Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 245, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 October 1920 — FOURTH ROLL CAIL [ARTICLE]

FOURTH ROLL CAIL

RED CROSS CONFERENCE MAXING PLANS FOR NOVEMBER DRIVE. “The peace time program of the American Red Cross, probably the most far-reaching in the history of this organization and one that contemplates service benefiting, directly or indirectly, every man, woman and child in the United States, can not be carried out unless the people extend their support by enrolling as members during the Fourth Roll Call.” This message was brought to the conference of Indiana chapter Roll Call directors at Hotel Claypool, Indianapolis, this week by Dr. & E. Drewst6r, of Lake Division beadquarters, Cleveland. - Speaking on “The Relation of the Fourth Roll Call to the Peace Time Program of the Red Cross, Dr. Brewster sketched ths stupendous task faced by the Red Cross, both abroad and in the United States. Telling of the wk of the Home Service Section in handling the cases, of 781,282 ex-service men, he emphasized the vastness of this task by declaring that to have shaken the hand of each man as he passed by would have taken 13,021 hours, or three years of 240 working days a year. “Last year we spent (1.47 per capita to protect hogs from having hog cholera and the enormous sum of 29 cents per capita for public health,” was one of Dr. Brewster’s graphic comparisons. He then added; “But the great American Red Cross is going to help change that disgraceful record!” H. B. Dickson, Division Roll Call Director, outlined working methods for the membership drive, Nov. 11 to 25, and conducted a round table discussion of suggested modes of procedure for various conditions to be met by the chapters. Mrs. Harrison Ewing, head of the Junior Red Cross department in the Lake Division, told of the remarkable growth of the Junior Red Cross since it entered upon an era of international usefulness in 1917. The chapter representatives displayed keen interest in Mrs. Ewing’s portrayal of the part the Junior Red Cross is performing in cooperating with the United States Bureau of Education in the promotion of instruction in civics in the schools. Mrs. Ruth Mougey Worrell, author of “The Red Cross of Peace,” the pageant to be produced all over the country during the membership enrollment period, impressed upon the directors the vital role the pageant will play in explaining the transition of the Red Cross from a war time to a peace basis. The Indianapolis conference was the first of three called for the' states constituting the Lake Division—lndiana, Ohio and Kentucky. Miss' Florence Ryan, the home secretary of the Jasper county Red Cross chapter and Miss Jane Parkisop were in attendance at this conference. _ The drive in this county will be under auspices of the Tri Kappas, a very active society of> young ladies of this city, and it is possible that the pageant “The Rea Cross of Peace,” given at Cincinnati, 0., last month and which created so much favorable comment, will be reproduced here.