Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1921-11-12
PRESIDENT HARDING
Urges Universal Support of the Annual
Roll Call of the American
Red Cross.

Washington, Nov 9.-The following
statement by President Harding urging
universal support of the Annual Roll
Call of the American Red Cross which
begins generally throughout the country
November llth, continuing through
Thanksgiving Day, November 24th, was
issued from the White House tonight:
| TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE:
AS President of the United States of
America and as President of the Ameri-
can Red Cross, / announce that the Red
Cross Annual Roll Call will begin on
Armistice Day. November llth, and
continue through Thanksgiving Day
November oath, and designate Novem-
ter 18th as Red Cross Sunday.
recommend ministers and priests Of
| all congregations to stress the gospel Of
service on November 18th, and invite
and urge my fellow citizens to accept the
entire period of the Roll Call as an occa-
| sion for re-dedication of themselves to
the principles and practice of service
| The American Red Cross is both the
volunteer and semi-official medium
| through which our people may appro-
priately express their patriotic and hu
name desires to render practical assist
ance to their soldiers and sailors, to
their fellow citizens in civilian life, and
to those peoples Of other lands who have
human claim on the sympathetic con-
Germ of our own people.
The American Red Cross has kept
faith with the principles which gave it
birth and with the obligations laid upon
it by Congressional Charter-'to act in
matters of voluntary relief and in accord
with the military and naval authorities
as medium of communication between
the people of the United States and
their Army and Navy" after notable
war service, it, in conjunction with the
Veterans Bureau and other activities,
stands by our veterans and their fami-
lies in a period of painful reconstruC-
ton, in which, as too many of us have
been prone to forget, thousands are in
pressing need, not only of governmental
attention and assistance, but also of
those supplementary acts of human
kindness which only volunteer mercy
can supply.
By systematic plans and equipment
for relief from disaster, and by prompt
response to many urgent calls through
out the past year, the American Red
Cross has fulfilled another requirement
of its Congressional Charter "to continue
and carry on system of national and |
international relief in time of peace and |
to apply the same in mitigating the suf. |
ferings caused by pestilenCe, famine,
fire, foods, and other great national |
After liquidating its obligations of |
general relief to peoples Of other lands |
who were associated with us in the great |
war, it has concentrated it's foreign eff. |
forts on program for the medical relief |
of children in Central Europe, and, |
from funds made available last year, it |
continues this work of mercy, and also |
contributes from it's medical and hospi- |
tai supplies for the work of relief in |
Russia which is operated under Ameri- |
can direction.
AS result of vast and varied expert |
ence during the World War, the Ameri- |
can Red Cross has devised and put in
operation an extensive domestic health |
and welfare program whereby our Amer
lean communities are instructed and
directed in the solution of those com.
munity problems upon which the public
will ultimately rests.
1t is a fundamental principle Of the
Red Cross not to duplicate but to supple
ment the efforts of governmental and
other agencies in the mitigation and
alleyiation of human suffering, and to
supply the means thereto where other
agencies do not exist. The call of the
American Red Cross is the call of coun-
try and humanity, and earnestly urge
my fellow citizens to make that response
which satisfies the promptings of a gen.
erous people.
(Signed) WARREN G. HARDING.
November g. 1921