The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1922-02-24
STUPEND0US PAGEANT
NATIONAL RED CROSS
Largest Spectacle of Its Kind Ever
Given Will Be Shown at Fort
Des Moines.

Nearly 5000 persons, including the
largest civic clubs, federated clubs
patriotic organizations and the most
prominent state officials are forming
the living pictures of a spectacle sale
to be the largest of its kind ever pro.
duced west of the Missippi, the "Pa.
geant of the Red Cross"
They are now rehearsing the whole
story of the development of humani-
tartan work from the days of the Good
Samaritan to the Red Cross of today,
with which the delegates from states
OF the Northwest from Illinois to Mon
tana will be entertained in the Des
Moines Coliseum when they attend the
Red Cross Divisional Conference to be
held in that city, March 18th and 9Th.
For the realistic World War feature
OF the production, fifty manned sold
iers, some of them blind, crippled,
gassed, shell shocked or otherwise bad
ly disabled, and rs nurses who were in
the midst of the war overseas have
volunteered their services. The men
will be brought from the different U,
S. Veterans Bureau Rehabilitation
Schools.
For the reproduction of a trench
battle, and the Red Cross following
up the action, army regulars will ap-
pear from Fort Des Moines and Ma
tional Guard officers and leaders in
the World War will lead members of
the 16Sth Infantry and 315th Iowa
Cavalry.
25O men and women in Red Cross
uniform will receive our memories of
the service rendered both at home and
"over there" by Red Cross workers.
sewers, knitters, canteen, motor corps
n camp service workers.
Governor N. E. Kendall of Iowa,
and his official staff, will have promi-
nent parts in the cast of the big spec
tacle. Mrs. Ella Wister Haines, sis
ter of the author Of the "Virginian,"
Owen Wister, friend of Theodore
Roosevelt, takes one of the leading
parts, "The Red Cross as the Greatest
Mother" and notable persons and act
ors have been selected for other star
parts. The chorus is said to be the
largest ever assembled in Iowa.
From so to 200 people have been
in each of the five scenes de-
plcting the Nursing, Health, Soldier
service, Home Service and Junior Red
Cross programs of Red Cross now be-
ing carried on in several thousand
local Communities of the Northwest
ern States alone.
Among other pageant groups now in
process of training under the person.
al supervision of the author of the
Pageant, Mrs. Ruth Mougey Worrell,
and management of H. B. Dickson, of
the National Red Cross, both of Wash
lngton, D. c. are the Knights of King
Arthur's Court, monks and nuns of
the 18th Century, Knights Hospitaller,
a Florence Nightingale group, a Spirit
of '76 group, Civil War, 4S states, and
a Symbolic group of Red Cross.
Red Cross Chapters from far and
wa are announcing the appointment
OF delegates to take part in the pro-
gram of discussions that have been
arranged for the Division conference.
Mr.. w. Frank Persons, Vice Chair
in charge of Domestic Opera
lions of the Red Cross will be pres
ent from National Headquarters, as
also DIR. Richard Bolt, Director of
the American Child Hygiene Associa-
and other men of national promi-
hence.
The Western Passenger Association
mas granted rates of one and one half
fares on the certificate plan, and an
attendance of 10000 is estimated for
the five days of the Pageant and two
days of the conference.