Evening star., 1932-11-15
ROOSEVELT TO Join
RED CROSS APPEAL
Hoover Message Read Over
Hook-up Along With Plea
by Hughes.

Gov. Roosevelt, the Democratic
President-elect, win add his plea today
to q Nationwide appeal broadcast last
night on behalf OF President Hoover
calling on all Americans to respond in
generous measure" to the Red Gross
roll call
Declaring war against distress,
Chairman John Barton Payne Of the
Red Cross and Chief Justice Hughes
of the United States Supreme Court
Joined in last nights program, sound
ing the appeal for funds, citing emer-
gency needs and accomplishments Of
the relief organizations. A national
hook-up Of the National Broadcasting
Co. carried the message from coast to
coast to O considerable number Of the
100 900 900 persons in need Of the Red
Cross" as described by the chairman.
Message From Hoover Read.
In the course of his own appeal,
Judge Payne read q message from
President Hoover, which said:
by every means that Is available as
Chief Executive I have for the past
three years summoned every private
and public agency to cooperate in
making certain that no man, woman
or child of all Our people should go
hungry or cold through any lack of
forehanded provision. The response Of
these agencies has been whole-hearted
and unanimous. Their support has
come directly from the people, and in
this the people have given mag
nificent evidence of their warmth of
human sympathy and their generosity
toward their neighbors in distress. That
has been one of the most heartening
evidences Of the soundness Of our de-
riocrecy.
I'm this situation the Red Cross has
occupied a special and unique position.
The Red Cross cannot properly be de-
scribed as a private institution, for 1t
Is legally semi official organization and
sentmentally It is the peoples very
own. A thousand remembered aSsocia-
tions of its magnificent human response
to the cry of distress in emergency
clusters around the name Red Cross
BY natural growth It has become our
great Nation wide peacetime agency for
meeting emergencies and distress. The
people support it because their hearts
and their purses created 1t. In these
past three years the Red Cross has
responded to the needs throughout the
! Nation and it has been nobly supported
by the whole American people.
"For these reasons and speaking as
President of the United States con-
f1dent1y appeal once more to the Amer
ican Red Gross enrolment campaign
which has now begun. The need exists
and the hearts of America viii respond
in generous measure"
Chief Justice Speaks.
Chief Justice Hughes said: "T'he
American Red Gross is the highest ex-
preston of the humanitarian senti-
inent Of the Nation" adding sit speaks
for the entire people, without regard
to party or section"
what you give to the American
Red Cross Is not frittered away in fu-
tilities and lost motion" Hughes said
"Your gifts go directly to the intended
objects with the irreducihle minimum
OF capable management.
THE American Red Gross Is our
present help in every great disaster
We must keep it equipped for that serv-
ice SO that the victims of FIRE and flood,
of drought and famine, and of other
overwhelming catastrophies may have
the immediate aid which only an ever
ready national organization, able at
once to direct It's activities in any part
Of the country, can supply.
I'VE are now under the severe pres
sure of exceptional demands which
makes support of every relief agency
not only primary duty, but q most
cherished privilege. = The American
Red Cross steps in not to take the place
which local efforts should I'LL, but to
meet the pressing need which local
measures are impotent to satisfy.
SHEER necessity has given the work
of the American Red Cross in the pres
ent emergency an exceptionally wide
range. This work cannot be ap-
preciated by locking at it as the i'm
| personal activity Of a machine.
| The willing workers of the Red Cross
represent America at its best In
the full play Of its finest cooperative
impulses and we must provide means to
enable them to go on. This helpful
ministry needs help. The annual roll
call is call to join the noblest army
Of peace"