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Show 1YEMT STARTS f OR WELFARE FUND Ogden and Weber county residents will be called on this week to contribute contrib-ute their share of the state's allotment of $100,000 for the $35,000,000 fund to be raised to spend for the moral, mental men-tal and physical welfare of the soldiers now in camps and soon to be in camps In America and abroad. The raising of this fund is a nation-wide movement and announced as for one of the most worthy causes of all, that of caring for the welfare of the boys soon to be In the vast armies America is raising. Tho money will bo expended through the .agencies of the Y. M. C. A. and Y. W. C. A. and the war camp community recreation service. Army commanders and officials of the government have strongly supported tho movement. The vices and pitfalls in the path of tho young men in training camps and various cities where troops are mobilized mobi-lized are described as very numerous and Insidious and a constant menace to the moral and physical well being of the troops. It is to combat those conditions and substitute wholesome amusement and recreations worth while that the money to be raised will be used. The fund in Utah will be gathered through the Council of Defense, De-fense, of which the Weber county organization or-ganization will act as local representative representa-tive for this district. The fund raising campaign started in Weber county this morning and will continue until November 19, including that date. Persons are urged to contribute con-tribute what they can to the fund by sending their check to the Weber county Council of Defense or to B. O. Howard, treasurer of the general canvassing can-vassing committee for the council, at the Commercial club in Salt Lake. Plans have been mado by the Council Coun-cil of Defense to carry on a state-wide campaign of systematized advertising so that Utah will not fall short'of its allotment of $10,000. The work is in charge of the soldier's welfare fund executive committee of the state Council Coun-cil of Defense, David A. Smith being chairman. C C. Richards, chairman of the Weber We-ber Council of Defense, is in Salt Lake today conferring with officials of the Btate council relative to starting the work in this district. |