Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 43, Number 30, 17 December 1917 — Page 16

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM. MONDAY, DEC. 17, 1917.

When you join the great civilian army of millions of Red Cross Members be sure you get a Red Cross Button and a Red Cross Service Flag. Then wear the button on your overcoat and hang the Red Cross Service Flag in your window at home to show to all the -world that your home is a loyal American home. There is no charge for either the Button or the Service Flag your $1.00 membership entitles you to both.

Every true-blue American home in this vicinity- every home excepting those that are pro'German every home excepting those that are for the Kaiser with all his cruelties and diabolical crimes every home excepting those that shelter traitors will have a Red Cross Service Flag in its front window before this week is over.

Before this week is over you will be able to tell, from the Red Cross Service Flags you see as you walk down the street, which are the loyal American homes and which are the other kind.

JrLnd on Christmas Eve next Monday night, at half past seven o'clock there will be a tremendous demonstration ALL OVER AMERICA of genuine American loyalty, on our first Christmas Eve in the war.

For on that night, at half past seven Christmas Eve, every home in this community that has a Red Cross Service Flag, and every Red Cross home in every city and town from Maine to California, every Red Cross home in every village and on every farm, will light a Christmas candle and place it in the window just back of the Service Flag, to shed its beams of Christmas cheer upon a war-torn world.

Millions upon millions of Christmas candles, shining through Red Cross Service Flags that night, will through their twinkling beams spread a message of mercy throughout the world-will show to every American soldier and every American sailor, whether here or on the seas or in the trenches of France, that all Amtrica is backing him up.

Get Your Service Flag and Get Your Candle Ready The Red Cross Service Flag is used to show how many people in your home are Red Cross Members. If only one person is a Red Cross Member, you use the Flat with only the large Red Cross on it. If two persons are Members, you add on small Red Cross. If three persons are Members you add two small Red Crosses, and so on, adding one small Red Cross for each additional Member in your home. But if EVERYBODY in your home is a Member, including the baby and the maidjthen in addition to the small Red Crosses for each Member, you paste a WHITE STAR in the center of the large Red Cross. You can secure the small Red Crosses and the White Star at any Red Cross Booth when you take out your memberships. Richmond Chapter American Red Gross

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If six members of your family are Red Cross Members, you put a Service Flag like this in your window, with one large cross and five little crosses.

If four member of your family are Red Cross Member, you put Service Flag like this in your window, with one large cross and three little erotics.

If four members of your family are Red Cross Members and if that is ailthert are in your family, you use Service Flat like this, with one large cross, three small crosses, and a white star in the center of the large cross.

This space patriotically contributed by the following merchants:

FELTMAN'S SHOE STORE

ED N. WILSON WALTER B. BULGHUM AUSTIN MILLINERY S. S. KRESGE CO. LEMON'S FLOWER SHOP

ACKERMAN'S FINNEY'S THOMAS & WESSEL CHENOWETH AUTO CO. DUN1NG BICYCLE STORE HANER'S JEWELRY SHOP

REED'S O. E. DICKINSON RICHMOND ELECTRIC CO. THE GEO. H. KNOLLENBERG CO. ENGLE & EATON, CIGAR STORE NOLDER'S MILLINERY

IRVIN REED & SONS SAM FRED FASHION SHOP RICHMOND BAKING CO. SAM VIGRAN, JEWELER