The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-10-12
PLAN ROLL CALL
Annual Red Cross Campaign
Set for Nov. IL to 80.
Total Membership at Present Is
100000, Reports Show.


Red Cross now has 100000 MEM
bers, according to a count made by
national headquarters in Washington
recently in preparation for the annual
roll call which is to take place this
| year from November IL to November
| 80. Plans for the roll call and the
campaign thru which it will be con-
Quoted will be formed in Washington
at the annual Red Cross convention
which will open tomorrow, according
to Starr Cadwallader, manager of the
southwestern division, in statement
given out from the st. Louis office of
that division.
| 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
Armistice day November IL. and close
with Thanksgiving day, November 80,
will be notable this year in the mar
shal1ing of forces thruout the world
| for straightforward advance 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
| ,
out the obligations laid upon it by its
| congressional charter.
| To Help Disabled soldiers.
| The direct appeal in behalf of a
| great sustaining membership is to be
made for support of the service rem
| dered by the American Red Cross in
| their homes and in hospitals to dis
| abled ex-service men and their fam
/ lilies, for which some $10,000.000 will
| be spent this year in work the govern
ment is not authorized to do and for
which no government funds are avail
| able. This work is going on in vir-
tually every community in the United
States, thru individual and sympa-
thetic contact with the veterans by
| chapter workers.
Three other important duties are
also emphasized in the Red GROSS pro-
| gram of activities-public health nurs-
ling 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
Iamong children everywhere spirit of
mutual trust and confidence and the
will for unselfish service. These are
the outstanding Red Cross services in
a program which includes widespread
instruction in home hygiene and care
of the sick, in nutrition, general health
conservation, first aid, water life saw
ing, production of braille for the blind
and the vast production of clothing
for the needy at home and overseas
by chapter volunteers.
Il 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 afloat or in
the ports of The world in which mer-
. chant marine companies and ship cap-
tai1s have been enlisted and the Cos
, operation of the United States navy
department obtained. The campaign
in the insular possessions and in for
eign chapters is also definitely planned
with the view of increasing the enroll
{ ment.
In joining the Red Cross this year
the new member, as we'll as the old
: member renewing his membership.
+ will receive a 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
4 the first complete system of registra-
: ton of members in all the $500 active
( chapters. The cards containing names
s addresses and classes of membership
r will be retained as permanent records
= by the chapters and as lists whereby
= it will be possible in the future for
: Red Cross to keep in touch with its
IN embers for all emergencies, whether
n local, state or national.
A Series of Posters.
series of posters impressively Wis
ualizing the work of the American
= Red Cross have been designed by we'll
| known artists and these will be dis
played in every nook and corner Of
t the society. A special poster has also
e been designed for use by the chapters
: overseas. A Red Cross workers badge
y new in this campaign, will identity
a the solicitors in the roll call.
e The outlook for an increase in mem
: bership. it was unanimously agreed al
T a recent conference of Red Cross di-
n vision managers at Washington, is ex
| of improved commercial and indus
trial conditions everywhere and be
q cause the public at large is now bet
: ter informed as to the peacetime OBJ
| legations the Red Cross is carrying
g out.
e The keynote among the chapters i.
8 organization for the most efficient en-
e rollment ever recorded by the Rec
Cross many of the chapters adopting
e the residential canvass plan by volun.
$ teer workers which in numerous cities
last year proved successful in adding
thousands Of members to the roll. The
members of the American Red eros
n are modern minute men and women
e the greatest proved reserve for relic
J. the world has ever SEEM In the rol
e call task the chapters have pledged
I themselves to maintain this reserve
y at its highest possible level.
:
y Approximately &c per cent of all tn
merchandise sold in stores is purchased