The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-04-21
NOLET-UP |NL|bERTY LOAN DRIVE, STATE CAMPAIGN WORKERS Second Week Shows Good
 Results - All Organiza-
 tions Go Over Margin WILL ENDEAVOR TO DOUBLE SUBSCRIPTION Women's Committee to Continue Ac- l tivities and Will Go After Another
 Million-Every Organiza- ton Active

l At the close of the second week of the third Liberty Loan drive the Birming-
 ham zone of 10 counties, the county ot
 Jefferson and Greater Birmingham were over their allotments by handsome mar
 gins. Chairman Fred M. Jackson of the
 Birmingham zone, Chairman Coffin oi
 the Greater Birmingham committee, Mrs.
 Pattie Ruffner Jacobs of the Alabama womens Liberty Loan committee, Mrs. Crawford Johnson. chairman of the womens committee for Jefferson coun- | ty, and Mrs. H. U. Sims. chairman of the womens Greater Birmingham cor.,- mittee, were jubilant over the showings made by their respective organizations. | All of them stated. however, that there would be no let-up in activities, and 1 the campaign would be pushed even
 more vigorously up to May 4, the clos ! ing day. Y, T note in the press dispatches said Chairman Coffin, that the Secretary of
 the Treasury makes plea for the na- l ton to demonstrate it's unity in the prosecution of the war by doubling the | total number of subscriptions recorded | for the second loan. That should be sufficient answer to any of us who think we have done enough. Let us press | forward to that $10,000,0o0. | about an inch past the $7,O00,0oo station this morning. That inch represents sew eral thousand dollars.
 The larger subscriptions received at Liberty Loan headquarters yesterday ln- cluded $25O,00O from the Sloss- Steel and Iron company. placed with the women's Jefferson county and dreater Birmingham committees $5o,Oo0 allotted to Birmingham by the Equitable Life 00O from Love- man. Joseph & Loeb; sl5,0o0 from the employees of Loveman, Joseph x Loep; sl0 45O from the employees of the Hardie- Tynes Manufacturing company, anu s5OOO from the Aetna Explosives com pany.
 At the headquarters of the woman Alabama Liberty Loan commute, the chairman, Mrs. Pattie Ruffner Jacobs announced that subscriptions in the state obtained through her organization hao reached a total of $S10o,0oo. which is sloo- 600 in excess of the maiK set up at the beginning of the campaign. we are going after another million," said Mrs. Jacobs.
 Letters received from our workers in the field indicate that we will get It. By the way, while in Louisville I was inn pressed by the harmonious manner in which the mems and women's Liberty Loan committees worked together. The spirit of comradeship was very fine.
 Mrs. Crawford Johnson. chairman Of the woman's Jefferson county committee, gave the total of subscriptions received by her committee at $1,5oS, 400. "One hun dred thousand dollars of this comes from small communities in the county" said Mrs. Johnson. T believe We will get g, ,OO0,000 before we are through.
 T cannot say too much in praise or our organization. Our speakers bureau, of which Miss Mary Parke London is chairman, has sent speakers to every beat in the county. Excellent work ias been done by every one of our com : mittees Mrs. William Cunningham, chairman of the Brookside committee, has sent in 5000. Mrs. pr. Lawrence, similar amount from Leeds; Mrs H. l.. Rains. s7250 from Bessemer; Mrs Walt Riddle, s.150 from Huffman, and Mrs l.. T. Wall. S50 from Crestline Heights community where there are only 100 tam lilies, while Mary Bell Baker, girl, sends 5000 from McElwaine township. Isn't 1t inspiripg ?''
 Mrs. H. A. Sims, chairman of the woman's Greater Birmingham commit : tee. reports grand total of $1,44410 100 for her comittee to date. Subscriptions re : ceived yesterday aggregated $27S0oo. Of this amount 900 came from the Sloss- Sheffield company, and $25.00O from Mrs. Charles Foster, chairman of the Fairfield committee.
 Mrs Fosters total so far is B, $50, said Mrs. Sims. Here are a few other totals which speak we'll for work done by the respective committees: South High lands committee. Mrs. A. T. London. chairman. si93,S50: Avondale committee. Mrs. Dan Smith. chairman. SIS 300; Wy lam committee. Mrs. Fred Sawyer. chair man. s17.2o0. All of our committees are doing as we'll proportionately Each IS earning place cn the roll of honor. .