The Washington herald., 1918-11-18
HALF OF QUOTA
FOR WAR FUND
STILL LACKING
$500, 900 Total to Be Won
by Vigorous Efforts In
Added Two Days.
BUSINESS FIRMS HELP
Appeal to Employees to
Give Literally for Com
fort of Heroes.

With only little more than half
of washington's quota of $4,000 to
the United War Work Campaign al
ready raised and authorization grant
ed for a two-dsy extension of the
time Of the campaign, team members
and solicitors for the fund will start
today with new enthusiasm inc the
hope that a great part of the work of
lifting the fund over the top will have
been accomplished by tonight.
Following an announcement by John
r. Mott. director general of the cam
paign, and a letter from President
Wilson urging immediate ovsrsub-
scription Of the fund as a necessary
measure to help the men in France.
&both published in yesterdays papers,
"ashingtonians are expected to come
to a sterner realization of their duty
and give till 1t hurts" to the fund.
That II will be necessary to give till
it hurts" has been made clear by the
subscriptions announced to date, to-
taling a little more than s+O1. 900.
slightly better than half the city $
quota
Hindered by Epidemic.
Hit hard by the influenza epidemic
and by Washington's participation, in
common with every other allied city,
in the monster peace celebration of a
week ago, the campaign did not start
with the swing usual in such cam
paign. 1t is pointed out that the sum
asked of the American people, $780,
10000. is the largest sum they have
ever been asked to give. Money sub
scribed in this campaign is a gift, it
is explained, and the only reward pos
sible comes from the glow of a well
merited satisfaction in helping our
fighters.
Pastors Of all the Washington
churches urged members of their con-
gregations to Immediately subscribe
to the fund at services yesterday. All
through the day speakers and COM
mitteemen for the fund appeared at
the churches of the city with the
backing of the clergy and told Wash
ington's churchgoers of the pressing
need for the money. Special services
IN which the entire collection was
given to the fund V-tTe held at many
of the churches.
Asked to Give Days Wages.
Following an appeal from Direc-
tor General OF Railroads McAdoo
to the government controlled rail-
roads of the country urging every
employ of the United States Rail-
road Administration to give days
wages to the fund. business firms
of the city are preparing similar
appeals to their employees. Every
business head realizes the pressing
need of a full subscription for the
rity and is to urge his employees
to help bring this end about. NotSle
among the firms which have already
taken stems. and in which the en-
Moves have all turned over a days
wages to the fund. are the Sanitary
Groceries Company and the Wash
ington and Old Dominion Railway.
Thousands of dollars have been
donated to the fund by the employees
Of these two patriotic companies.
Corcoran Thorn. chairman of the
csmpaign committee, today will
take up with the directors OF the
national banks the question of bank
subscriptions to the fund. Under
q ruIinr of John Skelton Williams,
T,onontrolIer of the Currency. ma
tiopaI banks are authorized to make
conditional subscriptions payable
after a bill now before the Senate
Sonferees has been passed. The bill
has been reported favorably by the
House and is said to have the favor
able leaning of the Senate. The
outcome Of today's conferences with
the bank directors is being looked
upon as of great significance in the
conducting of the Washington cam
paign.
Theaters Help Materially.
Speakers in the theaters of the city
last night again talked for the fund
Yesterday a large contribution from
L,oew's Palace Thester. which has
issued a challenge to the other mo-
tion picture houses of the city to
match subscriptions taken there, was
received at campaign headquarters.
This subscription. while not counted
vet. was said to have been well over
800.
Prominent society girls and women
Of the city gathered more than s10c
yesterday by selling flowers in the
lobby OF the Shoreham Hotel The
booth was In charge of Dorothea
Litzinger Thompson.
Red Cross auxiliaries. notwithstand-
ing the fact that Red Cross drive
Is coming within a short time. are
sending in their subscriptions to the
kAInd. Company /. Navy auxiliary,
reported yesterday subscriptions OF