The Washington herald., 1918-10-14

Before midnight Saturday Washing
toms quota in the liberty loan drive,
now more than sl20c0O0o must be
reached Members of the Liberty
Loan Committee Of the District and
the army of volunteer workers will
throw all their energy into the final
week OF the drive which begins to-
day.
Realizing the danger of a slacken-
ing of effort on the part OF the public
as a result of the German peace Of
fer. the liberty loan workers are
determined to put forth increased eff
fort during the six days that remain
to impress upon the people of Wash
ington the Importance of oversub-
scribing the loan. Rather than a
lessening of effort, the crisis created
by the peace Offer coupled with the
influenza epidemic. make imperative
redoubling of effort everywhere to in
sure the success of the loan. OFF,
cials Of the government and members
of the Liberty Loan Committee real
ize fully the gravity of the situation
and know that failure Of the loan in
the National Capital at this critical
time would be nothing less than a ma
uonal disaster.
Committee Expresses Confidence.
Despite the admitted handicaps,
however, under which the campaign
Is being conducted here, members of
the Liberty Loan Committee express
absolute confidence that washington's
quota will be not only reached but
exceeded by a handsome margin be-
fore Saturday night There are
many large subscriptions which will
be received during the present week,
it is expected, and there also are
thousands of men and women of mod
crate means who have delayed their
subscriptions until the mid month
payday, which is tomorrow.
AN important feature Of the re-
naming week Of the campaign will
be continuation of the canvass of
corporations and business concerns in
the District which was begun Fri
day by a special team of prominent
business and professional men. and
which netted more than 81 600 coo in
| two days. The surface is but scratch
ed In this field. the committee be-
lieves. and the canvass will be push
ed for the remainder of the week
with the utmost vigor. Already there
are scores of names of Washington
business organizations on the city's
honor roll, and the additional names
will be published each day as the
| canvass progresses.
Speak In Ofees.
Another important feature of the
final weeks campaign will be among
the government employees by an
army of speakers under the leader
ship of John G. Capers, chairman of
the subcommittee on speakers. To
overcome the handicap brought
about by the ban placed on meet
ings, members of this subcommit-
tee have devised a plan of sending
an army of speakers into each Of
the departments, where they will
visit the rooms where the clerks are
! at work and make five-minute lib
| erty loan talks. This work will be-
gin this morning when forty speak
ers will invade the Treasury De-
partment and its various branches
and carry the buy-more-bonds mes
sage to all the workers. Similar or
ganizations of speakers will visit
the other departments during the
week.
Douglas Fairbanks, the motion
picture star. will lend the committee
| a hand today in procuring subscrip-
tons. The committee learned yester-
day that he was in town for q day
or two on business. and immediately
enrolled him for special solicitation
| work today. He readily assented
and will be one of a special team of
solicitors who will go out after "the
big fellows" today in an effort to
procure match for the million dol
lar subscription of Bernard M.
Baruch. Although they will be out
after big ones" they will not over
look little ones. and almost anyone
in Washington may be given oppor-
tunity Of buying a bond from the
popular actor. With Mr.. Fairbanks
will be John Poole. r. B. Eynon, jr.,
and Corcoran Thorn. Of the Liberty
Loan Committee.
Realizing that physicians Of WASH
ington have been SO rushed during the
ooHJtxunp ON pAos gwo.