Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 62, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 November 1919 — WILSON SOUNDS THIRD APPEAL FOR RED CROSS [ARTICLE]

WILSON SOUNDS THIRD APPEAL FOR RED CROSS

< Washington, D. C., Oct. 25. President Wilson, in a letter written before his illness and made public today, appealed to the people of the country for support of the third Red Cross roll call, which opens on Nov. 2 with observance of Red Cross Sunday and appropriately closes on Nov. 11, the first anniversary of the signing of the armistice. “Twenty million adults joined the Red Cross during the war,” the president wrote, “prompted by a patriotic desire to give service to their country, and to the cause for which the United States was engaged in war. It is on membership more than money contributions that the stress of the present campaign is laid, for the Red Cross seeks to associate the people in welfare work throughout the land. “To finance these plans, to conclude work which was begun during the war, the American Red Cross requires in addition to memberehip fees a sum of money small in comparison with the gifts poured into its treasury by our generous people during the war. “I venture to hope that its peace time membership will exceed rather than fall beldw its impressive war membership.”