Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1921-11-10
PRESIDENT ASKS
PEOPLE To BACK
A.. R. c. CAMP PA|CN
Drive for Relief Contribu-
tions win Begin Armis-
tice Day, November II,
and Continue Two Weeks

w dSHlnBtOn, NOV. A-PreSluenI
Harding asked the American peo-
pie tonight TO give their liberal
support to the annual campaign of
the Red Cross for re:Ier contribu-
tions which begins Armistice day
and continues two weeks.
The call OF the Red Cross, he
said, in a statement, should be re-
garded as "the call Of country and
humanity" He set aside Sunday
next as Red Cross Sunday" ana
requested that churches devote
that day to emphasizing "the gos-
pei of service"
Mr.. Hardlng's statement follows:
ITO the American people: .
"As president Of the United
States and as president of the
American Red Cross, / announce
that the Red Cr ~ annual roll call
will begin Armistice Day, Novem-
Der IL, and continue through
Thanksgiving day, November "a.
and I designate November 13 as
Red Cross Sunday.
81 recommend ministers and
priests to stress the gospel Of serv-
lGO anu AhNihS o'iN
urge my fellow citizens to accept
the period of the roll call as an
occasion for re-dedication of them
selves to the principles and prac-
tice of service. The American Red
Cross is both the volunteer and
semi-officlal medium through
which our people may appropriate
y express their patriotic and hu-
name desire to render practical as
sstance to their soldiers and sail
ors, to their fellow citizens In civil
ian life. and to those peoples of
other lands who have a human
claim on the sympathetic concern
of our own people.
1.-THE American Red Cross has
kept faith with the principles
which gave 1t birth and with the
obligations laid upon 1t by con-
gressional charter-'To act In mat
ters of voluntary relief and in ac..
cord with the military and naval
authorities as a medium of COM
munication between the people OF
the United States and their army
and navy after a notable war
service, it, in conjunction with the
veterans bureau and other actiVi-
ties, stands by our veterans ana
their families in q period OF pain
full reconstruction, in which, as too
many of us have been prone TO
forget, thousands are in pressing
need, not only Of governmental at
tention and assistance, but also or
those supplementary acts of human
Ir,, rtyhtCh nlllV V0lllntHef
mercy can supply.
by systematic and seienttfic
plans and equipment for relief
from disaster. and by prompt re-
sponse TO many urgent cafls
throughout the last year. the Amer
lean Red Cross has fulfilled an
other requirement of its congress
sional charter to continue and
carry on a system of national ana
international relief in time of peace
and to apply the same in mitigat-
ing sufferings caused by pestilence,
famine. fire, floods, and other
great calamities.'
after liquidating its obligations
of central relief to peoples OF other
lands who were associated with us
in the war, it has concentrated It's
foreign efforts on program TOT
the medical relief of children in
central Europe, and, from funds
made available last year, it con-
tinues this work, and also con-
tributes from its medical and hos
pital supplies for the work Of re-
lief in Russia.
"As a-result Of vast and varied
experience during the ' ar, the
American Red Cross has devised
and put in operation an extensive
domestic health and welfare pro-
gram whereby our American com
munities are instructed and direct
ed in the solution of those com
munity problems upon which the
public will ultimately rest.
1T is a fundamental principle of
the Red Cross not to duplicate but
to supplement efforts of govern
mental and other agencies in the
mitigation and alienation of hu-
man suffering, and to supply
means thereto where other agen-
cies do not exist. The call of the
American Red Cross is the call OF
country and humanity, and I earn
estly urge my fellow citizens to
make that response which satisfies
the prompting of generous peo-
ple."