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Show JEWISH BELIEF 1MRTED For the purpose of organizing the state of Utah to take part in the $35,-000,000 $35,-000,000 campaign now under way under tho direction of the American Jewish Relief committee, Earle W. Hodges, director di-rector of the Hocky mountain division of the committee, has orcned offices in the Walker Bank building, and will begin be-gin work of forming the campaign machinery ma-chinery tomorrow. Mr. Hodges has just perfected the Colorado organization, and comes here from Denver. The Colorado Colo-rado drive will be made during the week of October 12-18, and if possible, pos-sible, tho Utah campaign will be made during the same week, Mr. Hodges says. Tho quota to bo assigned Utah will be between $90,000 and $100,000. Mr. Hodg.-'S has had conferences with Governor Gov-ernor Bamberger and others here, and expressed himself as confident that the Utah quota will be secured. The relief movement is said to be entirely non-sectarian, and is national in its scope. The expenses of the campaign cam-paign are met with private capital, and all money collected in Utah, as elsewhere, else-where, will be sent direct to the committee's com-mittee's disbursing agencies overseas, where it will be applied to the present relief of the stricken Jewish peoples in the European war zones. Provision also will be made for the maintenance of the needy until they become self-sustaining self-sustaining again, according to Mr. Hodges. Among speakers who have promised active cooperation in the campaign in the Rocky mountain states, he says, are Governor Oliver H. Shoup of Colorado, Colo-rado, Governor Charles H. Brough of Arkansas and Julius Rosenwald of Chicago. Chi-cago. These men have agreed to make addresses in Colorado, and Mr. Hodges is confident that they can also be secured se-cured for Salt Lake City. |