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Show OF STATE SURPRISES HAP Donations of $466,000 Are Sought as Drive to Aid Stricken in the War Zone . Is Pushed WITHOUT even stopping to catch her breath for, really, ahe dklu't feel the need of it Utah, although many thou-i sands of dollars oversubscribed to the $350,000 fixed as her share In the national campaign for an American Red Cross fund of $100,000,000. went : enthusiastically forward today in her determination to obtain donationa totaling: to-taling: S46C.000. or 11 for every person per-son in the state Apparently. Utah astonished everybody every-body except herself at the rapidity and , ease with which ahe reached and passed her quota of the great fund being raised to advance the cause of humanity; but, hardly pausing to accept ac-cept congratulations or fo learn defl-1 nltely whether she leads more than the Western states of the Vnlon In being the first to subscribe and oversubscribe, she pressed onward zealously toward the seemingly certain goal of being first I to subscribe a dollar per capita for her citizens. As a matter of fact. Utah la not particular par-ticular about stopping whec $466.000 1 Is obtained, so dear to her heart is ' her share in the nation's great work of financing the humanitarian labor involved in-volved in the contest being waged I against Germany, and there are those enthusiasts in her train who confidently confi-dently predict even greater things of her when tbe campaign closes at B o'clock next Monday afternoon and the final reports are announced at a banquet at 7 o'clock that evening at the Newhouse hotel. No one csn doubt that her heart Is In the task she haa so gladly assumed. Jeast of all any who hava the privi-ege privi-ege of meeting with the hlg men who are In charge of the atale'a campaign - and who hold daily meetings at the Commercial club to report the prog tass they are making. Members of the seventeen teams of active workers for the fund were ex-cased ex-cased from today'e luncheon meeting, but the' captains were there and, together to-gether with the members of the executive ex-ecutive committee, they reviewed tiie results of their labors, compared notes on prospective donors and mapped out vigorous work for the remaining days of the huge "drive." A number of telegrams of especially pleasing nature, received by the executive, ex-ecutive, committee this morning, were read, among them being the following from Denver; "Many congratulations on being the first state In thia division to meet its full apportionment Am very proud to have your splendid commonwealth In his division. Lyman L. Pierce. West-.ern West-.ern exerutive secretarv. at San Fran-U Fran-U Cisco, wire that the Western division states, it is believed, will tout $15.- too.ooo. t "S POVLTERER MORRIS" Another, signed by F. EJson White and sent from the union stockyards, Illinois. ws: "Mr. Armour's subscription ws fori 1500.000 and waa made witb the Idea of covering entire I. 8. A." . Another from Cedar City. I'tah, , signed by William K. Palmer of the j Red Cross committee there: i Receipts total 11250." C. W. Dietrich, a KeI Cross official at Washington.. telegraphed this: "Your . enthusiastic ' report has cheered our hearts. We estimated that our atate would be good for HO. 000, and believe you will not disappoint us. The sppeal of our boys, soon to bo' found in great numbers in our rsntps and at the front, is Irresistible snd sny fommunity that appreciates the need of the ministry of the Red Cross, will glmtiv pour Into Its Isp her treasure. (Continued on page 10.) UTAHNS EAGER TO ' EQUAL POPULATION J WITHJOLLARS No Ceation Noted in Energy En-ergy With Which Campaign Cam-paign Progresses. r ' (Contlmnxr from pass 1.) Wo aro counting on Utah to Jo bar full eharo and ax port hw to do more." And from Walter Fltch Jr.. at Bursts, Burs-ts, Utah, wss received this ono: "I taks irroat pleasure In notifying yon that tho Red Cross fund from tho employes of tho Tlntlo mines has reached a figure of ..MOO. 1 will keep von pooled each day on any furthsr progress wo mlrht make." Another thlnir which rheersd tho captains on to even greater efforts was too annouDComant of a number of sun-sorlptlons, sun-sorlptlons, Includlnr that for $10 from Mr. and Mrs. Leo Charlea Miller. Throughout the meettnr. wrrtrh: osual. opsned with tho singing of ths first veree of "America,' the some en-tbusuunn en-tbusuunn which has marked tho labors of these men from tho beginning was la ovtdonco, and they went forth attain to renew ths "hauls for dollar"" with ths suroty that Utah's share, already a aaecooe. would bo made Into a junr,- |