The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1920-11-11
400 CHAPTERS
ARE READY FOR
4TH ROLL CALL
Rivalry Keen Among Southern Towns
TO Get Quota OF Red cross
Members First. >

; AtlaElm, Ga. Nov.-More than foul
4 hundred chapters of the American Rec
Gross and about three hundred chap
ter branches are organized in the
southern division for the Fourth Red
J Gross Roll Call, November 1925.
4 by organization is meant that these
chapters and branches have chairmen
committees and the enthusiasm to
make the Fourth Roll Call a. sure sue
cess in their communities" said ].
L. McMillin, southern division man.
ager OF the Red Cross, today,
1--WE have reports from every one
! Of them that they are only awaiting
Fthe date to begin the campaign. First
the workers themselves will renew
their memberships in the Red Cross.
Then every old member will be called
| upon to re-enlist under the Red Cross
| banner. After that, every effort will
be made to get in the territory of each
| chapter as nearly one hundred per
cent membership in the Red Cross as
it is possible to get"
The southern division includes the
five states Of Georgia, North Carolina,
South Carolina, Tennessee and. Flor
ida. Last year the division, for it's
population, made as fine record as
any part of the country in enrolling
Red Cross members. This year it is
the eager purpose of every chapter
to put the southern division on, top
again.
A friendly but keen rivalry exists
among the various chapters to be the
first to report that their quotas are
secured. A different system has been
used this year in assigning quotas to-
the various chapters. Instead of de-
termining the quota for the division
first and then dividing this out among
the various chapters, each chapter
carefully estimated the amount Of
money needed to finance its needs and
its plans during the coming year. The
chapters quota was then based on this
amount, and the quota for the entire
division made up from the various
chapter quotas.
Thus the Roll Call this year is more
than ever local proposition in each
community. When local people sub
scribe to the Red Cross, they are sub
scribing to meet local needs, and for
every dollar paid for membership in
the Red Cross, fifty cents will be kept
by the local chapter to finance its
plans for next year. The other fifty
cents goes to national headquarters,
to maintain She national work Of the
Red Cross.
1--WE challenge every other chapter !
in the southern division to beat our
Roll Call record" wrote one Roll Call
chairman in North Carolina. I'VE in
end to be the first over the top, |
'or we are laying our plans to get our I
,ull quota Of members early in the
of November H.
This spirit is typical of the way
he vast majority of chapters are
waiting the Fourth Roll Call. It is
rare exception where chapters are
lot thoroughly organized. and plans
worked out to secure the quota of
members easily and quickly. ~.
Hundreds of newspapers throughout
he southern division will cooperate l.
With the local Red Cross chapters to
make the Roll Call success. Speak
ng Of the view with which most Amer
cans regard the Fourth Roll Call, one
atlanta paper already has called upon
Atlantans to, join the Red Cross in
be following editorial language:
'sThe Red Cross Roll Calls are. not ]
lrives', not attempts to raise large
ums of money for untried causes, but !
ney are institutions in the nations
fe, the one time Of the year when
ne American people, old and young, '
re asked to renew their memberships
| the organization that is SO express
we of the national spirit and SO great
benefit to the nation as a whole. s
1.-THE American Red Cross is differ.
at in this respect from the Red Cross
! other nations, in most of which it :
maintained by large contributions
ON the wealthy. The American Red
ross is essentially democratic. 1t :
as founded, by the American people.
hey maintained it "for nearly forty
ears. In the war, thousands OF them o
und in it the opportunity to serve q
ey SO ardently sought. q
$50, today, the Red Cross belongs Z
the American people. It gives them
e chance they all want in their q
,artS TO 90 some gOOd III the world.
ngIy, their dollars for mem berships
light amount to little; but matched
millions of other dollars from ev-
y part of the country, they become Il
mighty factor in caring for our sol Q
ers and sailors; looking after the b
terests of the wounded and MANNED o.
the war; safeguarding the discharg- II
service man and his family; doing
e same thing for thousands of un- Il
rtunate civilians; brinming public d.
aIth nursing and good health to hun n
eds of communities; training our w
US and girls in the way they should X
+; doing many other things that en- w
into the peace-time program of the
d Cross which, in the two years 9,
ice the signing of the armistice, has :,