The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1918-02-21
OUTLOOK IS VERY PROMISING
With County Organizations for Second
Loan Almost Intact for Opening of
Third Drive, Probably in April,
Leaders are Confident of Success.

The forty-fve counties of southern
and central Wisconsin lying within the
Seventh Federal Reserve District are
making rapid progress in the work of
organizing for the third Liberty Loan
campaign, which, although not yet Of
| fcially determined, probably VIII be
launched early in April The general
Organization for the Forthcoming drive
in these forty-fve counties will be an
Improvement over that of the second
campaign which performed with such
marked success in rolling up subscrip-
tions for the war bonds.
William l.. Ross, Federal Reserve
Director of Sales for that part of the
Badger State included in the Seventh
district, is enthusiastic over the out
/ look for the third drive.
"Plans are now being worked out
which will enable US to give real help
to every individual in determining the
size of the subscription he should
make, - said Mr.. Ross in outlining the
general plan of campaign. "Subscrip-
tions will be based on fair and equit-
able allotments, and our workers should
be able to go to the people and secure
! their fair. shares of the funds necessary
to the continuation of America s great
war for freedom and justice.
"With few exceptions, due to rea-
sons beyond their control, the magni-
fcent body of men and women who
directed the second Liberty Loan cam
paign, have agreed to serve again, and
we find it will be necessary to make
very few changes in the personnel of
county chairmen and their principal as
sistants. We now have in these forty
five counties approximately twenty
thousand trained Liberty Loan work
ers, or about one to every hundred of
the population. We hope in the com
ing drive to increase this corps of work
ers to approximately forty thousand,
in order to make it possible to carry
the sale by personal solicitation to
every possible buyer in the territory.
wisconsin is one of the many
states which partly lie within two
Federal Reserve districts. Twenty-six
Icounties in the northern part of the
state are included within the Ninth Fed
eral Reserve district, of which Minnea-
polls is the center. The remaining
| forty-five counties are in the Seventh
district, which has been divided into
eleven divisions Of from three to five
counties each, and for each of these
divisions a permanent organizer has
been obtained for, according to present
plans, the life Of the war. It is the
duty of this organizer, who reports di-
rect to the Director Of Sales, to keep
in intimate touch with all conditions
existing in his territory and be of all
possible aid to the chairman of each
of these counties in the matter of ar
ranging for public speaking, general
publicity matter, and the completion of
detail organization.
wonder how many people in Wis
consin realize that In the second Lib
erty Loan campaign Wisconsin outdis-
tanced all the other Seventh Federal
Reserve district states-Illinois, Michi-
gan, Iowa and Indiana-in the percent
age of its maximum quota subscribed.
The record of the state to date is one
of which we all may be proud, and the
spirit with which the hundreds of
leaders who have been interviewed
within the last two or three weeks are
approaching the new test, gives every
promise that the Badger State again
will demonstrate her leadership in pa
triotic endeavor in the Central West .