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Show WAR WIVES FINDING POSniDNDIFFICULT Natural Desire to Live Near Soldier Husbands Cause of Many Problems. RELIEF CORPS MOVES First Allowance Made for Wife Is Received Here. "One of the many problems, often -serious, which the Red Cross lias to face almost al-most daily Is caused by the anxiety of wives to be near their soldier husbands," eaid Miss Kate Williams, executive secretary secre-tary of the civilian relief branch of the local Red Cross chapter. The secretary pointed out that while the desire of the women to be. so far as possible, in the company of and a comfort to their husbands hus-bands was natural, the realization of this desire was attended with well-nigh insuperable in-superable obstacles In most cases. "T'niess the wife of the soldier has means of her own," said Miss Williams, "or capacity to command high wages, she faces a condition that she seldom understands, and one beyond the power of the Red Cross to remedy. The organization or-ganization can, if conditions warrant, assist as-sist the woman in effecting one readjust ment, due mere i nu i-ei mmij n, an others will not almost immediately follow. fol-low. The soldier husband never knows to what camp, in what part of the country coun-try or at what time the government will order his transfer." Miss Williams explained that it had alreadv come to her knowledge that several sev-eral of the big training ramps, notably at San Djego, Camp Kearny and Fort Sill, Oklahoma, were besieged daily by hundreds of women who sought to be near their husbands. These wives, in the majority of cases, are without means. They are willing to work for a living, but the very fact of their presence in such large numbers causes a congestion in the labor market and they are unable to find employment. Miss Williams said that out of the numerous cases that bad come to the attention of the Salt take chapter the young wives, in all but two instances, had been made to sec the inadvisability of undertaking to follow their husbands and to live near their camps unless provided pro-vided for by independent means of some character. Relief Corps Moves. The civilian relief department of the Salt Lake chapter was yesterday moved from the former quarters, 120 East Second Sec-ond South street, to the new home of the general headquarters in the Amelia palace pal-ace and now occupies the entire third floor of the building. There are three large and well-furnished rooms, with Miss Mae Hawley in charge of the office force. At the supply department offices it was stated yesterday that there was still a considerable quantity of wool on hand, so that the orders of all knitters in the local chapter could be filled as fast as 1 received, a condition that is highly gratifying grati-fying to the officials, since during a part of. th autumn and winter the department, was sometimes weeks behind in orders. i Miss Williams said that the civilian re- I lirf department had received yesterday the first allowance made by the govern- j inent for a soldier's wife in Salt Take, j and the others, she expected, would fol- j low in rapid succession. She explained that under the government provisions the soldier assigning $13 per month for his wife's support, the wife is allowed an additional $15 if there are no children, Slf) per month more in case of one child, $; per month more if there should be two children, with a pro raf a amount for other children, the maximum allowance allow-ance being not more than ?50 per month. It Is, however, necessary that the married mar-ried soldier must have made the proper ;t.sslgnment application in favor of the wile for her to secure this benefit, numerous nu-merous cases having come to the attention atten-tion of the government, one in Salt Lake in particular, where a married soldier enlisted en-listed as a single man. The allowance in favor of the wife is compulsory, one in favor of other relatives purely voluntary volun-tary on the part of the man enlisting. Men eo the necessity that both soldier husbands and their wives should clearly understand the provisions made by the government. Information Bureau Opens. At the local headquarters the bureau 'f information whs opened yesterdny w i t h 1 Irs . W. Mont Fe r r y i n charge . Kven the first few hours served to prove I he wisdom of establishing this department. depart-ment. Mrs. Ferry lias her desk In the hig hn.11. inimcdiii tely east of the main staircase. She is ;ible to at onco direct nil callers to the lie.nl of the department or the office of the person they are seek- Ing. Heretofore, during the hours when the executive and clerical forces were busiest with their routine work, there were so many callers seeking information informa-tion regarding various branches of the work that confusion was occasioned and office work suffered. Cnder the present system much time will be saved to all , directly concerned. The supply department yesterday reported re-ported the sending to Mountain "division "divi-sion headquarters, Denver, of six more eta ndard cases of supplies. The shipping ship-ping record was broken in December by the Salt take county chapter, with nearly forty cases, but from the start made yesterday, January hrtn fair to eclipse even the December showing. The surgica.1 dressings department continues con-tinues to grow in activity and magnitude. magni-tude. A group of women from Keno, Nov., yesteiTlny visited the loesl chapter chap-ter for information concerning the formation for-mation of classes in their own town, thus following the example of women from "Wyoming, Idaho and various sections of Utah. Women of the Swedish Lutheran church met hist night and organized an auxiliary to the local chapter. Another consignment of work from the Murray branrh was received yesterday. It included twenty bed shirts, fourteen puirs of pajamas and a dozen bed tcks. The branch officials took hack ten hobs ot material and fifty-four pounds of wool to continue the work. |