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Show i JUNIOR RED CROSS I PLANS ARE 'OUTLINED w l'l g Scope and Purpose of Work J Discussed at Special Meet-Si Meet-Si r si ing Saturday. q CJ DR. AXSON IS SPEAKER bi w Local Chapter Announces it April 30 as Limit on oi Certificates. nl -n j jd Scope and purpose of the Junior Iced Cross work wore thoroughly discussed " at a spoiial meeting of the special com- T, mitt 00 on Junior Iced Cross, held yes- ei torday uoon at Uio local chapter head- - quarters, ami plait fur carrying on the g work were outlined in detail. In addi-t addi-t tion t" the members of the special com- T: mlttee a large number of principals of !? the public schools were in attendance ;l and before adjournment the work was n slated to be well in hand for un ag- grosslvc campaign. e' Dr. Stockton Axsou, national sccre- 0 tary of the American tied Cross, who arrived Friday to make one of tho ad- dresses al Hie mass meeting in the tab- ernaclo Friday night, was the chief 1 speaker at yesterday's meeting and 1 clearly outlined the plans and purposes JJ of I he Junior Bed Cross organization. j-J Is t'o-orclinatin' Agency. a Hi. Axson explained thai, iu the n main I lie purpose behind Ihe Junior lied ' Cross was to make the organization a !! coordinating factor in all war work, 2 with its threefold fields of financial, 11 productive and educational activity. The last, which in its final analysis, f means the development of the highest i type of American citizenship, he re- 1 g'ardod as by far the most important. '1 It is by properly directed work along i! the educational lines that the Junior - Red i 'ross members will have oportunity 0 to join all their efforts toward aiding 3 in the great task now before the Ainer-u Ainer-u ican people. Such technical work as 5 they receive ill lines of manual train-. train-. ing can all be directed to aid in va-a va-a rious lines of Iced Cross work, such im-L' im-L' planting of ideals as follows the study 2 of the patriotic subjects assigned to-the 1 students can .be shaped to conform to i the ideals of these whose sole purpose is the service of their country. A In the financial line it was made 3 clear that the 25 cents exacted from 3 each member of the Junior Red Cross is not to be touched by any other 3 branch or department of the society, 1 the fund belongs solely to the juniors 2 and will be used in its entirety by them i in the furtherance of their aims and purposes. I Production Is Secondary. The question of the productive activi- 1 ties of the junior organization, said Dr. Axsou. is a secondary matter that will J work itself out. properly without spe- t cific urging on the part of the chapters j under which tho junior organization is working. j The decision was reached to make 1 the membership a full 100 per cent of j the pupils enrolled in the public schools, including the junior high schools and j also that every membership secured in the present campaign should be effec- t tive until July, 1919. Granite district 3 is now fullv organized on a 100 per cent basis, Murray and Jordan are in 1 process of organization and the euroll-! euroll-! ment of pupils in all the public schools J of the citv will proceed without any i further delay. jj Miss Mabel Cook, whose telephone is I Hyland 98, is secretary of the special committee, and she will be glad to fur- :' lush any information bearing upou all j question's regarding the Juuior Red 0 Cross. , Limit on Certificates. ' At headquarters of the local chapter it was officially announced yesterday , that, in conformity with the abolition ; of giving instructions in surgical !: dressings, no cards or certificates would 1 he issued after April 30 and no kits , "would be accepted after that date. ; Mrs. George P. Gogon of Blackfoot, , Idaho, a Rod Cross worker who is es-! es-! pecially interested in the making of ; surgical dressings, was a visitor at cen-I cen-I tral headquarters yesterday, inspecting the gauzeroom. The surgical dressings class of the ' ladies of the Typographical Union auxiliary, meets every Tuesday evening at the central gauzeroom under Mrs. C. L. Vallandigham, for regular work, ; which has always been up to a high standard of efficiency, I P. D. West of the 'White Pine chap-; chap-; ter. Elv, New, was a visitor yesterday at headquarters, inspecting the Clawson I gauze roller, with a view to the installation instal-lation of one of the machines in the "White Pine chapter gauzeroom. i Y. L. M. I. A. Active. Announcement is made that the i Young Ladies' Mutual Improvement as-I as-I sociation auxiliary has established a gauzeroom in the" First ward chapel, ; which has been inspected and approved j l! and that at the regular ward meeting; tonight Mrs. Ruth M. Fox of the gen-1 eral board will speak on the work of j purgiea! dressings. It is the plan of the Young Ladies' Mutual Improvement association as-sociation to establish gauzerooms in ! each of the w'ards of the city, using 1 convenient homes of citizens in cases where the ward chapels are not available. avail-able. Following is partial list of the finished fin-ished articles turned in yesterday at local headquarters: Welby Ideal auxiliary, aux-iliary, five pairs of socks, six bed shirts, j Liberty Stake Relief society auxiliary, J Thirty-third ward, sixteen bed shirts. " |