Evening star., 1941-09-29
Red Cross Runs
1000 Ahead Of
1910 Roll Call
D. c. Chapter Chief
Predicts Even Better
Report Next Week

The District Red Cross Yesterday
closed the first week of campaigning
in the 1941 Roll Call with a total of
9,3l3 members, nearly 1000 more
than the number enrolled at the
similar period of the 1910 drive
Otto S. Lund, District Chapter
manager, predicted that the $4,000
volunteer workers now III the field
will increase their efforts this week
and forecast even better results next
week end. The goal is 100000 men,
bershipS and the quota must be
reached by October 20.
At this time last year, the total
enrolled was 1872. The 1910 cam
paign brought in $4,000 members.
The largest single contribution to
last weeks total was made by the
Governmental units. with 5,596 en-
rollees. The Booths Committee was
second, with l037 members, all of
them registered at the many Red
Cross booths now in operation at
various banks, hotels. department
stores and clubs throughout the city.
Some Reports Slow.
Mr.. Lund pointed out that many
of the other units, particularly the
business groups. had been slow to
report during the first week because
some business houses desired to en-
roll all of their employees before
reporting.
The following firms and offices
were added during the week end to
the list with 100 per cent member
ship:
Maloney Concrete Co., McLachlen
Banking Corp, Charles H. Tomp-
kins Co., H G. Smithy Co, Union
Pacific Railroad Co., Columbia and
ChildrenS Alumnae Association, and
the patent law offices of Archibald
R. McCallum, H. B. Williams & Co.,
c. A. Snow & Co., Charles Allen,
Baldwin & Wright, Charles Diller,
Eugene Stevens and Mason & Por-
ter.
Gratified With Results.
II am indeed gratified with the
first weeks report" General Chair
man Edgar A. Morris said yester-
Gay in commenting on the first
period of the Roll Call OF course,
It IS only small percentage of
the goal for which we are aiming,
but experience shows that the first
week of our Roll Call each year is
quite naturally slow. We have nearly
$4,000 Roll Call workers in the field.
Many of them have not yet been
heard from. To all of these workers
I want to say that I have absolute
faith in their ability to enroll
100000 Washington residents in the
Red Cross between now and the
end of the Roll Call"
Mr.. Morris declared that if the
goal is to be achieved, the enrolment
effort this year must be placed on
a basis similar to that which pre-
vailed in the roll calls of the World
War days. He pointed out that a
membership only costs ST, and said
that the goal in the effort is really
to line up the moral as well as
the financial support of the COM
munity behind the services which
the Red Cross Chapter renders.
Has Terrific Task.
Even with Washington's tremen-
dously increased population, the
local chapter has undertaken a ter
rife task in seeking to enroll 100000
members" Mr.. Morris stated. I'VE
WSid not have undertaken it if it
were not for the very terrifying sit
uation which Washington and the
entire country faces.
No one knows at what moment
our city may be thrown into an
emergency condition. We do not
know what situations we will have
to face from day to day. But l can
assure the people of Washington
that the Red Cross is seeking, with
every bit of foresight and planning,
to be prepared to meet any condi-
ton which may arise. If the organ
ization is to be able to perfect this
planning and to prepare the func-
tioning agencies to meet conditions
as they arise, we must have the
backing of the community.
"Of course, in addition to all of
the things which the Red Cross daily
does for the community OF Washing
ton. those who enroll in the chapter
will have the satisfaction of know
ing that they are participating on
an equal basis in the national and
international work of the organiza-
ton. For of each 81 membership. |
so cents goes to the support of the
American Red Cross as distinct from
local activities. And, of course,
WashingtonianS are too familiar
with the humanitarian work which |
the Red Cross is carrying on in
Europe and Asia not to want to have
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