The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1918-03-01
OpALA SOCIAL AFFAIRS
Continued from Third Page)
Woman's Liberty Loan Executive
Committee Meeting

The first meeting of the w. L. L
committee executive board was held
in the lecture room of the library
Thursday afternoon with a large at
tendance and the fire of enthusiastic
patriotism was aroused to white heat
so to speak Much good work will be
accomplished by the various organi.
cations and by individual effort to
place Marion county in the front rank
in the war saving and liberty loan
drive.
In addition to the appointed COM
mittees, representatives of the press
the banks and all the pastors of the
various churches were present and
gave splendid talks and many helpful
suggestions.
Mrs. Moorhead, the Marion county
chairman, presided and every one
present was impressed with the fact
that her heart is in the work-having
sent three boys to the front
The solemn, sacred duty of each
American was wildly portrayer in a
prayer by Rev. G. A. Ottmann, which
was followed by our national hymn
"My Country, 'Tis of Thee" led by
Rev. c. E. Wyatt.
Mrs. Moorhead gave an outline OF
the work to her various chairmen
Each chairman will appoint her COM
mittee and organize at once into lib
erty loan societies, electing officers
establishing agencies to sell war saw
ings stamps and liberty bonds; estab-
fish liberty booths in all towns pre-
sided over by young ladies dressed as
"Miss Liberty; have rousing liberty
loan rally days and rally nights; ap-
point young lady captains with
squads of five or ten to make a house
to house canvass in all towns and
communities, divide the towns into
wards and the communities into dis
tricts; give all the publicity possible
and cooperate with the war savings
committee, Mr. L. w. Duval chairman,
and the liberty loan committee, Mr..
T. T. Munroe, committee. Each chair
man of the various organizations and
communities will make weekly re-
ports on Friday to the county chair
man, Mrs. Moorhead, of every item of
work done. She in turn will report
every Saturday to the state chairman,
Mrs. Jennings. The w. L. L. COM
mittee's first work is to sell war saw
ings stamps in cooperation with the
war savings committee, before the
drive is made for liberty bonds.
Mr.. Duval, chairman of the stamp
committee, was present and distribut-
ed literature explaining the details of
the work. He gave an enthusiastic
talk and stated that by the end of the
week he will have established agen-
cies in all the stores of Ocala and
other towns in the county. Only one
merchant in Ocala has refused to sell
thrift stamps. Mr. Duval stated that
the burden of the work rested upon
the mothers and housewives who
must insist that the merchants sell
thrift stamps with every purchase.
He gave an instance where restau-
rant keeper in Dallas, Texas, incof-
porated the thrift stamp with every
item on his menu card, thus: Two
eggs and thrift stamp. 35c.; thrift
stamp and coffee, &c.. etc.
Mr.. T. T. Munroe, chairman of the
liberty loan committee, stated that
the banks would cooperate in every
way and that they would answer all
questions either by phone or mail,
and that they would lend money at
the rate of per cent for six or eight
months to those who were unable to
buy outright by depositing SIS and
making deferred payments. He said
that the banks would collect these
payments free of charge and attend
to all the red tape connected with the
bond purchase. Since the war will be
won by the small investors-the $50
men-he found that heart to heart
talk was the most effective way of
making sales of liberty bonds.
Rev. johnson, who is making a
state war savings campaign, gave a
rousing chalk talk. In few weeks he
will be chaplain with the boys "over
there" He stated that we are now
standing on the line of duty, and one
or more downward steps viii throw US
into darkness and slavery, but to step
upward, which we must and will do,
will lead to the dawn and then to the
glorious day of liberty for the. whole
world. Mr.. Johnson sold one thou
sand dollars worth of stamps to Mr..
Dobbs, secured several pledges for
two or more thrift stamps daily for
one year and established war savings
societies in the grades of all the
schools of the city.
Rev. j. R. Herndon emphasized the
fact that to win the war was our aim
and that we must not only do "oul
bit" but do our best.
Rev. Smith Hardin stated that our
forefathers had set the example of
what grit and determination could do
in the revolutionary war, and that
with Gods help, the right determine
ton and grit of America, England
and the other Allie sthis, the most
terrible war in the history of tbs