Connecticut western news., 1919-11-06
ROLL CALL WILL SUPPORT GREAT
 HOME PROGRAM
American Red Cross, Be- sides Serving in Disasters, Will Conduct National Movement for Health
 Betterment

nounced for the week of November to II, a nationwide campaign to be known as the Third Red Cross Roll Call. This membership campaign is for the support of the future home ac- tivities of the Red Cross.
 Rapid-Fire Relief.
 AS a comrade-in-arms to the Amert can soldier, following him and often preceding him into the thick of bat tie, and on all occasions typifytng the loving care and solicitude of the folks at home, the Red Cross won the grati- tude of every fighting unit that went into action. With the Twenty-Sev- enth and Seventy-Seventh Divisions the Red Cross representatives distin- guished themselves for the perform ance of rapid fire relief measures which saved the lives of hundreds of the fighters in both New York Divi- sions These services were typical also Of the services to other American Divisions.
 Major General John F. O'Ryan, commander of the Twenty-Seventh Division, signff1ed his gratitude for these services by volunteering to do all in his power to aid the Atlantic Dfviston of the American Red Cross in the approaching campaign. and will serve as chairman of the third Red Cross Roll Call in the Atlantic Divi- sion. Col. Charles w Whtttlesey, of the Seventy-Seventh Divisions Lost Battalion" Brigadier-General George R. Dyer, commander of the First Brigade of the New York State Guard, and many other military lead CTS and service men have enlisted under the Red Cross banner, as a token of their appreciation for ser vices rendered.
 Why the Red Gross Must Go On
 The war is over, but the work of the American Red Cross is far from ended It's gigantic organization for relief and human betterment today faces tasks even more momentous than those it faced and solved during the days of the war. In the disor- ganized and plague stricken coun- tries of Eastern Europe,-fn Poland, Siberia, and the Near East-it is com batting fearful epidemies of typhoid and cholera which, unchecked, would sweep over Western Europe and eventually to America with more dis astrous results than those of the In- tiuenza Epidemic of 1918. Its pro- gram of relief cannot be abandoned i in those countries without removing the one bulwark against disease and disorder which protects the rest of the civilized world.
 The Red Cross has other obliga- tions in Europe which make it not only humane, but economically imper- ative, that it's program be carried through to successful completion.
 Supplies of the American Army abroad have been turned over to the Red Cross for administration and dis posal.
 The proper utilization of these sup plies for humanitarian purposes makes 1t necessary that the Red Cross keep some of its forces in Eu- rope for a long time to come An other duty to be performed is the es- tab1ishment of schools to train native workers in the war-stricken coun- tries in American standards of san itation and social work Unless this vital measure Is accomplished the value of much that has been done for the relief of Europe will be lost
 Peace Program at Home.
 In addition to these European ob- legations, the Red Cross is laying the foundation for a great Peace Program at home. It is applying the lessons learned in war to the problems of peace, and will be the great teacher of public health, sanitation, care of the child, first aid and home hygiene in all the communities of the United States where well-organized social agencies do not exist
 Already the Red Cross has organ ized, in hundreds of rural districts and city slums, it's classes in Public Health Nursing, where wives and mothers, school children and indus trial workers are being taught the simple principles of health and sani- tation.
 The Red Cross must go on. It must carry on in Europe until the ob- legations of the American people are fulflled it must carry on at home as an auxiliary to the Army and Navy of the United States, as the 'care-taker of our wounded and disabled soldiers as a disaster relief organization to b ing relief in fires, floods and epi denies, and as the one great unify ing, cooperative agency in the field of public health.