Show I I The Women's Service unit of the Red fled RedCross RedCross Cross will meet every Tuesday and Wednesday in the basement basemen nt of ot St. St Marks Mark's church in Jn East First South street After a parade in which more than men and women of Salt Lake and the surrounding districts participated several thousand of the city's patriots fairly bubbling over with enthusiasm gathered in the big Mormon Tabernacle Taberna Taberna- cle where the already high spirit of enthusiasm was fanned to fever heat by the eloquence of some of or the nations nation's nations nation's nations nation's na na- na- na tion's leaders and former fighters The main speakers of the evening were Dr Stockton Axson national secretary secretary secretary sec sec- of the American Red Cross and Thomas the blind veteran of Gallipoli John W. W Morey manager of ot the mountain division of the American Red Cross Lawrence C. C Phipps dIrector director tor of ot the next Red Cross drive and Heber J. J Grant chairman of the state Liberty loan committee Each speaker speak speak- er or drove home the urgent necessity of preparedness on the part of every branch of the home service of ot the United States and especially the dire need on the part of the American Red RedCross RedCross RedCross Cross the purpose of which is to save the lives of the defenders of democracy who wha would otherwise be sacrificed Picturing vividly the carnage and slaughter of Gallipoli Thomas startled his audience with the enormous enormous enormous enor enor- figures of casualties and the horror horror horror hor hor- of suffering which was brought about th there re through the inadequately equipped means mans of relief at hand Mr told of how thousands of l and dying soldiers were left on transports without either nurses or on medical attendants Just be because because because be- be cause there was no preparation made beforehand to care for the fall fallen n I fighters He appealed to the people of America and to those of Salt Lake in particular to lend their moral aid and their dollars to the next Red Cross drive in order that another such calamIty calamity calamity calam calam- ity should not happen on the battlefields battlefields battlefields battle battle- fields in France Dr Stockton Axson Axon spoke upon the need of every American standing be behind behind behind be- be hind the Red fled Cross an and complimented the patriotism of the people of Utah in supporting s every movement of the government Heber J. J Grant and Mr Phipps both spoke in glowing terms of the success of tie the Liberty loan campaigns and urged the people of Utah to keep up their good work John W. W Morey manager of the division di division division di- di vision told the packed house s ll last night that people of the division were enrolled in the Red TIed Cross and were ready to stand behind any thing un undertaken undertaken undertaken un- un b by the organization He urged others to enroll and become the soldiers rs of the Red fled Cross over here Just as ag the other American men men and women were over there The Twentieth infantry band played The Th Star Spangled Banner and with thousands waving little American flags the huge audience left leU the Tabernacle thus bringing to a close what is said to be the greatest patriotic meeting held in Salt Lake since the war began |