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Show LODGES TB AID . FUIDKN Fraternal Orders Pledge Support to Red Cross Drive. Salt Lake County Must Still Raise $20,000 to Meet Its Quota. Fraternal organisations of Suit Lake last night arranged to lend their most active assistance to the Kl wants club In putting over the Red Cross drive for memberships and subscriptions. E. H. Miiler, Naltcd' ruler of the Salt Lake lodge of Elks, appointed the following executive ex-ecutive committee, which met last night and formulated pians for the part the Elks will take iif the drive: Arthur B. Osborne, chairman ;VHoward Emge. B. T. Pvper. Fred ' Wilson .and Fred Redmond. They called a meeting of Elks for 3 o'clock tonight at the .loigerooms. when the co-operation of all members to help make the campaign a success is assured. Each member is to devote two hours to ' combing the citv in an effort to see that subscribers in past years again Join the Red Cross and subscribe to the fund solicited. so-licited. . Parley P. Jenson has cliarge or t.'.e Kaslcs' part in the drive, and J. A. Jenkins Jen-kins will direct tile Moose in their campaign cam-paign in behalf of the Red Cross. Committees Active. Red Cross committees were In action yesterday. In spite of one of the most inclement davs of the year. Tt can be :ruly said tha; the results of the present campaign are not due to lack of actlvlty on the part of committee workers. Chairman Chair-man Herbert Van Dam. Jr.. says his committees are just beginning a real tight. "Don't get the notion we are discouraged." discour-aged." he said last night. "V"e are Just gettins ready for a struggle that, we feel, will produce results. 1 have enough con-' con-' fidenee in the people of Salr Lake to know that when they understand the situation in America they will not be slow In mani-:Ys:1ng mani-:Ys:1ng their usual enterprise. "T believe the people of this county have confidence in Henry P. Davtson. When Mr. Davison was here in 1917 he asked us to assist in raising slOO.OOO.OOO; we did it. and rave him an oversubscrip- tion of 11 per cent. A year later we helped htm secure $15S.000,000. His administration ad-ministration of these funds has been admirable. ad-mirable. Nearly 9S cents of every dollar -ec-ived baa ;rone directly for war relief. Never has these been a war activity cordu-;ed in a more efficient manner. "Now Mr. Pavison comes to us and asks for a paltrv 47,3m0 as our share to heln clean up tlie war work which the Fled Cross has on its hands. After the rnaa-niiTcent record of the Red Cross under the direction o: Mr. Davison. I can't believe be-lieve that Salt Lake wil: refuse to come jros. However, ali I ask Is that the feve be presented fairly and squarely to the peopie of the county. Of the results I am positively confident." Must Raise ?20.000. ( With four days to so, one of which is Sunday, the committees must produce practica.'y per day to secure the tiuota for the county. This includes memberships, as well as subscriptions. At a meetins of the membership committee, com-mittee, of which Rufus K. Cobb Is chairman, chair-man, a thorough recanvass of the residential resi-dential section of the city was decided upon. This time it will be conducted by adults, in the hope that they may be able to "back up" the splendid efforts of .he children. T.,o areatest obstacle with which the workers are confronted is indifference. This apathy is based apparently on a lack of knowledge covering the amount of work that lies ahead of the Red Cross, and the further fact that the only organisation organ-isation which can handle so vast a field and so complex a situation as that whtcn 'onfronts t he world, and .America particularly, par-ticularly, .Is the Red Cross. Some membership renewals haTe been secured on the assurance that 50 per cent of the membership fund will be used In -Halt Tlake county for local civilian relief. During the past year an average of SSOM a month has been expended in the county by the Red Cross. The total subscriptions and memberships member-ships received up to a late hour last .night was approximately 112. 000. More han tWA was secured at the booths yesterday. yes-terday. JTemiah Stokes. Jr.. reports that the entire Oranite district Is fully organized. The last two districts completed, including includ-ing Cottonwood and Brlnton, will be In ' harge of E. M. Drage of Holllday. Canvass Can-vass will begin tomorrow In Miller, Winder and Wells wards. |