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PUBLIC LEDGER
RED CROSS ROLL CALL .
FOR CHRISTMAS WEEK
American Public Asked to Respond With Uni
versal Membership.
Is your name written there? Where?
On the Red Cross Christmas Roll Call,
of course.
Beginning with Red Cross Sunday,
December 15, the entire American na
tion will be given the opportunity dur
ing the week of December 16 to 23 to
line up for all those errands of mercy
that the bright Red Cross against
the white background has come to
symbolize.
This is in no sense a call for funds.
It is the annual call for service1. Ev
ery member of every household, from
the grandfather to the nursery, should
be represented on the Red Cross Serv
ice Flag. Only dollar memberships
are being asked for, and these are for
the calendar year of 1919.
Everywhere throughout the four
teen Red Cross divisions the week will
be celebrated as a rededication to per
sonal service and self sacrifice. No
matter what may be the immediate task
ahead, there are bound to be increas
ing demands made on the Red Cross
during the coming year, and every
American, whether here or in foreign
parts, has his part to play.
Through the Divisions every Chap
ter, and through the Chapter every
Branch and Auxiliary will spread, the
Red Cross Message and endeavor to
enroll every person in every com
munity. Already the membership in
this national organization has grown
from some few hundred thousand in
1916 to more than twenty millions since
our own country entered the world
war. There are no limits set for the
191S Christmas enrollment. Every
American everywhere is the hoped
for goal.
Programs subject to local conditions
will be arranged for the week, based
on suggestions worked out by national
campaign managers at Headquarters.
On Roll Call Sunday the Red Cross
message will be preached from every
pulpit, and all church meetings will
arrange special programs of Red Cross
activities.
With the. co-operation of local art
ists, every community will be deco
rated with Red Cross posters. Pasters
will be used on all packages sent out
from the stores during Roll Call week,
and the movies will show films pictur
ing the various Red Cross agencies at
home and abroad. "For All Human
ity" shows scenes taken on the actual
battlefield. There will also be Wo
men's day, club programs on Red
Cross, special exercises in the Red
Cross workrooms, Employees day
(when special tribute will be paid to
the contribution made by the laboring
man), the week ending with a general
"Clean-up" day, when every person in
the community not yet enrolled will
again be personally solicited for mem
bership. It is believed that some time during
the week at least one performance of
the masque, "The Roll Call," especial
ly written by Mr. Percy Mackaye, with
stage settings designed by Robert Ed
mond Jones, will be given in -every
community. This has but twelve
speaking parts and is arranged espe
cially for community presentation,
with men, women and children in the
pantomime parts. It can be given
either elaborately or very simply, as
conditions warrant. In its dramatic
theme it expresses the emancipation
of the human spirit from tyranny
through the humanizing agency of the
American Red Cross. Copies of the
masque, as well as directions for cos
tuming and incidental music, can be
secured at Red Cross Headquarters In
every town and city.
One of the most novel and Interest
ing features of the campaign promises
to be the One-day and One-Hour plan
of enrollment. This consists of divid
ing the community into units of one
hundred houses, the idea being to have
sufficient workers to canvass these
homes practically simultaneously, a
sort of "home stretch," distributing
the work among many with a mini
mum of time consumed by each.
The official uniform worn by Roll
Call workers will be a cap and arm
brassard. These are to be made of
red flannel and a small paper circle In
white will carry the Red Cross em
blem. This uniform will serve both as
protection against the unscrupulous and
as an aid to the workers themselves.
Corporations, business firms and in
dustries will be supplied with a 100
Service flag.
There will be no Christmas sale of
tuberculosis seals this year. Instead,
the Red Cross has made a direct ap
propriation of $2,500,000 for this work,
and ten seals will be awarded each
person who joins the Roll Call as a
reminder of the very important work
being done by the National Tubercu
losis Association.
Wars may come and wars may go,
but the Red Cross goes on forever.
Will you not be among the first to
place your name on the 1919 member
ship roll?
GENERAL NEWS.
W. Davis Ray, of Waynesville,
32 years old, took carbolic acid by
mistake for other medicine and is
dead.
Over 700 cases of influenza dev
eloped in Winston-Salem during last
'.veek, 22 deaiio resulting since De
cember 1.
John B. Johnston, ?. prominent
citizen of Charlotte, vnr. killed in a
stret car wreck in Baltimore Satur
day night.
High Point having abandoned
the quarantine against public gath
erings to prevent the spread of in
fluenza, i snow trying to quarantine
homes where the influenza prevals.
A "McAdoo-For-President" club
has been organized in -Asheville.' This
club is believed to be the first in the
United States organized to boom the
ex-secretary for the Democratic nom
ination in 1920.
Senator Simmons has been ad
vised that Lieutenant Hargrove Bail
ey of Wilmington, who has been in a
German prison camp for several.
months, has been released and is
now enroute through Switzerland to
join the American expeditionary forces.
Pinli Young, a white man living
lifr of a recluse in a hut. in the
popyArilp section, near Asheville,
war. found dead Wednesday. For
years he had lived alone giving no
information as to his people or the
place from which he came. He was
buried by the county.
The Florida conference of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, South,
at its annual session at Bartow, Fla.,
voted by a large majority in favor of
the church granting laity rights to
women. Proposed changes in the
creed, which would eliminate the ref
erence to the church as "the Holy
Catholic Church" also was approved
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Surprise the Family Tonight
Bake them some crispy, tasty; golden-brown biscuits made
from OCCO-NEE-CHEE Self-Rising Flour. Then watch the
way those goodies disappear one, two, three, four and every
one as good as the last.
OD -NEE-CHI
Self-Rising Flour
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Takes the Guess out of Baking and Saves you Money
With it you can make the same appetizing biscuits, waffles,
muffins and cakes time after time. There's no more guessing!
It has mixed with it, in the exact proportions, the very best
baking powder, soda and salt. It's economical because it
saves you the cost of these three materials. Buy a bag of
OCCO-NEE-CHEE Self-Rising Flour today. Look for
the Indian Head on the bag. At all grocers.
When you prefer to bake zvith plain flour
buy Peerless the best of its kind.
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CHRISTMAS TREES.
For Sick SoldiecLRoys At Azalea and
Waynesville Hospitals.
North Carolina Baracas and Phi
latheas have been honored with the
request to open the new Y. M. C. A.
House now near completion, at Aza
lea Hospital Christmas night. , A
Christmas tree with presents for 400
men will be provided together with
ice cream, cakes and candies. An
appropriate program of song, music
and recitation is now in course of
preparation and a big time for the
enlisted men at Azalea will be given,
to in a measure make up for the ab
sence from home and loved ones at
Christmas-tide.
For the sake of the boys away
from mother, home and loved ones,
for the sake of the mother, home
and loved ones, and for the sake of
Baraca-Philathea, to which this ev
ent is a signal honor and privilege,
we know you will be glad to helD
; make it a big success.
Please send us candy, nuts, fruits,
cakes or small articles which boys
away froh home wil appreciate,
and MONEY. The money will be us
ed for the purchase of refreshments
and presents for the boys.
Gifts will be provided by the North
Carolina Baracas and Philatheas to
the boys both at Azalea and Waynes
ville, 1600 of them away from
home and mother. Think what this
will mean to the boys who are sick
ana n from home!
Dr. Jackson ""and Mr. Beckett of
the Y. M. C. A. at these places have
stated that no one can possibly real
ize the great good that has been done
and the pleasure given, by the Bara
ca and Philathea classes of North
Carolina and the state office, at Aza
lea, Waynesville and Kanilworth hos
pitals. Quick action is urgent and abso
lutely necessary to make a success
of this .Christmas tree and Christmas
entertainment. Please send your
contributions at once and ask your
friends if they will help in this most
deserving cause. Send all contribu
tions plainly marked to Mrs. N.
Buckner, General Secretary, Ashe
ville, N. C. and help make a happy
Christmas for the sick soldier boys.
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For Infants and Children
In Use For Over 30 Years
Always bears , -
Signature of
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Invites new accounts
offering every banking fa
cility. We cash Warehouse
Checks and guarantee
prompt service.
J. W. HORNER, Pres. J. F. MEADOWS, Vlce-Pres.
J. P. HARRIS. Cashier.
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Put your flag
in the
front window
Two and three and more 1919 member
ships in the Red Cross are not necessary
one is enough, and a41 that is expected of you.
When you join you will receive a 1919 member
ship button, a service flag and a folder with ten
Red Cross Christmas seals.
Wear your button on the outside' of your coat
when your button is where it can be seen you won't
be asked to join a second time.
Put your flag in the front window of your home
with an additional membership cross for,each
one of your family who joins.
If you have been a member during 1918, RENEW
your membership NOW this will be your only
opportunity to answer "present" to the 1919 Red
Cross Christmas Call.
Wear your
button where
it can be seen
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all you need is a iiea ft and a dollar
THIS BPACE CONTRIBUTED BY
A. H. POWELL. """"