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Show WAR WORK DRIVE PROMISES SUCCESS Optimistic Reports Made by Divisional Directors at Meeting. "Off to a flying start" was the report i of the committee heads in Charge of the United Wa r Work drive,, after an enthusiast en-thusiast it! meet Ins of the divisional directors di-rectors in the Commercial club yesterday. Preparations were completed for opening the drive promptly next V'riday. as scheduled, sched-uled, and pushing it to a brilliantly successful suc-cessful end. One of the most auspicious signs of victory vic-tory in the drive is the fact that pledge carai sent out only tWO or three dys ago arc beginning ,to come back with aat- lafaotory donations recorded on them, if this continues in .sufficient volume it means that the work of the drive has been greatly diminished and that the chance of I'tah going over the top before the drive is well tinder way is excellent. The women's Share in the drive wag 'else outlined at yesterday's meeting. Mrs. I A. .T. Qorham has ckurgc f the women's I work, nnd announced t hat preparations bad been completed for establishing booths In Walker Hros. lry (lood cun-pany, cun-pany, Keith -O'Brien company, c. m i 1.. & A. Cohn, Inc. the Paris Millinery and the ucrbach company and in the Hotel Utah and the Xeuhouse hotel. Kp-crgetlo Kp-crgetlo women trorKerg have been secured' for these booths and the success they bv e achieved In previous war drives W fully expected to be repeated. At - the meet Ing yost erda y each of the I division directors Wal assigned his sec- I Hon and Instructed td gather around htm a corps of energetic workers. Allotments for each dtatriot nave been made ud lvlll soon be announced, giving oach oom- 1 mlttce a definite goal toward which to woi k, The house-to-house canvass is to be conducted S in the fourth t,ihcrt loan. I under the direction of C. Clarence Nos-i Nos-i len. The same utberty loan organisations win perform this part of the drive, which (proed one of the most satisfactory feature fea-ture Of the Liberty loan and Urd CrOBS campainns. Both Weber OOUDty and I'tsh QOUTit) I send In repdrtS thai they are fully or-i or-i gant.ed end will tlso be reatly for the '"peuing of the drive Friday morning, I Other counties are known to b. well prepared, pre-pared, and the e .pmide sot San Juan county In ha Ing raised her allotment j v tthln three da s n having h sttnnilai : Ing effect all over the state. I ,ocal re present HAI vos of se era I of Ihe organisations parnutpatlng In the iiiive are actlveb' Jl work The campaign is ,ln behalf of the V. M. C, A.. V. W. C. A.. Knights of Columbus, Jewish VvelfaM i boar'. War Camp Contntuntty ear vide, I Hal n l ion A nny and t he , m erica n I ,r I brary assooldtlon. The total fund desired 111 I170,ft00,000, or which Utahs aiioimem in 400i00v |