Ogden Daily Standard | 1918-01-19 | Page 14 | Sweaters Are to Go to Soldiers of 20th Regiment

SWEATERS IE 10 GO TO SOLDIERS OF 211 REGIMENT i SALT LAKE, Jan. 19. Tribune: j Sweaters knitted by the members of the Salt Lake county chapter, and I thoso of numerous other chapters of j the stato will be forwarded at once j to the soldiers of the Twentieth rogi-j mcnt at Fort Douglas, and this too, without the formality of requiring tho j goods to be shipped to the general warehouse of the mountain division ! headquarters at Denver and then I transported back to the post for distri- j butlon. This is in accord with plans made public yesterday by Glen Miller, field director of military relief for the Red Cross, who Is acting under orders from Washington. Some days ago Director Miller received a telegram from the national headquarters for military relief, re-lief, inquiring as to the number of sweaters on hand, in transit and needed. need-ed. Mr. Miller's answer was that lie had none on hand, none In transit and that there thero was need for 1100. The Denver headquarters promptly forwarded 250 sweaters, which have already been delivered and put into use. The hurry up call for the turning turn-ing in of finished sweaters to the local lo-cal headquarters was printed yesterday yester-day and Mr. Miller was advised by wire from Washington as to the details de-tails of the arrangements for speedy delivery. Whole State Participates. Salt Lake county chapter will furnish fur-nish 250 sweaters of which the majority major-ity are now on hand; Logan chapter will send 175 sweaters, Ogden S5, Brig-ham Brig-ham City 50, Lehi 25, while 5S3 additional addi-tional sweaters are to be senat once from Denver. In the ordinary course of events these sweaters, no matter in what portion of the state they are knitted, would have been sent on to the Denver Den-ver headquarters and from there sent back to the post through the proper military channels. But this red tape has been officially eliminated, so that the sweaters will be consigned direct to tho field director and by him transmitted trans-mitted to Fort Douglas. The need is apparent and the saving of both time and money by this procedure is self-evidenL self-evidenL For many years, no matter where stationed, the Twentieth regiment has claimed Salt Lake as its home, hence the privilege of the knitters of the county chapter and the stato to contribute con-tribute the result of thoir labors directly di-rectly to a home regiment is regarded regard-ed as unique and gratifying, for usually usual-ly the Red Cross sends the goods received re-ceived where and when needed without with-out taking into consideration any individual in-dividual preference of tho producers.