Show 1 PRESIDENT WILSONS RED CROSS announcement As president of the united states State sand and as president of the american red cross I 1 recommend and urge a generous response to the third red cross roll calli 1 which opens on november the second with the observance of red cross sunday and appropriately pria tely closes on november the eleventh the first anniversary of the signing of the armistice twenty million adults joined the red cross during the war prompted by ayd a patriotic desire to render service to their country and to the cause for which the united states was engage engaged dwar war our patriotism should stand the test of peace as well as the test of war and it is an intelligently patriotic program which the red cross proposes a continuance of service to our sold soldiers ierg and sailors who look to it for many things and a transference to the problems of peace at home of the experience peri ence and methods which it acquired during the war it is on membership more than money contributions that the stress of the present campaign is laid for the red cross seeks to associate the people in welfare work throughout the land especially ally in those communities where neither official nor unofficial provision has been made for adequate public health and social service it is in the spirit of democracy that the people should undertake their own welfare aati activities litkei and the national red cross wisely intends to exert upon community action a stimulating and coordinating influence and to place the energies of the organization behind all sound public health and welfare agencies the american red cross does not purpose indefinite prolongation of its relief work abroad a policy which would lay an unjust burden upon our own people and tend to undermine the self reli ance of the peoples relieved but there is a necessary nes essary work of completion to be performed before the american red cross can honorably withdraw from europe the congress of the united states has imposed upon the red cross a continuing responsibility abbad by authorizing the secretary of war to transfer to the american red cross such nur bur plus army medical supplies and supplementary and dietary foor fluffs now in europe as aa shall not be required by the army to be i used by the red cross to relieve the distress which continues in certain countries of europe as a result of the war to finance these operations to conclude work which was begun during the war and to carry out some gome comparatively inexpensive constructive plans for assisting peoples in eastorn eastern europe to develop their own welfare organizations the american red cross requires in addition to membership fees a sum of money small in comparison with the gifts 1 poured into its treasury by our generous people during the war both the greater enduring domestic program and the lesser temporary foreign program of the red cross deserve enthuse altice support and I 1 venture to hope that its peacetime peace time membership will exceed rather than fall below its impressive war mem barship ber ship WOODROW WILSON |