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Show WAR SAVINGS DRIVE COMMENCES IN JUNE Utah's Quota in Campaign Is Fixed at $9,000,000, or $20 Per Person. t L'ncle Pam is .depending upon the war .j saving movement as one hi the most .; powerful weapons to be used in- flghllriK Germany. War avinKH stamps to the amount ot two billion dollars have been J! authorized. Of this amount. JO, 000,000 has been apportioned to Utah, and this amount has been reapportioned among the . several counties of the state, the amount allotted Salt Lake county being $3,400,000. This Is an average of $12f to a family, based on a population of 170,000, or JL'O for every individual In the -ounty. To meet this allotment an intensive campaign cam-paign is to begin June 10. the Intention oelng to conclude the campaign by .lime 28. . ' x The county has been divided into dls-trlcta, dls-trlcta, has Salt Iake City, and the dis-! dis-! trlrts again divided into units. War sav-- sav-- ings societies have been organized In ev-' ev-' ery district and to each district has been ' apportioned a part ot the tLl.400.OD0 which ' the county must dispose of. Heretofore Salt Lake county has not only responded to ail calls made upon iter on account of . tlie war, but has always gone over the j top. The war savings societies are confident con-fident that this will be the case with war it savings stamps. , Among the war savings societies in Salt Lake that are doing good work is I lie Hooker T. Washigton War Hnvlngs so-' so-' doty, of which the Rev. J. T. Moreland Is president. This organization Is making a systematic canvass among the colored people in Salt Lake City and county. The spirit of thrift shown among the colored people is seen in the returns made the war savings committee by this so-. so-. clety. At Calvary Baptist church Tuesday evening, May U8, there will be a big r.Tily of the colored people in behalf of the war savings stamps. The meeting will be held at 9.30 o'clock, this hour being fixed In order that many persons whose work keeps them until 9 o'clock may attend. at-tend. Harry B. O'Neill, special representative represen-tative of the alien property custodian, will be the principal speaker. |