Evening star., 1921-09-29
RED CROSS WILL
MEET next WEEK
Deemed Most important
Gathering Of the organiza-
ton Ever Held.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
COLUMBUS, Ohio. September 29.-|
The National Red Cross convention.
which will convene in this city Oc-
tober and last five days. bids fair
to be the most important Of these
gatherings that has ever been held.
even of more significance from Red
Cross viewpoint than the meetings
held during the great war.
Men and women prominent in all
walks Of life are on the program to
deliver addresses to the delegates.
DIR. Livingston Farrand. chairman Of
the central committee of the Amert-
can Red Cross and president of Coz
nell University. will preside at
meeting October 4, when DR.. w. Q.
Thompson. president OF Ohio State
University, will deliver the address
| of Ohio and Mayor James ]. Thomas
of Columbus will welcome the dele
gates for the city and state. Presi-
dent Harding is expected to be the
principal speaker.
Junior Red Cross.
Dr. Henry Noble McCracken, presi-
| dent of Vassar College, will preside
! at the Junior Red Cross meeting in
the afternoon Of october S. The
the Red Cross" is the subject on
! which Miss Charl Williams of the
National Educational Association will
| speak. DR.. w. w. Marquart, educa
| tional agent for the Philippine Is
lands in the United States. will ad-
dress the convention on 'The Juniors
| at Work in Our Insular Possessions.
| Herbert Hoover, Secretary of Com
merce. will speak on THE Challenge
of Childhood in Foreign Lands and
| What Junior Red Cross Is Doing
! There" while Senator Frank B. Willis
of Ohio is to deliver an address on
| 1.-The Future Builders of the Nation
and Citizenship Training"
| Obligations to Those who Served.
| The evening meeting dedicated to
| Americas obligation to her service
men and womer will be presided over
! speeches will be delivered by such
! nota bles as DR.. Thomas E. Green. di-
rector of the speakers bureau of the
| American Red Cross; Maj. Gen. Le-
jeune. United States Marine Corps:
Rev. Francis P. Duffy. chaplain 165th
chairman st. Louis Chapter. American
Red Cross; Theodore Roosevelt. as
| sistant secretary of the Navy: Rabbi
Stephen Wise. Free Synagogue of
New York: w. Frank Parsons, vice
cha airman' in charge of domestic opera
1
G. Emery, national commander Ameri-
| can Legion. Robert S. Cast, chairman
| of the Red Cross relief committee of
| Pueblo. Col, will address the conven-
| ton on 'The Red Cross in Disaster"
| on the morning of October 6. Miss
Mabel T. Boardman, secretary of the
| American Red Cross, will preside.
| Reunions and Conferences.
Reunions of Red Cross workers who
! served in the world war will be held
at a series of luncheons.
| Sectional conferences will be held on
! the evening of October and morning
! of October 8. A mass meeting on roll
call will constitute the afternoons pro-
gram. winding up with the historical
pageant of the Red Cross in the even
ing.
| Among those participating in the
| sectional meetings are: Ex-service
group luncheon. Miss Clara D. Noyes,
i director Red Cross nursing service,
| presiding: Merritte w ireland, surgeon
general, United States Army; Admiral
p. r. Stitt. surgeon general. United
States Navy: Hugh c. Cumming,
| surgeon general. United States public
health service: Julia G.. Stimson
major. superintendent. Army Nurse
Corps: dean, Army School of Nursing.
| Military relief reunion, Col George
Filmer. manager Pacific division, San
| Francisco. presiding; Percy H. Clark
Washington, formerly director Of camp
service and assistant director general
| of military relief; Edward E. Greene
Cleveland, and Edwin H. Brown, Min
neapolis.