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Show RED CROSS NEWS ! ...NOTES... RED CROSS GOING OVER THE TOP The much heralded campaign of the Red Cross for "ten million new members by Christmas,-' which opened on December 16, was hardly more"than a few hours under headway head-way when telegraphic reports to National Na-tional Headquarters at Washington indicated an enrollment in excess of the goal. Early and scattering re-I re-I turns for the first day of enrollment. ! which was Monday, showed that sev-' sev-' eral of the thirteen national divisions divi-sions of the Red Cross had gone over : their quotas for the day, with hundreds hun-dreds of chapters unheard from. The city of Seattle alone reported an enrollment en-rollment practically equalling the j day's quota for the entire Northwestern North-western division, which embraces the states of Washington. Oregon and Idaho. Early in the campaign week it be-: be-: came a matter of rivalry between th divisions not to see whether, they would reach their quotas, but to see how far above the quota each division divi-sion might push its enrollment by Christmas Eve. ' Millions of Americans Ameri-cans await eagerly the final word from Washingtona s to how many crosses were illuminated on service flags in the windows of Red Cross homes on Christmas Eve. FAMOUS TENOR AIDS RED CROSS John McCormack, the famous operatic op-eratic tenor and concert and phonograph phono-graph star, is donating his services in a series of benefit concerts for the American Red Cross, by which he expects to raise $100,000 for the Red Cross War Fund between now andN March. He opened his patriotic tour at the Belasco Theatre, Washington, Wash-ington, D. C, on December 18. Mr. McCormack has cancelled several important im-portant engagements on his regular schedule, so that he might give benefit ben-efit concerts instead. He has insisted insist-ed in paying all expenses, so that the gross proceeds will go directly to the War Fund. This generous gift is the outcome of a recent meeting between Mr. Mc Cormack and John D. Ryan, who is a member of the Red Cross War Council. The work of the Red Cross j had been under discussion, when Mr. i McCormack said: "I should like to do my bit through the Red Cross. I am willing to give a series of concerts from the Atlantic Atlan-tic to the Pacific for the benefit of the Red Cross, in which the gross proceeds shall be turned over to the organization. I will pay all my own expenses, and I will keep on singing until I have earned one hundred thousand dollars for the Red Cross." The offer was enthusiastically accepted. RED CROSS STORIES FOR CHILDREN "Red Cross Stories for Children" Chil-dren" is the title of a book which has just been published, the- profit for the sale of which goes to the Red Cross. The Red Cross Junior Membership Mem-bership has suggested that the book will make vivid for them the meaning mean-ing back pt the Red Cross.. Dr. Henry N. McCracken, president presi-dent of Vassar College, who is also National Director of the Department of Junior Membership in the Red Cross, wrote the foreword for the book, in which he says of the stories: "I am glad to say a word of approval ap-proval of them, and to commend them to all schools throughout the land, not as authentic history, but as a means of teaching children the Red Cross ideals of service." VOGUE OF THE .JUNIOR RED C ROSS The popularity of the American Red Cross Junior Membership, which was launched recently, with Dr. Henry N. McCracken. president of Vassar College, as National Director, is indicated in the action of three of : America's leading women's magazines, maga-zines, which have estahlhod regular regu-lar monthly departments devoted to the work of the Red Cross Junior s Membership. |
