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Show FOR PKSCIOLS Salt Lake to Have Unique! Canvassing Organization in Enrollment Drive. TEACHERS WILL AID County Superintendents Report Re-port Districts Are in Campaign Cam-paign Readiness. That Salt Lake City will go into the Tied Cross nicmbcrsh ip campaign the week before Christmas with unique and the most remarkable canvassing organizations ever evolved for a similar task in the United .States, was made certain cer-tain last night when a special committee, commit-tee, representing ihe general campaign committee for Salt Lake City, waited on the board of education and petitioned that body to set aside a day early in next week's campaign as a holiday for all of the pupils of Salt Lake schools. The board of education granted the request re-quest unanimously, and its action insures in-sures the active work for an entire day early in next week's campaign of every pupil of the Salt Lake schools. This leaves Superint endent E. A. Smith of the city schools free to complete the working work-ing out of his plans, whereby all of the thousands of pupils in Salt Lake will devote de-vote an entire da y to making a house-to-house and office-to-office canvass of the city, soliciting memberships in the Red Cross, in conjunction with the great national campaign that gets under way Monday, Decern ber 17. to last until Christmas eve. and by which the national na-tional officers of the Red Cross hope to add lO.fioo.Of'Q new members to that great organization. : The principals of the Salt Lake City 1 schools will have certain districts as- ; signed t hem, over which they will have personal supervision. The principals will I assign the teachers under them to the supervision of various blocks in each district and the teachers in turn will assign as-sign the children under their nare to the house-to-house canvass of these blocks. Organizations Busy. The boys of the high school, the L. D. S. university and the University of Utah will make the off ice-to-office canvass in the down-town section of the city. Reports from the superintendents of the county school districts of Salt Lake county indicate that these three great school districts are already splendidly organized along the same lines, and that a thorough house-to-house canvass of the county will be made under a similar arrangement. Meanwhile the officers of the general committee in charge of the city, county and state portions of the campaign have arranged with Red Cross headquarters in Denver for a great supply of membership mem-bership cards. Red Cross window posters pos-ters and a vast quantity of advertising material. which will be distributed throughout the state. William M. Knerr, who is supervising t he participation of the labor organ iza-i, iza-i, lions and fraternal societies in the cam- paign, held a very enthusiastic meeting Monday nigiit in the Eagles' club rooms with the secretaries of local fraternal societies. so-cieties. Women Place Booths. The women's committee, of which Mrs. Simon Bamberger is chairman, is making mak-ing rapid progress in its share of the work, placing booths in various public places. Thus far arrangements have been made to have booths located in the following hotels: Utah, Kenyan, CvUen, Semloh, Xew Grand and Newhouse ; in the following department stores: Z. C. M. I., Keith -O' Hrien's, .- Walker Bros., Cohn's, Auerhach's, Paris, Boston, Sei- ; gel's; at the Cardo house, Rowland Hall ; and the Y. W. C. A. buildings; in the i following theaters: Paramount, America Ameri-ca n, Pantages and Strand; at the post-office, post-office, the Oregon Short Line depot, the D. & R. G. depot and the intcrurban depot. Young women of Salt Lake society, dressed in costumes of Red Cross nurses, will be in charge of these booths during the entire week. Sufficient girls have consented to serve to make the movement move-ment a big success, reports Mrs. Bamberger. Bam-berger. There will be a meeting in the Hotel Utah at 4 o'clock next Saturday afternoon after-noon for all the women concerned in the Red Cross membership campaign. Mrs. Bamberger urges all women to he present, pres-ent, as final instructions will be given to the women at this meeting. The meeting meet-ing will be held on the mezzanine floor. A very successful gathering of women's organizations allied to the State Federation Federa-tion of Labor was held Monday afternoon in the Labor temple. Mrs. H'amberger reported that those in attendance were enthusiastic over the Red Cross work and promised energetic aid in its behalf. Arrangements were made to have a booth at the Labor temple. |