The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-10-03
WAYNE COUNTY
STILL MISSING
ON HONOR ROLL
Loan Quota Still Short $780,
600 Appeal Made to Ev-
cry Citizen, to Increase
Subscriptions.

Wayne county is still among the
missing in the state list of counties
that have gone over the top in the
Fourth Liberty Loan drive.
The deficit at noon today was in ex-
cess of 100000, according to the act
ual total sold through each bank in
Wayne county. There were few new
subscriptions yesterday in any part
of the county and unless the people in
general desire to see Wayne county
slated as one of the few in the state
that will fail in its undertaking, there
must be a change in the attitude very
promptly.
There is no question, the county
committee said today, that if one
fourth of those citizens able to buy
bonds but who have not bought in any
quantity. would go forward and buy.
the county's deficit would be entirely
wiped out and there would be a com
Portable surplus
A specific appeal is being made to
hundreds of citizens to increase their
subscriptions in order that the short
age may be made up and there were
responses today to this appeal. More
are expected tomorrow.
NATIONAL SALES DRAG
WASHINGTON, Oct 3.-Liberty
bond sales have passed the half bill
lion dollar mark but the country still
is nearly that amount behind schedule
for the first four days Of the cam
paign.
Subscriptions to the loan must aver
age S315, 100000 daily if the total of
$4,000, 100000 is to be raised during
the three weeks campaign. Sales of
bonds in the first three days of the
campaign totalled only s415,142,O5O,
according to reports received by the
treasury from all of the federal re-
serve districts with the exception Of
the Kansas City district, in which the
canvass for subscrirtions will not be-
gin until next Monday.
Officials pointed out today, how
ever, that the federal reserve reports
covered only small proportion of the
actual sales as in many cities and
towns the campaign workers have
been too busy selling bonds to tabu-
late total sales and also the figures
represent sales only of bonds on which
the initial payments have been made.
Necessity Of an intensive selling
campaign was emphasized in view of
the conditions in a number of COM
munities resulting in epidemics of
Spanish influenza. In some cities the
local committees have been forced to
call off parades and mass meetings
planned to aid in the campaign. In
such cases house-to-house canvasses
will be made to reach the people.
Reports received today from all sec.
tions were optimistic. The st. Louis
district the first to raise it's quota in
the third loan, was said o be making
an effort to gain first honors in the
present campaign. Arkansas in the
st. Louis district has subscribed half
its quota with less than half of the
counties reporting Three Kentucky
counties, Union, Carroll and Lyon,
have subscribed their allotments
while four Illinois counies, Lawrence,
Edwards. Adams and Calhoun, have
exceeded their quotas. Adams coun-
ty, Illinois. in which the city of Quin-
cy is located. has subscribed five times
its allotment
Admiral Cowie, who is in charge of
the campaign in the Davv hos renc~.
ed that officers and enlisted men Of
the navy have subscribed s4,auu.vvu.
SUGAR MEN TO SUBSCRIBE
HAVANA, Wedne sday, Oct. q
President Menocal has proposed to
the sugar mill owners of Cuba that
they contribute to the success of the
fourth Liberty loan by subscribing ten
cents for each bag of sugar produced
at their mills. 1t is estimated that the
amount thus subscribed which would
not include personal subscriptions,
would be around s2,500,000
The president expects also to have
the cane planters adopt similar plan,
subscribing at least five cents for
each ton of cane produced. which
would add another s2.00o,000 to Cuba's
credit and cause her quota of $6,000,-
600 to be heavily over subscribed.
Several mill owners have signified
their willingness to put the plan into
effect.
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