The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1918-02-02
AL Sections Of County Represented al
Defense Meeting Despite Cold Weather;
Further Organization
BABY BOND" SALE
WILL BE RUSHED
Each Precinct Chairman to Complete Own
Body or Workers; Everything for
Efficiency; Must Win Var

That the people in all parts of
Grady county are interested in any
thing that will help to win the war
was illustrated yesterday Afternoon
at a meeting of the Grady county
Council of Defense at the court
house Men we're there from all
parts of the county, to the number
of about seventy-five, despite the
cold weather and the distance that
some had to come
The purpose fthe meeting was to
appoint men as chairmen to organ
ize precinct Councils of Defense
throughout the county. The precinct
organizations will be formed along
the same lines as the various county
and state organizations There viii
be about forty-two of these precinct
organizations in this county
sIt was decided at tn emeeting yes
terdRy afternoon that the men who
have been appointed as chairmen of
the various precincts call meetings
in their precincts for the purpose Of
completing their organization on or
before Feb. II, and that speakers be
called to these various meeting
places to present the plans before
the people which the Council Of De-
Tense hopes to carry out.
In outlining the work Alger Melton,
chairman of the Grady County Coun
Gil Of Defense, said that the various
chairmen would be expected to take
care of all of the various campaigns
in their precincts such as appointing
the committees to solicit funds and
at present they would have charge
of appointing the agents in their dis
tricts which will sell the War Saw
ings Certificates and the Thrift
Cards Aside from this they would
be called upon to help In making out
the card index system that will be
used in all Of the future campaigns.
Attention is called to the fact that
the chairmen of the precinct organf-
zation like the officers Of the various
county and state organizatios would
receive no compensation for the ser
vices which they would perform ex
cept the consciousness that htey were
inn fFin
"This organization, if carried out
on the plans which have been formu
lated, will be the greatest and most
powerful organization the world has
ever known and, every member who
performs the duties which are impos-
ed upon him will be real patriot,
Mr.. Melton said
After the question had been decid-
ed as to when the precinct meeting
would be held to complete the vari-
Gus organizations. George H. Evans,
who has charge of the Baby Bond y
campaign in this county, was called
upon to expMin how the campaign
would be conducted.
A great deal of this work, it was
stated, would be delegated to the
various precinct chairmen who would
be expected to see that all of the
plans of the central chairman were
carried out Agencies will be estab-
1ished throughout each community
and these agents will be authorized
to sell the "baby bonds"
When the work is well under way
it was shown how those in charge
of the work would organize various
clubs whose basis of membership
would be determined by the amount
of the Baby Bonds" they had pur-
chased or had pledged themselves to
purchase during the year The high
est amount that can be purchased Of
the Baby Bonds" is $1,000 by any
one person and there will soon be
organized a thousand dollar club, At