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Show BARKERS CAKING llfMDIE Solicitors, 3000 Strong, Now Getting Pledges Signed in Salt Lake County. MANY MEETINGS HELD Women of City Organize and Commence Work in Big Campaign. Workers 3000 strong are now canvassing can-vassing Salt Lake county, in tho work of securing pledge cards from the poo-ple poo-ple pledging themselves to buy war s-'ivhws stamps every month this year. " Uncle Sam is now expending thirteen billions of dollars per year to carry on the war. This sum must come from V-f American people, the richest and '''most prosperous on earth. To Utah i;ci 000,000 of this sum has been apportioned'. appor-tioned'. This, in turn, has been reapportioned reap-portioned to the various counties, and q-Ut Lake's portion is $3,424,000. While the apportionment is based on, 20 per loita in order to meet the allotment it will be necessary that at least three times that amount be secured, for in the per capita calculation Indians, aliens and indigents are counted. To Reach Everybody. c.t-orTin.3 rp intended to under the direction of Mrs. E. O. Leatherwood as acting chairman. The various organizations of the city are requested to report to the following chairmen: Federated clubs Mrs. McMahon of the food conservation and Mrs. Arthur Graham of public health. Fraternal organizations Mrs. E. E. Ledvard. Child Welfare Mrs. Louis Simon. Bed Gross Mrs. A. N. McKay. Educational Miss Sarah Edding-ton. Edding-ton. Churches Mrs. J. J. Buswell. Patriotic and Labor Organizations-Mrs. Organizations-Mrs. Charles Vallandigham. Pledge cards for the committees may be obtained at the Commercial club. Mrs. Leatherwood also requests that a weekly report of the work be sent to Mrs. Julian M. Thomas, secretary, 678 East South Temple. With a credit of $SO,000 already invested in-vested in thrift stamps, the school children chil-dren of Salt Lake are pledged to the purchase of S40.000 worth more of them during the summer months, according to an announcement made yesterday from the office of the city superintendent of schools. The summer school of the city system has started the regular course with a total enrollment of 550 pupils. N ar sawiia - reach everybody. In the canvass there should be no slackers, no more so than when men were called tor. The eoverument is willing to take a written pledge that the signer will buy war savings stamps every month. On this pledge monev can be had, and monev must be had to win the war. Several meetings were held yesterday yester-day in Salt Lake. These meetings be-ran be-ran in the earlv morning, and were continued until the late evening. -Vt Walker Brothers store at 8:o0 o'clock the attendance was 350. All -ere members of the War Savings society so-ciety of the store, and all but thirty-seven thirty-seven were women and girls. U. -D. Claughlin, assistant manager, presided. Meetings Are Held. At 5:30 p. m. at the Z. C. M. I. the war savings societies of this big institution, in-stitution, nunibering 475, held a meet-in meet-in George S. McAllister, president of" the societies and factory manager of the store, presided. There was music mu-sic by the male chorus. it the offices of the Ltah Power & iht company, in the Kearns build-Suif, build-Suif, 250 employees of the company and members of the war savings society met at 8 p. m. William B. Putnam, sales manager of the company, deliv- ered an address on the war savings "Vampaign and war savings. Sn the Twenty-first ward chapel at 8 o'clock there was a rousing meeting of the Mutuals, with an attendance ot about 500. John D. Giles, superintendent superinten-dent of the Mutuals, presided, and delivered de-livered a patriotic address. Oscar A. Kirkman spoke on service, and the Eev. Dr. George E. Davies spoke on war savings. The Ensign male chorus carried car-ried out an elabarate musical program, and Jack Kent, who is home on furlough fur-lough from Camp Lewis, sang a solo. Meetings at which Captain Harris will speak have been arranged as follows fol-lows for Wednesday: Troy laundry at 12:20 p. m.; Streve'll-Paterson company at 4:50 p. m.; Inter-Mountain Electric, company at 6 p. m., and Union ward meeting house at 8:30 p. m. City Women Work. The city women of the war savings campaign have commenced their work |