New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-12-21
SEVEN MILLION
DOLLARS QUOTA
FOR NEW MEXICO
HALLETT RAYNOLDS, DI.
RECTOR OF WAR SAVINGS
STAMP WORK, BRINGS EN-
C0URAGING REPORT OF
NATIONAL MEETING

Intensive organization Of the state
for cooperation with the national
war savings committee is proposed
by Hallett Reynolds of this city,
state director for New Mexico. Mr..
Reynolds has just returned from
! Washington. where he attended a
meeting OF the committee which ill
led three busy days. The committee
was appointed by w. G. McAdoo.
secretary of the treasury, and is COM
posed of prominent men from all the
states in the union. The members
are as follows:
General Committee
| Frank A. Vanderlip, chairman.
Charles l.. Baine, Mrs. George Bass,
Frederic A. Delano, Henry Ford, Eu-
gene Meyer, Jr.
Federal directors: Edgar c. Brad
ley, Fred w. Fleming. John F. Har-
riss, J. D. Lyon, Otto Marx, Harrison
B. Riley.
Hallett Reynolds, State director
for New Mexico.
The State Plan
Mr.. Reynolds plan of organization
for New Mexico is to have a chair
man named for each of the u coun-
ties. He sent by telegraph to Wash
ington today the names of u mea
whom he would recommend as ap-
pointees. Mr.. Reynolds expects a
favorable reply from Secretary Nc
Adoo some time today. The names of
the men whom he recommended as
county chairmen are as follows:
County Chairmen
II. B. Sammons, Pennington, Saa
Juan county; Frank Bond, Espanola.
Rio Arriba count; B. G. Randall,
Taos, Taos county; c. N. Blackwell,
Ration, Colfax county; M. {. John
son, Clayton. Union county; H. c.
Held, Las Vegas, San Miguel county;
A. w. West, Wagon Mound, Mora
county; l.. A. Hughes, Santa Fe.
Santa Fe county; J. Seligman, Ber-
nallllo, Sandoval county; c. N. Cot
ton, Gallup, Mckinley county; H.
b. Jones, Tucumcari Quay county;
II. k. Robertson, Santa Rosa, Guada-
lupc county; Alex Shipley, Clovis.
Curry county; Il. c. Dillon, Encino,
Torrance county; Guy l.. Rogers, AL
buquerque, Bernalillo county; John
Becker, Belen, Valencia county; J.
5. Mactavish, Magdalena, Socorro
county; w. O. Oldham, Portales,
Roosevelt county; Nathan Jaffa, Ros-
well, Chaves county; George L. Ul-
rick, Carrizozo, Lincoln county; J.
+. Joyce, Carlsbad, Eddy county; F.
w. Campbell, Las Cruces, Dona Ana
county; c. f. Mitchell, Alamogordo,
Otero county; Frank Nordhaus, Dem
ing, Luna county; w. d. Murray,
Silver City, Grant county; A. M.
Gillespie, Hillsboro, Sierra county;
P. J, Read, Fort Sumner, De Baca
county.
Will Establish Office
With the state organization well
under way, Mr.. Reynolds will estab-
lish an office. from which he will
direct the work. He will have an as
sistant capable of running the office
while he is absent, which he expects
to b ca portion of the time, while
visiting the various counties. Mr..
Reynolds will devote his entire time
to the work. He is an official of the
First National bank. One of his
.irSt official acts will be to call a
of the county chairmen
n Albuquerque shortly after the holi-
lays to perfect organization and ex-
,lain details OF the work.
Two Billions Next Year
The aim of the national war saw
ngS committee is to sell during the
,oming year two billion dollars
worth of war savings certificates.
These certificates are of small de-
domination and the public. in buying
hem, will not only contribute to the
Welfare Of the nation in war time,
'ut will be practicing thrift and lay
ng up for itself good returns in the
way OF investments.
Seven Millions For State
Two billion dollars from the entire
country means a per capita invest
nent in war certificates of about
20. Each states quota has been ap-
,ortioned in the same ratio. The pop
ilation of New Mexico is approxi-
nately 350O0O people. and its propor-
ionate amount of the two billion dol
ars is seven million dollars.
Mr.. Reynolds said the organization
meetings of the committee were most
The committeeman
we're taken to the White House where
splendid address was given by Pres
dent Wilson. Mr.. Reynolds says the
iranciers OF the country are strong
Y behind the government in its war
,rogram.-Las Vegas Optic.