Show 4 UTAH I NEVER FAILED IN WAR WOR WO HEA EAVY Vi DEMANDS 4 CHEERFULLY MET WHENEVER MADE MADEr r r By W. W H. H Pickering Salt Lake and Utah as expected or of this commonwealth and its capital city scored per cent in the display display dis- dis play of patriotism sentimental and practical As the war dragged on and as Uncle Sam and his men plunged deeper into the whirl of battle there became an increased need for the kind of patriotism that dents the thes s 0 bankroll but exalts the giver to the heights of service Utah did not I falter in this respect any more than i in sending ending its its men away to come to I grips l with the Huns Liberty loan campaigns four of oft t dirt them swept over Utah as over the remainder of the country in triumph and this state of comparatively small r tin population yet faced with hugo quotas came nobly to the front The same sarno is true of the Red Cross l. l campaigns the united war work cam cam- d and the War Var Savings stamp campaigns as well as in a score of minor drives I 0 DEEDS LIVE FOREVER f t JJ While memorials can be erected to tM tf the men and women who underwent the withering fire on battlefronts it I r is h harder to fancy a concrete weathers weather s I withstanding monument to the num- num I sot ber of dollars and er lesser coins that rolled out of the pockets of into the war chest of the nation and andy andy y y filled the food bins of f starving allies E These dollars are their own 9 r. r meets ments and will live eternally in inbe inbe be m memory g. g B MORE THAN ASKED is Utah oversubscribed every Liberty ri r l loan an quota quo a. a Under direction of the state council of defense committees o 6 worked incessantly minute four men 11 harangued harangue audiences wherever audi audi- audiences eXIsted private and public C pleas were conveyed over the state stateS I S ar by every means possible public demud demud dem- dem ud was added to personal acts e 0 of generosity The poor the rich the retired and the active without a tet distinction dug into their savings and std 91 their accumulated wealth and made good good for Utah erl When it was decided last summer summers 91 s r that the various war work 9 1 bons excepting the Red Cross which t accompanied the American as forces and made life bearable a. a s for the soldiers in camps and barracks barr bar bar- r racks should combine their efforts In 1 it one large drive Utah was placed on 1 the list for z PEACE DID NOT STOP IT The rhe drive started November 8 with peace only a matter of days with the end of the war almost at hand and with red hot enthusiasm gradually gradually grad grad- cooling under the prospect of ofa ofa a victorious peace Utah once more presenting a united front went over the top and advanced advanced ad- ad to its objective without a hitch The Beehive states state's glorious record of achievement was rounded out in the last great national effort before the close of the war The Y M. M C. C A. A the Y W. W C. C A. A I Salvation Army Knights of Columbus Colum- Colum bus and Jewish welfare commission all united in this last appeal COlum 1 The was forthcoming with good measure and it is even now being devoted to the interests of American soldiers sailors and marines whether in France Germany German Siberia or America The success of the governments government's drives for the tho necessary funds through flotation of the Liberty loans I sales of War Savings and Thrift I stamps or In other ways will remain I always to the credit of Utah RED CROSS WORK In a more sentimental an and direct way the activities of the Red Cross CrossIn In Utah demonstrate the love of country and humanity in the hearts of Its people At the first call of the Red Cross for aid at home to In the field or else else- where the women and men particularly particularly I the women of oC Utah sprang sprang- to I its shells assistance burst e were Nurses recruited r for duty from where h the l I ranks of the trained women of Utah and applications were more than suf- suf I Ambulance drivers were found for service with the troops Every I I woman and girl and man for that J matter was urged to pick up the knitting needles and make articles t necessary to men In the field and to I sew garments for the hospitals and make surgical dressings and clothing for refugees in the stricken districts CHAPTERS EVERYWHERE Red Cross chapters sprang up In every ward In many stores and business business busi- busi ness offices and practically every womans woman's club in hi the state ceased its quest for the higher literary learning and tool took to meeting as Red Cross I chapters Auxiliaries of churches of all denominations and of lodges I turned out their huge donations to the great cause of mercy school schoolchildren children In grade schools and Sunday I schools gathered regularly to make Continued on page 1 I HEAVY DEMANDS Continued from page 6 the articles needed to aid the fighters and the the workers among the afflicted WOMEN VOLUNTEER In Salt Lake as elsewhere were found women volunteers t to take up the great work of caring for the needy at home to s see e that the wives and other dependents of soldiers and sailors did not suffer for the want ot of necessities while their men were at atthe atthe the front and to untangle technical puzzles with governmental departments departments depart depart- ments which sometimes moved too ponderously for tor the immediate comfOrt comfOrt com com- fOrt of those at home The civic centers too sprang up as an auxiliary and aided in a practical practical way the work of the food administration administration ad- ad ministration and fuel administration by giving advice and demonstrations to the housewives of the community and conducting lecture courses and to the welfare of children that their culture should not be neglected in the whirl of FOOD AND FUEL SAVED The food and fuel administrations throughout the war maintained constant constant con con- stant pressure on the people to see that economy was practiced and forced where ungenerous attitude prevailed The food and fuel offices kept the profiteers in line line and helped the people help themselves I In ing the habit of thrift in the pantry and coal bin II Utah never failed |