Above: Mrs. Margaret Feeny of the Red Cross motor corps provides transportation for 11-year-old Ross Sibert to the Crippled Children’s clinic. Famous American Doing His Bit in Red Cross Campaign Among the thousands of Americans performing volunteer service for the American Red Cross is George Catlett Marshall, former chief of staff, former secretary of state, author of the Marshall plan, senior officer of the army, a five star general who is supposed to be retired. General Marshall at 69, recovering from a severe illness, serious about this duties as president of the American Red Cross, is touring the country, speaking to the chapter workers and the public, proclaiming the need for and his confidence in the Red Cross. The Red Cross, he tells his hearers, is required under its charter from congress and under international treaty to assist the armed forces of the United States in war and in peace. It is required to act swiftly in great national calamities and ease suffering caused by pestilence, famine, fire and floods. It is required to administer emergency relief in foreign lands. Red Cross is an organization that belongs to the people, the general points out. It works through 3,700 county chapters and 5,000 branches. One by one he takes up the GI gripes against Red Cross. The complaint from soldiers that they had to pay for Red Cross coffee and doughnuts, he says, arose from Secretary Stimsons’s order that this be done so American soldiers among the allies wouldn’t be in the position of being favored over their buddies of other lands. The general points out that the number of soldiers and sailors is large today so Red cross service to them must be more extensive than in pre-war periods. He also points out the Red Cross responsibility for blood banks. General Marshall’s confidence in the Red Cross, his statement of its needs and his devoted leadership to Red Cross should help us to make up our minds to support it generously by our contributions in the present campaign for funds.