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Show w A RED CROSS CHRISTMAS "Make it a Red Cross Christmas" is to be the recruiting slogan of committees com-mittees from every Red Cross Organization Organ-ization throughout the country in a nation-wide drive for 15,000,000 members of the Red Cross during the week beginning December 17. In the Mountain Division, a committee com-mittee will be working in every city, town, village and hamlet, and will wind up the week's campaign with a final appeal on Christmas Eve, a time when the Christmas spirit is abroad and when the thoughts of all true Americans will be with those boys in the trenches awaiting the word to go "over the top" in a 'drive against the Huns and with those hundreds of thousands of other boys in training camps making ready to go across the water. And just at the time when this final appeal for members mem-bers is being made, those hundreds of thousands.of American youths abroad and in home camps, will be making ready for and anticipating the Christmas trees and entertain-taents entertain-taents to be furnished by the loyal people of the United States through thoir imori'Mn PoH rrnco Organization of the Mountain Dt vision committees and general supervision super-vision of a great drive for members is to be undertaken by Will P. Mc-Phee, Mc-Phee, of MePhee & McGinnity, who has been appointed by John W. Morey, manager of the Mountain Division, Di-vision, as chairman of the Christmas Membership Committee. Mr. MePhee will devote to this work his entire time, gratis, from now until the first of the year. At the request of Mr. Henry P. Davison, chairman of the War Council Coun-cil of the American Red Cross, during dur-ing his recent visit in Denver, Mr. Morey appointed Mr. MePhee and designated him and Frank Woodward, Wood-ward, also of Denver, to attend the conference of Division representatives representa-tives at Red Cross headquarters in Washington, at which time detailed plans for the Christmas membership campaign were outlined. Mr. Morey has received the following follow-ing telegram from Ivy Lee, assistant to the chairman of the War Council, under .date of November 8: "A nation-wide Christmas membership mem-bership drive has been planned by the Red Cross War Council. The building up of the Red Cross membership mem-bership to 15,000,000 in the United States is the goal of this campaign: This will mean the addition of approximately ap-proximately 10,000,000 names to the present muster roll. "The drive is to start December 17 and continue unceasingly to Christmas Christ-mas Eve. "General features of the member ship campaign were worked out and j approved at a conference at national headquarters of the Red Cross, In which representatives of each Red Cross division of continental United States participated. "A national Christmas Membership Member-ship Drive committee has been appointed ap-pointed by the War Council to have general charge of planning and later conducting the whole campaign. Theodore N. Vail, president of the American Telegraph and Telephone Company, has accepted the chairmanship, chair-manship, and Dr. H. N. MacCracken, president of Vassar College, will be the executive secretary. Other members mem-bers of the committee are: His Eminence. Emi-nence. James Cardinal Gibbons; Bishop William Lawrence, Boston; Dr. Henry Van Dyke, former U. S. Minister to The Netherlands, Princeton. Prince-ton. N. J.; John W. Brltton, San Francisco; Benjamin Gratz, St. Louis; B. Ban Johnson, Chicago; Hervey Lindley, Seattle; John Pur-roy Pur-roy Mitchell, New-York City. " 'Make it a Red Cross Christmas' is to he the recruiting slogan. Everyone Every-one taking out a membership in the Red Cross during the drive period will be known as a Christmas member, mem-ber, and the effort practically will bo limited to securing annual members paying annual dues of one dollar, or two' dollars in case of subscribing or magazine members. ''During Red Cross week in June-the June-the $100,000,000 mark set by the War Council was oversubscribed and gave assurance of a national interest inter-est in Red Cross work which should I make the Christmas membership drive fully as successful. "Division Christmas Membership Drive committees are to be selected by division managers, the committees commit-tees to work under the general direction direc-tion of the national committee. Each of the 30,000 or more Red Cross organizations or-ganizations also will appoint committees com-mittees to cooperate, under the guld-j guld-j ance of their respective division i emmittees. Division committeemen j will communicate not later than No-jvemberS No-jvemberS with chairmen of all chap- ters in order to map out campaign ori local lines. "As this is the country's firsr Christmas in the world war, fl is ' felt that the people will be thinking 1 of service rather than festivities, and I that their minds generally will be ; turned to the battlefields of Europe and especially to our own soldiers 'and sailors. It is believed, therefoni, that the country will be in the frame ' .of mind at Christmas time to give expression to all its anxiety and hop--, by showing and renewing evidences i of Its support of the Red Cross." |