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Show ILLUMINATION AS CLIMAX TO RED CROSS DRIVE Plans have been perfected to make the Christmas Eve ceremonies a fitting fit-ting climax of the patriotic campaign. cam-paign. At 7:30 o'clock on the night before Christmas it is proposed that a lighted candle shall be placed behind be-hind the transparent flag in the win-dowvof win-dowvof every Red Cross home. Local Lo-cal chapters will strive to see that this idea is carried into effect. The candle's are to burn until 9 o'clock, and at half-hour intervals during the evening church bells are to be rung to lend impressiveness to the Red Cross ceremony. During the same hours groups of Red Cross workers In every community will march througTi different neighborhoods singing carols in further acclaim of the spirit of the Red Cross Christmas. Christ-mas. The Red Cross needs the active support of millions whose good will It already has. The big Christmas membership drive was conceived in and will be carried out largely for the purpose of turning passive friends into active workers. And it was a peculiarly happy thought that gave expression to the idea of making mak-ing this a "Red Cross Christmas." It will be America's first Christmas in this war. It will be a Christmas of serious purpose, when the minds of every one will be turned to the war, to the soldiers in France and in i training camps awaiting orders to cross the sea, and to our sailors and marines. Thought, too, will rest on thesoldiers of our allies and on the suffering people in the war zones. That the nation will be in just the , spirit at this Christmas time to produce pro-duce a whole-hearted response to the Red Cross appeal is not doubted. At the conclusion of the Red Cross membership drive there will not be any excuse for any one not having become a member. There are hundreds hun-dreds of thousands of persons whose names are not on the Red Cross roll merely by reason of their own thoughtlessness. All these will have the chance and be reminded of their patriotic duty to join the Red Cross, j In the words of President Wilson,! the people as a whole will be afforded afford-ed an opportunity to show the Christmas Christ-mas spirit in terms of action. a |