Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 10, Number 48, DeMotte, Jasper County, 17 October 1940 — 1940 Call for Red Cross Recruits [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

1940 Call for Red Cross Recruits

KEEPING step with the boys called to the colors in America’s new defense army and navy, will be the American Red Cross, fulfilling its mission of service to the men in the line and to their loved ones at home, Chairman Norman H. Davis announced in Washington. “Several thousand Red Cross nurses already have been called to the colors,” Mr. Davis said, “and Red Cross field directors, and thousands of Red Cross workers in Chapters throughout the nation, are ready to help America’s soldiers and sailors with personal problems, just as in the 1917-1 S World War period. “Every patriotic man and woman In the United States, who wants to do his or her share In upholding the national defense of our nation, can do so

by sharing in the vitally important work of the Red Cross. Join ,as a member of the local Chapter during the roll call, November 11 to 30, and through your support you will strengthen the Red Cross army of mercy. "Recruits are needed not alone as members, but also as volunteer workers in the Red Cross Chapters.” Red Cross work will continue undiminished in its usual domestic program of relief in disaster; community public health nursing; safety education and promotion of the Junior Red Cross. An individual membership supports all of this work, not only in Red Cross Chapters, but in the nation. Relief to war victims in Europe is finartced by the $20,000,000 war relief fund contributed by the public dir ' the summer of 1940.

The 1940 Poster of The American Red Cross sounds the call to the nation to serve humanity within the ranks of this army of mercy.