Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-10-06
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ELEVEN MILLIONS
IS TULSA'S TASK
Twenty-Three Counties in This
District Organized for
Loan Drive.
EACH INDIVIDUAL ON THE JOB
Bankers Meet at Dinner Here
to Formulate Plans for
Big Campaign.
ZACH INDIVIDUAL ON THE JOB
Counties Represented.

Every man, woman and child in the
First and Eighth congressional dis
tricts OF Oklahoma must feel an indi-
vidual responsibility for raising Tulsa y
quota of the second Liberty loan cam
paign. 1t is of no more interest to
the banker than to any other class of
men to see that these bonds are sold.
That was the keynote of an impress
sive and enthusiastic meeting held at
Hotel Tulsa last night and attended
by representatives of nine of the 23
counties comprising the Tulsa Liberty
loan district. Officers and directors
of the Tulsa Chamber OF Commerce,
local bankers and other citizens were
present. The meeting opened with a
dinner at o'clock and lasted until
10 o'clock.
Plans were perfected for organizing
the campaign next week in each of the
counties. A schedule of'meetings will
be arranged. Speakers from Tulsa
and elsewhere will be sent into each
county to assist the local committees
in raising their part OF the subscrip-
tions.
The minimum to be subscribed in
the district Is S1l 100000. or this
amount Tulsa must contribute $1,000
600, approximately the same amount
she gave the government in the first
Liberty loan campaign. Each county's
quota has been determined on a basis
of o per cent OF the total bank de-
posits.
Radical Departure.
Altho tho treasury department and
the federal reserve banks are urging
that bankers alone take charge of the
local campaigns, Former President
Phillips Of the Oklahoma Bankers as
sociation, In an electrifying extempo-
raneous speech. urged that this custom
be departed from wherever possible.
I'm Washington county, my home,
he said. I'VE felt deeply the criticism
that is general. TO the effect that the
bankers make something out OF hand
ling Liberty bonds. We do not make
penny, of course, but 30 per cent
OF the bond buyers feel that we do.
To overcome that erroneous impress
sion Washington county bankers have
turned the campaign over to the
County Council of Defense. They have
organized the county into sixteen dis
tricts each one with It's chairman. In
Bartlesville we have conscripted los
men to take part in an Intensive
house-to house canvass, and they will
all be on the Job. The bankers will
do as much as they ever did, but they
will not be In charge. This thing Ia
no more concerned than any other in
dividual. .rhe war Is your war and
my war"
N. r. Graham. publicity director
, and manager of the speakers bureau
| for the campaign, pointed out that
each county must first be thoroly or
eanized. Outside speakers can do val.
liable work. he said. 'An outsider
/ gets better results than the local man
Al o. T.. Al
| be-" asserted Graham.
Must Reach Each Homo.
J. NJ. Berry. chairman Of the Tulsa
county campaign, thot that ever,
householder should be given ar op-
T, portunity to buy bonds. "Tho flrsl
| campaign In Tulsa was successfui Il,
the amount subscribed" he said. "but
| not In the number of s,4becribert
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