The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1920-11-11
PRESIDENT AIDS
RED CROSS DRIVE
Wilson Urges People to Support
Fourth Invitation to Men,
bership.
TELLS ITS SPLENDID WORK
Organization Still Assisting Govern
ment Agencies In the Care and
Cheer of Americas Dis
abled Soldiers.

Washington, Nov. 9.-The follow
ling message from President WILSON,
who is also president of the Americas
Red Cross, to the American people,
twas issued from the White House:
"The American Red Cross deserves
"a hearty response to its fourth lnVl-
tatiOn to annual membership, which
will be issued during the fortnight be-
ginning November II, Armlstlce day.
"Under the stimulus Of war and
through the cooperation Of our peo-
iple, this organization grew into Inn
imense size, enlarged its range Of ac-
ttivlty, served not only our fighting
forces, but also civilians involved in
the hardships of war in our own ma
1tiOn and in the nations associated
with us in a great common enterprise,
and gave to the world an example OF
effective mercy through co-ordinated
effort.
"Since the cessation of hOstilities
the organization has faced a dual
duty; first to fulfill obligations Gre
ated by the war, and secondly, to
adapt Its experience and machinery
to the needs of peace.
at is today still assisting govern
mental agencies in the care and cheer
of our disabled soldiers and sailors;
In replacing those able to work In
civilian occupations and in counsel
ing and aiding the families of former
,combatants; and it Is still assisting,
with diminished resources, the proc
cess of rehabilitation in some Of the
more Frustrated countries Of our for
mer associates.
"While continuing these manifest
obligations, the Red Cross has been
accommodating methods and applying
lessons learned in war to the normal
needs of our own people in times of
peace 1t has placed public health
nurses in many localities and has en-
deavored to enlist greater numbers of
young women in the nursing profess
sion. 1t has devised scheme of
public health centers' for the relief
of maladies and for instruction in
hygiene dietetcs and general prin-
Ciples of disease prevention. With
its nurses and nurses aids it has rem
dered inCalculabe service in the
serious epidemics of influenza. 1t
mas carried instruction in hygiene and
first aid into schools, the wOmen'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
ultimately rests.
ut has continued its educational
work among the school children
through its Junior Red Cross branch,
and it has, as one result of its war
experience, put preparation for disaS-
ter relief on scientific founda-
ton.
"By systematic plans and practical
performances it has given a clear
answer to the question why the Red
Cross should be continued and carried
over from war activity into peace
time activity. The answer is in the
record.
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 country
men to Join the Red Cross In impress
slve numbers: Reaction follows emo
ton and after great effort comes
perilous lassitude. Sound patriot
ism and genuine human service are
continuous, not intermittent not con-
tingent merely upon the excitement
of war.
IF there is in some of us an In
ward cooling of the fine fervor which
animated us in the crisis of the ma
gtions stress and peril, a contraction
dof the spirit which ennobled us as
individuals and as a nation now dur
Ing me Red Cross CALI is a fitting
season to take counsel with our inner
selves, to rekindle the old flame, to re-
affirm allegiance TO practical patriot
ism and practical humanitarianism and
to symbolic the regeneration Of our
better thoughts and handsomer selves
by re-enlistment In a great army mo-
,bllzed for the common good.
"WOODROW WILSON"