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Show CLOTHES CIPIfH WILL BECITY-WiDE Intensive Soliciting to Characterize Drive Be- 1 ginning" Monday. j ! Every church, fraternal society and I civic organization in tho city is prepar- ; ing to go "over the top'' with the Iocai chapter of the lied Gross in its overseas ; old clothes campaign which opens Men- j day morning. Conferences have been held and plans j have been carefully formulated so that j no detail essential to perfect campaign : strategy may be lacking. All classes of ; citizens, from gray-haired seniors to j kindergarten children, have promised the j various committees their lojal co-upeia-tion. A campaign of publicity tlutt will use every devico possible, including press, j pulpit, telephones, posters, handbills and -personal house-to-house soliciting, will be launched, that the need of the desti- ' tute and suffering of Furopo may be j made known. Today the Boy Scouts, un- der- the direction of Dr. John H. Taylor, will distribute 20.000 handbills giving all j necessary information concerning this " old clothes drive. Headquarters at 148 South Main street will be the central collecting agency, j Space enough to store hundreds of tons i of clothing has been donated by the public-spirited owners. A large banner, j bearing the device "Oversea Old Clothes Campaign." will be hung overhead on Main street by the firemen of the Central Cen-tral fire station so aa to designate clearly clear-ly campaign headquarters. E. A. Smith, city superintendent of schools, has offered all school buildings as collection centers for clothing. The city fire fighters, through Chief William H. Bywater. have offered tho fire stations sta-tions as centers to which clothing may be brought, and have volunteered to sort, pack and ship all clothing brought tu them. K. J. Shields, manager of tho Salt Lake county chapter of the Red Cross, said in r,eviewinr the situation that the cooperation co-operation which tho Ked Cross has met on every hand is intensely gratifying. A corps of women has been organized to go on duty at Central headquarters this morning. Telephone service has been generously donated. The telephone number will be Wasatch 1916. "Although ,wo have this number of workers who' have promised to help," Mr. Shields said. "I do not want the public pub-lic to think that wo have a sufficient force. We need a great deal of help. We enter an especially strong plea for help. We have not been able to solicit workers personally. We call for volunteers. volun-teers. Anyone who will volunteer their services will do us a great favor by telephoning tele-phoning his or her name to us at the Amelia palace or to Mrs. George M. Miller, Mil-ler, chairman of the campaign committee. com-mittee. "Any article of clothing that can be worn will be gratefully received. Many articles of clothing that could not be received re-ceived at all in previous drives because of their condition can be shipped now because of improved transportation facilities. fa-cilities. Many stores are to contribute bundles of clothes that have never been worn, but are out of style or shopworn. The need is ereat. Let our generosity be commensurate with the need.'" Ma.ior Wesley K. King is to speak to the employees of a number of the department de-partment stores this morning and; Monday Mon-day on the clothes drive. |
