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Show First Day of Chest Drive Nets Pledges of $32,173 I First day of intensive solicitation solicita-tion in the 1937 Community Chest ! drive netted pledges of $32,173,111, it was announced at the first report re-port luncheon, held Wednesday at the Hotel Utah. Encouraged by this response., volunteer workers t Wednesday resumed solicitation with renewed enthusiasm. . Speaking to the volunteers . at the initial report meeting. Dr. Adam S. Bennion. general cam paign chairman, declared that a wholehearted spirit of cooperation coopera-tion was being shown everywhere as the workers made their rounds in efforts to attain the 1937 quota of 1185.000. "If everybody In Salt Lake City realized that the 21 chest-supported welfare agencies are carrying carry-ing on a daily fight against hunger, hun-ger, disease, crime and despair, (Continued on Pas. S.vcol (Column Thw i ' . $32,173 Pledged In Chest Drive (Continues from Pag, On.) and doing It most successfully, there would ba no question but that the response of our cttlxens to the present appeal would be 100 per cent," aaid the campaign leader. The reports tiled Wednesday and at subsequent report meetings meet-ings on Thursday, Friday, Saturday Satur-day and Monday will serve as barometers to show the daily progress of the workers in carrying car-rying out the campaign slogan, "Arrest These Public Enemies Hunger, Disease, Crime and Despair." De-spair." As each report Is made a life-size life-size figure depicting a "public enemy" will be incarcerated in a juil set up in the entrance of the Utnh Power A Light company offices in front of the Kearns building. The amount subscribed Wednesday will in a figurative aense lodge hunger in the campaign cam-paign callaboose. In reality the lodging of the "public enemies" will signify that generous givers have donated sufficient suf-ficient funds to enable the welfare wel-fare agencies to wsge their battles bat-tles on behalf of the underprivileged underpriv-ileged of the city "Attaining our quota means that every public enemy' can be efficiently combated during the coming year," said B. C. J. Wheat-lake, Wheat-lake, campaign vice chairman. "We hope to have every 'enemy in the appeal jail by the close of the campaign next Tuesday night." Members of the mobilization speakers' bureau, led by Earl J. Glade and S. J. Stephenson, chairman and vice chairman, continued con-tinued their speaking campaign Wednesday. Addresses were made before the Sugarhouae postoffice employes. Salt Lake Real Estate board and the policemen's auxiliary. auxil-iary. I |