Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-10-26
WILSON APPEALS
FOR SUPPORT Of
RED CROSS CALL
Generous Response Is Urged
During the Campaign for.
Memberships Beginning
Nov 2 and Ending Nov H..

washington, Oct. 25.--presldent
Wilson. In q letter written before his
illness and made public today, APP
pealed to the people of the country
for support OF the third Red Cross
roll call. which is to be held from
November 2 to IL. The letter follows.
"As president of the United States
and as president of the American Red
Cross, / recommend and urge gen.
erous response to the third Red Cross
roll call which opens on November
with the observance of Red Cross
Sunday and appropriately closes on
November IL. the first anniversary Of
the signing Of the atmlstice
Twenty million adults joined the
Red Cross during the war, prompted
by a patriotic desire to 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 we'll as the test
of war, and 1t is an inteligently
patriotic program which the Red
Cross proposes. q continuance Of
service to our soldiers and sailors who
look to for many things, and d trans,
ference to the problems of peace at
home Of the experience and methods
which it acquired during the war.
Memberships Are Desired.
TT 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 commu-
mites where neither official nor un-
official provision has been made for
cd haalth uaato1
service.
ut 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 slim
ulating and coAordinating influence
and to place the energies Of the or
ganization behind all sound public
health and welfare agencies.
THE American Red Cross does not
purpose indefinite prolongation of its
relief work abroad. policy which
would lay an unjust burden uDon our
own people and tend to undermine
the self-reliance of the peoples 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 cOntinu-
ing responsibility abroad by authoriz-
inR the secretary ~ war 10 transfer
to the American Red Cross such sur
plus army medical supplies and sup
Elementary and dietary foodstuffs
now in Europe as shall not be re-
CURED by the army, to be used by the
Red Cross to relieve the distress
which continues in certain countries
of Europe as a 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 gifts poured
into its treasury by our generous peo-
pie during the war.
Both the greater enduring domes-
tic program and the lesser temporary
foreign program of the Red Cross de-
serve enthusiastic support, and ven
ture to hope that its peace-time men,
bership will exceed rather than fall
below its impressive war member
ship"