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Show SILlTilliS I READY MPJUGi Plans Matured in Drive to Collect $105,000 as Re- construction Fund. r i Parade by Workers in Busi- J ness District to Be Held Tomorrov. j r i The machinery for Hie Salvation .Vrm f home service drive, to lieRin Weclnosdiiy i morning, ha.s been perfected. aecordiiiK to f int'ormntion Riven out yesterday urtenioou by ('apluin lid ward .'. Haeon. stale diree- t (or for the campaign. livery county in the state its chairman and his as.su- eiales appointed, and th" great collection organization is ready to bepin the drive f for ?10f.'li0 for reconstruction work and F the building of a new citadel for the j Salvation Army. Lieutenant Colonel John V. Cousins, in charge of the intermountain Salvation j Army province, with headquarters In Denver, will arrive in Salt bake at noon today lo assist in the drive. He will be (he, chief speaker al a meeting ot llio vice cTiainuen of Sail Lake city and " county, to be held al Hie Commercial club at S o'clock tonight. Tne purpose of the meeting is to lay final plans for a com- j prchenslve campaign in this county. A j number of the vice chairmen from the ; outlying towns have written to hcadquar- , ters expressing their willingness to bo at tho meeting. A meeting of tho woVnon of' Salt Lake will bo held at the Hotel I'tah at :i o'clock this afternoon lor the purpose ot organizing relays lo lake charge ilurlng the drive. Air:?. George JT. liiller and Captain Louise B. Holbrook are in charge of this section. M'ish Dorothy Bamberger will have charge of the young girls' section sec-tion of the work, and will supervise the huts and booths from which doughnuts will be scrvejj. Single Day Asked. According to Mrs. Miller, the girls ami women will be called upon to give only one lull dav lo Ihe work. Upon application, appli-cation, however, they will be given the opportunity to serve more than one da. A parade will be held in the downtown down-town section of the city tomorrow evening. even-ing. Tho returned service men, members mem-bers of the Salvation Army and tho gen-' eral committee, together with members of the women's organi-.atIon.s, will par- I ticipatc. The parade will so to the Auditorium Audi-torium on Richards street, where a general gen-eral mass meeting will he. held to discuss dis-cuss the campaign and to devise ways and means to secure the cooperation of every man, woman and child in Salt Lake. Harrv S. Joseph, chairman for Salt Lake citv and county, and R. R. Ross, county field director, visited every town in the southern part of the county Saturday for the purpose of distributing literature and handbills to tho smaller towns, and perfecting per-fecting the organizations for t lie campaign. cam-paign. They completed the work in Mur- rav, Union, Draper. Riverton, Bluftdale, Harriman, Bingham. Highland Boy, Con-perfield, Con-perfield, W'elby, West Jordan, Midalo and Garfield. Soldier Lauds Work. While Mr. Joseph .was posting .up Sal- j vation Armv bills in Riverton, a returned, sergeant, who fought at the Argonnc tor- 1 est. came up lo him with tho iiest:on: I "What's the idea?" Mr. Joseph answered t that tho Salvation Army is in need of f funds to carrv on its homo service work. i "Well," returned tit sergeant, "I'll tell 9 the, world that they were the, finest or- 1 ganization al the Argonnc. They deserve everything ll'c American people can give , them." After this brief conversation, the. ser- geant was appointed to take charge of twenty-seven other returned service men, who saw active duty in France, lo canvass can-vass the town. Tho sergeant said Ins bovs would "go over the top" lor the Salvation Army, as they had done in : France, when a doughnut, a cup of hot coffee and a cheering smile meant more than anything in the world. O. W. Adams, cashier of Fletcher : Brothers' bank of Provo, has been ap- pointed countv chairman, to take the I place of J. JO. Shepherd, who cannot act j on account of illness. 'Joseph T. Farrer, slate chairman, said , yesterday Utah is sure to raise its quota, j inasmuch as most of the counties had reported the completion of their organi- ( zations and had pledged their full allot- 1 ments. He said he would not be sur- 1 prised if the drive is put over in three j da. s. People Behind Drive. "Provo has been thoroughly organized by the lilks' club, and 1 can promise even at this lime, before the drive lias been officially begun, that we will go through wilh this by oversubscribing our quota," Mr. Farrer said. "The people are heartily in sympathy with the movement, move-ment, and will support it with tho same patriotism they displayed during the Liberty Lib-erty loan campaign." Captain Louise B. Holbrook and her husband. Captain Alva M. Holbrook, will begin their sjie'aking tour of Ihe state tomorrow. Their first visits will he to Provo and Cgden, where special meetings meet-ings will be held. Yesterday morning and afternoon Captains Cap-tains Holbrook spoke in Salt Lake churches'. The Hoy Scouts were busy yesterday. More than aUO boys visited the .Sunday k schools throughout the city, making J speeches and distributing literature lo the attendants at church. Oscar A. Kirk- ham. executive secretary of the organi- zation, said the bovs would devote their . entire time to the Salvation Army until ' the campaign had ended. They have been detailed at the home service drive headquarters at 620-6L'2 MeCornlck Bank building as messengers and assistants to the chairmen of the city and county. Mr. Joseph wiW tour the north end of the county this morning, to assure the perfection of plans in the territory under his jurisdiction. Ho will he accompanied by R. R. Ross, county field director. " |