EDSEL FORD HELPS RED CROSS CAMPAIGN

The New York Times
November 30, 1922

Authorizes 3,000 Employes in New York to Co-operate—Pastors to Ask Aid.

Martin W. Littleton, general chairman of the Red Cross Roll Call, received a telegram last night from Edsel Ford authorizing the cooperation of New York officials of the Ford Motor Company in obtaining employes' subscriptions. The Ford Company employes 3,000 in its New York plant and offices.

Girls of the Overseas Service League will help entertain disabled veterans at the Red Cross Clubhouse, 129 East Thirty-ninth Street, this afternoon. In Brooklyn the Red Cross is giving an entertainment at the Naval Hospital, and various children's activities are being sponsored in other sections of the city by Red Cross volunteers.

Pastors will make appeals for the Roll Call at services today, and the Red Cross refugee work in the Near East will be the subject of talks in the headquarters of the Y. M. C. A., Y. W. C. A. and other organizations co-operating in relief work in the stricken area.

W. R. Jones of Jones & Baker is one of the latest subscribers of large sums, sending his check for $1,000. Returns from the architects' group show a total ten times as large as that of last year. Subscriptions among fire insurance men have been quadrupled this year. The National Biscuit Company has sent in a total which is three times that of last year. Rogers, Peet & Co. and the American Sugar Refining Company are among the latest of the large concerns to report 100 per cent. enrollment.