Evening star., 1943-03-03
District Red Cross
Drive Will Open al
Rally Tomorrow
Admiral King and Hopkins
TO Deliver Addresses;
Gool Is 81 ,555,40O

District Red Cross workers.. 900
volunteers bent on raising 81 ,555. 400
in the Metropolitan area-will open
their fund drive at a mass meeting
tomorrow noon in the Departmental
Auditorium 1t Will be broadcast
over WRC from u 80 to pm.
J. Clifford Folger, District chapter
chairman who will preside. said he
believed the auditorium will be filled
inasmuch as the four counties of
Arlington. Fairfax, Prince Georges
and Montgomery have combined
their forces with the District in the
campaign.
Addresses by Admiral Ernest J.
King. commander in chief of the
Navy. and Harry Hopkins, special
assistant to President Roosevelt. will
feature the opening rally.
Will Give Brief Talks.
Chairman Folger will introduce.
FOR brief remarks, National Red
Cross Chairman Norman H. Davis.
Miss Mabel BoarGman. a District
vice chairman; Lloyd Wilson. ma
nonal executive vice chairman: Guv
Emerson, national campaign vice
chairman; Brig. Gen. William R
Arnold, chief of Army chaplains,
and A. G. Neal, District campaign
chairman.
Mr.. Neal will present all division
and county campaign chairmen, as
well as Wayne Chatfield Tavlor.
undersecretary of commerce. who
was named by President Roosevelt to
head up the Federal Government
division.
Music will be provided by the Ma
rine Band.
Progress reports are to be sub
mitted at luncheon meetings begin
ming March 6 and ending March
IS. The cost of the luncheons will
be betrayed by the workers and not
by the Red Cross.
Although the goal is three times
As large as last years, Mr.. Neal ex-
pressed confidence that the drive
will be successful.
Pamphlets Printed.
The District chapter has printed
pamphlets setting forth it's 1912 ac-
compllShments. On the basis of
actual performance. as well as fu-
ture needs, the Red Cross will seek
81 .555, 400 and vote of confidence
from Washington area residents
PRESIDENT Roosevelt, Admiral Nimitz
and Gen. Eisenhower have urged
public support of Red Cross activ-
tiles.
The keynote Of the local cam
palgn was sounded by a wounded
Army Air Forces private now pa
tient at Walter Reed Hospital
when he termed the Red Gross the
servlcemen's lifeline to home
don't cut it. don't weaken it. make
1t stronger, We can't do without il"
A call for support of the local
drive was made by the Right Rev.
Msgr. Michael J. Ready, general Sec
retary of the National Catholic We'll
fare Conference
Ala widespread.
THE Red Cross program for ad-
ministering the bare necessities of
our suffering and needy neighbors.''
he said, lis form of charity which
must do much to weld humanity into |
q true brotherhood Every dollar /
that we of this country give to this |
drive will, through the facilities of |
the Red Cross. bring relief to the
countless innocent victims of war,
flood, fire and famine, both at home |
and abroad
All loyal Americans will support |
this appeal, the objectives of which !
constitute positive demonstration
OF the basically religious fabric of
our democratic American heritage"
The Red Cross aids American and
other United Nations prisoners of
war and American civilian internees;
supplies life-saving blood plasma:
maintains service clubs for the
armed forces in many countries
abroad; prepares surgical dressings
and makes clothing; distributes sup
plies to civilian war sufferers in for
eign lands; recruits nurses for the
Army and Navy, trains women for
home nursing and nurses aides for
hospitals, very important today in
view OF the shortage of nurses. and
all the time it carries on as usual at
home and keeps itself ready to face
emergencies.
These are among the outlets for
the investment of your Red Cross
dollars.