Evening star., 1938-09-25
PULPIT APPEALS
HERE TO HERALD
RED CROSS DRIVE
Nearly 10000 Volunteers
to Conduct Three.Week
Recruiting Plan.
HAzEN is TO LAUNCH
CAMPAIGN TOMORROW
Mrs. Hull to Be Signed by War
Secretary Woodring as First
Roll Call Enrollee.

Appeals for support Of the annual
District Red Cross roll call will be
broadcast today from the pulpit Of
every church in Washington.
Official messages heralding the OPEN
ing Of the 22d annual roll call at noon
tomorrow will be read in scores of
churches Of every faith as part Of the
program for RED Cross Sunday"
Opening day ceremonies tomorrow
will be followed by an intensive three
week membership drive conducted by
nearly 10000 volunteers. The men,
bership goal is 100000. Workers en-
rolled $4,000 last year.
Commissioner Melvin c. Hazen will
open the drive tomorrow by reading q
proclamation calling for special OBJ
servance Of the roll call period, Sep
tember 26-October II, and raising q
Red Cross flag on the mast in front
of the District Building, where it will
fly throughout the campaign.
The first enrollee of the day will be
Mrs. Cordell Hull, wife of the Secre-
tary of State, who will be signed as a
Red Cross member by Secretary Of
War Woodring.
Navy Planes to Advertise 1t.
Red Gross, Federal Government and
civil leaders will join in the flag
raising ceremonies. Music will be fur
nished by the Navy Band, while uni
formed representatives of every unit
of the local Red Cross chapter, vet
erans' groups, Y. M. c. A., Y. w. c. A.,
Boy Scouts and knights of Columbus
also will be present.
Navy planes Of the I'd Carrier Di-
vision, Norfolk, Va, few in mass
formation over the city yesterday to
advertise the roll call drive. Under
command of Admiral w. A. Halsey
Ill planes flew in the form of Red
Cross" over Washington in one Of the
Navy's first inland formation flights.
The airplane flotilla also proceeded up
the Potomac to salute the crowd
| watching races in the Presidents Cup
Regatta.
Ministers will pay tribute to the
Red Cross from their pulpits today.
praising its work in meeting the emer-.
gencies of disasters such as that which
swept New England during the last
week.
Special Red Cross sermons will be
| broadcast this morning over Station
VOL by the Rev. Clark j. Forcey of the
Non-Sectarian Tabernacle, the Rev.
James H. Miers Of the Fourth Pres
byterian Church and Rabbi H M.
Shapiro of the Washington Hebrew
Congregation.
$4,000 Pieces of Literature.
Bishop John M. Mcnamara, aux
iliary bishop for Catholic Washing
ton, planned to call for Red Cross
support in his sermon today at st.
Gabriel's Church, Grant Circle.
More than 65O,O00 pieces of litera-
ture, display material, flags and other
supplies will have been issued to roll
ganizations by noon tomorrow, while
hundreds of stores are exhibiting roll
call displays More than 10 institu-
tions have arranged special window
exhibits, to be judged in special
| roll call competition sponsored by the
Advertising Club of Washington.
Displays will be judged Tuesday for
merit awards given by the District
Red Cross, with prizes for the most
artistic, most dramatic and most at
tractive exhibits. Alvin @. Ehrlich.
president of the Advertising Club and
Chairman of window displays for the
roll call, announced three prominent
artists and architects will judge the
exhibits. They are Irwin S. Porter.
E. P. Shrierer. vice president of the
American Institute of Architects, and
Frank B. Steele, president of the Arts
Club.
Drive Ready to Co."
General Chairman Edgar Morris
pronounced the roll call ready to 90"
on basis of reports from committee
chairmen and issued the following
statement:
More and more the American Red
Cross is becoming synonym for pre-
paredness. Whenever disaster strikes.
there the Red Cross will be found
with trained workers and skilled direc-
ton, working to remove traces and
causes of sorrow and despair. And
more important. throughout the coun-
try trained and volunteer agents work
| constantly to prevent loss of life due
to accident and to teach preservation
of health and safety in home and
community"
The work Of the Red Gross VOL
unteers reaches into every walk of life
in Washington, and is supported only
by the dollars you give in return for
membership in this great humans
tartan organization"
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