The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1920-08-27
RED CROSS MEMBERSHIP
RENEWAL DRIVE SOON
Armistice Day November 11tft,s to
Thanksgiving Day Set for Ma
tional Drive

Formal announcement was recently
made by DR.. Livingston Farrand, act
ing for the Executive Committee of
the Red Cross, that the period from
Armistice Day, November II, to
Thanksgiving Day, November 25, has
ships in the American Red Cross and
the securing of new members. Marion
G. Scheitlin, National Director of
Publicity, has been appointed Director
of the Fourth Roll Call.
General plans for conducting the
Roll Call were set forth in a letter
from Frederick C. Monroe, General
Manager of the American Red Cross,
to G.. C. Held, Division Manager of
the Norther Division. In this letter,
Mr.. Monroe emphasizes the fact that
the Red Cross is a permanent national
organization, whose members band to-
gether with the purpose of bringing
about better conditions of health and
living to all people.
Mr.. Monroe enumerates the various
activities of the Red Cross, including
not only the war-work which it has
done at home and abroad but chiefly
the peace-time operations which it has
assumed as its gigantic new task. This
comprises work in disaster relief and
preparedness for the future; placing
and educating Public Health Nurses;
teaching home care of the sick; First
Aid, and Dietetics; developing Junior
Red Cross; extending Home Service
to civilian families; and advancing the
cause of public health.
In expressing the spirit that should
animate those who are to act as lead
ers, Mr.. Monroe says:
eve feel pride in what has beer
done to meet our obligations to ser.
vice and e~x-service men and theil
families, in divisions and chapters anc
in military, naval and public health
service hospitals. Of equal Importance
and of even more dramatic signif
canoe has been the work of our for
eign units in fighting conditions O.
disease and restitution. We ask tn,
approval of the American people TO,
this work and accept the duty of help
ing to make clear to them that human
itarian considerations and self-interes
alike require every possible effort OF
their part to prevent the spread O
conditions prevalent in Eastern an,
: Central Europe. In this connection
have recently sent out a letter ask
t ing chapters to make layettes an
) clothing for distribution in these Euro
pean fields"
In connection with announcing tn
dates for the annual enrolment of Re
= Cross members for the year 1921, tn
Chairman of the Central and Execu
: tive Committees made known tn
decision of the American Red eros
to make each anniversary of the en-
of the World War, henceforth, tn
occasion for renewing popular a]leg
ance to the Red Cross through dolla
annual memberships. The grand OF
q %jective behind the Fourth Roll Cal
, and for all annual Roll Calls, for tia
0 matter, is to secure as nearly as pos
!. slble universal membership.
: Ten million members are now er
rolled under the banner of the Amer
can Red Cross and, Mr.. Held ar
nounces, the returns are still comm
in. This is twenty times the pre-wa
S membership of the Society; and, in at
3 dition, there are fourteen million men
e bers of the Junior Red Cross. Office,
d OF the Northern Division are alread
making plans to have the 1921 Ro
Call a more enthusiastic and MOI
nearly universal function than it's DR.,
decessor, counting on the greater Dol
e ular knowledge, founded on the pra
tlcal work put into effect during tt
S past year, and a better conception /
the peace-time program, to stimula'
interest among all classes of IL
country's population.