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Show iliE BOOKS IN GREAJ DEMAND First Day's Drive Exhausts Supply at National Headquarters. QUOTA IS INCREASED Aim Is to Provide Every Man in Camps With Book of Coupons. In the same loyal manner In which they responded to the Liberty loans, tho Red Cross and the soldiers' welfare fund, the people of the United states already htive com ao strongly to tho front In the purchase pur-chase of Smlleage books, thai at the clone of the first day of the campaign Harry Harrison, chairman of tho national military mili-tary entertainment committee at Washington, Wash-ington, sent out a telegram to every etate In tho union that tho tiuota of the nation hud been Increased from $1,000,000 to J2, 000,000. The telegram carrying the announcement announce-ment ' was received yesterday afternoon by F. C. Schramm, chairman of the state committee and director of tho Smlleage campaign In Utah, Idaho, Wyoming, Montana Mon-tana and Colorado, and is as follows: Telegram lo Schramm. "Ovoryhelmlng nation-wide domand for Smile-age books, coupled with industrial shutdown by fuel administration, has temporarily exhaust ed national headquarters' head-quarters' suppiv of Smlleage books. Accordingly Ac-cordingly will you please fill all orders as far as possible. Also through letters and newspaper publicity and by telcgTaph rit. our expense when necessary, instruct flll committees to use subscription blanks now In their hands, delivering Smlleage books lar. "Banks, stores, electrical companies and others in cities throughout the country asking npprovsi of plan to conduct continuing con-tinuing sale of Smlleage hooks after first week of national sale with Intention of doubling their original goal. National military mili-tary entertainment council enthusiastically enthusiasti-cally enters into this patriotic plan, and has ordered additional $1,000,000 worth of Sniileage books for delivery lo communities commu-nities as soon as they are printed." Awake to Importance. Supplies of Sniileage books were sent out lust Saturday to district chairmen in all parts of the state, and yesterday there wa.s scarcely a hamlet that was not awake lo the fact that the American peoplo are doing somorhing material to relieve the lonesoineness of the soldiers in the military mili-tary camps and rantonnienls, and to remind re-mind them, individually, that their friends arc thinking of them and their comfort. While it w:is a little, early for reports to be received from outside points, therei is no question that the response from all sections will be generous, and that every man in service will be. provided with one or more Smlleage books that he may enjoy all of the performances presented :it tiie military Liberty theaters. A tele-grant tele-grant was received from N. W. Christen-sen. Christen-sen. chairman of the. Logan committee, asking that liOo books he sent to that point at once, as the people were making constant inquiry. Demand Steady. At all of the Salt Lake city stations where I he Suvilleage books are on sale, the demand ts reported to be steady and. there, was every indication last night that Salt 'Lake would make an excellent report re-port at. the close of the campaign, and It is not unlikely that it will exceed Its quota.. Mr. Schramm said last night that he was well pleased with the manner in which the week's campaign started off i yesterday, and that he had every confi- ' dence in the belief that in furnishing the soldiers in training with Smlleage books Utah would outdo itself as it did in subscribing sub-scribing for Liberty bonds and in contributing con-tributing to the Red Cross. I The headquarters of the Smlleage com mittee are at the Commercial club. Smile-age Smile-age books may be secured at Willes-llorna Willes-llorna drug store, the Sehramm-Johnson drug store?, Pruehl & Frankens, W. H. Pa.yton's drug store and the cigar stands at the Utah, r.cwhonse. and Wilson hotels. |