Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-12-20 | Page 18 | Thousands Become Red Cross Members

J1US10S BECOME : RED CflOSSMEMBERS i Total of 21,253 Enthusiastic Workers Added to Rolls Since Drive Began. PUPILS SUCCESSFUL School and College Students Stu-dents to Continue Aggressive Ag-gressive Solicitation. A grand total of ?'Jl. ".:! is the umo'int raiuM In Suit , Luko i.'My u rul rounty in the Ked Cross membership campaign from p. m. Monday to .last night. Such v. up the cncouniging report of conmilLice members fit a meet iu nf the general committee held at Ked Crows campaign headquarters In tho Commercial Commer-cial club last nirtht. f'hatrtnnn John D. Spencer, who Is In olwi-Kfl of the biff ilrivo for Red Cro.ss members, was nioro ihnn pleased with the results thus f;ir achieved and experts to seo the good work keep up with increasing increas-ing results as the days go by. Tho con t ml t tee expressed a desire to have every business house in Salt 1-ake display a Red Cross service flag in its window. Airs. Simon nambergor, chairman . of the women's committee. it-ported splendid progress from the booths. ILeeeipts are growing larger constantly and thousands of memberships two expected to be obtained ob-tained in this way. Schools to Continue. Tt wits decided at the meeting last nipht that the school children. Including the students of the University of I'tah. the hiph schools and the grade schools, shall he permitted to continue their canvass. 1 The students have unanimously requested I to be. permitted to continue their work to i "finish up" the oampaipn. University of Utah students yesterday ! made a canvass of the business section. The high schools and prude school ehil- ! dten had beep assigned other parts of I the city and they did their work on Tues- ' day. I There was some overlapping in the downtown section due to the eagerness j of the hiph school pupils to sell as many j memberships as possible, but the unlver- i si i y men and women reported yesterday that they had found many persons who had not "no light memberships and that a goodly sum would be turned over to .the Ked Cross. The university drive was carried out under the direction of faculty members. Civilian Relief Work. At a well-atttnded meeting of the civilian relief committee, Salt Lake county coun-ty chapter of the Red Cross, held yesterday yester-day afternoon at the office. "1-0 East First South street. Miss Mae Hawley was formally placed in charge of the office, under Miss Kate "Williams, the executive secretary. Miss Hawley will also have direction of the volunteer civilian relief i work. The committee listened to an interest-inp interest-inp addiess by Mis. Amy Brown Lyman, one of the six Utah delegates who have recently returned from the civilian relief i institute held at Denver. Mrs. Lyman ; emphasized the pood work that is beinp done by the committee in making clear I the scope and purpose of civilian relief. ! particularly in regard to the provisions of the war risk insurance law, a matter to which the government is now giving special spe-cial and direct attention. It is one of the purposes of the civilian relief organization organ-ization to furnish free information a nd advice to all interested in this question. I The house committee reported that the I recently secured quarters, the entire third floor of the Amelia Unlace, the lower floors of which are now occupied by t he Salt i Lake county chapter, would be fitted up and ready for occupancy by January 1.