The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-06-12
ABOUT $4,000
TABULATED
Barre's War Chest Is Filling
Under Generous
: ponse
TWO - RE DAYS
.OTTED TO DRIVE
Headquarters Much Pleased
With Outlook for the
Canvass

The first day Of the house.to-house
canvass for Barre war chest subscrip-
tions yielded handsome returns, yet with
a rising $4,000 already in hand, the
results of the campaign are nowhere near
complete, and two or three days may
elapse before the aggregate contribution
can be announced Although the re-
sponse Yesterday far exceeded expecta
| tatons, the committee is still aware
| that task of considerable magnitude
| still confronts the community II the war
chest is to receive the support that it de-
serves. Nearly dozen workers at the
Church street campaign headquarters
could not keep pace with the returns to-
| day, and by tomorrow with more COM
plete figures il is believed that the S40,-
| 900 mark will have been passed.
| Even then the returns will be by no
means complete. None of the ward cap
| tains has filed final returns, and in most
! instances the canvass is far from fin
ished. Yesterdays was the most active
drive of any that have been staged since
the war began. 1t was so thoroughly
planned and so comprehensive in its
scope that the workers found it physi-
cally impossible TO cover all the terri
tory in a single day. They started out
early in the forenoon with a $4,000
subscription from the granite manufac-
turing section as a nest egg, and by
nightfall the results of their labor, while
for obvious reasons they were not sus-
ceptible to final accounting, had prob
ably doubled that amount. Canvassers
worked far into the evening and late
hours found them so far afield that they
postponed reporting until to-day. Spon-
sors for the campaign do not attempt
to conceal their qualification over the
outcome of the first days drive, and as
for the days that are to follow they are
wholly optimistic
1t is drive in which the solicitors,
TIA Of them, report a multiplicity of ex-
periences, as varied as they were numer-
Gus. 1t il one of the most hopeful signs
of the campaign that the response in
general was generous and spontaneous
to degree. Out of the shuttle of re-
turns the committee could not escape
the conviction that the rank and file Of
the Barre people, particularly the work
that designation is all in
keenly alive to the fact that
the nation is warning not alone for the
of other democracies, but
for the safety of its own. Over and over
again canvassers were informed by con-
tributors that they were giving, not
alone to help the young manhood who
are fighting Americas battles over there,
but because they were anxious to pre-
slude the possibility of losing the price
ess heritage that is theirs under the
present system of government 1t was
rs if the Hun had knocked at our gate
md he has. People gave and will con-
.inue to give because they abhor the
.hought that America, Vermont, Barre
night be transformed into the shambles
which German ruthlessness has created
among the home keeping peoples of Bel
rum and northern France.
Yet there were the exceptions. The
hackers were greatly in the minority,
,ut they pleaded the threadbare ex-
uses that tin-horn patriots have used
nce the war began. They refused to
rive because, they said, America is in no
LANCER. 1t was a cheap subterfuge that
las been drafted by slackers before. In
he minds of the solicitors it did not
liter the fact that by this time every
,ody is thoroughly aware that kaiser
sm will triumph unless America wages
er war to the limit Others gave the
yorn out excuse that the. solicitors were
Torking on a percentage basis, or that
o one knew where the money would go.
amouflage of this sort is too transpar-
Mt TO merit comment, and in most in
tances the canvassers did not trouble
themselves to give the slackers the lie.
he slackers will get the attention they
eserve later-after the business Of col
,cting contributions from loyal people IS
ut of the way.