Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1920-10-29
SOUTHERN DIVISION
WORKERS ARE. ACTIVE
Terse Review OF What Red Cross Has
Done and Now Is Doing on
Peace Working Basis

Atlanta, Ca, Oct 00.-Pubic spirit
ed men and women by thousands in the
five states OF the Southern Division
OF the American Red Cross, are lay
ing their plans to break all member.
ship records for the Red Cross when
the Fourth Annual Roll Call is held
from November II to November 25.
From every part OF Georgia Florida,
North Carolina, South Carolina and
Tennessee comes the report that COM
munity after community is organized
for the Roll Call, and that many are
only awaiting the word Col" TO get
their quota OF members on the very
first day
The Roll Call is expected to be start
ed by the renewal OF memberships by
every chapter worker in the division.
There are l2S chapters organized for
the Roll Call, and many more that are
expected to complete their organiza'
ton before Armistice Day, when the
Roll Call opens
The Roll Call Opens
Memberships In the Red Cross are
OF five different classes, the annual
81, the contributing, IS; the sustain.
ing $40. the life, $50 and the pa
tron, 500. Any one can join under
any one Of these different classes in
the Fourth Roll Call.
Basis OF Quotas
Quotas for the Fourth Roll Call
have been based not on population, but
on the plans OF the different chapters
for the coming year and their actual
financial needs. The money, too, will
be spent largely right where it is sub
scribed.
or the annual memberships OF 81,
fifty cents is kept by the chapter; of
the contributing membership Of IS,
"a n kept by the chapter; Of the sus-
tanning membership of $40, IS is kept
by the chapter; OF the life member
ship OF $50, and the patron member
ship OF 500, the chapter sends the
entire returns to Washington, where
the interest is used to carry on the
national work OF the Red Cross.
To those who are not as familiar
as others with the work Of the Red
Cross since the war, brief review
will give an idea OF what the Red
Cross has done in the past two years
and what It expects to accomplish
for America in the next few years
to come.
The Man In Uniform.
1t has held, course, as its first
and most sacred duty Its obligation
to the man In uniform and to the men
who fought and served for America
In the world war. Red Cross has con-
tinued to serve the American Expedi-
tionary Forces In Germany. Red Cross
has continued to keep up its service
to the $4,000 men at American mill
tary posts, at all of which 1t main
tains personnel to help out the boys
in difficulties of bonus and back pay
and transportation and the like, to
help in family problems, to assist
them In recreation and entertainment,
to be, in short, the same great moth,
or" to them that the Red Cross was
to the man overseas in 1917 and 1918.
Besides such service, Red Cross has
given It's care and attention to 3d.
900 former service men taking treat.
ment In United States public health
hospitals, 1t has put practically every
man blinded in the world war into the
Red Cross Institute for the blind al
Baltimore, 1t has kept in touch with
10000 returned soldiers and their fami
lies to give them help when 1t was
most needed. For the fiscal year end
ing last June 30, 1t spent $500 900 II
military relief In the United States, ex
elusive CT money spent by chapters In
similar service.
That much for Red Cross work with