Evening star., 1933-04-26
RED CROSS HEARS
REPORTS ON RELIEF
IN LOCAL DRIVES
Mrs. Roosevelt to Present
Roll Call Flag Won by
Montana.
FOUR-DAY CONVENTION
CLOSES TOMORROW
Adult and Junior Groups Forego
Afternoon Sessions to Visit
Mount Vernon.

pairing to close its four day convention
tomorrow, delegates heard reports to-
day on local activities in connection
with 25,000,000 depression sufferers In
the greatest relief drive which this hu-
manitarian organization has ever un-
dertaken.
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt will be
the guest of the convention tomorrow
at 10 am. to present to the State OF
Montana the roll call flag won this year
by that State. Mrs. John A. Johnson
roll call chairman of the District Chap
ter, will surrender the flag which the
local chapter has held for the past
two years. The award is based on the
highest enrolment in the Red Cross
in proportion to population. Senator
John E. Erickson of Montana will re-
Miss Boardman Speaks.
Miss Mabel T Boardman of Wash
ington. national director of the volun-
teer service. described to the conven-
tion today the activities of the 1,000.000
woman volunteers during the emergency
period.
BY far the most graphic description
of how the Red Cross was cooperating
to handle relief was given by Harvey
D. Gibson, chairman of the Emergency
Unemployment Relief Committee of
New York City. He said the relief sit
uation in New York is even more Sc
rious now than last year.
Other phases of Red Cross activities
were reported briefly by Miss Katherine
Gray of the Boston Motor Corps, Mrs.
Leo Westheimer, chairman of the can
teen service of Cincinnati and Hamil-
ton County chapters in Ohio, and Miss
F. Evelyn Patton, who is secretary OF
the committee nursing activities and
health aids in the District of Columbia.
Both the adult and Junior groups OF
the Red Cross dispensed with regular
sessions this afternoon to make pill
grimage to Mount Vernon. There the
Juniors will lay wreath on the tomb
CT Washington.
A fashion show at which the girls pa
rada as mannequins in garments made
from Federal cotton cloth by Red Cross
volunteers will be held at o'clock to-
night at the District chapter house.
The fashion show is being directed by
Miss Elizabeth BraWner. Mrs. Lawrence
S. Carson and Mrs. William Willard,
staff assistant.
Praises Fanatics.
The convention dinner was held last
night at the Mayf1ower Hotel, with
Chairman John Barton Payne as toast
master. Addresses we're made by Dean
Annie w. Goodrich of the Yale Uni
versity School of Nursing; DR.. Henry
Noble MacCracken. president of Vassar
College. and DR.. ]. L. Bigger, national
commissioner of the Canadian Red
Cross Society The invocation was
given by Rev. Dr.. Coleman Nevis. S. j.,
president .of Georgetown University.
Kind words for fanatics" were
spoken by DR.. Bigger. who said 1T Is
to those whom we may call fanatics
that we owe practically every step that
has been made in our slow journey TO-
ward better world"
DR.. Bigger described a fanatic as
zone who is moved by an overwhelm-
ing enthusiasm for some cause He
said Judge Payne, the national chair
man of the Red Cross, is "a fanatic
for the cause we all serve"
ITO his fanaticism," the speaker
continued, I'VE owe a debt that we
can never repay"
youth in the New Era"
Youth in the New Era" was the
topic of Dr. McCracken.
"A revulsion of feeling astounding
In its suddenness has come .to our
young people," he said. THE product
of an age of disintegration, they have
set their faces resolutely to the direc-
tion of order and of control"
Defending youth, he declared that in
spite of critics, it is not true that youth
is worse educated or more stupid than
in the past. "On the contrary" he
said, youth is better educated and
more intelligent"
A contribution of 100000 Chinese
dollars to the Red Cross relief fund
for the Southern California earthquake
sufferers, has been made by the
Chinese Swastika Society, it was an
nounced by the Red Cross yesterday.
Nelson johnson. American Minister
to China. notified Chairman Payne
through the State Department that this
sum had been handed to him in Peip-
ing, China, by Hsiung Hsi Ling and
Ma Wen Seng, representing the
Chinese Swastika Society," for trans
initial to Red Cross officials
Chairman Payne was in receipt yes
terday of check for 10000 yen through
the Japanese Ambassador, Katsuji De-
buchi, sent by the Japanese Red Cross
for the earthquake relief fund. These
two sums have been forwarded to the
Red Cross Relief Committee in Cali
fornia where homes are being rebuilt
rapidly and families rehabilitated by
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