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Show wise CROSS SUNDAY Churches to Take Up Message For "Greatest Mother of the World" : Todnv ! American Red Cross Sun I day. In thousands of churches the place of the national relief and einf-rrency society, the one society of which the Prel(Jpnt of 'be Cnlted States is by virtue of his office the president the society that has by common consent been a claimed The Greatest Mother I of the World will be spoken of and , i recommended as a personal medium ' of practical nid The Red Cross program for the rominic year has been upoken of 38 A Practical Uofcpe! of Service." It is as follows in ho far as II pertains I to th service and ex-service men of j the army and navv P'irst -To stay with (he Army of, j Occupation coniprlsing about seven-i I reen thousand officers and men. and erva their Red cross Second To continue In the hospitals I of the army, the navy and the public heal'.ii tv ICS where there are more, ,han twenty-six thoicand men many 'Of whom wll! bn retninra mere tor months and some of them for years. find carry on their recreational and1 'social work. Third To keep in loucn as an Ad-. Ad-. iurv organization with th dii-hargd ; men of the army and navy, and he ready not It) the way of financial aid. but what is worlh far more to contribute con-tribute kind advice and friendly assist-: j ance. Fourth To continue the work thf' j has been going on in connection wltlij I the families of soldiers and sailors. , and as crowing out of this a similar (work for the community at large The fact that the men have returned I does not by any in' tins eliminate do-i do-i mestic problems. In many cases It I Only Intensifies them. This Is particularly particu-larly true In the case of more than one hundred and twenty-five thousand I families whose men are In the number I of the do:id, where there Is a wealth of service that the Red Cros3 cun still I render. ! Fifth While the government itself is carrying on vocational training: for 'maimed and crlppleO men, It ha9 turned over to the R d t'rois the care : of those who hove been blinded in the crash f war No more sacred service jtan be imagined than this. The annual membi rshlp fee Is one 'dollar It may he renewed at Cul- ley's Cirr's. Pulton's or Mclntyre No. i 1 drutr stores at uny time. There are booths the closing days of the vvoel In Wright i-at & Thomas', the Washington Market and the Inde-j Inde-j pendent Markets. |