Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-12-19 | Page 7 | Quick Reply to Red Cross Call

OUICK REPLY TO. RED CROSS GALL Atlantic Division Leads in Number of Memberships Obtained. WASHINGTON", Dec. IS. Enthusiastic-response Enthusiastic-response by the American people to the membership campaign being conducted this week by th ; American Red Cross , was indicated tonight in reports reaching headquarters. First definite figures on the progress of the campaign in a number num-ber of states were received todny. Influenza, Influ-enza, especially prevalent in the extreme middle west and the northwest, has not served to impede the drive to any extent, nccordincr to reports from the division headquarters. The Atlantic division, comprising the jiatcs of New York, New Jersey and a (Connecticut, tonight led in the number of momlerfchips obtained with a total of 1,-f 1,-f T8.,41. At 4 o'clock this afternoon a re-poi re-poi t reach ins: headquarters paid th lake division, composed of Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana had readied a total f 79,-81 79,-81 3 members. The Pennsylvania -Delaware division late today had enrolled 2 2 , 3 4 members, with many chapters to bo heard from. The Pacific division, inoludintr California. S Arizona and Nevada, had registered b'f).-000 b'f).-000 up to noon today. Reports toniglit from othr divisions showed: Northwestern Northwest-ern division Orepon, Washington and Idaho, 120,000, with results in Idaho unreported; un-reported; southern division. Florida, Geor-pla, Geor-pla, North Oaro'ina, South Carolina and Tennessee, 1!),3S3, and Mountain division. Colorado. Wyoming-, Utah and New Mexico. Mex-ico. 43,841. From the, central division, which includes Michigan, Illinois, Iowa and Wisconsin, ca me the report that every one of the ,19,000 persons in Webster Web-ster county, Iowa, had1 registered by night, Monday, the first day in the campaign. cam-paign. On the eve of hi3 departure, for Europe, Henry 1. Davison, chairman of the Red Cross war council, tonight issued the fol lowing statement to the American people: peo-ple: ' I am sailing tomorrow for Europe at the request of the president to represent the American Red Cross, and, as I leave, I have a supremo confidence that the spirit of mercy and human svnipathy which the people of the world , have ascribed to the American people will snine forth when the world once more learns of their devotion to Red Cross ideals. Enrollment En-rollment In the Red Cross by every man, woman and child will mean more to the world today than ever before. "Millions of pleading, wistful faces are turned toward us lodiy. and onty by answering an-swering that mute appeal by universal enrollment, en-rollment, in the Red Cross can we show our sympathy and our vote for a kindlier, kind-lier, gentle:- world in the days to come." NEW YORK, Dec. 18. Ablaze with light, athrob with the music of fifty bands and filled with a dancing, swirling crowd, the native costumes of a score of nationalities blending with military -and naval uniforms, Fifth avenue toynight to-ynight was the scene of the greatest g "block party" in history, held In honor f of the American Red Cross as the climax of the "Christmas roll rail." The party began with a parade led by Henry P. Davison, chairman of the war work council coun-cil of the Red Cross. ' As the first delegation of Red Cross nurses swung up the avenue, a soldier' bny with crutches to hold him on his remaining re-maining leg forced his way to the front of the crowd on the curb and shouted: V "Three cheers for the greatest women in the world." Then, to a man at his Ride, "Say. Buddy, you don't appreciate them. They're the angels of the battlefield boy; you can't beat them." The nurses were acclaimed all along the way and it was the boys In khaki and blue with wound and service stripes on their arms who led the cheers.