Perth Amboy evening news., 1920-11-13
PASTORS To AID
THE RED CROSS
Sermons Will be Preached in
Different Churches Tomor-
row TO Boost the Roll Call
RIVE HERE MONDAY
Finishing Touches Have Been
: Completed for Intensive
Campaign to Fill Quota.

The finishing touches are today
being put on the plans for the inten-
sive local campaign of the Red
Cross which will begin Monday
morning and last through Saturday,
Nov. 20, as part of the national
Fourth Red Cross Roll Call. 1t was
thought by the officials of the local
thapter one week of intensive work
Mould be as successful as activities
tcattered over two weeks and with
This idea in mind, all the work thus
lar has been centered in the prep
kration.
Monday, however, the workers
will go out strong and cover every
tduare foot of territory in the city.
Using the election districts. the
twenty-five polls will each be can
tassed by ten workers, and it is eX-
kected that 500 or more mako up
the active staff of the roll call here.
The goal set for Perth Amboy is
1000 members and in view of the
work that the Red Cross has accom-
ilished in this city especially, there
J. little doubt but what the quota
Mill easily be reached.
! Chairman Henry S. Hulse, Jr., re-
fcrts that most of the supplies are
but and that the entire corps is
teady for business early Monday
horning.
BY Special Correspondent.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 13-Ameri- :
IAN church-goers tomorrow Will
hear sermons from Thousands of
bupils based upon the American Red
Gross, its achievements of the past
tnd its peace program for humanity.
IN setting aside tomorrow as Red
Gross Sunday. clergymen in every
ttate are following a custom that
WAS brought into being during the
War when the American Red Cross
WAS the organization linking the
folks at home" and the fighting
forces.
Pulpit messages will stress the ef-
fort of the Red Cross to keep alive
1he splendid enthusiasm of the
American people when it was engag-
ed in its war job and to turn this
,pirit of cooperation toward the So
luton of problems of peace time.
Particular emphasis will be laid up
pn the uncompleted work of the
American Red Cross in Europe, the
task of aiding in establishing the
100000 orphans of the war
stricken nations upon a basis that
will assure their future, usefulness
coward Europe's economic welfare.
Dr. Livingston Farrand chairman OF
}he Central Committee of the Amer
can Red Cross, who recently return
I'd from Europe where he made a
Rudy of the child situation, consid-
frs the problem as overshadowing
Ill others faced Europe today.
'These children face the next few
fears without the hope of adequate
tefIA te.f te..
en-" says DR.. Farrand. 1T is this
generation, devitalized and neglect
I'D, upon which in few years the
stability of Europe must rest. 1t is
hot suggested that the American
PEOPLE, through the Red Cross or
Sther philanthropic agencies. can
fully meet the problem, but eXper
lence has shown that with reason
able resources, fundamentally i'm
portant aid can be given to help To-
:al national effort to save the situa-
ton
In addition to telling of the neces-
tity for the continuance of the Amer
lcan Red Cross program in Europe
the pastors will outline the domes-
Tic program of the organization. The
public health program of the Red
Gross in connection with the United
States Public Health Service which
aims not only to cure disease but al
30 to prevent it. its effort to enlist
burses for public health work and to
Establish the nursing profession on I,
founder and broader basis, It's First
Aid classes, its instruction courses
in Home Hygiene and Care of the
Sick and its other manifold forms OF
fffort in the health field will be en-
phasized.