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Show oo 1H 001 IK UN THEIR PART Either men are too busy or they lack the sympathy and understanding of women. ' Red Cross workers in Ogden insist that the women are doing vastly more than their share in donating and arranging ar-ranging Ogden's second Christmas offering of-fering of 500 boxes to American soldiers. sold-iers. "The women are doing magnificently if the men did 5 per cent as much, the second quota would be raised with out difficulty," said one Red Cross official of-ficial this morning. "The men, however, how-ever, are disappointed. It can be explained ex-plained only by the fact that the men aro too busy are they lack the sympathy sym-pathy and love and understanding with which the hearts and souls of women arc endued. I am not inclined to think they lack patriotism its merely an oversight on their paru" It is urged that men arrange to donate do-nate Christmas boxes filled with such gifts as they themselves would prefer pre-fer were (hey corraled in a cantonment canton-ment far away from home on Christmas Christ-mas day. Among these articles, it is suggested, that cigars, tobacco, playing play-ing cards anything and everything that will Lend to relieve the monotony of camp life and cause the soldier boj to forget his lonliness. All packages should be delivered to Mrs. J. Douglas Watson, ground floor of the Berthana hall building, not later than Tuesday noon. The donations are coming in rapidly, but nof rapidlv enough to fill the quota unless new vigor is injected into the campaign. The schools and other organizations are doing great work. oo |