The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1918-06-14

morning, June 3rd, Mr.. Wilbur Il. |
Kramer, chairman of eight parishes
in The Lafayette district, called. the
field representative by telephone and
asked him to design card that would
do for a temporary card system to be
used in the W. S. S. campaign, to
have those cards printed and to be in
Franklin with them on Tuesday morn
ing. At this meeting in Franklin,
Mr.. Kramer said that this card sys-
TEN would do as an cXpedient, and
that he was going to use them, but
that he considered that the different
campaigns were doing great deal
of unnecessary work and he proposed
that his Parish take census and
that he already had the movement Oh
foot. Since that time, ten of the six
teen parishes for which Mr.. Squires
is field representative (have already
adopted the plan and are going to
complete the census at the same time
that they make their W. S. S. cam
paign. The w. S. S. card will be
used in each one Of these parishes in
order to assist them in arranging the
list Of names in each subdivision In
alphabetical form, but by the time
the campaign is completed, they will
have served their purpose and the
census card will remain permanent
record,
The "Kramer-St. Mary Plan" is so
ambitious and unique that it is Civ
en- in its entirety as matter of gen
eral interest.
The Kramer-ot Mary Plan.
Wilbur H. Kramer, parish chair
man of St. Mary division, chairman
of St. Mary, St. Martin, St. Landry,
Evangehne, Iberia, Lafayette, Yer
million and Acadia parishes; clerk OF
court for his parish and incidentally
4 Live Wire, decided that he was 60
ing to save a great deal OF labor By
! doing a great deal of it at one time.
He said: every time they made a
campaign in st. Mary, the parish
chairman had to get a large force
Of assistants, hunt thru the records
of the sheriff, assessor and school
board, the poll tax and registration
lists, telephone and city directories
The various industries and any other
source of information conceivable
and when they had completed the
list, it was incomplete and as soon as
the campaign was over they lost thell
, records and the work had to be done
Ill over again for the next cam
. | paign."
| Mr.. Kramer proposes to get cor
tect list during the coming week b.
: ;aking a census and making a per
s manent record Of it.
! The Census card which has bee
I designed and printed, answers ever
Is question about an individual tina
e appears necessary and will enabl
,s very War Service campaign cor
( luctor to compile lists for almost an
, purpose, even going so far as to b
A If assistance to the Council of d.
Ie 'ense in keeping track of labor.
&c The cards are printed in tw
q :olors, white for white and colore
70 or negroes, so that they may be SCI
s rated with little effort.
,e In order to get the idea of cel
S JUS, before the people in an oftici
l. md impressive form, the Paris
Of Council of Defense was called upc
al or assistance, and asked to reque
The Police Jury and every City al
in Town Council to pass ordinanc
lie calling upon the people to assist
an he census taking, which was done
. June 5th. In the meantime the *
q owing enclosed poster was posted ;
no over the parish.
m. The enclosed following Council
National Defense, War Savings ca
'or oaign Service Enlistment card W
of printed and circulated by vario
to committees, calling for volunteers
in id in this campaign and hundre
,es AVE already signed the card.
as. The wards and precincts have be
IA, undivided so that the territory tt
;or nv committee makes will be
of arge, but that committee is giN
ca census cards and required to fill tn
DER 3ut completely, a card for the h
hi. If each family and single man in
ve, erritory. Omit no one, the cen
will not be success if it is not CT
r )lete land to make sure OF It's c.
w oleteness and correctness, the so
the litor is required to sign his name
men The card.
mar During the week, June 10
1ers wo young ladies and a boy Sc
viii lnder the supervision of the La
~ Council of Defense, will be in
T, place of business in ST. Mary pa
am rom the time the store opens I
den. t closes and they will solicit e
.om Individual who enters the store to
pc come a member Of the War Saw
hello society and to sign the War Say
-, | ,Io3oa b,,4 xubothar thew sell the