The Nevada County picayune., 1921-11-24
ROLL CALL
 CAMPAIGN IS ON
Began on Armistice Day and Will Close Today-Hope
 to Enroll Many
 New Members.

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 of Thanksgiving Day and i'll which it is hoped to re-cnroll every one who iS now q member of the Red Cross and to ad many new names to the roster. Chapters throughout the state, includ- ing those ill the two large cities, Lit tie Rock and Ft Smith. are thoroughly enthusiasm is reported ill all districts. The chapters have been busily engaged
 informing their public of the work they have accomplished during the last year with the purpose of letting every one know just what the dollar memberships which the Red Cross IS asking will do in the communities where they are enrolled.
 The entire peaee-time program of detail in it's specific application to each community so that the public will understand the true reasons for Red Cross activities now since the war IS ended This program includes the discharge of America $ obligation to it's disabled eX-service men in the way of vocational training, acting as agent for obtaining over due compensation and allotment for soldiers. finding em- ployment for the well eX-soldiers and eX-sailors and assisting the disabled one to obtain the kind of medical or hospital care they need.
 Statistics show post war disability is increasing very rapidly due to the fact that many former service men made light of ailments which really should have attention because of their eagerness to be discharged and get home to their friends and families, and these ailments now are giving them serious trouble
 Other sections of this peace-time pro- gram are public health nursing, pub | lie welfare work, general service, home service, civilian relief, baby welfare, nutrition service and instructions in nutrition in the effort to decrease the appallingly high rate of malnutrition among the children of America. A recent survey conducted by the Amerl- can Red Cross and the United States Public Health Service showed that one third of the children in America are suffering from malnutriti0n and that as many of these children come from the homes of the rich as from the poor families of the nation. In the Red Cross nutrition classes conducted in some of the Arkansas chapters, chil- dren and their parents are taught why many very cheap foods have tissue building and blood making qualities which produce the healthy youngSter.
 For the first time since the American Red Cross was re-organiZed. the far greater portion of the membership fees stays in the community where the member joins. According to informa- tion given out at the Southwestern Division Headquarters ill St. Louis, only fifty cents of each of the three principal memberships goes to the National Association. These member ships are:
 Annual. $1.00.; Contributing, S5.00; Sustaining. $10.00.
 Formerly fifty cents of the first class went to Washington and two dollars of each of the other classes. The pro portion going to National IIeadquar ters iS used to finance the current eX penSc of the Red Cross and to pay for national operations in civilian relief and disaster relief. such as the floods and tornadoes which have visited the states of the Southwest on the last three years That which remains ill the community where il is raised k used to finance the community program of the local chapter and serves in the most direct possible way the people from whom 1t comes.
 The Junior Red Cross k conducting it's annual membership campaign simul taneouSly with the adult membership drive. Junior Red Cross chapters in | Arkansas have been doing fine work | in playground and baby welfare actiy- itieS and in some of the towns and | rural communities have instituted hot lnpf.bnS foI, tho StbnnlS