Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-04-27
LOCAL COMMENT

Marshalltown and Marshall county
over the top again on the liberty loan
and for the third time at that swells
our chests with pride. In the first
loan Marshall and ten other Iowa
counties were all in Iowa that met
their allotments. Eighty eight did not
seem to know that the nation was
at war; In the second loan Marshall
and seventeen others made good and
eighty-one counties were still asleep
in the trenches. This time every coun-
ty in Iowa has gone over the top, some
even have subscribed four times their
allotment and old Marshall, organized
and trained TO obey every command
from Washington, is not excited but
will make good to the tune of 80 per
cent oversubscrption ana is already
busy at the stamp drive which begins
next Saturday,
The sale of war stamps is going to
test the strength of even our trained
troops in Marshalltown for the bond
sale has upset the plans of the COM
mittees in charge OF tile city campaign.
The townships are going to make
good. In the first place the citys al
lotment in war savings is greater than
1t was in bonds, s330000 instead OF
S2o0.0Oo. In the second place 1900
people have bought small bonds, either
$50 or 800 each, when at least 1000
of them had lot been listed as bond
buyers by the committee and were
supposed to prefer the savings stamps
whiC h could be purchased weekly and
monthly out of their wages. These
people will now be tied up for six
months on their contracts with their
Employers or with their banks to pay
for their bonds and the sale of war
stamps is going to suffer.
The outcome will be that the bust
ness men and men of property who
bought bonds in large amounts will be
called out as an army Of maneuver
to protect the lines where the pressure
is greatest and they will be asked to
buy war stamps in large amounts, too.
Too many people have considered
the war savings stamps job for
children and women. 1t is only so in
part for the governments purpose was
TO induce every man. woman and child
to save goods and labor by investing
in savings stamps instead of buying
things that require labor and material
to produce. However, 10000 for
Marshalltown. being bigger than a lib
erty bond allotment, is too big JOB
for kids to put over. Up to date the
schools have actually sold one-fourtn
of all the war savings staIn1s that
have been sold and they are doinu
about all they can do. Men and bust
ness men, men of property must get
under :hc .-ar savings starn sale
from this day on. Sixteen hundred
people in city of only $500 homes
have bought bonds in the small sizes.
At least 1000 of them were supposed
to prefer the cavings stamps and were
not asked to buy bonds. They vol
unteered but they may not be able to
buy bonds and stamps both. Marshall
town has .oversold its bond allotment
but >Marshalltown is $4,000 behind
on its stamp sales now with the pros
poets ahead of slow business for the
next six months and then there may
be another bond issue. yd27
However it is a ma gnificent exhibit
ton Of patriotism TO find 1000 people
OF modest income volunteering &c I'ur-
chase bonds in order to help win this
war. Those few who finally came
in for larger amounts under
pressure from the committee should
feel grateful that they we're caused
to see the necessity of getting square
with their neighbors