The Washington herald., 1918-10-05
M'ADOO WILL
VISIT HOMES
TOMORROW
Has Volunteered to Aid
Canvass for Fourth
Liberty Loan.
TERRITORY A SECRET
Everything in Readiness for
House-to-House
Canvass.

Househoiders Of Washington. mem
Der of the Presidents Cabinet may
call upon you tomorrow afternoon.
II you hear a ring at your front
door bell and are greeted by a tall
stranger, whose face has becon7e IA
miliar to you through the newspapers
and motion pictures, you will know
bat you have been selected to receive
the honor Of a visit from Secretary
AcAdoo, who will call unon you in
the interest of the liberty loal.
The announcement that the Secre-
. tary would enlist as member Of one
of the 200 canvassing teams conduct
/ ing the house-to-house canvass to-
morrow afternoon was made by the
committee yesterday afternoon.
The district to which the Secretary
has been assigned is being kept secret
! by the committee, as well as the num-
Der of the team with which he is to
work. Any household in the city may
be visited by the Secretary with lib
erty bonds to sell-any door bell may
be rung by the leader in the campaign
| to raise travelling expenses for our
| boys trip to Berlin.
The Secretary Of the Treasury has
sold some twelve billions of dollars
worth of liberty bonds since the United
| States enteret the war. but this will
mark the firstStime he has taken sub
/ scriptions personally.
Everybody Discussing Canvass.
! Everybody In Washington was dis
: ctissing the canvass yesterday after
noon. and the headquarters OF the
| Liberty Loan Committee at 141S H
street was the busiest place in the
a, city from early yesterday morning
until after midnight. The early part
| Of the day was spent in mapping of
/ the various sections Of the city and
making up charts for the 800 team
captains.
At o'clock the schedules had been
! completed and the team captains
I called at headquarters to receive
their assignments. Each district had
been numbered and the captains
/ formed a long line II waited their
/ turn to be called to receive their as
I signments. Not only had the COM
[ mittee mapped out carefully each
canvass district, but by means of
real estate charts the exact number
Of houses in each district had been
! ascertained. Each team captain re-
ceived with his chart a number of
subscription cards equal to the num-
I ber Of houses in his territory, a sup
/ ply of honor flags, and a large let
tered sign to place on his automobile
/ to show that 1t is used on liberty
! loan business.
/ Each captain has been instructed
to have his solicitors take a payment
in cash or check, amounting to at
least 10 per cent of every subscrip-
ton. Because of the large number
OF families where government work
ers are boarding, the canvassers have
been instructed to call at every home
irrespective of whether the head of
the family already has subscribed.
This is being done in order to be sure
and give every wage Garner an op-
portunity to own a bond Persons
who have already bought bonds, how
ever, and who enter their subscrip-
tions today, will make the work of
the canvassers that much easier. since
it will save them the time required to
I'LL out the necessary forms and sign
the receipts. All the banks will re-
main open until s o'clock tonight to
encourage advance subscriptions.
Yesterday Biggest Day.
Yesterday was a banner day in
| liberty bond sales. practically every
| bank in the city being crowded with
bond buyers throughout the after
moon. All insisted on getting their
! buttons and took home with them
! honor flags for display in their win
| dows. 1t is expected that today
sales will be even larger than those
! of yesterday. The total subscrip-
tions reported to the liberty loan
committee as actually cleared
through the banks up to yesterday
was S6.075,770. with a number OF
| large banks not heard from. This
is far in excess of subscriptions for
the first week Of any of the previous
! campaigns.
Concentrate All Efforts on Canvass.
The work Of preparation for the
big canvass was pushed with vigor
by the Liberty Loan Committee and
the several thousand volunteer work
| ers yesterday. Practically every
other branch Of activity in which
/ the various subcommittee were en-
! gagged was suspended. and all the
workers concentrated their energies
on making ready for the canvass.
! One OF the biggest single Jobs in
tconnection with the canvass was the
work of mapping of the city and as
/ signing the various team captains to
| their respective positions. Each Of
| the 200 canvass districts has been
numbered, from / to 300 consecutive
I ly. and the captain Of each team has
/ filed with liberty loan headquarters
a full list of the members, together
with their addresses and phone num-
bers. The teams range in size from
ten to twenty-five, and each captain
has subdivided his district into blocks.
giving each Of his assistants a GER
tain specific number of buildings to
cover
/ dramatic feature of the canvass
VIII be the fact that 1t VIII be
launched simultaneously in all Sec
tons Of the city. The more than
1000 canvassers viii ring as many
door bells on the stroke of 1. and
The big drive win then be on. From
that minute until the last home in