Evening star., 1941-09-21
Red Cross Holds
Services Today
Al Wafer Cafe
Roll Call to Sturt
Officially Tomorrow
With Flag Ruising

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opening of the 25th annual Ameri-
can Red Cross Roll Call in Wash
ington tomorrow, members of all
religious faiths will gather at the
Water Gate at $3.50 o'clock this
afternoon for joint religious service
and musical program.
The service will climax weeks of
preparation for the Roll Call which
will continue until October 20 and
will attempt to reach a goal of 200,-
900 members, $4,000 above last years
total
Flag-raising exercises in front of
the District Building will give the
campaign its official start at noon
tomorrow. On hand to become the
first two enrollees will be Mrs.
Roosevelt and Mrs. Wallace, wife of
the Vice President.
This afternoons services will be
broadcast over WRC from 4 to 4:4O
pm. Speakers will include Rabbi
Gerstenfeld, DR.. John R. Fitzpatrick,
Edgar Morris, Roll Call chairman,
and CORTLAND D. Ferguson, Roll
Call Publicity Committee chairman
and master of ceremonies. Music
will be furnished by the United
States Navy Band and by choirs
from churches of Washington, in
cluding those of the Covenant-First
Presbyterian Church, directed by
Theodore Schaeffer; Mount Vernon
Place Methodist Church, directed
by r. Deane Shure. and Church of
the Epiphany, directed by Adolf
Torovsky.
Lady MOuntbatten Speaks.
Lady Louis Mountbatten will be
the principal speaker at the flag
raising exercises tomorrow. This
program also will be broadcast by
WRC. from noon to 1890 pm
District Commissioner John Russell
Young will read a Red Cross Roll
Call proclamation Music will be
provided by the United States Army
Band.
approximately $4,000 volunteer
workers will take the field to solicit
memberships Immediately after the
flag raising is completed Of these,
10000 will cover the Federal de-
partmentS.
The increase of nearly third in
this years quota was made, Chair
man Morris explained, because Of
additional demands placed upon
the Red Cross by the present emer-
gency and by the unusual growth
In population of the District Last
year, the campaign brought in
S204,857 in working funds, half of
which was used for local purposes
and half for national activities, in
Guiding disaster services. first aid,
life saving training, nursing, war
service, Junior Red Cross and serv-
ices of volunteers Allegations also
are made to chapters in Maryland
and Virginia whose members are
employed in the District, but who
desire to have their memberships
credited to their home chapters.
Broad Field of Service.
Last years funds enabled 25,245
volunteer workers to give 814935
hours Of service in the various work.
ing units. Some of the results of
their efforts follow:
More than 1900 ex-service men
and their families were assisted in
compensation problems and actual
relief through financial aid and
through donation of 5000 articles
OF clothing; 4,269 persons received
instruction in first aid; 6,166 passed
tests IN life saving and swimming;
5000 completed the "learn-to-
swim" campaign; 1,727 volunteers
assisted in first aid and life saving
instruction; Red Cross nurses taught
esq men, women and children the
principles of good health and proper
care of the sick; II classes demon
strated healthful and economical
selection and preparation of food.
Still other work of the local Red
Cross included sewing and knitting
Of thousands of garments, prepara-
ton Of more than 1,121 1923 surgical
dressings for hospitals, and of 1907
layettes of % articles each, and
maintenance of an emergency first
mid closet. To furnish Braille read
ing for the blind, 1908 pages were
Transcribed, and 39,707 pages were
shellacked and bound into 282 VOL
llmes.
Three thousand meals were pre-
pared and served in emergencies.
Nearly 5000 persons from Govern
ment hospitals were transported to
recreational events.
National Chapter Record.
Activities of the national chapter
follow this pattern but on a much
larger scale. Expenditures last year
included S2290,200 for services to
the armed forces, S1,127,OOO for dis
aster relief, $6,650,0OO for foreign
war relief, 1902 900 for nursing serv-
ices. SAL 400 for first aid and acci-
dent prevention, S179,6OO for the
Junior Red Cross, $8O8,500 for gen.
eral services to chapters, $531 200 for
roll call and public information,
s253,800 for miscellaneous services
and S364,80o for general executive
and finance activities.
Churchmen generally have voiced
their support of the Roll Call.
Archbishop Michael J. Curley OF
Washington and Baltimore said of
the Red Cross yesterday that "it
is entirely fitting that the American
people should reward 25 years of
gallant service by placing in the
hands of this organization the
means of carrying on the greatest
task of its history"
Bishop James E. Freeman also
praised its work.
The annual Roll Call of the
American Red Cross has a deeper
significance and appeal this year
than since the close of the World
War" he said. "It is the kind of
service the American Red Cross
renders that fills men with assur-
ance that better days are ahead"
Rabbi Solomon H. Metz comment
ed that particularly in times like
these, when the forces of hate are
loose in the world, the American
Red Cross is symbol and an as
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