The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1917-06-14
$4,000 SUBSCRIBED
LAKE COUNTY ABSORBS HER
SHARE-COMES IN STRONG
AT THE FINISH.

By close organization of effort
Lake county comes under the wire
with a good clean margin over the
apportioned $125,000 of the Liberty
loan money. This noon it was re-
ported that the mark had been pass
ed by returns already in, and that
there were some committees yet to
hear from. What nan counties
have failed in has been accomplished.
And the estimate is that before night
there will be nearly $780, 900 of
bonds applied for. The county is
way above the average both in fur
nishing fighting men and in supply
ing money to stage the fight.
County Chairman John w. Wad-
den admitted today that when ii was
first known that this county was ex-
pected to raise a loan of $125,000
the committee gasped. They went at
it, however, at first more i'm a spirit
of experiment. 1t was soon borne i'm
on them in no unmistakable manner
that the county would fall down
sickeningly unless something was
done. The committee was called to-
gether. A council of war was held.
At first ii seemed rather a dull af-
fair, but suggestions were offered
and a plan of campaign was worked
out. Meetings were held in other
parts of the county. and the citizens
of those parts were enlisted and or
ganized. Then things began to
brighten up. Applications for bonds
began to come in.
Under the plan of the committee,
the county was laid out in districts.
The original committee of IL was
divided up into smaller units of two
or three. and certain districts allot-
ed to each. These smaller commit
tees simply began at the lower right
hand corner and visited every house,
like a book agent. And they brought
home the bacon.
In the light of the achievement Of
Lake county, it is probable that any
county i'm the state could 10 as well.
1t was not that the wealth of the
county was not here. 1t was not that
the bonds were not desirable. nor
that the people were not loyal. 1t
was simply that the American people
are so used to taking nothing which
is not urged upon them by active
craftsmanship that they would not
come forward with the reserve cap
ital. They only wanted TO have the
bonds sold to them by statesmen.
The wealth was in existence. But
it was coy-it wanted to be coaXed
Nobody had time to subscribe. No
body had even time to see his neigh
Dor about buying the bonds. So it
remained with the men who were
conducting large businesses to do the
work. Men who commanded thou
sands of dollars as annual salaries
found time to push it-and they
pushed in one good, cooperative and
good-willed heave. and got the re
suit.
Today finishes the work. The re
suits of the applications must be i'm
the reserve centers by tomorrow
noon. There are always those who
would subscribe if the time had not
just expired. But ven they may be
satisfied. Applications will be taken
at the banks up to 10 o'clock tomor-
row, which viii be sent in by tele-
graph.
This being the last day for the
work of putting in shape their report
and sending in the applications, it
will not be possible to publish the
names Of later applicants today.
Tomorrow, however, all names not
heretofore published as having made
their application for the subscription
Will be published.