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Show Red Cross Poster of 1933 Appeals for Help for Needy 'I li('u iY t t ' ' ' ' ' & vt V' . " 1. 'it v. 6, f . - v ' " "v v vv: - 1 m' l $y T " ' 4 "In the minds of our people the Red Cross is symbolic of good deeds," says Judge John SgjV Barton Payne, chair- P man ne Amer'" f I f"f J can National Red w & ijv. Cross, at Washing-J Washing-J y ton, D. C, in a stir-ring stir-ring appeal to citizens citi-zens of the United States. In a message to the people of the Pacific states received by A. L. Scha-fer, Scha-fer, Red Cross manager in the Pacific area, Chairman Payne says concern-, ing the annual Roll Call, November 11th to 30th: "The Red Cross carries on! More lhan 25 million of our people have had that fact brought home to them in the last 18 months. They were fed and clothed by the Red Cross, to which a generous congress entrusted the task of the nation-wide flour and cotton distribution. The responsibility was accepted cheerfully. The duty has been discharged effectually due to the unfailing un-failing cooperation, support and helpfulness help-fulness of our chapters and branches. "The Red Cross has the while carried car-ried on its regular program of services ser-vices with no curtailment. In disaster areas it gave services to sufferers from Southern California to New England, bringing relief and rehabilitation rehabili-tation to more than 117 communities. It gave in increasing volume, due to ' economy legislation, service to the : war veterans. It discharged its obligated obli-gated services to the enlisted men of the army and navy. It advanced its health program; widened its activities activi-ties in land and water first-aid instruction. in-struction. It expanded volunteer service ser-vice through cotton garment production produc-tion to almost war-time proportions. It enlisted more volunteers for Braille book production for the blind and for the varied volunteer services and maintained its strength in the enrollment enroll-ment of children in the Junior Red j Cross. I "And in the relief of the unem-i unem-i ployed, the Red Cross chapters assist- ed more than 739,000 civilian families. "The Red Cross cannot retreat or turn aside. Its permanent base , is its practical interpretation of the will of our people to serve humanity in distress, dis-tress, with no thought of race, creed j or color. "Our greatest happiness arises from service to others. Ever since the world war, people have struggled to uplift the human race; but not until the Red Cross came into being was there found a universal thought upon which every people, no matter of what religion or nationality or language, agreed and that was the conservation conserva-tion of service to humanity." |