The Jasper news. [volume] (Jasper, Missouri) 1898-1924, 1919-10-30
OFFICIALS LOOK FORWARD TO
PLACING DIVISION FIRST
LOVER THE TOP"
WOMEN WORKERS ENROLL
Campaign Managers Say That Present
Drive Is One for Membership,
Not Funds.
RED CROSS ROLL CALL FACTS

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= Begins, Sunday, November 2; I.
+ closes, Armistice DAY, Tuesday, :.
= November II. +
+ Objective: 100000 member :.
!. ships in the United States; :.
= 100000 memberships in the +
!. Southwestern Division-the states +
= of Missouri, Kansas, Texas, Okla !.
+ homa and Arkansas. Cost of 1.
+ membership, one dollar. +
Purpose: To maintain Red !.
i Cross at present high state of !.
= organization and efficiency as !.
+ permanent national relief agency. !.
+ One million volunteer workers :.
+ to assist in campaign activities, 4
1: to be enrolled previous to opening !.
1; of drive. :.
\ Soldiers, sailors and marines to !.
+ aid by speaking and writing of :.
I. the work of the Red Cross in the +
1: camps and overseas. Fighting :.
= men, in some cases, directing :.
I. campaign. !.
= "Four-minute" men, returned =
= service men, lawyers, newspaper :.
i men and others qualified, will =
:. speak during drive, in theatres, !.
= hotels, moving picture shows, !.
= clubs, factories, mills and stores. i.
= National advertising campaign :.
+ being waged as preliminary to !.
:: intensive drive. Newspapers, I.
r posters, window displays, flags, !.
+ cutouts, moving picture films, =
+ dodgers, advertising slides, all +
+ carrying Red Cross messages. =
+ =
+ -: 80 e: .*++a. :. \ !.
When the Third Red Cross Roll Call
of members is completed on Armistice
Day, November II, 1t ia expected that
100000 persons in Missouri, Kansas,
Texas, Arkansas and Oklahoma-the
states comprising the Southwestern
Division Of the Red Cross-will have
answered here" and have been en-.
roAed as annual members of the
organization.
Inasmuch as this Is a decrease Of
385,619 members under the record of
last year, when 2,3S5.619 members
were obtained during the Christmas
Roll Call from population of approx
imately 1925 900, Red Cross officials
look forward to putting the Division
first lover the top" with comparatively
little difficulty. The nationwide cam
paign this year is expected to yield
more than 100000 members. AS in
all Pre- sious conpaiRns, the ZEE for
yearly membership is 81.
Red Cross Sunday.
The campaign will open formally
Sunda". November 2, which has been
desigr ated Red Cross Sunday" On
that day the story of the Red Cross
will lie told from pulpits all over the
nation. Special programs Will mark
mornin; and evening services.
Vigorous preparations are being
mad, as evidenced by the rapid en-
rol'ment of thousands OF women work
va sers during the campaign. More
than 100000 such workers are to be
obtained throughout the country, whose
aid will determine to an appreciable
extent the successful termination Of
the coming campaign.
Reports reaching the Division office
in S.. Louis tell also of the cooperation
being extended by hundreds of SOL
diers, sailors and marines, who are
able, many of them, to tell first per-
son" stories of what the Red Cross
did for them while the fighting was
goirg on. These chaps are being en-.
rolled as speakers, writer's and active
workers.. In addition, "four-minute"
men, lawyers, newspaper men and
others qualified are scheduled to
address audiences during the campaign
on the subject Of the Red Cross appeal
Advertising Campaign.
Enthusiasm in the campaign is be-
Ing stimulated by the appearance OF
thousands Of posters, window displays,
Red Cross flags and other adjuncts of
the countrywide advertising campaign
now being carried on. Newspapers
are carrying page, half-page and
smaller advertisements bearing tile
Red Cross message, while periodicals.
magazines and billboards, as well as
street cars, trains, mercantile estab.
lishments and department store win
dows, all carry their quota of Red Cross
advertising Moving picture shows arc
exhibiting Red Cross films in gigan-
tic motion picture campaign that has