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Show I Red Cross Drives Changed To March j Norman H. Davis, chairman of j the American Red Cross, announc-i announc-i ed June 24 that the Red Cross had 'decided, with the approval of the ! president, to hold its next membership mem-bership and fund raising cam-j cam-j paigns in March of 1942. ! The decision means, the chair-! chair-! man said, that the Red Cross will : not conduqt a membership roll call ; this November and instead will j hold a combined war fund and roll call campaign in March of 11943. j "It means too, said President i David O. McKay, chairman of the ' Uitah State Red Cross advisory I committee, "that the Red Cross jwill not enter irsto any war chest j or joint fund raising with other agencies. We are sure that the 1 people of Utah will concur in the I action taken by Uhe Red Cross I in view of the reasons given in fee letters quoted below between . Mr. Davis, and the president of the j ; United .States, who is aTso the ! i president of the American Red : Cross, and will look forward to ;next March as a truly Red Cross , month." ' Chairman Davis in his letters :ito the president said, in part: "Due to its national and international inter-national responsibilities and the ; need for freedom of . action on a , national scale to deal with disasters disas-ters and other emergencies, the ; Red Cross deemed it necessary to maintain direct contact with the i people who constitute its member-, member-, ship, contribute to its support, and render voluntary service in its 1 work. "The Red Cross is now being , asked to reconsider the matter of j participation in combined cam-! cam-! paigns. The question is arising i more specifically in certain cities I where it is planned to form for the war period special fund' raising rais-ing agencies to conduct only one appeal each- year and allocate the funds to such causes as have a proper call for support. ; "Recognizing the need during . wartime for the utmost conservation conserva-tion of effort and manpower the Red Cross has decided to postpone the roll call usually held in November No-vember and combine it with the next war fund appeal during the month of March, 1943, and, unless some major disaster or other unforeseen un-foreseen emergency should arise, this will result in only one R-ed Cross appeal during the year. "We are convinced that the Red Cross can not be considered as a local agency in view of the na-. na-. tional and international scope of its work. Neither can it be regarded regard-ed as a wartime agency alone as , it will continue to serve long after the war. Certainly it should not j (Continued on last page) Red Cross Notes (Continued from page 1) become merged in special fund raising plans which are created only for the war period and which will include, as to members, only a small proportion of the communities com-munities in which there are Red Cross chapters and branches." Excerpts from the president's reply follow: "I concur with reference to fur. ther proposals to include the Red Cross in combined fund raising campaigns, and I fully agree that the Red Cross should make ijts war fund membership appeal directly di-rectly and separately to the people peo-ple and should not participate in any joint fund raising efforts. "The nation can look forward to the month of March, 1943, as Red Cross month. "The Red Cross, because of its broad interests and responsibilities, responsibili-ties, is a great moral force. The generous over-subscription in response re-sponse to its appeal of last December De-cember was one of the first evidences evi-dences of complete national unit following our entrance into the war. "The character of the Red Cross and its responsibilities under international treaty and its congressional con-gressional charter are such that the national interests will best be served if the Red Cross maintains dreat contact with the people for the membership and support necessary for its work at home I and abroad." V |