Monday, May 19, 1941 As president of the United States, Franklin D. Roosevelt holds the office of president of the Ameri¬can Red Cross. The other national officers elected annually by the central committee are two or more vice presidents, a counselor, a trea¬surer and a secretary. Charles Evans Hughes, vice president; Her¬bert Hoover, vice president; Rob¬ert H. Jackson, counselor; Daniel W. Bell, treasurer, and Mabel T. Boardman, secretary, are the of¬ficers of the present-day national staff. The chairman of the central committee is the executive head of the Red Cross under the advice and direction of the committee. Nor¬man H. Davis, American states¬man, is the presiding chairman. He is assisted by three vice chair¬men, the vice chairman in charge of domestic operations, the vice chairman of insular and foreign operations, and the vice chairman in charge of finance, who are the national executive officers of the Red Cross. The vice chairman in charge of insular and foreign operations is immediately responsible for the ad-ministration of all activities of the American National Red Cross in insular and foreign territory and for relations with the international committee, the League of Red Cross Societies, and foreign Red Cross organizations. The present official is James L. Fieser, public service administrator. James K. McClintock is the vice chairman in charge of finance, gen¬eral financial officer, and also as-sistant secretary of the corpora¬tion. The department of account¬ing comes under his jurisdiction and statistical information re¬quired in the Red Cross is col¬lected in this department. The vice chairman in charge of domestic operations is Ernest J. Swift He is immediately responsi¬ble for the administration of all Red Cross activities in the con¬tinental United States and Alaska. —B. G. C. The Red Cross Wednesday, May 21, 1941 For administrative purposes con¬tinental United States is divided into three areas, Eastern, Midwest¬ern and Pacific, each under a man¬ager, functioning as an assistant to the vice chairman and responsible to him for the administration of all Red Cross activities within the states in his area. Area offices serve the chapters located within the states in their respective juris¬dictions. Directors of services are responsible for the development of national policies in their particular fields and for professional and technical standards of the work done in chapters. The chapter is the local unit of the Red Cross and responsible for all activities within its territory, subject to policies and regulations of the national organization. Ter¬ritory assigned to a chapter is usu-ally a single county. When circum¬stances make other arrangements desirable, branches of the chapter are organized, deriving their au¬thority and territory assignment from the chapter. All funds and property coming into possession of a branch are administered in ac¬cordance with regulations and in-structions of the chapter. Funds and property of the Red Cross com¬ing into possession of the chapter are subject to the control of the central committee. Chapters have a voice in na¬tional policies through the six chapter representatives serving on the central committee and through resolutions passed by chapter dele¬gates attending the Red Cross an-nual convention or the regional conferences. The annual conven¬tion is held, usually in Washington, D. C., each spring, and regional conferences generally in the autumn, in every state or places convenient to a large number of Red Cross chapters within the ter¬ritory. Through a staff of field rep¬resentatives operating from head¬quarters, chapters are kept in touch with the national organiza¬tion, are informed of new policies and rulings, advised in the conduct of their activities and assisted in the attainment of a high standard of service.—B. G. C. The Red Cross Friday, May 23 There are seven classes of Amer¬ican Red Cross membership: an¬nual, contributing, sustaining, sup-porting, life, patron and honorary membership. Any citizen or resi¬dent of the United States may be-come a member of the organization by applying to the central com¬mittee or a chapter and by the pay-ment of dues. Annual members pay $1 yearly, contributing members $5 yearly, sustaining members $10 yearly and supporting members $25 yearly. A life member pays $50 and a patron $100. The methods by which American Red Cross funds are handled should prove of interest to Red Cross members. Fifty cents of each of the annual, contributing, sus¬taining and supporting member¬ships are sent to national head¬quarters for deposit in the general fund of the national organization. The remainder is retained in the chapter to which the member be¬longs to defray the cost of chapter activities. All of the life and patron mem¬bership dues and all unrestricted legacies become part of the endow-ment fund of the national organiza¬tion. This is a permanent fund which is administered under the board of nine trustees, of whom six are elected by the incorporators to serve for four years. The other three members are the secretary of the treasury, the treasurer of the United States, and the officer of the United States treasury who has been appointed by the president to serve on the central committee. Only the yearly interest on the en¬dowment fund is available for cur¬rent expenditure. This interest is credited to the general fund. The general fund is the fund from which the central committee appropriates the amounts necessary to defray the administrative ex¬penses of the national organiza¬tion and to carry on the various services which it conducts.—B.G.C.