The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1919-11-08
ENDORSES THIRD
RED CROSS ROLL.

Washington, D. c., Oct. 30-As Ma
tional President of the American Red
Cross, President Wilson today in an
official announcement formally en-
dorsed the Third Red Cross Roll
Call, Nov. 2 to II. The announce
ment follows:
"As President of the United States
and as President of the American
Red Cross, l recommend and urge
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 milionl 2dedi? QI$I$GK
Twenty million adults joined the
Red Cross during the war, prompted
by a patriotic desire to render ser
vice 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 in
diligently patriotic program which
the Red Cross proposes, a cOntinuan-
ce 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.
1t is on membership more than
money contributions that the stress
of the present campaign is laid, for
U Cd ACly IN fofA hS
people in welfare work throughout
the land, especially in those COM
munities where neither official mol
unofficial provision has been made
for adequate public health and so.
cial service.
1t is in the spirit of democracy that
the people should undertake then
own welfare, and the National RED
Cross wisely intends to exert upor
community action a stimulating and
co-ordinating influence and to place
the energies of the organization be-
hind all sound public health and wei.
fare agencies.
The American Red Cross does moi
purpose indefinite prolongation Of its
relief work abroad, a policy which
would lay an unjust burden upon ouI
own people and tend to underline
| the self-reliance of the peoples re-
! lieved, but there is a necessary work
of completion to be performed be-
fore the American Red Cross car
honorably withdraw from Europe
The Congress of the United States
imposed upon the Red Cross a con
tinuing responsibility abroad by au
thorizing the Secretary of War t.
transfer to the American Red Cross
such surplus army MEDICAL supplies
and supplementary and dietary fooC
stuffs now in Europe as shall no
be required by the Army, to be useC
by the Red Cross to relieve the dis
tress which continues in certain
countries of Europe as result o.
the war.
To finance these operations, to con
clude work which was begun during
the war, and to carry out some
comparatively inexpensive construct
i've plans for assisting peoples in cas-
tern Europe to develop their owl
welfare organizations, the African
Red Cross requires, in addition t.
membership fees, a sum of none!
small in comparison with the gift
poured into its treasury by our gen
erous people during the war.
Both the greater enduring domestic
program and the lesser temporar!
foreign program of the Red Gross
deserve enthusiastic support, and
venture to hope that its peace-tim'
membership will exceed rather thai
fall below its impressive war-mem
bership
WOODROW WILSON.