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Show GAINS MANY NEW MEMBERS. Red Cross Adds Approximately 17,500,-000 17,500,-000 in the Recent Big Drive. Washington. Figures now available on the lied Cross Christmas membership member-ship drive show a total enrollment of 23,475,000, or 22 per cent of the population pop-ulation of the United States. Of this total the lied Cross bad about 6,000,000 members before the Christmas drive started, so that the gain from the drive was approximately 17,500,000 new members. The central division, of which Chicago is the headquarters, head-quarters, leads the other twelve divisions divi-sions of the country in the number of new members enrolled Christmas week. By divisions, the gains were as follows fol-lows : Atlantic, 2,SOO,000; Central, 3,-600,000 3,-600,000 ; Gulf, 3S4.000 ; Lake, 2,300,000 ; Mountain, 27G.000 ; New England, 670,-000; 670,-000; Northern, 658,000; Northwestern, 03,000; Pacific, 327,000; Pennsylvania, 1,600,000; Potomac, 250,000; Southern 370,000; Southwestern, 3,250,000. From the fourteenth division, com prising all of the territorial, insular and foreign possessions of the United States, the new members added numbered num-bered 48,000. . ' Unpreeedently unfavorable weather prevailed during the drive, so that the Showing is considered exceptionally good. Final figures are not expected to change the foregoing estimates to any considerable extent. One of the chief benefits anticipated from the enlarged membership is the addition of thousands of active workers work-ers to Red Cross chapters where supplies sup-plies are being prepared for our army and navy and the military forces and civilian populations of the allies. j |