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Show MEN WITED TO KNIT FORSOLDIERS Red Cross Will Provide Instructors and Plenty of Wool. WOMEN ARE ACTIVE Christmas Seals to Be Placed on Sale Thanksgiving Thanks-giving Day. Great nativity In all depaj t meats of Ihe ked Gross society was noted yesterday and earth department is fast approach! ns a maximum of efficiency. The statement state-ment thtit trained nursea were needed fur the soldiers at the army camps was made by Mii-H Klla Wicklund, executive .secretary, and the announcement that ihe membership campaign will have the backing and co-opera t ion of the Utah I (ranch of t lie laguii to Kn force Peace was mado by William N. Williams, state chaii man. A k relit Ra In in efficiency is expected when tlm derailments move into Amelia Palace, Honth Temple and State streets, Thaiikt-KlvtiiK day. -All workrooms and ,,fi j,-es, except t hone in the i 'oinmercial i Tub building. 'Ul he closed and will be consolidated in the new home. Women of Salt Lake who cannot en-uawc en-uawc in hut tic with the enemy are being be-ing ottered npportuuit y to aid in the war. The Name chalice in help Is contained In I he in vital nn to the men who cannot enlist, given yesterday by Mrs. M. Thompson of tho .supplies committee at :.S l-last Broadway. '1'iils is the suggestion sug-gestion of fuimiug a men's knlUing chins. Men Knitters. ' "There are many men who can not enlist en-list In any branch of the service-, nien who have pome leisure time and who cnuld employ it In knitting for the soldiers." sol-diers." Mis. Thompson said. "We would furnish an instructor who would teach them how to knit and when they become proficient, would furnish all the wool needed." Salt Lake firemen are cited as examples of occupations in which men could employ their spare time aiding the Ficd Cross. "Many men in Salt Lake would he much better employed in knit-tint; knit-tint; than in some ways by which they pays the time," Mrs. Thompson said. Any man wishing instruction should apply, j lo the committee. I : lied Cross i' 1 iris 1 mas seals will be ! placed oti sale in Salt Lake at Thanksgiving, Thanks-giving, Hccordinpr to the plans of Frank ; W. Le Oere. sttae salesagent. The campaign cam-paign for 000,00" for a tuberculosis war fund will begin i-oon and will be prosecuted prose-cuted vigorously. Tlic goal for Utah this ! year is $lLnn0, just three times as much Its was realized from the sale of the seals last year. Letters are being sent out to ! SO00 residents of T'tah, enclosing ?1 worth of seals and asking t Hti t they be dis- ! posed of. Three boxes of supplies are being packed daily at the supplies head qua r- i ters, while only very recently one box was (he maximum! The officers there were much encouraged to learn yesterday that their department is outstripping- that at Los Angeles, both in the amount of work and in the manner In which it is accomplished. ac-complished. Work Is Gratuitous. "A foolish, but very persistent, rumor tn the effect that the articles for the soldiers are being sold the men of the army should he corrected. " Mrs. Thompson Thomp-son stated. "There is no sale to the soldiers, hut the articles are given them absolutely free. The only manner in which a 'sale of the Rod Cross articles could be effected is by some dishonest person securing ma terials and then selling sell-ing the finished article. This soon would be detected, however." Plans for Thanksgiving and Christmas gifts to the soldieis are being made by the members of t he Furling ton Red Ciss auxiliary unit. A meeting was bind at the residence of Mrs. U. Coe, nn 1 ndia na a omic. yesterday afternoon and plans for the boxes were furthered. .Mis. v. L. Onions was hostess to twenty-one of the members at the same ad-d'-esR, when a silver luncheon was given. This is one of a series of silver luncheons lunch-eons to raise funds for the boxes. Thanksgiving Thanks-giving packages for the soldiers of that district are being sent out. |
