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in June, your membership will be automatically extended till a year from 

 next June, but we ask you to pay your dues in December, so as to get 

 all the work out of the way at this season of the year. 



I wonder how many in this room are members of the Red Cross? 

 (Quite a large number of hands were raised.) I want to appeal to you 

 members not to wait to be asked to work in this campaign, but when you 

 get home, call up the chairman or the auxiliary and tell them that you 

 want a part in this campaign. 



This is the Red Cross service flag. (Mr. Wallace here displayed the 

 flag.) All the chapters in Iowa will have one of these flags for every 

 member. The idea is that as soon as you become a member of the Red 

 Cross in this Christmas campaign, you put this flag in the window, and 

 on Christmas night we want you to put a candle behind the flag. Wouldn't 

 it be a fine thing if that service flag of the Red Cross was in every 

 window in Iowa on Christmas night! For every member there will be a 

 little red cross. This signifies one member in a family, and for every 

 additional member they will have a little Red Cross sticker to put in 

 the corner for each member of your family Avho is a member. There 

 ought to be a lot of 100 per cent memberships. That would mean a 

 $2.00 membership for the head of the family, which would bring the 

 magazine, and a $1.00 membership for the wife and each of the children. 



I hope you will do as I request volunteer your services now; and I 

 hope those who are not now members will become so before Christmas. 

 I think there should be very many homes in Iowa with less than fifty 

 per cent for the Red Cross, if not one hundred per cent. I do not see 

 how we can sit at our firesides on Christmas night and realize that 

 the Red Cross will be responsible for bringing many of our boys home 

 to us — perhaps saving many of their lives through quick and efficient 

 treatment when they are w-ounded, and say to ourselves that we have 

 not worked in this campaign and are not even members. I hope no 

 farm home in Iowa will say that on Christmas night. 



President Sykes: I wish to endorse and commend everything that 

 Mr. Wallace has said concerning the work of the Red Cross and the 

 part that we should take in maintaining it. I believe that we people 

 in the agricultural and rural districts do not appreciate what the Red 

 Cross is doing for the world. Let us not be stingy with our money. 

 What does $10 or $15 or $25 amount to, anyway? We have got to win 

 this war; we are all set on that: and if the Red Cross can help us to 

 win it, let us help the Red Cross. I hope that every one of us, when this 

 campaign comes on, will do his p^art willingly and enthusiastically, and 

 get the other fellow to take hold and do what he can in this good work. 



In the temp.orary absence of Toastmaster Wallace, President Sykes 

 called upon D. W. Anglum, who told in an amusing manner of his recent 

 trip to Sheridan, Wyoming. Preaideht Sykes then introduced Professor 

 W. A. Cochel, of Kansas. 



Professor Cochel: Ladies and Gentlemen: I have lived in Kansas 

 now for a little over six years, and in that time I have learned to accept 

 all the stories that are told in regard to the state, and say that they are 

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