The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1919-10-30
RED CROSS ORGANIZATION

President Wilson on the eve of
his present illness issued a summons
to the American people to repond to
the Third Red Cross Roll Call. This
summons is here transmitted to the
people of this community on the
eve of the campaign in which a peace
time member for every war time
member is the goal Of the chapter
workers. The Presidents letter fol-
lows:
"As President of the United States
and as President Of the American
Red Cross, I recommend and urge a
generous response to the Third Red
Cross Roll Call which opens on
November the second with the OBJ
servance of Red Cross Sunday and
appropriately closes on November the
ELEVENTH, the first anniversary Of the
signing of the armistice.
Twenty million adults Joined the
Red Cross during the war, prompted
by a patriotic desire to reneder SER
vice to their country and to the cause
for which the United States was en-
gagged in war. Our patriotism should
stand the test of peace as we'll as the
test of war, and it is an intelligently
patriotic program which the Red
Cross proposes, a continuance Of
service to our soldiers and sailors
who look to it for many things, and
a tr~ansference to the problems of
peace at home of the experience and
methods which it acquired during the
war.
sit is on the membership more
than money contributions that the
stress Of the present campaign is
laid, for the Red Cross seeks to as
sociate the people in welfare work
throughout the land, especially in
those communities where neither Of
fetal nor unofficial provision has
been made for adequate public health
and social service.
1T is in the spirit of democracy
that the people should undertake
their own welfare activities, and the
National Red Cross wisely intends
to exert upon community action a
stimulating influence and to place
the energies Of the organization be-
hind all sound public health and well
fare agencies.
The American Red Cross does not
purpose indefinite prolongation of its
relief work abroad, a policy which
would lay al 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 performed before
the American Red Cross can honor
ably withdraw from Europe. The
, Congress of the United States has i'm.
, posed upon the Red Cross a continu-
ing responsibility abroad by author
izing the Secretary of War to trans
fer to the American Red Cross such
surplus army medical supplies and
supplementary and dietary food
stufs now in Europe as shall not be
, required by the army, to be used by
, the Red Cross to relieve the distress
:, which continue in certain countries
of Europe as the result Of the war.
!, ITO finance these operations, to
conclude work which was begun dur
!, ing the war, and to carry out some
comparatively inexpensive construc-
tive plans for assisting peoples in
, eastern Europe to develop their own
welfare organizations, the American
Red Cross requires, in addition to
!. membership fees, a sum Of money
small in comparison with the gifts
poured into its treasury by our gen.
erous people during the war.
Both the greater enduring do.
nestle program and the lesser tenn
porary foreign program of the Red
. Cross deserve support, and I venture
to hope that it's peace time member
, ship will exceed rather than fall be-
! low its wartime membership.
. WOODROW WILSON,"
Q NOTICE OF SALE OF COUNTY