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Show OGDEN OFFERS 1 CM OF TOMATOES TD DEO CROSS Salt Lake, Nor. 21 Ogden is ready to send a carload of canned tomatoes to the Belgian sufferers. Word to this effect was received vesterday by the members of the Utah executive board of the Red Cross who held a meeting in the directors' room of the Deseret National bank at 2 o'clock In the afternoon. Other offers were received from different dif-ferent sources and most of thorn probably prob-ably will be accepted The Philharmonic Philhar-monic society offers to give a concert, con-cert, the proceeds to go to the Red Cross, as also do Alfred Best and several other societies and individuals A Communication was received from the Rockefeller Foundntlon by the Commercial club, which was turned over to the Red Cross, asking how many carloads of supplies would be sent from Salt Lake. "The public is slow fn getting Into the spirit oi" the Red Cross work," said a member of the exexcutive board. "There are but a few over a hundred names on the rolls now. Membership for a year costs $1 and half of this goes to the American Red Cross and the other half for necessary neces-sary expenses. Wo are likely to have a deficit unless more become members mem-bers -Mrs. Sol Slegel, secretary and treasurer, will receive applications for membership at her home In Salt Lake. Girls of the University of Utah who do not care to knit stocking? for the European war sufferers will bo asked to contribute a pair of children's stockings to the general relief next week Expert knitters will be at the university all week to give Instruction Instruc-tion to those who want to learn so that they may knit for the Red Cross, it being expected that each girl will knit one pair of stockings from yarn she herself furnishes. on |
