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Show Red Cross Drive Assured of Success show at the Casino and will get half the proceeds from that. The show should have been last night but for the burning of the films accidentally on Wednesday night. It will be given this Friday night instead. The committee will make a house to howie canvas during the remainder remaind-er of the campaign. Centerfield and Axtell also are both working to give the Red Cross their support. J Five districts west of the Mississippi Mississip-pi haire been organized, in a whirlwind whirl-wind campaign of twelve days, to raiss the $15,000,000 asked of this territory ter-ritory by the National Red Cross, whieh has set out to gather a fund of $100,000,000 for military and civil relief re-lief in the period of June 15 to 25, set aside as Red Cross week by presidential presiden-tial proclamation. Conferences, attended by leading citizens, representing all interests in the commuities, have been held in five big cities, San Francisco, covering California, north of Bakersfield, and Nevada; Portland, covering Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Montana; Los Angeles, covering California, south of Bakersfield, Arizona and Western Texas; Denyer, covering Colorado, New Mexico, Wyoming, North Dakota, South pakota, Utah, Iowa and Nebraska, and Wichita, covering co-vering Kansas, Eastern Texas, Arkansas, Ar-kansas, Missouri and Oklahoma. Following the successful campaign methods used In m,atjy big cities, where huge funds have been raised for Y. M. C. A. and other purposes, team captains have been selected from the strongest men in each community. com-munity. Plans have been carefully outlined to canvass every available source of money. A thorough publicity pub-licity campaign has been organized, be called into use to bring th,e appeal directly to the attention of the people. Lyman L. Pierce, who has had a remarkable record for successful campaigning cam-paigning along these lines, is executive execu-tive secretary of the western committee. commit-tee. He has just made a swift trip around the circuit, and he announces that the plans are rfected to insure a rapid and thorough canvass which will gather the fifteen millions expected ex-pected of the West for military and civil relief at home and abroad. And he predicts that the West will not fail in this important public service. THE LOCAL, WORK A. E. Park gave a splendid review of Red Cross work at church last Sunday, Sun-day, especially outlining the purpose and need of the financial aid which the nation at large is urged to extend this week. Mr. Park made it plain that the duty of every true American Ameri-can in the confronting crisis should prompt a ready response to the call for alleviation on behalf of those at the battle front. The local auxiliary has had a number num-ber of ladies out during the campaign, who have succeeded in adding seventy- seven new memberships and getting get-ting a contribution besides of $30. They have also sold a good house for a and every known agency in advertising advertis-ing from billboards and posters to en velopes and even telephone calls will |