Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-12-20 | Page 12 | Daniels Pleads for Red Cross

DUELS PLEADS ! FOR RED CROSS! Coming of Peace Increases Work, General Crowder Declares. Six Million People Join Since Christmas Roll Call Began. WA.SIHN'GTO.W .-.'. !!). Secret nry Ddtii'-lu today Issued a statement calling' on all friends of the A nu-rican navy to Join 'he Led Cross during the CMiriHtrritLH roll on il now i n pnii;n:.'s. "There can be but one response to Mm '"hrfsiir-HH mil call of tlx American K-d 'rrH fin m all tho.e '.s ho hav; rdat i vos or friends in the American nay," .said the i--rf;tary. 'Throughout Ihu war the Red Cross has mjppieirii.nled the efforts of lint navy by .supplying' many services and c..mfortn which could not 1)0 undertaken by the government. Friends of Sailors. "To thts president's wish that every American become a member of thin truly American organization fur world-wide re-INT, re-INT, f add and 1 feel I speak for the personnel of the navya request that all friend of the American sailor be.- oirte identified with and help to perpet-unf- tin; beneficent, work of thi.- organi- v.ii ( inn. Siv m ill inn pfr:on; bnve - join'! the American Red ( 'rot's since the beginning of the 'hrtstmas "roll call" Monday, lu Pinking thin h n noiin ' in cut tonight. Red ' 'rnns he:i dqunrterH said reports from nil Plate? Indicate that the campaign now in going. iu lop speed and steadily thor-ing thor-ing a momentum that will continue until un-til the clortti of Hie drive next Monday. Atlantic Still Leads. Of the Mix mi 11 ion new members, it was snid practically all were obtained up to Wednesday night, us few reports were received on today's results. The Allan- tic division, comprising New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, continues to lead in number of memberships, with 2, "SMOO enrolled up to late yesterday. The Houthwestern division, including1 the ytat.es of Missouri, Arkansas, Oklahoma. Kansas and Texas, was second today, villi 9i4,rnr members. Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana, composing the lake division, reported 809,000 members. Knd Cross headquarters received a report re-port from Argentina saying that the HuenoH Alms chapter had enrolled 2000 ' Americans, practically the entire Amerl-i Amerl-i tan colony, and twice that number or persona of other nationalities. Work Increases. The coming of peace ban served to in-crense in-crense rather than diminish the work of thu American Red Cross, said Provost Marshal General Crowder in a statement issued today in connection with the Red Cross Christmas membership cam-paign. cam-paign. "The, need for the Red Cross, said General Crowder. "does not terminate with the cessation of hostilities rathev are Its usefulness and its scope increased. With the war at an end, the Red Cross must turn its band to tho rehabilitation of devastated Kurope, not only in the late theaters of operation, but in alt those fields just delivered from hostile occupation and anions: all those people who for more than four years hnve felt the heel of German oppression. To embarrass em-barrass Its activities at this time is to add misery to suffering."