The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1922-10-19
RED CROSS NEWS

The American Red Cross now has
100000 members, according to a
count made by National Headquar-
tiers in Washington recently in pre-
paration for the annual Roll Call
which is to take place this year from
November 18th to November 3Oth.
Plans for the Roll Call and the cam
paign through which it viii be con-
Quoted will be formed in Washing
ton at the annual Red Cross Conven-
ton which convenes this month in
that city, according to Starr Cadwal-
lader, manager of the Southwestern
Division, in a statement given out
from the st. Louis office of that divi-
sion.
From reports sent in from the six
Red Cross divisions, Cadwallader
said, the national office believes that
a widespread revival of wartime en-
thusiasm for enrolment of members
will be manifested this year.
The Roll Call, which will begin
Arnistice Day, November II, and
close with Thanksgiving Day, Novem-
Der 80, will be notable this year in
the marshalling of forces throughout
the world for straightforward ad-
vance toward a set objective, rallying
under the slogan, Every American
Everywhere a Member of the Red
Cross Under the leadership of
John Barton Payne, Chairman of
the American Red Cross, it is to be
an intensive campaign from start to
finish that the organization may main
tain its strength to carry out the OBJ
legations laid upon it by its Congress
sional charter.
The direct appeal in behalf of
great sustaining membership is to be
made for support of the service
rendered by the American Red Cross
in their homes and in hospitals to dis
abled ex-service men and their fam
lies, for which some $1O,OOO,OOO will
be spent this year in work the Gov
eminent is not authorized to do and
for which no Government funds are
available. This work is going on in
virtually every community in the
the United States, through individual
and sympathetic contact with the vet
Grams by Chapter workers.
Three other important duties are
also emphasized in the Red Cross pro-
gram of activities-public health
nursing service for rural communities
where adequate health facilities are
lacking; preparedness for relief in
disaster, famine, flood, epidemic; and
the work of the JUNIOR Red Cross at
home and abroad in building up
among children everywhere a spirit
of mutual trust and confidence and
the will for unselfish service. These
are the outstanding Red Gross serv-
ices in a program which includes
widespread instruction in Home Hy-
giene and Care of the Sick, in Nutri-
ton, general health conservation,
First Aid, water life saving, produc-
ton of Braille for the blind and the
vast production of clothing for the
needy at home and overseas by Chap
ter volunteers.
A new field of action in the APP
preaching campaign will be a Roll
Call on the high seas designed to
register members on every ship afioat
or in the ports of the world in which
merchant marine companies and ship
captains have been enlisted and the
cooperation of the U. S. Navy Depart
ment obtained. The campaign in the
insular possessions and in foreign
Chapters is also definitely planned
with the view of increasing the en-
rollment.
In joining the Red Cross this year
the new member, as well as the old
member renewing his membership,
will receive certificate of member
ship designed to fit a purse or card
case in addition to the white button
bearing the symbolic cross in red.
This certificate is the stub of a filing
card adopted by the Red Cross for
the first complete system of registra-
ton of members in all the $500 act
i've Chapters. The cards containing
names, addresses and classes of mem.
bership will be retained as permanent
records by the Chapters and as list:
whereby it VIII be possible in the
future for the Red Cross to keep il
touch with its members for all emer
gencies, whether local, state or ma
tional.
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