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Show RETURNED SOLDIERS PRAISE RED CROSS HORSES With enthusiasm for the Kcd Cr388 welling among Ogden citizens consid erable Interesl is being aroused by the I speakers at the theaters of the City. At Ogden theaters lasl evening audl-ences audl-ences wece given opportunity :o hear returned soldiers who voiced expree sion of cr.it Mode towards the Red Cross organization. The following soldiers spoke at ;'ne theaters last night: Orpheum. J. R. Ward; Ogden, Norman Sims; Lvceum, Joseph Titley; Alhambra, Jack . W ah lace. Tonight the children will entertain the audiences at thv various tneatrs. Miss Vera Hassenpflug is chairman ol the children and. the public is aasu cu of Interesting, moments during the discourses. . The' Jttjt follows: Alhambra, Alham-bra, Ralph-Nye.;, lq,.. , laude Hoilis-ter; Hoilis-ter; Lyceum., Harry .Lvons; Ogden, Helen ( IpvclnnVl i irnhenin M:.r Iwhittier, arid tt;).. elma Tibbets Wednesday Qfgut will be given lol the Four-Minute Women, who will be I followed by physicians who sav. actual ac-tual service, then hy ; cnresentativcs of war organizations on Prid 0 speakers furnished by Eastern s.ari (Chapters on Saturday, and the repre- Bentatives of the American Le'on or, I the closing night. J Speaking at the Alhambra. Jick ; Wallace, returned soldier, tw ice wounded, said. "A little over a year ago I .had occasion oc-casion to see some of the work the ! Red Cross was doin in France, being one of the men who flooded th Amer ! lican hospitals, as a result of th- great American offensive. "In a little church in the rcor.nc woods which was usd as a temporary shelter, where the wounded were k p until trucks ' could oome and rusfi them back to the hospitals tlv re I were Red Cross workers giving the men every comfort lhat could be pro-Ivided pro-Ivided in an advanced post. No one knows how much a little attention means to a soldier after he has Just come out of thi-.i' il el a bail'e, and the Red Cfp: wasu! v. ays there tr aid the suffarin; Ti'v provi led ihe ,'men w tilf janH;;hot drinks, i ga :rets, candy and. r:Wos. They woulo give you. the nfevs of the outside I world, tell . you .now the boys were j driving back -ihe Him, and any ott er news that Ihey .thought would Inter) ! j you. "One Red Cross 'allow iold me that jtbe Americans had taken Met d, n I know whether he knew belter or rot. but it served his purpose, 1 was Id five or six different hospitals and could not help but notice what the Red Cross was Joiqg, anything that 'you needed the Red Cross would glad ly give you. They would distribute magazines and bAK.- and every -v P the wiiiil. e. i'l'.--i$ c . 1 1 r,f th", S ' and s u 1 1 , . he K5i Cross usually gave you news before it 'vas yld enough to call histoiy. Then think of the thousands of American soldiers who owe their lives to the tireless care given them by the Red Cross nurses Their work stands an everlasting wonder ot f achievement It was not alom in the hospitals that th? Red Cross served lour army over there. Besides ihe canteens at different places wh re troops in transit were served, I he-Red he-Red Cross maintained offices where ihe soldier could go for legal advice i ii' ; nuum 1 1 n e j uu i man, -ee au.,ui your allotments, insurance and m:'U other things that you could not have taken care of at any other place. "The Red Cross backed us over there and now we must back the Red Ct s Over lure. Give the Red Cross your support. Answer the great roll call. nn |