Red Cross Christmas Roll Call Contest - November 15, 1918
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COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC INFORMATION DIVISION OF FOUR MINUTE MEN November 15, 1918 For use [December] 2 to [December] 20, 1918 School Bulletin No. 4 THE JUNIOR FOUR MINUTE MEN Red Cross Christmas Call Contest MINUTE MEN 10 JACKSON PLACE WASHINGTON, D.C. Another Chance to Serve To the Teachers and Boys and Girls of America: You and I will agree when I say that the Government knows how much boys and girls can help in the big things it is doing, for I am going to tell you now of a new way in which you are called upon to serve our country. The Red Cross has set aside the week before Christmas as a period in which every American will have a chance to prove loyalty to our country and soldiers by taking out a membership in the American Red Cross. There are twenty-five million members now. By Christmas Eve we want as many Red Cross members as there are loyal Americans. If you are already Red Cross Junior members through your school auxiliary, the Red Cross does not ask you to become members again, but it does ask you to help in the great work of telling others why they should join. There has been arranged a Junior Four Minute Men Contest, similar to those held in many schools for the Liberty Loan and the War Savings Campaigns, through which you can do your share in bringing to your fathers and mothers and friends their chance to prove themselves loyal citizens of a unified country, fighting for one ideal. The subject of this Four Minute Men Contest, which will be held in December, is
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The Red Cross Spirit Speaks Wherever war with its red woes, Or flood, or fire, or famine goes, There, too, go I; If earth in any quarter quakes Or pestilence its ravage makes, Thither I fly. I kneel behind the soldier
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| Title | Red Cross Christmas Roll Call Contest - November 15, 1918 |
| Creator | William H. Ingersoll |
| Source | Ingersoll, William H. Red Cross Christmas Roll Call Contest. 15 November 1918. Lawrence County World War I Collection. Lawrence County Historical Society, Mt. Vernon, Missouri. |
| Description | A pamphlet encouraging women and children to join the Red Cross. A campaign was held the week before Christmas to increase the amount of members in the organization. |
| Subject LCSH | World War, 1914-1918--War work--Red Cross; World War, 1914-1918--War work--Women |
| Subject Local | WWI; World War |
| Contributing Institution | Lawrence County Historical Society |
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| Date Original | November 15, 1918 |
| Language | English |