Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-11-08
JOIN RED Gross.
WILSON message.
To COUNTRYnEN
President Says the Fourth
Annual Roll Call observes
a Hearty RESPONSE" Drive
Begins November II.

Wilson today urged, his fellow
countrymen" to join the Red Cross
'in impressive numbers" during
the fourth annual roll call to be
held during the fortnight begin
ming Armistice day.
1.-THE American Red Cross" said
the president, deserves o hearty
response to its fourth invitation to
annual membership, which will be
issued during the fortnight begin
ming November II, Armistice day,
Under the stimulus of war and
through the cooperation of our
people, this organization grew into
immense size. enlarged its range of
activity served not only our fight
ing forces but also civilians in
volved in the hardships of war in
our own nation and in the nations
associated with us in great COM
mon enterprise, and gave to the
world an example of effective mer-
cy through co-ordinated effort
Since the cessation of hostilities
the organization has faced a dual
duty: First, to fulfill obligations
created by the war and, secondly,
to adapt its experience and ma
chinery to the needs of peace.
Its LabOrs Are Not Ended
1t is, today, still assisting gov
ornamental agencies in the care and
cheer of our disabled soldiers and
sailors, in replacing those able to
work in civilian occupations, and
in counselling and aiding the fam
lilies OF former Combatants; and it
is still assisting, with diminished
resources the process of rehabili-
tauon in some of the more pros
trated countries of our former as
sociatcs.
while continuing these mani
fest obligations, the Red Cross has
been accommodating methods and
applying lessons learned in war to
the normal needs of our own peo-
pie in times Of peace. especially in
regions whore provisions for public
health and welfare were imper-
fectly developed. 1t has placed
public health nurses in many To-
calities and has endeavored to en-
list greater numbers Of young
women in the nursing profession in
order that the supply might more
nearly equal the steadily incrcas-
ing demand for community nurses.
1t has devised a scheme of public
health CentCrs" for the relief of
maladies and for instruction in by
giene, dieteticS and general prin-
ciples Of disease prevention. With
its nurses and nurses aides it has
rendered incalCulable service in the
serious epidcmics of influenza. It
has carried instruction in hygiene
and first aid into schools, the
woman's clubs, and the homes of
our country. 1t has taught young
and untaught mothers how to care
intelligently for their babies, and
has done much in many ways to
promote child welfare, upon which
the welfare of the nation ultimate
ly rests. 1t has made 1t a funda-
mental principle to avoid futile du-
plications, to cooperate with pub
lie agencies when its cooperation
was sought, and to supply def
cicncica whore such agencies had
Educational Work.
ut has continued its educational
work among the school children
through it's Junior Red Cross
branch, and it has, as one result of
its war experience, put prepare
ton for disaster-relief on q scien-
tific foundation, so that it is now
equipped to meet disaster emergen-
Cies promptly in almost every part
of our country.
by systematic plans and practi-
cal performances, it has given a.
clear answer to the question why
the Red Cross should he continued
and carried over from war activity
into peace-time activity. The an
swer is in the record. ...
Additional to these obvious as
poets of the matter there is anoth-
er reason why /, as president of
the United States and president of
the American Red Cross, urge my
fellow cOuntrymcn to join the Red
Cross in impressive numbers Re-
action follows emotion. and after
great effort comes perilous assi-
tude. Sound patriotism and genu-
inc human service are continuous,
not intermittent, not contingent
merely upon the excitement of war.
If there is in some of us an inward
cooling OF the fine fervor which
animated us in the crisis of the
nations stress and peril, contrac-
ton of the spirit which ennobled
us as individuals and as a nation,
now, during the Red Cross Roll
Call" is a fitting season to take
counsel with our inner selves, to
rekindle the old flame, to reaffirm
allegiance to practical patriotism
and practical humanitarianism,
and to symbolic the regeneration
Of our better thoughts and hand
somer selves by e-enlistment in
a great army modified for the
common good. ,
(Signed)
"WOODROW VIII, SOM