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Show Annual RollCall To Be Made For Red Cross Red Cross chapters throughout the Pacific Area are making en-, thusiastic preparations for the annual an-nual Roll Call for memberships t.i be held from Armistice Day to Thanksgiving-, November 11-24, says Douglas H. Moore, assistant national na-tional director of Roll Call at the Pacific Branch Office, San Francisco. Fran-cisco. Responding to stirring messages from the Central Committee, the governing body of the Red Cross at Washington, D. C, visualizing the tremendous relief project carried car-ried on by the Red Cross and stating that relief on a huge scale must be continued this winter, the entire Pacific Coast has indicated indi-cated its desire to help the Red Cross alleviate distress. ' In its presentation of conditions the Central Committee says: "The American Red Cross today faces a great emergency. Demands for its services exceed those of any period since the World War. Mii-lions Mii-lions are without employment. They have seen their resources dwindle in the economic catastrophe, catastro-phe, as victims of disaster have seen their possessions snatched from them by tornado, flood, fire and drought. "During the last year Red Cross aid has been carried to more than, three and a half million of these families. Tins relief, supplementing supplement-ing valiant efforts of local com-munities, com-munities, has reached into every state. ' The Red Cross was asked by the government to distribute, in the form of flour and feed for livestock, forty million bushels of wheat. This vast supply has gene into homes of needy and distressed people in cities and towns of every ev-ery State. It has filled the gap in depleted local resources in many communities. The Red Cross must administer the distribution of flour from an additional forty-five million bushels of Government wheat. It must administer the transformation of 500,000 bales of Government cotton into garments for men, women and children. "Red Cross chapters in 2. 276 ' communities have been engaged in 1 unemployment relief. Food, shelter, uiummg, ycii Lieu aetu, iiieuiHl ituu nursing care have been provided. This relief has been given in industrial in-dustrial centers, coal mining regions re-gions and agricultural sections. "During the last year the Red Cross has provided relief and rehabilitation re-habilitation in 90 disasters at home and in the insular possessions. posses-sions. The emergency is not yet passed Relief on a tremendous scale this winter. "For continued support of this program the Red Cross must turn tD those millions of Americans devoted de-voted to service who are willing to make personal sacrifices. It ha-i made no separate call for an unemployment un-employment relief fund to cany its part of the load. It does, however, how-ever, ask greater support this year through largely increased membership member-ship everywhere. It confidently looks to the people, who have always al-ways expressed tnelr confidence in their Red Cross, for increased support sup-port that it may so far as possible meet its obligations to those In distress. "The Central Committee of the American Red Cross, therefore, urges every Chapter and Branch of the National Organization to take such steps in perfecting its Roll Call organization as will assure as-sure the membership increases called for by this emergency." With a population of 9,733,221 in the Pacific Area, the membership member-ship quota has been set at 546,325. Mr. Moore reports Chapters are eagerly accepting the quotas. On the basis assigned, the states aie expected to enroll the following membership: Arizona, 14,200; California, Cal-ifornia, 342,625; Idaho, 20,000; Ne-'vada, Ne-'vada, 5,350: Oregon, 52.5U0; Utah, 1 19.900; Washington, 88.550. Alas-' Alas-' ka's quota is 3,200 members. |