| Show WHAT CA ix AN DO 61 X A 6 A f how to form a red gross cross chapter just as the family Is the tha group on which all modern civilization Is based and of which counties states and nations tire are formed so the chapter Is the unit on which Is based the grent great work of the american red cross the aim of this article Is to tell as clearly and briefly as may be the best way to form a 6 chapter A small group of persons three or four or halt a dozen or even ten should hold an informal meeting and reach a niti mutual understanding ot of what Is to be done they must understand that the red cross chapter Is not a sewing society nor a physicians physician club nor it a nurses organization nor a political or religious group of any kind it Is a union of the brightest and strongest in men en and women of any com formed to prepare for the alleviation lev levia lation tion of human misery this being true those who form the chapter must be men and women who command the respect of the community it has been found well to have in this group a representative of the local chamber of commerce or whatever business organization the community ity affords physicians lawyers clergymen educators bankers business men whoever are leaders in the dally daily life of ithe the comm community unit Y m make ake good material for red cross work politics and creed are never considered at all it Is preferred that each county have a chapter usually located at the county seat but there Is no hard and fast rule in any case those who wish to form a chapter should agree on a course form themselves into an organization committee choose a chairman find and secretary and write to the division director of the red cross for permission to organize a chapter in the letter asking this permission a brief account should be given of each of those in the movement for the director invariably makes inquiry y before granting permission to make sure that the chapter will be in capable and trustworthy hands the division director will send a blank form petition which Is to be filled out with the names ad addresses dresse s and other items concerning each of the petitioners petition ers and returned to him film if it appears that responsible and rep representative resea nien men and women are back of 0 the movement lie he will grunt grant authority to orge organize nize a chapter the next step la Is a meeting 0 of f the group already organized into a committee on organization together with a few other of the strongest men and women of the community but not a public muss meeting at tills this meeting a board of trustees of frow from 12 to 30 Is usually elected one third to hold office one year one third two years and one third three years this board then elects a central committee of ten members the central com committee 1 clittee chooses ta alie ie chapter clia chairman irman ai and id the chairman with the aid of the central committee names dames the principal committees mit tees it his has been found best to elect an experienced perien perlen ced cea business man and capable executive as chairman in only a few instances have women been chosen the secretary must be familiar with the work of keeping records and carrying on businesslike correspondence with men whose every minute Is valuable the treasurer Is usually the tha president of a strong bank chairman secretary and treasurer are usually ex ea officio members of the executive committee when the chapter has been fully organized gani gant zed a certificate of organization ri and election made out on blanks which will have been furnished will be sent to the division director if he finds it regular he will forward it to the director of Cli chapters apters at washington it will be taken by him before the central committee and a formal recognition of the new chapter will be granted from that moment the chapter is the off official iclal representative of the american red cross in the territory over which it has jurisdiction the nane name of the chapter Is usually that of the town in which it Is formed the name roust must be geographical and the territory over which the chapter wishes jurisdiction must be ba clearly set forth in the pe petition and will be as clearly defined in the authority to organize and in the formal recognition by tho the central committee |
