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Show Community Red Cross Drive Launched Here The annual drive for membership in the Red Cross, national service organization, is now on, and will continue until Thanksgiving day, although the most intense part of the drive will be over before the first of the week. Mrs. Ora Chipman, local distributing distrib-uting agent of the Red Cross, and Mayor William S. Storrs are leading the drive. Miss Lillie Shafte is secretary-treasurer of the local chapter. A meeting was held Mon- day night and another last night to get the drive completely organized. Mayor William H. Storrs is backing back-ing the heads of the committees in charge to the fullest degree, and subscribed for the first membership this year, and other officials of the city and civic organizations already have answered the "roll call." The captains of the various dis-l tricts named are: First, Mrs- Helen Mercer; Second, Fred Bradley and Mrs. Violet Peters; Third, Albert Tregaskis; Fourth, Glen Chadwick and Mrs- May Laursen, with Mayor Storrs as general chairman. The membership is one dollar per person, and of this one dollar, the local chapter keeps fifty cents for local emergency relief purposes, but, and here is something the average citizen is not aware of, the national and state organization made available avail-able for relief distribution among the needy families here last year many, many times this amount in clothing, etc. American Fork last-year last-year realized in benefit from this service organization help for 300 families of our community. There was distributed to these purposes blankets, shirts, sweaters, pants, hose, bloomers, -percale for dresses, flannel, maternity kits, night gowns, etc., etc. There still exists some misunderstanding misunder-standing as to the functioning of i the Red Cross. The primary pur- pose is to give relief in emergencies-All emergencies-All persons who are getting Federal Fed-eral relief money are expected to take out memberships. President Roosevelt is president of the Red Cros6, and he appoints the chairman who is Judge John Bartin Payne, who serves without pay. The cost of operation is but 5 percent, a record no other service organization has obtained. The Red Cross has a peace-time program of public service of even greater value than its war-time program, and the Red Cross Is manned by volunteers which are its strength- In five years of economic depression depres-sion and partial recovery Red Cross has given direct relief to one out of every five persons in the United J States. These were your own fellow citizens victims of unemployment, drought, tornado, flood, earthquake and other causes of distress. In giving giv-ing food, clothing, housing, nursing, medical care and helping them to self-sustaining livelihood, the Red Cross spent $18,835,525 and distrib- uted in addition wheat and cotton products valued in excess of seventy millions of dollars throughout the U S. The Utah chapters last year gave assistance to 792 ex-service men or their families. Conducted 54 Red Cross home hygiene classes, 947 women under Instruction. Conducted Conduct-ed 65 classes in First Aid, giving 1073 persons Red Cross First Aid certificates. Conducted 10 life saving sav-ing campaigns, 298 new life savers qualified for membership. ' Conducted Con-ducted 5 three month public health nursing programs. Produced 64,365 garments for relief and welfare work. Utah has 15.954 Red Cross members, to compare favorably with states around her, she should have 25.000. Every man and every woman in America is invited to become a member of the R-ed Cross- By enrolling en-rolling in this great Legion of Mercy you will be represented upon every scene of distress. j |
