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Show THE KITCHNER TOE IS MOST COM PORTABLE "It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out, it's the grain of sand in your shoe," is the way one boy in the training camps has expressed the soldiers' attitude toward socks with knots in the toes. Then he added, "An all -day tramp on the same little piece of knotted yarn becomes momentous at nightfall as the prospect of a German Ger-man raid," according to a letter received re-ceived at the Red Cross headquarters, praising the Kitchener toe in preference prefer-ence to the old-time way of knitting the toe. Announcements have been sent out repeatedly during the last few weeks warning Red Cross workers that no socks will he accepted after August 5 which do not have the Kitchner toe, yet some women still persist in making mak-ing the old regulation toe and take attitude that what was good enough at one time is good enough for all time. Tin- Kid-hener toe originated with the Canada Red Cross in early days of the war and was named by them in honor of Lord Kitchener, because be-cause it is sis much more comfortable than the old style, and the Red Cross thought that comfort might inspire toward victory almost as much as the great Kitchener himself. The Mountain Moun-tain division, including Utah, Wyoming, Wyom-ing, Colorado and New Mexico, has been the first American Red Cross chapter to introduce the Kitchener toe. Mrs. ('Iceland, the great general secretary o? the Utah chapter, returned re-turned yesterday from the general Y. M. C, A. conference at Asilomar, Cal., where she has been the last two weeks. She is now at her desk at the headquarters in Amelia palace. From th" Mountain division head quarters at Denver has come a recognition rec-ognition of a bachelor's Red Cross auxilary at Sahara, Utah. Sahara is a small dry-farming settlement in the southern part Off the state and all the bachelor supporters are dry-farmers. Until recently each bachelor has done his own laundry work. A few-weeks few-weeks ago the women of the district, who had organized a Red Cross aux-illiary, aux-illiary, began to cast about for the means to support their creation. The people were few and many miles a-part, a-part, consequently nothing of an entertainment en-tertainment nature could be given to raise funds. One women finally recalled that her bachelor neighbors were wont to hang out their washing, so she suggested that the women of that section solicit the laundry work of their single neighbors. When the men learned the money was for the support of the Red Cross they readily consented and now Sahara chapter has enough funds to carry on its work. A |