The Omaha Guide

GIVE DOUBLE
THIS YEAR!
RED CROSS CAMPAIGN GETS
UNDER WAY IN OMAHA

More than two thousand volunteer workers took to the field Monday, March 1, to raise Douglas County's share of the $125,000,000 necessary to finance work of the Red Cross. The campaign will open nationally with a radio talk next Sunday by President Roosevelt, who has set March aside as "Red Cross" month.

In Douglas County W. L. Wilco is general chairman of the campaign. Leonard Mangold of Bennington heads the effort in the county outside Omaha.

Fifty eight percent of the money subscribed locally will be used to finance Red Cross work throughout the world. Of this amount, two-thirds will be used for direct service to our armed forces, and the rest for action on the home front.

Forty-two percent of the contribution will be ear marked for Douglas County Chapter. It will be used here to make surgical dressings and garments, to train nurses aides. to teach home nurses, operate canteens, prepare for natural or military disasters, and to finance other activities locally.

Typical of Red Cross service on the home front are the twelve centers in Douglas County for making surgical dressings. The chapter has received a rush order for more than a million dressings. To fill it, Red Cross has had to open even branches to supplement the work done at the main center in the Union Pacific building. Thousands of women volunteer time for this service.

To serve America's fighting men Red Cross Sends field directors to every front, battle station and military establishment behind the lines. The field directors have already rendered direct service to a million service men and their families. Red Cross has opened 275 headquarters buildings furnished 175 Army and Navy hospital recreation buildings, and equipped 1,765 hospital sunrooms.

Campaign Headquarters are at 1522 Farnam Street. JA. 4850.