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Show Plane Used in Mercy Drive Workers to Renewjfforts !7:SltLake County Red Cross HERBERT VAN DAM, Jr., chairman of the bait. " Western roll call and P. O. Prest, pilot, in the Curtiss blplan Oi the ! Aircraft corporation, from which literature, urgi ng j ship and subscription drive, was dropped overjhenyterdj New Canvass Expected to Bring Drive to Successful Success-ful Close. CIRCLING over the business section sec-tion in a Curtiss biplane yesterday yes-terday nt noon, Herbert Van Dam, .lr., chairman of . the Salt Lake County Red Cross roll call, dropped quantities of Red Cross lit crature on Salt Lakers below. The object ob-ject of the trip was to call special attention at-tention to the fact that there are but two days left in the drive for funds. mv . 1 a frnUhp,t hv the our Institutions, our American Ideals, and j we are marching under the same old stars and stripes that led our boys at Chateau Thlerrv. In the St. Mlhlel salient, in the Argonne Forest, and In Flanders "Don't get the Idea that we are begging for funds (or the Red Cross. We are only Irving to get the facts before you so that you may determine what you ought to do In the circumstances. If your honest Judgment is that It Is better that It should not continue Its functions, that it does not merit your support, then withhold vour dollars. But If you believe, as 1 think Americans do. that our Interests will be served by a continuance of the magnificent sendee that It has rendered humanity In the past, then dig up. and keep digging until our quota Is reached. This morning the new canvass under H T riumh'and R. K. Cobb begins. It is hoped that by tomorrow evening the present outlook will be completely changed and that Salt Lake county will measure up in every way to the glorious traditions of the past. l nc UMn.itii- " J i " Western Aircraft corporation, and the pilot was C. U. Prest. In talking about his flight and of the task ahead of the Red Cross committers, com-mitters, Chairmau Van Dam said last nighl : "The flight was made in the interest of tla; third lied Cross roll call and subscription campaign. 1 took considerable consid-erable literature from Ihe Hcd Cross lieudquurters with nic and let loose of it in the air. Those thousands of folders fold-ers sailed off in the wake of the plane and kept sailing and I doubt if t)ev ever will light. I shall be glad if they come down in Salt Lake county some time before the campaign is over. "Our campaign has been going verv slowlv, but 1 cannot think that it will be other than successful with the complete com-plete organisation we haw of wiUiaj) workers, who arc putting into their efforts ef-forts all the energy of true western American spirit. Utah Must Not Fail. "What we need now is response from Ihe public. That will be must be forthcoming, became the fuiuioraenUl fact is that Americans are proud of the r, id of I lie lied Cross ami are un willing that this campaign should fail, and furthermore, this I'tnh of puis that has never failed will not fail now. "What would we. :i Americans, think of Die Hcd Cross If It had not made this rciiicat for support In order lo finish the w .u worh ' Suppose Ihe officers of the big organisation bad aald. Well, the war H over now; we will make no further ef-fort ef-fort In behalf of I He boys who fought, who nre now crippled, maimed ami helpless, help-less, the war la over now. so we shall pay no further attention 10 the families of the lioya who were willing to give (heir all thai American Ideals might not perish; the war Is over now, so we shall pay no further attention to the Invys on the Rhine, or the bo s lu Siberia, the war Is over now. so we I hall pay no more ai-lenllon ai-lenllon to Ihe relief of sinning babies In roland and idse vlure . Hie wnr Is over now. so we MmM pay no attention to the famines an.l rst llciuvs of Knrope. al-thoUCtl al-thoUCtl we understand that tUOh thlllfl breed those deep feellnus whieti result In revolts nunlnst Koverniumts and result In the overt hrow of estahl Ishfd lust I tut Ions and In vile chaos and ananhy . the war i Is over now, so we shall ny no furl her attention to the forty thousand hoys on the Mexican border, and although It has been demonstrated that our orcanli.it Ion eau k further than any that exists In Plie solution of public henlth problems, we shall not use it for our own benefit, but we will shut up shop.' Ideate at State "What would you think Of such an attl-,,,,!,- ) vent m e to sm v t ha I If the lied CroM did ueh n thlnn It would merit ntid receive thi unlveiwl oonaemnn tlon tr Amerloiui eUHwithlp. Bo i My that I in eonducttnd thli cempeisn we ere cn deavorlnc to a hi In the perpetuation of |
