Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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\ HELP BUILD IT HIGHER-JOIN! RED CROSS, FIGHTIK TO BUILD UP _ STRONGER AND HEALTHER COUNTRY, CALLS ON AU AMERICANS TO HELP THIRD ROLL CALL LAUNCHED FOR TWO MILLION MEMBERS TO CARRY ON WAR AGAINST SICKNESS AND SUFFERING — RED CROSS WILL DEVOTE MONEY TO HELPING SOLDIERS, SAV ING LIVES OF BABIES AND OTHER M HOME WORK.” After months of preparation by 4,000 Red Cross Chapters, with their 17,000 branches and 30,000 auxiliaries, all oyer the country, the Third Red Cross Roll Call for 20,000,000 members', how Is getting under way with a tremen dous sweep In every part of the nation. From "Red Cross Sunday,*’ November I, through “Armistice Day,” November II, the great drive will continue. Not only Red Cross chapters and Red Cross workers are mobollsed to insure the success of the RgU Call In the Southern Division, which Includes the state of North and South Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia and Florida, but the organised women of these states have pledged their aid, and the re turned soldiers, represented by the American Legion have pledged their support as well to a man through their national officers. Ministers throughout this division and through out the United States have taken up the cause. The need of the Roll Call and for those who will answer “Here!” can be set forth tersely. The Red Cross fights for American humanity — it fights against ignorance, sickness, suf fering and misery in every form. For the Red Cross, the war is not over. And did you think the war was over? Then ask yourself a few questions. Ask yourself what is to be done about— The 250,000 disabled fighting men? The 800,000 American boys who were “unfit for service”? The one American baby out of seven that dies in its first year? The 200,000 people who die annually •f tuberculosis? The 600,000 who would die in another Influenza epidemic like the last? The 300,000 children under 5 who die annually of preventable disease? The thousands of children forced out of school- by physical defects? The accidents that kill 100,000 and disable 600,000 yearly? The one adult In seven known to be in need of medical attention? Thol 7,tKK) people who drown every yeay il American waters? Thbse are the things that made the Thftoiyltoll Call absolutely necessary, for with the 20,000,000 “dollar mem bership” and the $16,000,000 secured besides, the Red Cross not only will discharge its war obligations and "see the last soldier clean through” his after-the-war prqblems, but will send food to starving humanity abroad, watch over the 126,000 sick and wounded soldiers still in the hosfitals of America, spread knowledge of pub lic health with the determination te put in every home in America one person capable of caring for the sick; extend Instruction in first aid to reach every school and factory in the land; organise and conduct life-saving corps to combat an annual lose of 7,000 lives by drowning; be able to furnish relief to any community stricken by dle- aster; teach patriotisifi and service to the youth of the nation through, the Junior Red Cross; protect the inter ests of discharged soldiers by its home Berrios deportment and enlarge this departmentj so that It will help efvil- lans as well; build up an organisation of trained nurses and volunteers that will make epidemics almost Impos sible; provide care for babies and mothers and thus save for usefulness thousands of little lives now sacrificed through Ignorance. Many of these things the Red Cross is doing already. The Third Roll Call a success, means that It will do them better than ever, that the Red Cross will fight sickness, disease, and suffer ing throughout our country and make it a happier, cleaner land to live In. Membership costs only one dollar to every person, but 20.000.000 members mean!) 20,000,000 dollars, and with 20.- 000,000 dollars the Red Cross will do more for America than it ever did before. PEN NANTS FOR CHAPTERS THATGET MOST MEMBERS Atlanta, Ga.- -Chapters of the Amer ican Red Croee in the southern division that make good records In the Third Red Cross Call, November 2-11, will not go unhonored. It was announced today at southern division headquar ters of the Red Cross that a pennant is offered to the chapter In each state thkt secures the largest number of members durlM the Roll Call in pro portion to the population of the county in which the chapter Is located. An other and larger pennant wiB be given to the chapter that secures the most members In proportion to Its popula tion competing against all chapters In the division, which includes the states of North and South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee and Florida. There are G39 chapters in the entire division, and to win the division pennant will be quite a Job as well as quite an honor, as many of the chapters already have be- SMJLAh active campaign for members. The pennants, which in themselves will be a fitting ornament to the wall of any chapter house, will be awarded as soon as final results are tabulated i at the close of the campaign. 11.01 SPENT FOR EVERT {1 GIVEN RED CROSS HAD REMARKABLE RECORD OF ECONOMY IN WAR. Money Given In Third Roll Call T« Go Mainly for America and Americans. Atlanta, Ga.—There are two facta about the Third Red Cross Roll Call which campaign leaders in the south are emphasizing—one the tact that the Red Cross has proved its ability and trustworthiness to handle funds in a business-like way, and the other, the fact that the money received in the Third Roll Call will be expended al most wholly in America for the benefit of the American people. When anybody asks whether money given to the Red Croee will be frit tered or squandered, campaign speak ers turn to Its war record and point to the remarkable fact that for every dol lar given by the American people, $1.01 went to the actual purpose for which the money was intended. In other words, each dollar earned two cents Interest. One cent of that two cents provided for expenses of administra tion, and the dollar Itself and a cent besidee went to actual relief work. If the Red Cross oould do that in the war, when no organizations and no nations were any too careful or econo mlc in the way they spent money, Red Cross workers declare. It is certainly to be believed that the Red Cross will do as well, at the least, in peace tlmeo, and that money given In the Third Roll Call will go, not for expenses, but right where it is most needed and right where the man or woman who gave it wanted it go out when h« Joined the Red Cross and paid hia dollar. As for Ihe exact purpose for which the money will be spent, they quots Dr. Livingston Parrand, national chair man of the Red Cross, who said re rently; “The American people are not asked for huge sums to pour into Europe for the relief of etrloken peo pies of other countries. Only 1 a com paratlvely small sum will be set asida for that purpose, and it only to ad minister supplies already entrusted tc the Red Cross by the American gov eminent, not to buy any more supplieq It will be merely toward defraaylng thg comparatively light expenses of finish ing a job already almost completed By far the greater percentage of th« money secured In this com pal gn from the American people will be returned directly to the American people la th« form of better health and living conditions.” „ As a concrete expression of the ap proval of the government of Red Cross methods, more than ten million dollan worth of medical and food enppUet . have been recently turned over to the Red Cross by the government to b< distributed. ♦ One-half of every dollar contributed for membership in the American Red ‘Cross during the Third Red Cross Roll Call, Novembei 2 to 11, remains In the treasury of the chapters in each com munity where It is contributed, ac cording to instructions sent out from Southern Division Headquarters of the American Red Cross, to be used In the county where It is contributed. The other half goes for the National and erorld-'wide Red Cross work, for dis aster relief, for public health nursing, child welfare work, for administration, mwD extension of Rod Croes work. American soldiers In the battle of the Argon ne were actually In lees dan ger than babies less than a year old in America are now, according to statis tics gathered by the Southern Divis ion, American Red Cross. Whereas, one American soldier in forty was killed In the Argonne, one baby In eight, less than a year old. dies each year from preventable diseases. Most of these deaths are due to ignorance of propel feeding and care, which umy be remedied in a large measure by instruction given by pnb- 11c health nurses. More than fifty thousand womer pledged their support to the Third Red Cross Roll Call at a recent meet iing in Attlanta, where the heads oi the women’s organizations of Georgia Florida, South Carolina, North Caro lina and Tennessee, gatherd at the In vitatlon of Miss Rosalie Howell, dlreo tor of the Women’s Division. Joseph L. McMillan, Division Roll Call Di rector, believes that the support of th« organised women will insure the sue of the membership drive. Win the $40.00 With every $1.50 paid on Subscriptions you get a i ■ chance at the prize. To- .. • * - ' • * • . *■' day is the time to attend to it. Win this Christmas money Free. you don’t The Chronicle, you don’t get The Chronide Office Over King & Little’s Grocery Store