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Show SCHOOLS EltlaT IN mm mi Thrift Movement Finds an Enthusiastic Reception Among Students. The war savlnps and thilfl Btamp campaign cam-paign of the United States government to ra.!se a loan of $2,000,f)00,000 for war purposes v;hb ofticiaJly carritiii into Uic shrols of the rounty yesterday. Thp thrift nioveinent vr.is latmcrci RmoiiK the ntudents ot Die (iranit d!5-tr-im nt a meeting of teachers ot tlie district dis-trict held at the Granite high school yesterday yes-terday afternoon. George T. Odell. Plate director of war savings, was present as the ofilria! repres-mt:itie of the sovrn-trient sovrn-trient in the campaitrn, pnd, in additma to him. there were present Dr. b. G-Gowans. G-Gowans. Ftate puperintemJcr-t of public instruction, and Franris W. Kirkham. director di-rector of vocational cdi:eaci. About 2"0 tcacners of the county district were present pres-ent at the nieettnf?. yiv. Odell explained the plan of war savings certificates and thrift stamps to the teachers, distxibuted quantities of literature lit-erature anion them and urged their support sup-port and help in inducing children a.nd narenip to 1)0 their bit by investing in the v:ar vavinKS certificates and thrift stamps. Dr. Gowans gave his heartiest approval to the plan of having the school children both buv and induce others to buy certificates certifi-cates and stamps, and Mr. Kirkham added, a word to help the cause along. tt is proposed to enlist all the school children of the state in this great campaign cam-paign of thrift by which the government will be enabled to raise a portion of the enormous sum that will be required to win fie war. The children will be asked to pa rticinate in the loan by investing their spare quarters in thrift stamps and even in savings certificates. In addition, they will bo called upon to act ay agents for the government by inducing others to purchase the stamps and certificates. Mr. Odell said yesterday that the Vtah tate Xr.iional would act as distrihni in, bank for tiie fourteen banks of Salt Lake, and i hat each of these banks, in turn, would be distributor for its correspondent banks in the outside territory. This having been decided upon as the most feasible plan of handling the work. , A city committee to aid in the matter I of spreading the thrift campaign spirit initrong the big pay roll institutions of the j city was named yesterday by Mr. Odell. I.The committee is composed of F. B. Ste-, Ste-, phens, B. W. Mendenhall, George A. i Eaton, .Tames Collins, Frank A. Murphy. Fd rtosenbaum. Glen Miller and Clem ! Schramm. This committee has been j asked to meet at the office of the state director, in the Farmers and Stock Grow-i-rs bank, Monday morning at 10 o'clock, to organize and outline a plan of procedure. pro-cedure. In a letter received from Federal Director Di-rector E. C. Bradley, it is suggested that the slate director might name upon his pfate com ml tlee and make use of I,. TT. Farns worth, chairman of the state council coun-cil of defense: AN'. C. Ebaugh, member of the state council, and W. Y. Armstrong, state food administrator. Mr. Odell expects to get his new offices in the Farmers and Stock Growers hank opened and ready for business tod a v. |