice
Day, November 18th, DR.. Livingston
Farrand, Chairman of the Executive
Committe of the American Red Cross,
mas optlined the plans and purposes
of the organization in it spermanent
work as follows:
at is believed that the end of our
foreign obligations is in sight and,
accordingly, the Red Cross is turn
ing it's chief attention and energy to
the development of clearly defined
home program, which already includes
systematic preparation for Disaster
Relief, a widespread Nursing Plan,
continuing home service operations,
First-Aid instruction and a Junior
Red Cross program, all of which will
depend for their success upon large
and vigorous Chapter. For these
reasons, the enrolment of members
is the chief purpose of the Novem-
Der campaign. 1t is the primary am
bition of the American Red Cross to
be of service to Americans.
"The first tast of the American Red
Cross is, of course, to complete its
obligations to American soldiers and
sailors. The organization plans, as
its future policy, to concentrate it,
efforts upon peace programs at home
unless American should again be in
volved in war or confronted by great
disasters creating special emergen-
cies.
"The Red Cross programs are pri-
marily within the field of public
health and will aim particularly at
cooperation with official activities
Federal, state and local. The Red
Cross will seek not to duplicate the
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