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Show ACADEMY STUDENTS: PARADE FOR THE j RED CROSS The distinctive features In today's big Red Cross membership drive was a parade by the Weber academy students, stu-dents, lead by a band, and the Individual Indi-vidual efforts of Ray Hanson, enthusiastic enthu-siastic and patriotic free-lance Ited Cross campaigner. The Weber academy's student parade began at 3 o'clock. Scores and scores of students formed at the academy acad-emy building and marched through the downtown districts. The band plajed patriotic music and the banners and pennants were fluttering appeals to the admiring populace to get busy and enlist under the Red Cross flag Ray Hanson free-lance. In that he does ont affiliate with any committee, or organization gathered in eleven subscriptions during the morning and obtained promises of four more. It! was rather a poor day for the young I man and besides ho only had time tot work during the morning hours. Hisj only incentive Is that the cause Is justi and he wants to do his bit, Hanson lives at 1824 Grant avenue. Police Chief T. E, Browning has volunteered vol-unteered his services and is acting as a committee of one today to organize the foreign population. Ho is address-ing address-ing personal letters and making individual indi-vidual calls upon the leading members mem-bers of the Japanese society and inviting in-viting the Greeks, Syrians, Armenians, Armen-ians, Chinese and others to take out membership and lead in a campaign with their countxymon. Theaters Responding. The local theaters are responding as valiantly as could be hoped. Every employe, from manager down to supers at the Orpheum, has enlisted. The Utah. Dcrln T.vrnnm Cmv anrl ;others are making similar showings. The night addresses at the theaters also are netting large numbers of new acquisitions. In the Ninth ward, twenty girls have organized and will make a house-to-house canvass tomorrow I from Twentieth street south .and from I Washington avenue east. Rev. Christian R. Garver Is canvassing can-vassing the Scowcroft plants this afternoon aft-ernoon and the railroad shops will bo visited tomorrow. Flags cannot be obtained at headquarters head-quarters in sufficient quantities to meet tho demand. Twenty-three hundred hun-dred wore distributed before 10:30 this morning and rush order, arriving at 3 "o'clock, Is not expected to last long. The high 'school students and the Southern Pacific band will be tho feature cards tomorrow. They will hold an open air mass meeting on the streets in front of Red Cross headquarters, head-quarters, 2-182 Washington avenue, during the evening. Everybody in the cit will attend or should attend. Also they should join, if they haven't already. Tfeo boy scouts also will be active tomorrow, as they have been at all times since the drive began. In the Country. In the country districts an equal enthusiasm is being shown. The young men of Hooper and Kanesviile have organized for a house-to-house drivo tomorrow. Other communities will duplicate Hooper and Kanesviile and the entire county will have been organized before the week passes. Although no definite totals can be obtained, it is known that the campaign cam-paign will far surpass tho original goal of 2000 new members. Everyone is caicning me lever tne patriotic fever and awakening to the necessity of enlisting. en-listing. The person who is-not a Red Cross member when the drive is finished fin-ished will be an oddity he also, perhaps, per-haps, will be ashamed. The final count will be made Friday night. Incidentally, the huge Red Cross flag suspended in front of the headquarters head-quarters that is arousing complimentary compli-mentary comment was made by Mrs. H. H. Lltzenberg, wife of a mail car-rior car-rior attached to the local postoffice. nn |