| Show GOAL OF RED GROSS mi m CALL mm disaster relief and work for veterans cause heavy drain n resources in order to enable the american red criss to carry on its broad ties ranging from service to the world war veteran to instant response in time of disaster a membership at 6 should be enrolled and in tl a year of 1928 1929 that Is the goal sel tor the twelfth annual roll call to he held from november 11 to 29 arms alce to thank giving day john barton payne chairman of the american red cross at washington in calling upon the nation tor 5 adult ambers directs attention to the great required of tha red cross for disaster and veteran re alef work and for ita many other ac devoted to health preservation and improvement and to cutting down the number of accidental deaths through life saving and farst aid courses the red cross should at all times have a large reserve fund judge payne stated because when disaster and this organization Is called into instant action there Is no time to atop and raise funds dollars may can lives so we should have at all times a good reserve we hi ve been forced each year to draw upon our reserves and we find that the de mands are increasing annually judge payne pointed out that in the fiscal year of 1927 28 the red cross had extended aid in 66 major catastrophes in the united states and its insular possessions and in 22 nations abroad this does not include the west indies hurricane disaster in porto rico and florida which oc burred after the close of the red cross fiscal year june 30 1928 the red cross expenditures tor dla aster in that period were 87 of which bitely 13 was expended in the valley tor tha flood relief work which came from a fund contributed by the public more than was expended in the st louis tornado damage and more than 1 in new england in both cases public relief funds were raised although in me angland the red cross ted in excess of from its own funds tor the relief work in the ma of the other 66 disasters and in all of the 22 foreign catastrophes in which the red cross extended aid the money came from its own re sources the largest item in the annual bud get of the red cross Is tor its veteran relief and work tor disabled ex service and service men upon which it ex in this year 1169 every man and woman Is asked by judge payne to loin the red cross during the roll call period to aid in these humanitarian enterprises ten years after the armistice the american red cross still carrlos on tor the world war veteran providing comfort and entertainment for him in hospital aiding his family aher necessary preparing and following through his claims tor insurance compensation or disability america holds the red cross em blem sacred because it represents a universal helpfulness a service to all citizens without regard to race color or creed 0 stewart was a business calve junction this week visitor at grand mr and mrs merle who black carbon at are now living Is emed v mr bues tues spent r carbon company carbon bayta moab returning to black yesterday |
