The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1920-11-08
WILSON ASKS PUBLIC
TO BACK RED CROSS
IN LATEST APPEAL

WASHINGTON. Nov. s.-Presidert
Wilson today urged his fellow coCn-
trymen" to join the Red Cross "in in
pressive numbers" during the fourth
annual roll call to be held during the
fortnight beginning Armistice Day.
"The American Red Cross" said the
president, observes a hearty response
to its fourth invitation to annual mem
hership, which will be issued during
the fortnight, beginning Nov. II. Arm
isticc Day.
Under the stimulus of war and
through the cooperation of our PEG
pie. this organization grew into i'm
mense size. enlarged its range OF &C
tivity. served not only our fighting
forces, but also civilians involved in
the hardships of war in our own ne
ton and in the nations associated with
us in great common enterprise, and
gave to the world an example of eff
fective mercy through co-ordinated ef-
fort
Since the cessation of hostilitie5
the organization has faced dual
duty: First, to fulfill obligations Gre
ated by the war; and. secondly. TO
adapt its experience and machinery
to the needs of peace.
mental agencies in the care and cheer
OF our disabled soldiers and sailors.
in replacing those able to work in
civilian occupations, and in counselins
and aiding the families of former COM
batants; and it was still assisting,
with diminished resources, the pro-
cess of rehabilitation in some of the
more Frustrated countries of our fO!
mep associates
Applies War Lessons.
while continuing these manifest
obligations, the Red Cross has been
accommodating methods and applying
lessons learned in war to the normal
needs of our people i'll times of peace,
especially in regions where provisions
for public health and welfare were
imperfectly developed. 1t has placed
public health nurses in many locaH-
ties, and has endeavored to enlist
greater numbers of young women in
the nursing profession in order that
the supply might more nearly equal
the steadily increasing demand for
community nurses. 1t has devised a
scheme of public health centers' Tor
the relief of maladies and for instrCC-
lions in hygiene. dietetics, and ger
eral principles of disease-preVentlon.
With its nurses and nurses AIDES,
It has rendered incalculable service IN
the serious epidemic of influenza. ~
has carried instruction in hygiene and
first aid into schools, the women
clubs and the homes of our county
1T 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 preparation for dis
aster-relief on scientific foundation,
so that it is now equipped to meet dis
aster emergencies promptly in almost
every part of our country.
Warns Against Reaction.
additional to these obvious aspects
Of the matter, there is another reason
why |. as President of the United
States and President of the American
Red Cross urge my fellow-countrymen
to ioin the Red Cross in impressive
numbers: Reaction follows emotion,
and after great effort comes periious
lassitude. Sound patriotism and gen
uine human service are continuous. not
intermittent, not contingent merely
upon the excitement of war. II 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. a contraction of the spirit which
enobled us as individuals and as a
nation, now, during the Red Cross
Roll Call" is a fitting season to take
counsel with our inner wives, tc re-
kindle the old flame, to reaffirm alleg-
fence to practical patriotism and
practical humanitarianism and to
symbolic the regeneration of our bet
ter thoughts and handsomer selves by
re-enlistment in a great army mobil-
lied for the common good
(Signed) WOODROW WILSON,"