| Show ALL UTAH HELPING TO RAISE FUNDS FOR SOLDIERS Chairman Jensen Will Name Assistants j Campaign Under Way Sunday Answering the call for funds that at will hearten the soldier boys and make their thel life as pleasant as the rigors of war will permit citizens of or Utah in all parts o of tho the state are loyally responding responding- when asked to participate in the f Campaign for forthe forthe forthe the Soldiers Welfare fund of ot In Salt Lake W. W F P. P Jensen who has baa been appointed chairman of ot the general genera canvassing committee stated that he would have the livest kind of at a committee commit commit- tee to aid him He expected to announce the names of ot its members late this afternoon afternoon afternoon aft aft- or tomorrow From other parts of ot the state come reports reports re reports re- re ports that the chairman of the county I councils of defense arc are gathering their organizations together and starting out vigorously to prepare for the opening of ot the campaign Sunday Sundar Every church and ward organization In n the state is lending its aid to the cause Next Sunday has been designated as SoldIers SoldIers' Sol Sol- diers' diers Welfare Fund Sunday and this will 1111 be the theme of ot all sermons and discussions discussions dis dl- dis- dis among tho the various arious religious bodies I The churches are also going to organize committees for soliciting funds among II their theil members All workers In the cause In Salt Lake LakeI will meet at a dinner next Monday night at 7 o'clock in the Commercial club I where the drive time will be bo begun in earnest With preliminary reports coming in from all parts of ot the Eastern department department department depart depart- ment Lyman I L L. Pierce campaign manager manager manager man man- ager in the West for the Y Y M. M C C. A war work drive with headquarters in San Francisco stated that he believed the Western Vestern states would oversubscribe their quotas according to word received by David DavidA A. A Smith chairman of ot the Soldiers Soldiers' Sol Soi- Sol Sol- diers' diers Welfare fund executive committee The public Is appreciative of ot the war I work of ot the Y T. M M. M C. C A. A said Mr Pierce Thousands of letters from soldIer soldier sol sol- dier boys have carried the message of the work into the homes and the people are aware of what the association is doIng doIng do- do Ing at the training camp in this country and for the American soldiers that have gono gone overseas Every Ivery cent of ot the money will benefit the soldier It will be the expression of the people that they believe In him and that they the want to do everything In their power to make his life happier happer and easier while he Is away from home fightIng fighting fight fight- ing the battles of his country In a wire from New York Just received received re re- re A. A II Whitford of ot the national committee announces one subscription of In the West Vest we have already had one subscription of ot and another another another an an- other of ot In one town six men menat menat menat at a n. meeting subscribed 1000 each It looks as if It the West Vest was keenly alive to the necessity of ot providing its Ita soldiers with at least some of the comforts of home In other parts of the country the funds which are ben being g raised under the direction direction tion of ot the United States commission on war camp activities to be expended by the Y Y M. M C A A. the Y W. W C C. C A. A and the war camp community recreation service are being collected b by separate drives In Utah all three have been combined In n Inthe Inthe the Soldiers Soldiers' Welfare fund and will be obtained h. h by one campaign The progress reported for the Y V. M M. C C. A A. fund by Mr Pierce Is taken as an Indication in In- In of what might be he expected In Utah for the Soldiers' Soldiers Welfare fund Kf riis I report has greatly encouraged cd the workers workers workers work work- ers for the fund here |
