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Show EES 10 dOUCT mW DHIWEj- Will Have Force of 200 Volunteers Vol-unteers Working Under His Direction. CAPTAINS ARE NAMED 20,000 War Stamps and 75,-000 75,-000 Thrift Stamps Is Goal for First Week. In preparation for the launching of i lie creat "blue card" thrift campaign in Salt Jake next Tuesday, officials of the ari-or.s ari-or.s vw savings committees met yester-Oiiy yester-Oiiy and named . C. Rees as supervising director of the thrift campaign. In addition the city was divided into districts, and a. thrift captain was f?neI for each. These men, working f under the direction of Mr. Rces as chief, will have a force of 200 or more volunteer workers, through whose aid It is proposed pro-posed to visit every house in Salt Lake Ciiv and leave a ''blue card." The campaign officials have set as their oal 20,000 war stamps and 75,ooo thrift tramps to he hold during the first week of the ca.mpa.i2rn through the "blue card" method of selling Uncle Sam's baby bonds. The campaign will be carried on indefinitely. PlHns for the big thrift drive in Salt Lake were outlined at a meeting held at the Commercial club yesterday between . George T. Odell. slate director of war eavings; James W. Collins, chairman of the state committee; L. B. Hampton, chairman of the city committee, and -Mr. Kees. Tt was at this meeting that Mr. riees, who was already a member of the distributing commit tee, was chosen to head the "blue card" campaign and was given full authority to proceed in the manner thought best by him. Scores Offer Services. The live captains who were named to aid Mr. Reese in his campaign in the city are: John .D, Giles, northeastern district; A. J. Elgren, southeastern district; T. T. Burton, southwestern district; Wilford A. Berkley, northwestern district, and George S. Spencer, in the extreme south ;md eastern district. Scores of men, women and young people peo-ple of the city have offered their services aH canvassers for the "blue card" campaign, cam-paign, and no fear is felt that there will not be sufficient workers to thoroughy cover the entire city. The blue cards are cards issued by the 1 government which are orders upon the postmaster for war savings and thrift stamps. The cards merely have to be ruled in with the name of the person desiring- the stamps, and the amount he wants, and then dropped into the mail box. They go to the nearest postmaster without postage and he sends the amount of stamps ordered to the person ordering them by the mail carrier. The mail carrier collects on delivery for the stamps. . The object of the drive In the city is to V place these cards in every household in the city and then to urge the recipient J t o fill out the card with an order for liamps and send it to the postmaster. To Enlist Teachers. State Director George T. Odell yesterday yester-day appointed C. H. Skidmore, superintendent superin-tendent of the Brlgham City schools, and It. II. Stewart, school supervisor or the same place, as assistants to Louis S. Pond, county chairman for Boxelder county. Manager R. L. Shirk of the local office of the American Express company yesterday yester-day notified the state director of war savings that his company will act as agent for the sale of war and thrift stamps throughout the United States. The state committee has made arrangements arrange-ments to have two speakers address the opening session of the Utah Educational association convention in the tabernacle Wednesday afternoon. The following applications for permits as selling agents have been received at state headquarters: Jred P. Nelson, 666 Second avenue, Salt Lake City, Utah. American Express company. Salt Lake City. Utah. Fitzgerald Candy company. Park City, Utah. Union Knitting Mills corrrpanj', Logan, Utah. Utah Valley Gas & Coke company, Prove, Utah. J. If. R. Franklin company, Salt Lake City. Utah. Murray Laundry company, Murray, Ttah. T. A. Brooks, Mllford, Utah. AC. REES, who has beenji named supervising di- ' rector of thrift campaign. jj a mmy, "pTi 1 I i - A l v i i. - S ; ;f ' i hi1 ' , l ' |
