The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1918-10-21
DORCHESTER'S QUOTA
EXCEEDED in RUSH
Rush OF subscriptions Reported in
County Total at Over $SOO,OOO.

no matter how loudly they may have
boosted of their patriotism or how
willingly they have expressed their
willingness to back up the boys who
are fighting, or going TO fight, OF
helping in other ways to win the
war over There" But these. slack
er fellows are in such minority,
there are so very few of them, shat
| they are hardly to noticed in the
sum total of public, ninety-nine per
cent. OF whom have proved them
selves loyal in the manner that really
demonstrates that they really are
lback of their country and its boys
| in the acid test. 1t is a mighty easy
| matter to blow, it's mighty easy to
say what Il fellow would do under
certain circumstances, especially ii
he knows those circumstances will
never arise, but the acid test of pa
triotism, particularly to the man OF
means, is the amount of subscrip-
ton to Liberty Bonds.
He may proclaim his patriotism
from the roof tops, he may become
violent in his denunciation of the
enemy, he may pour forth long and
| loud dissertations upon the duties OF
citizenship, he may lift his hat ev-
cry time he sees Old Glory floating
to the breezes, and get up from his
iseat and stand attention when he
hears The Star-Spangled Banner, but
none of these things cost him any
money. Liberty Bonds cost money,
real, actual cash, or Promises to
| Pay" and the number of bonds that
a man or woman takes in proportion
Ito his or her ability to take them, is
the real test of how loyal and pa
triotic they are.
The small wage-earner who takes
a fifty dollar bond, is a much more
patriotic citizen than the person OF
means who measures his or her sub
scription by the motto of How little
can l get off with?.'
But as stated above, these few
slackers don't count, they are small
potatoes, and few in a hill, in the
estimation of their friends, the pub
| lie generally, and, if the truth were
really known, in their own minds,
except such as may be so conceited
as to think that the world revolves
about them instead of the sun. But
how about those other ninety-nlne
per cent, those splendid men and
women VINO put their shoulder to the
wheel and never took it away until
the old Ship of State had been land
cd firmly upon solid ground? They
are the men and women who never
lfaltered, who took bonds in the spirit
| that counts, that of trying to do
their full duty toward her country,
the fellow men and their Cod; they
are the ones who, while our boys
are fighting overseas, have stepped
| into the trenches on the financial
battle line and have said to the Hun,
thou shall not pass so long as -
have a dollar in the world or can get
one
When the news came that Dorches-
ter county's quota was S75S,OOO, not
few persons were skepticai; it seem
ed a stupendous sum when taken in
connection with the poor wheat crop
and the low prices on tomatoes, but
| the chairmen of the various districts,
in conjunction with the County Chair
man, did not stop for moment to
consider these things; they said, at
the meeting held in the Armory on
Sunday, Sept. 22nd, that they would
raise their quota, and they did so.
Fork was the first district to report
that its quota was raised; it was
done in a very short time, practically
completed in one day, and the sur
prising feature of it was, how easily
| it was done under the allotment plan
the people came up finely and some
even insisted upon taking more than
their allotment.
Then Hurlock went lover the top, u
and it, too, went over with ease; the
local committee just enlarged their
committee until they had enough
persons to canvass the district in one
| day, and by the middle of the first
week the chairman sent word that
/ fc
it was done so quickly and so quiet
ly that they hardly knew that it had
lbeen done.
Madison raised its quota with prac'
ltically no trouble at all; nearly every
one took their allotment, and some
took more, making up for those who
were unable to do so.
| Vienna, as usual, raised its quota
land did it easily. Vienna has raised
5its quota on all four loans, and has
sraised it's quota in all Red Cross ant
~. NJ. c. A. campaigns.
Hooper's Island fooled many O
the people; it's chairman got the quo
|
heard from him for long time; h
didn't telephone, he didn't write let
tiers, he didn't come up and talk, bu
about the last day or so of the cam
ipaign he sent in his report, showing
that the district had not only RAISED
Its quota, but that it had exceeded it
Down in the Neck they got ous.
and the committee went around AM
saw the folks, "as Dr.Hubbard says
land the folks" with but few excep
tions, responded just like they al
ways do; they filed the measure full
land then put on little more for goot
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