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Show SCHOOL HEAD ASKS CfiDETSJ ENLIST Main Street Headquarters for Training Camp Are Now Open. INTEREST IS GROWING Denver Men Begin to Show Enthusiasm for Great Enterprise. With the opening of tho now headquarters head-quarters at tho Felt building yesterday end the results already obtained, the success of the final recruiting campaign J'or tho citizens' military training camp is almost an assured fact, according to the committeo chairman. Final plans arc being completed for the campaign that will open in all earnestness tomorrow to-morrow morning bright and early. With flags, pictures, banners and pictures pic-tures of other camps, the headquarters on Main streot will show tho thousands of pa.nsors-by what the camp really is, what the need for it is and what its purposes and duties are. Even though yesterday was a half holiday for nuiuy workers, tho new office was steadily bo-Hioged bo-Hioged with inquiries from men who are just becoming interested in the movement. move-ment. Many of them expect to enlist the first of the week. Thirteen enlisted yesterday, nnd the number, together with tho sixteen of the provious day, gives tho committee concrete con-crete evidence of the renewed enthusiasm enthu-siasm for tho camp. Ono of the committee commit-tee members said yesterday: "If it had been possible to start this campaign as earnestly before as it is going now, thoro would be a thousand men at Fort i)ouglas when the camp opens on August Denver Is Interested. But with the work that is going on now and will bo started today, the committeo com-mitteo has expressed a firm belief that, the five hundred number will bo ex-1 c ceded. Tho two recruits from Denver, which up to this time had shown no interest in tho camp, gives evidence that tho campaign has started there in earnest. . jt is oxpocted that a groat many more will enroll from the Colorado city. Letters urging an enlistment at the citizons' military training camp were Bent out yesterday to 200 former and present cadots of tho high school battalion bat-talion by Superintendent Frnest A. Smith and Supervising Principal George A. Katon of the public schools. After a canvass of tho situation school officials offi-cials believed yesterday that thero would be a ready response to the call and tli at an enrollment of more than 100 cadets would result. Cadets Get Letters. The letters were sent to cadets past the age of 18 years. The object was explained as follows: The board of education, at a spe-rhil spe-rhil meottns held Thursday. July 6, to discuss this matter, voted to give its unqualified moral support to the movement, and, furthermore, instructed in-structed t he superintendent and the supervising principal to communicate this fact to all present and former high school cadets who shall have at-ttiined at-ttiined the requisite ne 18 years. It was provided also that for those present stud on ts of the high Bchool who shall join th'e training camp, thus necessitating a short delay in their return to school, special arrangement of classes would be made so that their school standing would be in nowise affected. 8. A. Maglnnlg, who took over the executive reins of the camp yesterday, eald last night that the manner in which the committeemen are getting Into the movement and the way In which various business firms of the city are co-operating, he can see no reason why the camp should not be an unqualified success. Statement Issued. In the morning Chairman Maginnts Issued Is-sued the following statement to ail citizens: citi-zens: Realizing the necessity of Immediate action and the vital importance of the training camp which the government has allowed us at our request, the committee has opened headquarters at 333 South Main street and Is prepared to answer all questions and furnish all information relative to the camp. We appeal to all of the patriotic citizens, particularly of Salt I-ake City, to assist us in making- a success suc-cess of the camp. We are prepared to answer calls in person, by phone, mail, or by wire. Would also be glad to have a representative rep-resentative of the committee address any meetings of any size whatever, whether men or women, and explain the purposes of the camp. We expect, through the generosity fif the newspapers, to have a train-ng train-ng camp department in each paper, In which will be published from day to day a list of those enrolling and the honor roll of firms and individuals who are assisting- In the movement. We will ask you to read this department de-partment and tho Items that are carried car-ried in it The training camp will be held and we are satisfied it will come up to all expectations. We request the active support of all citizens. Added Recruits. Mr. Maglnnis wishes to thank the following fol-lowing firms tor their assistance in the new office: The Arrow Press, the Pembroke Pem-broke company, the Freed Furniture company, com-pany, the H. Dlnwoodey company and the fcitiKieboker company. Denver was the only point outside of TTtah represented by recruits vesterdav. j fait Lake contributed six of "the thir- ! teen. The names of the recruits are as : follows: George B. Andrews, teacher and rancher of Salt Lake; John 1 Bennett 1 of the Utah Power & Light company of Bingham; Walter L, Kirk, paving teller of the Salt Lake Security & Trust com- 1 pany; J. Henry Khlers of the engineering department of the Mountain States Telephone Tele-phone & Telegraph company; Ernest J Tracy and Robert G. Andrews, both of the Colorado National bank of Denver Colo.; Harold Borgard of the t'tah Fuel company at Sunnyslde; Monroe O Carl- ; eon. mining engineer of the t'tah Fuel company of Castles-ate; Rudolph Fhirn- 1 merdinghe of Rlnjrham; Wil-ord J. Uen inspector of the Utah Light A Traction company: Jay S. Glen, manager of the ' Glen Brothers-Roberts Piano company Fred U. Gordy, salesman with the Ja-res ' S. Kirk company; diaries KM Randall I high school cadet, all of Salt Lake ' : |