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Show Thousands Respond to Service of Mercy in Great War. Women and Children , Toil Day and Night To Relieve Men at Front 3 of knttting needle ar plying Thousands Second Big Drive For Funds Will Begin Latter Part of December In Salt Lake, thousands of are making surgical dressings and thousand of women are stitchingawxy at all sort of hospital supplies for the war frqnt. And yet at Red Cross headquarters they will tell you that the amount of work being turned ont by the women of the city must be doubled and quadrupled if Salt Lake is to do its share for the L ... - i , S 1 urer; E. O. Howard, P. J. Morn, H, X Byrne, of Salt Lake. Jesse Kiilght of Provo, Ralph E. Bristol, W. H, Wuttl. James Plngree, of Ogden; Joseph iQuinney of Logan and James M Peterson of Richfield. The chairmen of "or king committees ta the various districts of the state were: Dr. F. W. Strsup, Bingham; Joseph Quinoey, Hogan; Georg C. Whitmore, Kephl; L. C, Whitmore, price; Jesse Knight, Provo; Edward Loose, Provo; Stephen L. Chip me a, American Fork, Fred Jensen, Mt. Sherman Fargo. Park City; Waiter Fitch. Eureka; J. M. Peterson. Richfield: Ephraim Layton; H H. Blood. Kaysville; Georgs R. 8U George; T. F. McBride. Tooele, Euward-SaoTolton, Beaver City; Mr. Palmer, Cedar City; W Ilford Day, Parowan; Mayor J. W. McHenry. Murray, and William W. Seegmtller, Kanab. f soldiers and sailors. The making of these surgical and supplies, knitted socks, sweaters, muffler wristlets and hospital garment ha increased lot per cent in the last weeks ana yet the organise tion Is still asking Sait Lake women to put every spare tnlhut Into patriotic work. The big need at present Miss Ella Wicklund, executive rotary of the local chapter says, is for gauss drees-- " Inge of which Sait Lake has not yet made any rbere negrher share. When the commodious knitting bag first appeared in the city some months ago it became almost a matter of lest to the uninitiated, But in a short time local wAtnen showed that it was no Joking matter and now In practically every churches,' on gathering In the city, theatres, street cars, la railway stations, the determined little woman, almost a nhtlonal Institution, .with her ball of grey yarn and two long needles is to be found working away that the boys at the front may be warm this winter. , liix the Daily at Red Orest headquarters Gardo house white capped, white aproned maids and matrons are workipg busily away In the gauxe room, cutting, folding and sewing In place the bandages and packs which will aid the army surgeons at the front. Practically every woman's club in the city ha formed ils Red Cross auxiliary. The women of the different churches are turning out immense amounts of the supplies. University girl have incorporated the Red pros' work as a part pf their year's curriculum. The domestic arts departments of the various high schools of the city are sewing for the Red Cross this year in place of making articles for (heir own use. And the children of the grade schools, both boys and girls are learning the art of the knitting needle which used to be only a myth of grandmother's days. Perhaps of special significance, the business - women working in the down town district are beading together in units at night to help with the war sewing. A number of permanent work rooms havi been established among them, those of the , women's service unit, the war relief depots la the Atlas block, the Daughters of the Pioneers, and the Relief society room in the Bishops building. ' And Individual women at home ere in many cases t the morning to do their,' , rising aw hour-earlishare for tha 8ammiee and Tommies With the removal of the organisation from its old headquarters on East Third South and at 751 Main street to ths historic Gardo house, came probably the biggest impetus of tba year to Red Cross work. The old mansion given over to the rauee br CoL and Mrs. Edwin F. Holmes now affords ample room for the various departments but at the rate interest In the Red Cross activi-y ties hi Increasing officials believe that the us of ,. the entire third floor of the Commercial Club so generously offered by Its members will be needed. The old. South Temple mansion built in 1177 by Brigham Toung h rough has passed many scenes of historic interest during the presidency of John Taylor. It has been a witness to many a brilliant social affair while occupied by the A. W. McCune family and later by CoL and Mrs. Holmes, and bow it ip being devoted to the biggest humanitarisn cause of the age. On the first floor are the offices of Manager Frank B. Cook; Miss Ella Wlckfund, executive secretary; Mrs. Union Worthington, chairman el supplies; Mrs. J. L Franken, in charge of the , surgical dressings department and Mrs. Mathilda Thompson, la charge of hospital supplies. There I lo a receiving omre tor finished articles, a supply room for distribution of materials, parking, pressing and knttting rooms The art gallery has been turned into a'gause room, the basement into a shipping department and the second floor Jas been consigned to the cutting department and other needs of the organisation. The owfcp bm o etfFHY k.y Mg Red Cross hanging over the historic mansion gives an interesting touch to the section of tha at the war front. In addition to all Johnson, a number or deegaie are u:ready H city which has played such an important part in the hospitals at an Inst tuts to Denver where this IS boxes of jams and jeliiea have been sent to ier pioneer history, direction of Miss Gertrude Vail, they arc rethe Linda at Vista and Kearny Camp Lewis, C.ntp a buas given the organ A second stimulus z ceiving instructions in the aocal eervke work, , American Lake, tton by the appointment of Frank B Cook as will l,c started in Upon their return The tots of the Primary association of the manager of the local chapter, Mr. Cook, earnest In giring aid to the famine of men en"Mormon Church aded by the officers have made and manager of tha Columbia Trust nearly half a dozen cases of hosp listed tn service It is emphatically stated that this supplies of his time to the which are already on their way to D T In adbranch of Red Cross work is by no tncars to be company, is giving one-ha-lf considered at charity as fhe men and w,mcn management of the chapter until the end of the dition to making 3000 pints of Jams end Jellies, war and It 1 expected that under his direction workers arq expected tn took after those left by and 10,000 hospital articles, the small members of th the organisation's affair will be maintained on a tba organization expect to keep up making supSammies" In ever so. many way besides financially high standard. plies until there is no longer need of them. ' I local Branches. The government In putting the civilian reMrs, Union Worthington is chairman of the . lief work on the shoulder of the lied Cross, it According to Miss Wicklund there are 10 ? hospital supplies committee; Mrs. J. L. Franken, auxiliaries to tbs Balt Lake chapter with two Chairman of the surgical dressing work and Mrs. Is stated, recognizes Its responsibility toward those near and dear to the man who gives himself to branches at Lark and Murray. And In the state of R. C. Gemmell, chairman of tha committee on in1 his country, h is probable that after the return Utah there era the following chapters- - Salt Lake, struction. Canteen Units at Work. of the delegates from Denver, a civilian relief Logan. Ogden. Duchesne. Springville, Spanish1: . One hundred women or more of the city are inuiltute will be started at the University of Utah Fork, Manti, Gunnison. Bountiful, Monro. Beav-,a- r. to train members In this branch of Red Cross- Milford. Vernal, St. George, Tooele, Grants-vtll- e. also organised Into canteen units junder the Red work. Brigham City, Park City. Provo, LehL pries, Cross. Subject- to call at any moment of the day Beside It wsr supply work, the local chapor night, these women are expected to dispense tPaaguitch. end Parowan. All of these chapters work under the direction of the mountain state comfort and cheer to soldiers pawing through the ter has sent s number of Red Cross rnrses Into national service. division of th national organization at Denver. By Christmas lime fully fi city on their way to the'various camps and canwomen will have reported for duty, among them Tha report of the local chapter for tha war tonments of tha country. Since the organization of the canteen service late this summer under tha di- being probably Wise Elm Wtcklund, M Is Wilhelm supplies turned out up to October 1 showed that " IS bofrs of rection of Mrs. w. W Riter. noma 290 men have tna Clotf, Miss May DConnor. Miss Rose Karous bandages had been shipped to headquarters IS boxes of hospital garments and It been fed at tha railroad stations the members of Miss Fra Karous. Miss Louise Pothier, Mie Susan boxes of hospital Hnene. At the special request of a the unit lniheir . bUa .Uaiform and, bluw ei!s - K. Laoer bnss tyaTg' BamTrxn 'tueltirTra'ncej'r Miss Nancy Self. Miss Lily Green. Miss Dean ArmCtpt kcHenrr and With the authorisation of of- boarding the trains with baskets of refreshments ficials at Denver 110 sets of sweat re, mufflers, prepared at tha canteen kitchen near the Union strong. Miss Evelyn Carter. Mist Dora Askew, wristlets and socks have been sent to th men depot on West South Temple. Miss Mary Jacobsen, Miss Rose. Heninger. Mim A third branch of the Red Crone to only as yet guarding tha smelters at Magna and advices reRuth Hanson, Miss Dora Malben, Misn Margaret ceived from France era to thf affect that pillows tn Ks infancy, the civilian relief. Recently organisIngersol and Mias Carrie Roberta Th last 15 madq by fair Balt Lakers are now being used In ed under the direction of its ehairtnan " Joy H. have already gone into service. .urHn . E1U-ao- n, w, ft; Second Big Drive. second big Christmas drive ta now marking week of December IS when oil citizens of the eky and state are being asked to take out memberships ci In the big humanitarian organization or to their membership of 1317. And it la Just this big membership of citizens that the Red Cross officials declare make it on of th most Important buaneas corporations of the city. Expending somewhere in the neighborhood of $4,000 or $5,090 a month, each citizen In tho state to declared to ha a stockholder and tha dividends received are mad up of th satisare dofaction of knowing that the ing all in their power for the men at the front. What Sait Lake to doing in Red Cross work to being repeated In the twenty two ether branches of tha state where men and women era proving through considerable self sacrifice, labor and financial contribution that they are willing to stand staunrhly back of ths big organisation in its work for humanity. Th Utah chnpte-- e are but a part of tba mountain division with headquarters at Denver and which includes the four states. Utah. Wyoming, New Mexico and Colorado. Among th officials of the Mountain division with John W. Morey and other well known business men to one Sa t Laker. Glen Miller. Mr. Miller has recently - - -n made field director of the military activities of tha division, apposition somewhat similar to that of officials who distribute relief suppllea tn France. The Ideal man to expected to look after the needs-o- f th enlisted men in" th various camps of the district and to see that Red Cross ..senrieeJa-glvzj- a. heraver needed. He wlU see that soldiers passing through tha four states lack no . comfort while traveling, and in case of accidents or catastrophes will see that immediate first sid to given; in a word dispensing Red Cross comfort her at home. Probably ths greatest impetus was given the local Red Cross work by the visit of Henry P. Davison, chairman of the Red Cross war council. Karvey D. Gibson, general manager of the national organizatio1 and other officials during the month of October. When Mr. Davison addressed an audtenee In the theatre made up to a large degree of uniformed women workers knitting away while they listened, be set the limit of their work to the skies. He called on tho men of the community do stand back of the organization which to giving relief to the suffering thousands of Euroic and to hampered in that work by the need of more and still more supplies- - And he put th work of th entire American Red Cross not on the plane of some petty organization working for its own ends but as one of the big factors tn the winning of the wsr for world democracy. A re-n- es L- -- i' y n, etMTeTN jrssocvirott . e -- ' - ' -- I V 1 f i er ft' - f rfe 1 1 , Works of Organization. at Red Cross headquarters they have some 'nteresting data on thework of the whole ImWo i vi , national organixat.on. They tell h.. in 1JS Henri Durant. In Ita'.y at the time of the Austrian war tried to relieve some of th suffering among the 30.900 wounded men, how four years later an congress was held at Switzerland with , netioia in attendance where the parent organ!-za- ti m of the present Red Cross into Enter came the Hague convention, then th second international convention Where the treaty of ths Red Cross was signed making part of international law. fhe first association m the United Stales, was formed in 1891 and was re-icorporated in 1305 by an act of Congress into the present national organisation. At the opening of the European war this country had the smallest membersh'p, that of 499 members Today it his 5.990 090. It has sent nurses, doctors and aid to Austria, Hungary, Belgium, France, Germany, and in Serbia it ha conquered the nation-wid- e plague. It- has aided thousands of Armenians tn Egypt, and 1,090.000 German and Austrian prisoners in Siberia. It has at present 13 divisions wiTi the Hon. Woodrow Wilson president of tho United Slate at Us head. It has built 13 huge warehouses In Europe for the storing of supplies. It haa 3(4 helpers there, 2.000 nurses In, the field, 2,000 giving instruction. It haa 3.000 nurses ready and thousands volunteering for duty. In France it is waging a big campaign to save the children from tuberculosis and th ravages of ths war. In tiito work it has spent practically $1,094,909. It has Installed motor car showers for these same children, neglected and diseased. It has provide! ths French- - rest eta-- tions-witbaths. laundries, reading rooms and other facilities to enable the jnen returning front tha trenches to bathe, change their clothing nd , iur work: jok. "thp n.eo cross' White upon the shoulders the women must not tsaur.ly t.ie burden of making supplies, the portion of toe e,ty have given solid financial backing to the aocictj. The local Red Cross h.iptr has been organlz-- for many years i par there ha but a'nre the Spanlsh-Amenc- a been little need of active work until this spring when exhausted Europe called for help and America csrcui to her aid Tne chapter was reorganised last full with Its present officials but r.ot urlll nearly April were tho present war Jiegun In earnest. Mayor W. Mont Ferry is chairman. Miss Kate Williams, vice chairman). John C. Cutler treasurer and tljia following the executive committee: E. O. Howard, chairman. Miss Kate Williams. Miss Damaria Beeman. R. X Byrne. John C. Cutler. William J. Deeney, John Henry Evans, Mayor W. M. Ferry, Mrs. R. C. Gemmeil. A. ,N-- McKay. John Malick, B. F. Redman. Mrs.'F. 8. Richards, Mrs. W. W. Riter, j. B. Scholefleld, Mr. Sol Siegel. AdJ. Gen. W. G. WL'Iama. and Mrs. Union Worthington. When active war work was taken up last spring, the treasury of th organization was by no means Red Crone thriving but when th big natlna-wld- e drive was waged in June, local citizens cams o valumtiy to the front with contributions that Utah led by Salt Lake startled the whole country with her magnificert Mibscriptlon. ot. $52(LMa, being $150,090. And this subscription gave a healthy per eentage to all local chapters of the state for their maintainance. Th drive was valiantly earned through to Its commendable finish by the state exeexitive committee composed of Charles W. Kibley, chairman; $, afayeti t, vice chairman; W. S. McCprnick,' treas-- rct tzs-tene- e, n- h J s ' Wr m 4efor rriurning to' their homa' h is stretch-quo- ta tng out its arms tn welcome to th refugees sent back from Germany broken tn health and spirit Han-chet- 1, 1 , |