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Show RED CROSS TO ' ffllSESOLDIERS Home Service Departments to Establish Information Informa-tion Service. An information service will ba estab-1 li?hed by the boruo service department of the Red CroM. Recent Information 1 received locally on the new work says: j "iVvauso furnisbiuif information to families has been the meam of establishing estab-lishing an initiul useful, informal, fraternal fra-ternal contact which hns led naturally to extension of ihoso personal and in-timato in-timato minitratlun vthu h characterire home service at its best, the f-ervco ha become the very heart in which tho entire en-tire proprain for soldiers an.l their famines fam-ines bis centered. -More than S-J pr cent of over "uo.l'OO tanulies of serieo man which applied to the Hod Creas since I'ccember. 1917, soupht information informa-tion and nut financial aid. "'The experience of the workers in providing information about insurance, Allowances uu i allot meats. boiuif e, compeT.cntion, voca'ioual training and state laws rote?tinjj oldirr3' families, has coD"!iced them that many other families ere in need of accurate information infor-mation and reliable counsel. or this reason a Lew information service is to be the fii's, on which the peace-time pro-cram of homo service is to revolve. ' ' The service will include an infinite variety of helpful inf urination promptly and accurately given, bteps are under war to provide a hand book of facts, which will form a nucleus lor a similar work anion,; families and communities on a broader scone, Handbco.9 of information in-formation for each of the states are be-in be-in 3 c.sembled at the national h-wb iruar'cra by VVard Itonsall, di rev' tor of the bureau of information and wui in the near future he distributed. The next meeting of the ci ilian relief re-lief committee of the Salt Lake county Ked Cross con;mittee v.i'.l be heid Tuesday. Tues-day. October li. at which time a report of' the activities of the home service during September will be given bv Mi?i Charlotte 1'arrirjh, secretary. Joy H. Johnson, chairman, will preside at the met" in jr. The home sendee department will hRve a speihl disp'av in ccniunotion with the Kd 'ro.s"at th state fair. Arrangements are fceiny made to transfer trans-fer the information bureau of the serv-b-o to the fair grounds. Service men will bo able to obtain the same information infor-mation at the fair as at the Ked Cross headquarter. Cherts will alo be dis-p'aved dis-p'aved outlining the advantages United Mate service offers. Miss Agnes Na:s-j Na:s-j bett has been appointed head of the I fair exhibit committee for the depart-1 depart-1 ment. A number of girls will assist, j her. |