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Show CHRISTMAS RED CROSS DRIVE TEN million new members in a week ! ' That is the goal the American Red Cross has set for itself in its Christmas membership campaign that is to be launched December 16. Throughout the United States Red Cross chapters are preparing for the enrollment of the new army which is to stand as the organized or-ganized support of the boys in the trenches. No man is more deeply concerned con-cerned in the world than President Wilson who is also president of the Red Cross and this is his proclamation proclama-tion : TO THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES: Ten million Americans are invited in-vited to join the American Red . . Cross during the week ending with Christmas Eve. The times require that every branch of our great national na-tional effort shall be loyally upheld, up-held, and it is peculiarly fitting that at the Christmas season the Red Cross should be - the branch through which your willingness to help is expressed. You should join the American Red Cross, because it alone can carry the pledges of Christmas good will to those who are bearing for us the real burdens of the world war, both in our own Army and Navy and in the nations upon whose territory the issues of the world-war are being fought out. Your evidence of faith in this work is necessary for their heartening and cheer. You should join the Red Cross because this arm of the National Service is steadily and- efficiently maintaining its overseas relief in every suffering land, administering administer-ing our millions wisely and well and awakening the gratitude of every people. Our consciences will hot let us enjoy the Christmas season if this pledge of support to our cause and the world's weal is left unfulfilled. Red Cross membership is the Christmas spirit in terms of action. ac-tion. (Signed) WOODROW WILSON, President A. R. C. r |