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Show 1 GITEEN SERVICE 6T Oil OEPOT FOR SOLDIERS At a meeting of the omcers ana executive ex-ecutive committee of the Ogden Red Cross chapter this morning a report; was received from the committee having hav-ing in charge the matter of supplying soldiers and recruits m transit, with food, refreshments and entertainment at the Ogden depot. It was unanimously unanimous-ly decided that, for the present, no canteen can-teen service be established but that the Red Cross organization will keep in touch with the Salt Lake committee commit-tee and will provide meals or render any other service that is" deemed necessary. ne-cessary. This action was taken after a thorough thor-ough investigation by R. E. Bristol I and Mrs. Joseph Taylor who mado a visit to Salt Lake and consulted with E. O. Howard of Walker Brothers bank, who has charge of the canteen work in that city. It was ascertained that ample food is furnished for the soldiers on the train and as they are very rarely allowed to leave the cars in Ogden there is no use in maintaining maintain-ing elaborate kitchen facilities at this point under an expense of several hundred hun-dred dollars per month when the money mon-ey is badly needed for other services that are vitally important. It was found that, through lack of full understanding, the Red Cross chapter chap-ter at Prove, Salt Lake and Ogden had each been making preparations to take . , T II C n1,ll care oi uue bumo pciituja ui ouiuioia i and further that these soldiers had 1 ample food and cooking conveniences on the train with them. The Ogden Red Cross will co-operate fully in the future with Salt Lake and Provo or-J ganlzatlons and will supply necessar- les whenever occasion requires. Thej indications are, however, that on account ac-count of the conveniences supplied by the railroads under the direction of the war department it will not be deslre-aole deslre-aole to establish an eating station here at. Ogden, but the chapter will i act immediately if it later develops I that such action will be of any service. serv-ice. The committee further decided to consult Mr. Oxley of the western headquarters head-quarters at the Red Cross In Denver j and advise him of the reasons for tie- ferrlng the establishment of canteen I services and invite his further suggestions sugges-tions as to means and methods of get-1 ting the Red Cross work systematized and on an effective business basis. nn |