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Show SALT LAKE HEADY TO ASSIST GREAT RED CROSS DR!VE Plans Complete for Systematic System-atic Campaign for New Members; City and County Organized. SCHOOL CHILDREN TO ASSIST CANVASS Leaders Hopeful of Reaching Reach-ing Goal With Ease Before Be-fore Christmas Eve Rolls Around. The Red Cross membership drive, one of the most compelling and tremendous humanitarian movements, ever inaugurated inaugu-rated in the United States, begins today. Ten million new members to the Red Cross organization is the goal toward which every community in the United States ia headed. ' The present membership member-ship of the Red Cross is 5,000,000. The nat Ion -wide campaign is destined to add 10,000,000 more members, so that at 7: GO o'clock on Christmas eve, the hour -when the campaign ends, the Red Cross membership flags, with a lighted candle back of each one, w ill throw their glowing rays of mercy from the window panes of 15,000,000 homes in the United States. A service flag for every family will make this a Red Crops Christmas of mercy. A membership for 1MS in the Red Cross costs hut $1, and when a membership mem-bership dollar is sent on its errand of mercy, a work of relief that is the noblest thing in the world today is aided. The Red Cross is not at this time asking ask-ing for large contributions. It asks that each and every American become a part of the organization itself. The Red Cross this morning asks that before Christmas eve at 7:30 o'clock 10,000,000 Americans give $1 toward world relief. Utah's Quota 60,000 Utah's share of the 10,000,000 new members to be added" to the Red Crops this week is 60,000. Of this number, Salt La.ke City and county have agreed to raise 3-j.OOO. Fifteen thousand school children who have been granted a half holiday this afternoon will start on their rounds of homes and offices, soliciting one or more Red Cross membership at each. The city and county have hern proportioned pro-portioned off into districts and blocks and certain groups of children assigned to each. They begin their canva.a at 1 o'clock this afternoon and the committees com-mittees in chfirge of the city and county campaigns ask housewives a nd business men to have a dollar in cash ready for the school pupils , when they call. Only cash will be accepted; no checks can be taken by the children. At every house where a membership member-ship is signed and pa id for, there will he left a membership card a nd one of the Red Cross window posters to go in the windows Christmas eve. Only 1ho.se individuals who taUe a membership mem-bership in the Red Cross this week can seciirr, these window posters from the canvassing pupils. Individuals who have previously taken out a Red Cross membership can secure one of these window posters by communicating direct with Red Cross headquarters in Salt Uake. The Salt Lake Federation of Labor has worked w ith a willingness a nd in-thusiasm in-thusiasm that has e.xHted the admiration admira-tion and praise of every member of the Salt Lak" City general committee. William Wil-liam M. Knerr of the state industrial commission, who is in .'hargo of the labor organizations in the campaign, re-poris re-poris lhat thousands o new members will be added from the ranks of labor, through the work of the officers of local unions. Many speakers will address the labor organiza Hons this week. Many Willing Workers. Xo less enthusiastic is the work of (he fraternal organizations of the city and county. A hie mass meeting nf the fra-I fra-I fi-nal socir-t ies was hold Sunday at t ho Kafiies' club and addresses were made by Mrs. .Joseph F. Hyde, W W. Kay. United States district a t tonioy. John L. Spencer, chairman of the general committee com-mittee of Salt J,ale. and by many seo roiarioa of the fra ton in I socle ties present. pres-ent. A meeting of thf prijP-Hl Salt l.ake City and county committees was held at !hc rwniiiPlvinl dub at 4 o'clock, with a htrge attendance. At this Cme reports v.-crc made from all of tho commit ''3. (Continued on Page Two.) jSALT LAKE READY TO : PUSH RED GROSS DRIVE (Continued from Pago One.) Thc?e reports indicate that the entire campaign is ready to sup into the race ! this morning, completely equipped and ! organized for a whirlwind drive that is expected to give Salt Lake City and I Salt Lake countv their Jj-1-00 member- : .ship quota wit run tha next day or two. One oi the bicgest problems of organizing organ-izing for this week's campaign has fallen to the lot of Mrs. Simon Bamberger, chairman of the women's general com- , mittee, who with the other women on j the committee has accomplished a tremendous tre-mendous task in enlisting over- 400 women and girls who will take charge of the Red Cross enrollment booths to be opened this morning in the lobbies of , ; all theater?, hotels, at the railway sta- , ; tions, the public library and other pub- . j lie buildings and the department stores j of the city. i The organization of this work has been i ' one of the hardest tasks of tho entire ; j campaign, and a tired but happy committee com-mittee of women announced at the meeting meet-ing of the general committee at the Commercial club yesterday afternoon tii at the work was successfully com- . pie ted. Location of Booths. At the Red Cross enrollment booth lo- : cated in the public library, Mrs. A. H. Parsons will have charge throughout the j week, assisted by a large committee of ; women. The O. O. Howard auxiliary to ; the G. A. R., with Mrs. Jennie Elliott ; as captain, will have charge of the en- I rollment booth at the postoffice through- out the week. At the Y. W. C. A. headquarters Mrs. I T. B. Beatty will be in charge through- j nut tho ivpnl- ftcalctarl Yiv mn nv wAnipn . i Mrs. Aquila Nebeker will have charge J for the week at the Interurban depot and ; Mrs. Louis Simon will have charge of ' the booth at the Paris Millinery com- ! pany's store, assisted by a large committee. com-mittee. A very large committee of women will be necessary to take care of the booths at the various hotels. This morning at the Utah Mrs. Joel Nibley. Mrs. M. Cheeseman. Mrs. Raoul Halloran v and Miss Beth Baldwin will be on duty. This afternoon at the Utah Mrs. C. O. Bamberger, Bam-berger, Miss Darlene Kimball, Miss Dorothy Dor-othy Bamberger and Mrs. -Marc Lippman will be on duty. Mrs. W. W. Riter has charge of the booth at the Newho'use for the week, with many women assisting her. Mrs. Emma Bird, who is chairman of the committee of the Catholic Women's league, will take charge of the booth at Keith-O'Br'en's for the week. Mrs. D. Williamson is chairman of the committee of the booth at the Labor Temple and the American theater. The Young Women's Mutual Improvement association as-sociation will take charge of the enrollment enroll-ment booths at the Semloh hotel and Auerbach's. Miss Clarissa Beesley will have charge of the committee of women working at these booths throughout the week. There will be two booths at Auerbach's and today Miss Eldeen Clement, Clem-ent, Miss Gladys Walker, Miss Violet Selkin, Miss Olive Fischer, Miss Estell' Hill and Miss Eldrune Walton will be on dutv. At the Semloh booth Miss Jennie Jack, Mrs. W.. D. Nebeker, Mrs. Hattie Nebeker and Mrs. J. A. Brown will have charge today. The Business Women's club will have charge of the booth at the Strand theater, the-ater, with Miss A. Rosser and Mrs. Elizabeth H. Coray on duty today. Miss Hazel Sperry and Mrs. VI da Dun-corn Dun-corn will be on duty at the D. & R. G. depot today. There will be two booths at the Z. C. M. I. throughout the week, one in charge of Mrs. Charles Wells for the Cleofan society and the other the Y. W. M. I. A., with Miss Clara Bouck, Miss Lyle Newman, New-man, Misa Jennie Lund and Mrs. Sarali Bult on duty today. At the Cullen hotel Miss Alice Fischer, Miss Olive Fischer, Miss Beth . Chamberlain Chamber-lain and Miss Virgil Taggett will be on duty today. The Draper club has taken charge of the booth at the Kenyon, with Mrs. Fred Meakin in charge for the week. Still Other Helpers. Mrs. Frances Thomassen is in charge of the booth at the Oregon" Short Line station for the week. Dorothy Lowry wfll be in charge of the booth at the D. & R. G. depot. Miss Ella Wicklund will have charge of the booth at the Gardo house and Mrs. Lily G. Wolstenholme is chairman of the committee of women who will serve at the Orpheum booth. The Women's Collegiate association will take charge of the booths at Walker's Walk-er's "Dry Goods store throughout the week. Mrs. E. A. Graham and a choir of young girls will be used by the women's general committee at several of the booths around town during the week. At Seigel's clothing store Mrs. J. V. Hampton and Mrs. Lillie Epperson will be on duty this morning and Miss Zina Finnerty and Mrs. D. O. Goodwin this afternoon. At Cohn's department store Mrs. J. R. Davis and Mrs. G. T. Judd will have charge this morning and Mrs. William Schill and Mrs. T. D. Lewis this afternoon. after-noon. Mrs. Bamberger announced Sunday that this constitutes only a portion of the women workers who have volunteered volun-teered for daily duty at the various enrollment en-rollment booths and that the names of the other workers will be announced from day to day throughout the week of the cainpnigu. The Red Cross unit of the Woodrow Wilson club will meet with Mrs. E. A. Bock, S0J Third avenue, this evening at 7:30 o'clock. This afternoon will be French day in the Red Cross booth at Walker Brothers' store. Mile. Mathilde Domenge, assisted by several of her French compatriots, will be in charge. PACKETS WANTED AT FORT DOUGLAS Salt Lake chapter of the American Red Cross is facing an emergency which must be met at once and the people of Salt Lake are asked to respond at once. This emergency is Christmas packets for the soldiers at Fort Douglas. Thirty-five hundred of these packets are needed, and they are needed at once, for there has been addition made to those at the fort which has almost doubled the number of men, due to the large number of recruits which have been sent to the post within the past few days. Originally the 'Red Cross arranged to provide for 201 packets for the soldiers and now. within a ,Jew days of the Christmas holidays, an addition of more than lTn.'O soliliers is made to the list. : To make up this number of packets : is a great task and the need of haste is i apparent. Help is wanted at once in the ' way of articles to make up thee packets. Tfre Red Cross lias prepared a list of articles which go to mke up trie packets, 1 the foundation of which is a khaki colored i ' handkerchief twenty-seven inehes square. 1 1 which is the container for the various ! articles. These include writing pfds. envelopes and pencil first, then the packet may be made up of a number of other thins. inchrdhiK knives, electric torches, playing cards end games in the way of; checkers and dominoes. The two last named can be purchased at the Red Cross headquarters. Sweets in the way of preserved pre-served fruits, chocolates and hard candies, fruit rake and a number of other articles may be ineluded. But all must be had ; at oil co. The Red Cross will cive details1 upon application at headquarters. It is urged upon all those who intend ' to help in this way of Christmas cheer, tiiat they act at once, this morning being ! a cood time to call upon the Red Cross. At every cantonment in the country and. every place where soldiers are stationed. : either in this country or in France, tiie ' Red Cross intends to make every soldier ; a present on Christmas ove. Salt Lake i citizens are urged to respond to th ap- peal now, which is a duty they owe to the soldiers. Committees having the Christmas eve festivities in hand for the soldiers at the fort and at other points in the state use pushing their programme toward completion. comple-tion. The great Christmas tree at the fort, from which the presents will be dis tributed, is now set up on the paradef ground and the work of decorating it will begin today or tomorrow. The tree is forty-five reet in height and is the largest one ever erected In T'tah. It should be remembered that of the soldiers at the fort and at Bingham, Garfield Gar-field and Tooele, a large majority of them have never spent a Chrisrmas away from home, therefore the need of Christmas cheer this Yuletide is greater than ever before. It is only one week until Christmas, so that it behooves all who intend to aid the Red Cross in dispensing Christmas cheer to the soldier boys to act at once. An emergencv meeting of the executive committee of the local chapter of the Ked Cross has been called for this afternoon after-noon at the office of Glen Millc. director direc-tor of military relief, In the MeCornlck building, at o o'clock. Important matters mat-ters will he under discussion and It is requested that all members be present. |