Arizona republican., 1908-11-07
PRICE, TEN CENTS EACH
You Will Have to Wear One to Be In the Swim But You Can Buy More and Wear Them If You Want to.

Final arrangements for the big tag day were made yesterday at a meeting of the sub- committee of 25 at the HO- tel Adams in the afternoon and at a night session of the executive com mittee.
 Tag day will be next Friday. It will be the big day at the fair as it is just announced that the business houses will close on that day and everybody in Arizona including some from else where will attend the fair. The price of the tags will be ten cents, which however is not designed to limit any one to that sum spent in the name of sweet charity Each tag will bear the words I'm tagged fer charity Are you?" Forty thousand of these tags be ready for distribution Tuesday morning. They will be given to the workers at g am. Tuesday from the office of Dwight B. Heard. Three hundred little banks, one of which each worker will carry, have been loaned by the National Bank of Ari- zOna and the Bank of Tempe Other banks in the city offered the loan of their little savings recepticales but all offers could not be accepted. Each bank will hold s1O in dimes.
 The banks will probably be given out Friday morning and are to be return ed to the committee Friday night when the contents will be counted and the prizes awarded to those who have collected the largest amounts.
 Although the tag day movement has just started, already three prizes have been offered for those collecting the most money for charity. The first prize will be S1O worth of merchandise purchased at the Goldwater store; presented by Barry Goldwater. Sec ond and third prizes Of s6 and s4. presented by Dwight B. Heard.
 The headquarters for the movement will be the office of Dwight B. Heard. Center and Adams streets. Mrs. Heard will probably be there all tag day for furnishing additional tags and banks. There will also be. headquarters at the fair grounds which will be in charge > of Mrs. B. A. Fowler.
 For the benefit of the benighted in- dividual who may not yet have heard about tag day the following explana- liOli ID OllClCA- IL lS eAlA NtIN SliiPlt You start down town in the morning and maybe you get about a square away from the house when you meet a beyy of pretty girls-all of them who examine you with a critical eye. Then one of them-without so much as How Dye Do?" fastens a tag to the lapel of your coat. That will set you back ten cents and the money goes into the little bank the girl car ries. For the rest of the day you will be unmOlested if you continue to wear the tag. You will get used to the tag when you see everybody else wearing them and finally become proud of it and buy another with which to decorate the other side of your coat
 Then you get the fever and perhaps are not satisfied till the whole front of your coat is covered with them and you have to stick few in your hat But don't feel timid about it You will not be conspicuous. The only way you can make yourself conspicuous on tag day is not to wear any Then indeed life will be made a burden to you and you win feel like a sick cat looking for a place to lie down.
 While it only costs ten cents to be in the swim tag day and to guarantee protection against the pretty girls that will he found on every corner, there is no limit to the number one may purchase. For one day the tags will be legal tender in Phoenix. Some of the merchants will buy them by the stack, stamp the firm name on the back and give them away with their compliments. The Associated Charities gets the money just the same This has been done in other cities where tag day was inaugurated. In Los An geles James J. Jeffries, one time champion heavyweight. but now pro- prietor of cafe. purchased 5000 of the tags, printed his name on the back and gave them away. Many merchants did the same and before tag day was over the Associated Charities in Los Angeles saw little ray of sunlight ahead, for the proceeds amounted to nearly $S00O.