The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-11-04
100000 'MEMBERSf
/. GOAL OF RED CROSS
I Il ANNUAL ROLL CALL
Need Of Expansion Due to Excess
sive Demands for Disaster j
Relief and Other Services.

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A Red Cross membership OF 5,OOO,.
600 in the United States will be sought
this year during the Eleventh Annual
Roll Call, November IL to "a, Chair
man John Barton Payne announced
following completion Of a study OF
the demands which the past year
made on all branches Of the Red
Cross organization.
He stressed particularly the IN
creasing demands of disaster relief
as pointing to the need for an In
creased membership to aid in carrying
the growing responsibility in this Held.
"For several years our membership
has remained at little more than
100000 adults" he said. I'VE are
proud of this membership. 1t Is
body of our choice spirits, but there
are many more Of like spirit who
should be counted in this Roll Call.
We need at least 100000 adult men,
bers. We are obliged to draw annu-
ally upon our reserves, and the de-
mands upon us increase each year.
Our Roll Call funds should meet our
normal needs and add something to
our reserves for the great disasters.
We must have large reserve. No
one can tell when situation may
arise when this reserve will be essen
tial to the lives Of thousands.
"The Red Cross cannot wait to
raise funds" Judge Payne declared.
"Action prompt, instant, is its life.
Instant action means the lives OF
many. 1t must be strong, it must be
ready; this means large reserve"
! Total expenditures of the American
Red Cross in the fiscal year to June
80 last in all fields amounted to $751;
1879, 34S.6O, of which $11,36O, 34S.6O rep
resented the National Organizations
appropriations and $4,779,O00 the cost
to the Red Cross local chapters. In.
cluded in this total was a disaster
relief, for which $S,216,S93.31 had
actually been expended to the close OF
the year. This does not cover expen.
ditures which continued to be made
in the Mississippi Valley flood, or in
other disasters originating during the
fiscal year but whose operations ex-
tended over into the current period.
! Service to disabled veterans, an
other outstanding demand on the or
ganization, called for 81, ,223.S6, and
service to men of the Regular Army
and Navy, S5O7,S32.90. Maintenance
of an enrolled Nurses Reserve, from
which the needs of disaster service
and other emergencies are met, and
which numbers more than $4,000
nurses totalled $45,24S.S3. For the
Public Health Nursing program, a ma
tion-wide activity of the Red Cross,
$SO1, O6S.99 was expended. Other serv.
ices contributing to health and we'll
being included instruction in Home
Hygiene and Care of the Sick, for
which $165,3S0.16 was spent; Nutri-
ton Instruction, which teaches thou
sands annually correct food principles
in relation to health, $171,37073;
First Aid and Life Saving, service
which is actually curtailing accident
and water casualties, $354,7S0O6;
Junior Red Cross, the children's
branch of Red Cross activity, and one
of the most unique organizations in
the world, S5S2,43423.
Other Red Cross Chapter activities,
including Home Service to civilians
amounted to $1,22O,OOO; while other
national domestic operations required
S236,14717.
An outstanding American contribu.
ton to the rest of the world is Red
Cross assistance in foreign disasters,
which the report shows, called for
S256,962 to the end of the fiscal year.
Activities under the League of Red
Cross Societies, Junior Red Cross
foreign projects, assistance to Amer
lean insular chapters, and other for.
eign and insular work completed the
demands on the total appropriation
for the year.
These expenditures were cited by
Chairman Payne as emphasizing the
need for growing membership and
increased income.