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Show National Representative ! Discusses Red Cross Work i The Timpanogos unit cf the Utah ' County chapter of Red Cross heM a i meeting wi.h James D. Theme, ! chairman, in charge, in the stake ; offices Tuesday evening. The stake 'presidency, bishoprics of wards, i stake and ward officers of. Relief 'society, distributors of R. F. C. funds, county commissioner, mayor of the city and all ward committee member; mem-ber; -f the Red Cross were present. An effort to cause 'all charitable cr-gsnizatiens cr-gsnizatiens to work together to alleviate alle-viate all suffering during the coming winter was made. The object of the united effort is to see that all charitable chari-table funds are equally distributed where needed and that no one gets more than he is entitled to get. The f-llowing report of last year's Red Cross organization was read by Secretary Mrs. Millie Poulson. Produce & Clothing Distributed Flour at $1.50 per hundred ..$810.00 Yard goods at 15c per yard . .$307.10 Quilts at $2.00 each $48.00 Blankets at $1.00 each $126.00 Men's unions at 80c each .... $124.00 Men's hose at 10c per pair $23.40 Men's Cords at $2.00 per pair, men's overalls at 80c pair, men's trousers at $1.00 per pair, Boys' cords at 1.25 per pair, boys' overalls at 40c per pair, boys' coveralls at 75c per pair $192.00. Ladies unions at 75c each $31.50 Ladies' vests at 10c each $7.00 Ladies bloomers at 25c pair . . $33.00 Ladies' hose- at 20c pair $32.00 I Children's unions at 50c each $54.00 Children's hose at 15c each ..$39.60 Canned goods $240.00 Army goods $94.57 Total $2,762.17 350O hours were spent from December De-cember 8 until June 8 by sixteen staff members; 1400 miles were driven driv-en by eight autos in taking care of the distribution of materials furnished fur-nished by tire Red Cross; 3500 hours were spent in volunteer sewing, and 250 hours spent in knitting for Red . Cross purposes. I The annual Red Cross drive for ! membership will begin November 1 12th. The Timpanogos stake should have a large membership the coming jyear to-help finance our coming winter's Red Cross supplies. What the Timpanogos stake paid for mem-, mem-, bership last year was not more than I one-twentieth of the amount the district was helped in clothing and supplies for the needy. County Commissioner J., W. Gill-jman Gill-jman gave a talk on the amount of help the county is able to give to 'this district. He said .that $258.00 j was spent each month in the Timp-lanogos Timp-lanogos stake to aid the widows and aged and this amount would probably probab-ly be cut down. The county is not permitted to levy more than 1 mill to care for the infirmary and other county needy. The R. F. C. funds are almost exhausted and communities communi-ties wUl have to take care of their own poor. The allotment for the burial of any county dead is only $25.00 each. Each year 92 to 95 per cent of the county tax had' been collected previous to last year, when only 78 per cent was collected. Mr. Giliman advised communities to try to take care of their own poor as much as they can. Mrs. Mabel E. Axline, representative representa-tive of the National Red Cross organization, or-ganization, talked on the necessity of checking up on all school child -iren to see that they are pronedy j clothed for school. She explained that there were 3,600 chapters of R:d Cross in Utah. Only two ccuu-tie ccuu-tie did not seek relief. Mrs. Axline advised the women to Uke up some Rod Cross hexith work or nut sing coarse and receive proper certificates for these courses. 667 women in the United States had receivtd first aid certificates, she said. All national workers are volunteers In service giving time and service free. Most are wealthy and do not need the money. All local people have to sacrifice their own time and noney tc aid in Red Cross work, she pointed cut. The National Red Cross is ta rd to the limit with 92 disasters in one year. In one twelve week period there were, forty-six disasters, she said. There were 14,000 members last year in Utah 2.8 of th entire population were enrolled. received re-ceived nearly twice as much flour as any state in the uni i. but there will be no flour to dUt.ibute the coming wi;Ucr, she announced. Short talks were given by A. H. Lowe, M. S. Christiansen and others. |