Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1919-10-31
RED CROSS ROLL CALL
BEGINS NOVEMBER 2

Washington, Oct. rs. Pres
dent Wilson, in a letter write
before his illness, and made pub
lie today, appealed to the peopl
of the country, for support o
the third Red Cross Roll Call
which is to be held from Novem
ber 2 to II:
"As President of the United
States and as President of TIN
American Red Cross, ! recon
mend and urge a generous re
sponse to the Third Red Cros!
roll call which opens on Novem
ber the second with the obser
vance of Red Cross Sunday ant
appropriately closes on November
the eleventh, the first anniver
sary of the signing of the armis
tice.
Twenty million adults joined
the Red Cross during the war,
prompted by patriotic desire tC
render service to their country
and to the cause for which the
United States was engaged in
war. Our patriotism should
stand the test of peace as wei
as the test of war, and it is an
intelligentlv patriotic program
which the Red Cross proposes,
a continuance of service to our
soldiers and sailors who look tC
it for many things, and a trans
ference to the problems of peace
at home. of the experience and
methods which it acquired during
the war.
1T is on membership more
than money contributions that
the stress of the present cam.
paign is laid, for the Red Cross
seeks to associate the people in
welfare work throughout the
land, especially in those com.
munities where neither officiaI
provision has been made for ade-
quate public health and sociaI
service.
1T is the spirit of democracy
that the peoole should undertake
their own welfare activities, and
the National Red Cross wisely
intends to exert upon community
action stimulating and co-or.
dinating influence and to place
the energies of the organization
behind all sound public health
and welfare agencies.
THE American Red Cross
does not purpose indefinite pro-
longation of its relief work
abroad, a policy which would lay
an unjust burden upon our own
people and tend to undermine
the self-reliance of the people re-
lieved, but there is a necessary
work of completion to be per.
formed before the American Red
Cross can honorably withdraw
from Europe. The Congress OF
the United States has imposed
upon the Red Cross a continuing
responsibility abroad by authori.
zing the Secretary of War tc
transfer to the American Red
Cross such surplus army medica
supplies and supplementary and
dietary food stuffs now in
Europe as shall not be required
by the army, to be used by the
Red Cross to relieve the distress
which continues in certain coun.
tries of Europe as a result of the
war.
TO finance these operations,
to conclude work which was be.
gun during the war, and carry
out some comparatively inexpen
sive constructive plans for assist
ing people in eastern Europe t.
develop their own welfare organi
cations, the American Red Cros.
requires in addition to member
ship fees sum of money small
in comparison with gifts poure,
into its treasury by our gener
GUS people during the war.
Both the greater endurin,
domestic program and the les
ser temporaryforeig program o
the Red Cross deserve en-
thusiastic support, and | Iventur
to hope that its peace-time mem
bership will exceed rather tina
falI ho1n,x, Sec .,,o.~.aa1.,,o 1910,