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Show Salvationists Swell Funds 9 5 5 3 Doughnuts Bring High Price CAPTAIN A. L. EDWARDS of the Salvation Army, with a panful of what mado the Salvationists famous in France, ready for business at the opening of the drive yesterday. : A ' A " . " " ' , , . - ' ' I A ,1 V' ' ' v J Dancing Parties Arranged to Aid Drive; Lassies Are Active. THE success of the Salvation Army home service campaign to raise $73,000, Salt Lake's quota, was practically assured yesterday when doughnuts, rivaling those given to the soldiers in France, sold as high, as 51000 each. Although the minimum mini-mum set for the sale of these goodies was 1, several citizens, when accosted by Salt Lake's lassies at the booths, gave amounts ranging from 510 to $1000. Mrs. Edith Chong, who had charge of the Chinese booth at Second South and Main streets, sold her quota of doughnuts dough-nuts before noon yesterday. Mrs. Chong reported that all her doughnuts had been sold, to Americans, and that she knew every Chinese in the city would be willing to support the" drive in a material way. Fight Chinese women served in co-operation with the Salvation Army workers yesterday, and have offered to serve during dur-ing the entire campaign. A meeting of the vice chairmen of Salt Lake will be held at the Elks' club at fi:30 o'clock tonight for the purpose of making reports on the drive and laying out plans for the further prosecution of the home service campaign. A luncheon will be given In honor of those who have served on the general committees. R. R. Ross, county field director, returned re-turned yesterday from Brighton and reported re-ported to Captain Edward C. Bacon, state director, that all organizations In the mountain city were back of the drive and had pledged their full quotas. Mrs. W. Mont Ferry went to Brighton yesterday in order to make arrangements for a dance Saturday night. All proceeds will go to the Salvation Army fund. Dance to Swell Fund. Tuesday evening a dancing party will be held at Bonneville park by the members mem-bers of the general committee. The proceeds pro-ceeds of the entertainment will go to the funds of the Salvation Army. All interested inter-ested in the success of the drive are asked to attend the dance. A number of entertainment enter-tainment features are being arranged, and a musical program for the evening has been planned. I All Salt Lake moving picture houses I have been showing illustrated slides tell-I tell-I Ing of the work of the army, and depict-! depict-! ing the great work of reconstruction yet I to be done by these Indefatigable work-I work-I ers. A series of these illustrated slides I are also being shown at Pantages theater. I Harry S. Joseph, city and county chairman chair-man for the drive, announced yesterday that he had just had constructed the largest tambourine in the world. It is twenty-ffve feet in circumference. Saturday Sat-urday night a parade will be held In the downtown section of the city. It will be headed by Salvation Army lassies carrying carry-ing this tambourine for the purpose of taking up collections. An open-air meet- Ing will be held at Second South and Main streets at 8 oclock Saturday night. J. T. Smith, Al Keech and Jack Brown will render musical numbers. Speeches will be made by the state, county and division di-vision managers of the Salvation Army. A huge clock to indicate the subscription subscrip-tion to the home service drive will be erected today at the large canteen on Main street. As the funds increase the hands will be turned ahead. It has been constructed in such a way as to register as high as ?S0,000. Soldier Gives Last Dollar. One of the most interesting episodes of the Salvation Army drive yesterday was the purchase of three doughnuts at $1 each by three service men who just returned from France. The soldiers were accosted by the lassies in the booths, and, in answer to their request to buy a "real doughnut of delicious quality," turned over their three silver souvenirs. "Well, I don't regTet giving to the Salvation Sal-vation Army, for they served faithfully over in the trenches," said one of the men. "But I'm sorry I had to give my last dollar." "I don't think you should worry about your last dollar," another retorted, rather bluntly. "What do you want to- do, keep it for a souvenir? The lassies In France never hesitated to give you their last doughtnut." There was no further argument. The soldiers were soon lost in the crowd, and the only Indication of their love for the Salvation Army was a little subscription button on their uniforms. Although the drive is making marked headway under the direction of the general gen-eral committees, Mr. Joseph expressed himself last night as rathe? pessimistic as to the outcome of the campaign. Me said the people seemed to have forgotten that the Salvation Army still had a great deal of reconstruction work to do, arid had entirely forgotten that they needed a new home in the city. He said the work being done on the part of some of the peoplo was not spontaneous. Josnph T. Farrer. sLate chairman, telegraphed tele-graphed headquarters last night that every county in the slate had completed Its organizations and had pledged its quotas. He said Provo had practically raised its entire allotment. |