The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1919-10-29
PRESIDENT WILSON
APPROVES RED CROSS
CHIEF EXECUTIVE ISSUES PRO-
CLAMATION URGING MEMBER
SHIP RENEWALS

The following proclamation by
President Wilson concerning the Red
Cross Roll Call, which opens next
Sunday, should be read carefully and
after reading it you are urged to go
to the nearest booth md renew your
membership. Booths for Moscow in
the postoffice and University of Ida
no. The proclamation follows:
AS President Of the United States
and as President of the American Red
Cross, I recommend and urge a gen
erous response to the Third Red Cross
Roll Gail which opens on November
the second with the observance of
v Red Cross Sunday and appropriately
closes on November the eleventh, the
first university of the signing of the
Armistice.
Twenty million adults joined the
Red Cross during the war, prompted
by patriotic desire to render 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 well as the test
of war, and it is an intelligently pa
triotic program which the Red Cross
proposes, continuance of service to
our soldiers and sailors who look to
it for many things, and a transference
to the problems of peace at home OF
the experience and methods which it
acquired during the war.
It is on membership more than
money contributions that the stress
of the present campaign is laid, for
the Red Cross seeks to associate the
people in welfare work throughout the
land, especially in those communities
where neither official nor unofficial
provisions has been made for adequate
public health and social service.
It is in the spirit of democracy that
the people should undertake. their own
welfare activities, and the National
Red Cross wisely intends to exert up
on community action a stimulating
and coordinating 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 prolongation of its
relief work abroad, policy which I
would lay an unjust burden upon our
own people and tend to undermine the
self-reliance of the people relieved,
but there is necessary work Of COM
-pletion to be performed before me
American Red Cross can hOnorably
withdraw from Europe The Congress
Of the United States has imposed up
on the Red Cross continuing re-
sponsibility abroad by authorizing the
Secretary of War to transfer to the
American Red Cross such surplus
army medical supplies and supple
mentary 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 countries of Eu-
rope as a result of the war.
To finance these operations, to con-
cIude work which was begun during (
the war, and to carry out some com
paratively inexpensive constructive
plans for assisting peoples in eastern
Europe to develop their own welfare
the American Red Cross
requires, in addition to membership
fees. a sum of money small in COM !;
parison with the gifts pouring into
it's treasury by our generous people
Turing the war. :
Both the greater enduring domesrc
and the lesser temporary for
Sign program of the Red Cross deserve
support, and venture
q hope that its peace-time member
,hfp will exceed rather than fall be- !
NV its impressive war-membersnlp.
WOODROW WILSON. -!