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Show RELIEF DRIVE PLANSSTARTED Local Organizations Agree to Support Campaign; Meeting Saturday Representatives of Ogdon churches. ciubB and women's organizations ves-rerdny ves-rerdny Indorsed the appeal of the President of the United States and Governor Mabey to aid In the Near Kaat relief fund drive in this city. The action was taken at a meeting y8ter-aay y8ter-aay afternoon in thc city hail and a Plan was reached tn hold a big mass meeting in the tabcrnacl- Sat evening at S o'clock, which will officially offi-cially open the campaign in Ogden. The appeal of the needy and distressed dis-tressed women, children and ai?ed men In Armenia and the other countries ol the oar East, ravaged by the Turk, was made by Alonzo E Wilson, national na-tional field director for the Near Eas relief. whr recently returned from a alx months' vis.lt ln" the devastated regions re-gions He pave a brief but graphic description of the conditions in Armenia Ar-menia ami other districts. He told of 'he splendid work which has bees done by the American relief commission, commis-sion, which is taking care of 110,000 children, who have been orph.in. d bv the massacrelng of their parents anil adult kin by tho Turks. At the eoncluelon of the talk by Mr Wilson and brief remarks bv Mrs Faye Fowler from the Near East relief re-lief headquarters in Salt lik. . Acting Mayor A k Tron called for expressions expres-sions upon the matter of holding mass meeting at which speakers could mam- mo appeal to the people for fund9 for the relief work The path-1 erlng was unanimous in calling a mass meeting for next Saturday night Chairman Larson was authorized to name committees to arrange for the mass meeting. The comittees weri Program. C. Angus Wright, the Rev. L. A. Garrison. Mrs. R. Tresoder, Miss Margaret Stewart and Mrs. Fuse Fowler; Fow-ler; publicity, E. T Spencer. J. P. Corry. W. Karl Hopkins. Saucl G.I Dye and Mrs William H. Wattls. The money which will be raised in Ogden will be sent to the headquarters of tho Near East relief In New York, which is operating under governmen-i tal direction. Diroctor Wilson said today to-day that less than 5 per cent of tho money collected Is used as expenses, owing to the fact that several large contributors ln New York and other cities of tho country are guaranteeing I tho overhead costd of the relief commission. com-mission. It was announced that speakers at the mass meeting may include two from Suit Iake and two from Ogden. oo |