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Show FIVE THOUSAND CHILDREN ARE TO SING CHRISTMAS EVE AND CANDLES ARE TO BURN Five thouBand children, bright and happy, pretty and healthful the sort who grace the Ogden homes and make the city famous will sing Christmas carols on the streets next Monday night Christmas eve. It will be a scene that never was duplicated in Ogden and possibly not in the entire west. It will be calculated calculat-ed to bring home to the thousands of auditors the exact meaning of Christmas; Christ-mas; cause to hesitate, admire and then ponder. For these children, gathered from the Sunday schools of the various churches and wards and tho public schools, will be a part of the great membership drive of the Ogden unit of the American Red Cross. They will be one of the impelling forces that will persuade every resident of the city to attach a name to the Red Cross roster. That, however, Is only a part of the big drive and is one of the features that is of the future. The drive already al-ready is In action and securing unprecedented unpre-cedented results. It was stated at membership headquarters, 24S2 Washington Wash-ington avenue phone 134 today that the speaking campaign at the various theaters last night got huge results; one church organization reported 78 now members today; two ward committees com-mittees reported 60 acquisitions each; and others have not as yet reported. The organization is becoming more compact and forceful. It is estimated estimat-ed that forty committees are at work ! today. W.' T. Greenvrell haB taken charge of the fraternal associations drive and will speak at tho Elks hall tonight; Rev. Christian R. Garver will head a committee that will canvass the stock yards and packing plants; Marcellus Smith will Interview all the musical societies; and the thirty-seven othor committees have scheduled trips to make. It Is a matter of record that the commissary departments of tho Union Pacific and the Oregon Short Line have requested that a committee be sent to their offices. The schools have volunteered their services and students will canvass the downtown districts Thursday and Friday; Fri-day; and the boy couts will do similar simi-lar work Saturdays The Ogden unit has set goal at 2000, but there Is every roason to believe that when the campaign finishes 90 per cent of the citizenship will have become members. That means five times two thousand. The campaign is being conducted along aggressive and strictly business lines and is certain cer-tain of an astonishing success. But the big event is going to take place next Monday night when the five thousand children, stMloned in squads at every corner, enter their appeal ap-peal in tho way of Christmas carols. In addition to the carols by the children, chil-dren, everyi home will bo decorated with flags with candles burning immediately im-mediately behind each flag. The scene promises to be one of Intense Interest and beauty |