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Show RED CROSS FUND ! CAMPAIGN UNLIKELY! I Henry P. Davison Says There Is Work to Be Done in Winter. By Assoclsted Press. NEW YORK, Iec. t. Prediction that therewlll be such distress In the , world this winter that It cannot be j met bv volunteer organizations and ' that government must bear th chief j burden wa made by Henry P. Iavison, chairman of the war council nf th American Red Cross, who has lust te- turned from a three months' trip In i Europe. He Inspected the Red Cross I activities In, England. France, Belgium. Italy and Swltserland. j "That there will be an appealing cry i of humanity from all over the world, no one can doubt." said Mr. Davison. ' 'The needs of France. Belgium. Italy. Russia and the Balkan will nM ter- , minat with the formal declaration of i peace. The hardahlpa of war and the i dislocated Industrial conditions of the . 1 world have produced hunger, want and ' disease. , "There will be the necessity fnr sup i I plementary work which Red Cross or- ( ganltations throughout th world can do and must do. i "The American Red Cross must be i kept strong and efficient, and it m ly j do its share In full measure. ' "As far as can now be foreseen, t I there will be no further occasion for J campaigns for Red Cross funds. Our- i ing the week before Christmas there ' Is to be a roll call, giving every clti-sen clti-sen an opportunity to register as member of the volunteer humanitarian ' ' agency for the American people, which ' 1 la recognised throughout the world as ! the American Red Cross This mem-! mem-! berahlp Involve no commitment be- ! yond th payment of 81. I ! "Mors than 47.000 0O0 American peo- ! pie." he continued, "subscribed to the i American Red Cross within a period -: of eleven months a total aggregating , 313 000 00 in money, and contributed : ; manufactured gooda of an estimated I value of approximately 844.000,000." |