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Show ioiiiiiE OK BEGINS TODAY Utah Asked to Contribute $100,000 to Nation-Wide Movement. BIG DINNER TONIGHT Cities and Towns of Utah Will Organize for Intensive In-tensive Canvass. Give to the Comfort of Our Soldier Boys! THE men of our new national array are in training at the great military camps; thousands axe already in France. Tiioir hours are lc?; their training train-ing is hard and long. These boys of ours must be provided with places of recreation and amusement at the camps when the long evening hours COlilP. Every loyal Ame r i c an man and woman will help to bring back our soldier boys free from disease, clean and high-nnnded. Then give gen-erouslv gen-erouslv and AT ONCE to the Soldiers' Sol-diers' 'Welfare fund. The campaign will open nation-wide toUay. Utah's share is 100,000. Don't wait for the canvassing committees. Mail your check TODAY TO-DAY to your county council of defense, de-fense, or to E. O. Howard, treasurer treas-urer Soldiers' Welfare fund, Commercial Com-mercial club. Salt Lake City. Soldiers' Welfare Fund Executive Committee of the State Council of Defense. David A. Smith, Chairman. The preat nation-wide drive for a SMr',-im,unn SMr',-im,unn fund to care lor i he moral and plivsical arc nientaJ comfort and welfare of the soldier boys of the new national armv opens today in every city, town, village" vil-lage" and rural community In the United l"tah's share is Sinn.OftO. li must be raised this week, from November No-vember 11 to November Hh The soldiers' welfare fund executive committee of the state council of defense is in oharcre of the state-wide campaign for the raisinc of this MOO.'V""' and this penet.nl committee is workinc ihrcmch the i i'jntv eonn' ils of defense in every .-ounty of the stale. avid A. Smith of Salt Lake is chairman of the state committee. Plans Now Complete. W. K. Jensen of Salt Lake Is chairman of the ceneral canvassing committee, which has been placed in charge of the orc-ani?-ation and operations of the numerous numer-ous working committees who will visit the men and women of every industry and business house in the state and solicit funds toward making: up 1'ta.h's $100.0f" The last details of organization will be perfected tonicht at a big dinner for the workers on thee committees to be held at 7 oV'oi-k at the- Commercial club. PIshop Glass of Salt Lake will deliver a Tak to the diners. The cities and towns of the state have been thoroughly organized for a personal la nvass. and Secretary David Larsen of the Commer-:r.il club, who is also secretary secre-tary of the soldiers' welfare fund execu-i execu-i i e committee. ha s been working day and nicht, on the details of the organization organiza-tion that takes the fi-d this morning1 to sc.ure SltVi.OQO for I'tah. To Aid Soldiers. The roor.ey heintr raised this week is to be expended by the United States government gov-ernment throurh the agencies of the T. M. C. A., the T. W. C. A. and the war camp community recreation service, for the- moral, physical and mental welfare wel-fare of the hundreds of thousands of soldier sol-dier boys now in training at the concentration concen-tration camrs in this country and France. Army commanders and government officials of-ficials have issued a ri limine' appeal for loyal support to the campaign. Sunday found every minister and re-liioi;s re-liioi;s speaker in the t ity announcing the big drive and supporting it unstinting'. unstint-ing'. The soldiers' v. el tare fund executive committee nrce-s that people do not wait for committees to call upon them, but that they mstke their donations at once, sending checks to county councils of defense, de-fense, or to E. O. Howard, treasurer of the committee, at the Salt Lake Commer-ial Commer-ial club. |